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Best Practices Planning Microsoft Hyper-V over iSCSI with EMC Celerra IP Storage
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Making a Business Case for IT Consolidation
CIOs understand that the fastest way to reduce costs is to simplify infrastructure. IT executives also face the need to improve service delivery with limited resource increases. Two common strategies to achieving this business objective are through network and systems management tools and datacenter consolidation. ....Read More...
Storage Consolidation
Storage Consolidation More Intelligently Enterprise IT organizations have been battling year over year information growth rates of 50 to 60 percent. This trend is expected to continue well into the next decade. Now take those growth rates and apply them to an exponentially larger installed based measured in tens or hundreds of tera-bytes. In addtion click here to....Read More...
EMC Consolidation Case Study
Timmons Group has benefited from the deployment of a flexible, more reliable and efficient information infrastructure based on EMC CLARiiON products. The solution deployed will achieve a payback in
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Backup using Quantum De-dupe
Backup using Quantum De-dupe to Optimize your VMware protection strategy As organizations increasingly utilize virtualization technologies from VMware to improve the efficiency of business operations and reduce capital equipment expenditures, they are recognizing that existing business continuance and data protection strategies need to evolve.
This is due primarily to the unique structure of Virtual Machines (VMs) which cannot always leverage traditional backup and recovery methods. This issue paired with explosive growth in data creation...Read More...
Are you ready for Electronic Email Discovery?
Recent surveys reveal that half of organizations have performed electronic discovery for one reason or another. So if you have not been asked to search your electronic records, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. But be prepared, because you are likely to be asked in the near future. Over 80% of organization records.....Read More...
Uncomplexifing Storage Management!
When you take the Singular approach to data management, you gain operational efficiencies that you did not think were possible. You gain this value because the CommVault Singular architecture allows you to share a single set of common services used for backup, recovery, replication, copy, archive and retrieve operations...Read More...
Data compression
Compression for Primary Storage is a proven technology providing immediate and transparent relief to move or store more data effectively not only for backup and archive but also for primary storage. Data compression is widely used in IT as well as in....Read More...
An EMC Perspective on Data De-duplication for Backup
The term “data de-duplication”, as it is used and implemented by EMC in this white paper, refers to a specific approach to data reduction built on a methodology that systematically substitutes reference pointers for redundant variable-length blocks (or data segments) in a specific dataset. The purpose of data de-duplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective......Read More...
Not all green storage is created equal
There are business benefits to aligning the most energy efficient storage to meet different data and application requirements. All storage vendors are claiming some form of "green" or some power, cooling and floor space savings. This industry trends and perspectives brief looks at a category of storage to support secondary and near-line or off-line data needs, comparing performance with energy savings, to enable you to be the judge of who is the "greenest of all." .......Read More...
D2D2T Backup Architectures and the Impact of Data De-duplication
This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment. In order to understand the impact of de-duplication, this paper provides background on the strengths and limitations of the current disk- and tape-based backup systems, as well as ideal applications of de-duplication to meet a wide range....Read More...
The Need to Optimize Storage for Applications!
Most businesses, regardless of size, face similar data storage challenges—escalating data growth, application performance and availability requirements, business continuity, shortened backup windows, and complex, difficult-to-manage storage infrastructures. For departmental groups and midsized businesses, it's all a matter of scale; facing enterprise challenges on a smaller scale, they need enterprise-strength storage solutions scaled for their business requirements and budgets. With the introduction of the.....Read More...
Is "good enough" acceptable in the face of looming PCI deadlines?
Credit card merchants are scrambling to meet the requirements of the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) prior to upcoming hard deadlines imposed by Visa. PCI-DSS is a set of data and networking security standards for merchants that process credit card transactions for the purpose of protecting sensitive credit card holder information. Deadlines set by Visa dictate a successful audit, verifying compliance of PCI-DSS, by September 30 for tier 1 merchants (more than 6 million transactions annually) and by December 31 for tier 2 merchants (1-6 million transactions annually). Other credit card companies, including Mastercard, American Express and Discover, recognize PCI-DSS as the de-facto information security standard...Read More...
Deadlines set by Visa dictate a successful audit
Deadlines set by Visa dictate a successful audit, verifying compliance of PCI-DSS, by September 30 for tier 1 merchants (more than 6 million transactions annually) and by December 31 for tier 2 merchants (1-6 million transactions annually). Other credit card companies, including Mastercard, American Express and Discover, recognize PCI-DSS as the de-facto information security standard......Read More...
Web Application Controllers Ensure PCI DSS Compliance
E-commerce sales are estimated to reach $259.1 billion in 2007, up from the $219.9 billion earned in 2006, according to The State of Retailing Online 2007 study conducted by Forrester Research and Shop.org. While e-commerce continues to mature as a sales channel, it is met with a similar rise in cost due in part to Web site hacks and data leakage incidents. Identity theft cost U.S. businesses and consumers $56.5 billion in 2005 as reported by the 2006 Identity Fraud Survey Report published by Javelin Strategy & Research. In response to the increase in identity theft and security breaches, major credit card companies collaborated to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) for merchants, processors and point-of-sale providers....Read More...
Virtual Infrastructure Methodology - Virtualization Assessment
New backup and recovery methods which use data de-duplication technology to reduce capacity and network bandwidth requirements are being deployed to keep up with explosive data growth, shrinking backup windows, compliance initiatives and security concerns. Data residing within remote and branch offices (ROBOs) outside the data center accounts for a significant portion of enterprise information stores, yet this data is often protected by inefficient backup processes or not protected at all, increasing the risk of data loss.....Read More...
