11 March 2010
Thursday
This tip outlines the options available for backing up VMWare environments, how each works, and the pros and cons of each approach.
Many organizations pay employees and consultants to manually track backup failures, manually collect performance and storage trending, and manually track storage utilization. Typically such efforts only add to further inefficiency, complexity, and an incomplete and ineffectual view of IT.
Best practices for email archiving start with setting email retention policies -- and then sticking to them -- to help your company respond to legal discovery requests and lessen the burden on data storage systems.
Can I install an operating system (OS) and put data in different partitions of RAID-5 or is RAID-1 (hardware-based RAID) a better solution? Is it ok if we divide a RAID into two partitions? Does RAID-5 take a long time to rebuild?
It's a myth that file archiving is only for regulatory compliance.
Let me discard host-based deployments upfront. Host-based storage virtualization was the first virtualization product...
Using backups as an archive probably isn't feasible anymore because we now have to access the data more frequently due to the regulatory and discovery requirements...
What are your views on SAN/NAS unified storage vs. NAS gateways?
I hear SAN and NAS are morphing and merging. I'm looking for the rubber-meets-the-road list of functions that are likely to be in such a future, solution-based product.
Let's say I plan to go with two NAS heads and a new SAN. Am I better off virtualizing SAN space for use with the NAS heads or utilizing attached storage instead?
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
