13 March 2010
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Events such as technical failure, virus attack, deliberate sabotage or employee error can destroy valuable data. Organizations must plan for data recovery and implement mechanisms for managing the data recovery process.
Organizations are looking for ways to reduce overhead costs in running their data centers and making them more efficient. Here are some tips and strategies on how you can save dollars and improve efficiencies.
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As storage vendors continue to improve on their storage management tools, data configuration gets easier and better.
Storage sprawl has become a problem for many organizations. Storage administrators are fighting back by consolidating storage hardware in order to simplify their storage environments. However, storage consolidation isn't simply a matter of buying new hardware during a technology refresh.
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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.
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Ask a dozen people what their perception of Cloud Storage is and you would probably get a dozen different answers. Public Storage Clouds and Private Storage Clouds create a further element of confusion.
Each switch and storage system on the SAN must be interconnected -- usually through optical fiber or copper cabling -- and the physical interconnections must support bandwidth levels that can adequately handle the peak data activities that occur. This guide highlights the role of Fibre Channel, Ethernet, and iSCSI connectivity on the SAN.
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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.
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RSA's Director of Sales Engineering for AP, Jason Pearce says an integrated approach to security offers a simplified and cost effective approach to protection an organization's key asset-information. (duration: 5min 59sec)
Companies typically use virtual machines to develop and test new applications. Chris Insinger, VMware Business Director for EMC, discusses how to deploy production application on virtual environments.
