This document discusses a cost-effective integrated solution for backup and disaster recovery provided by InMage Systems. The solution combines application and data recovery into a single platform that can be used for disaster recovery, local backup and restore, and automated application failover and recovery. It leverages continuous data protection and replication technologies to minimize data loss and recovery times. The solution supports applications like Microsoft Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle, and SAP in a heterogeneous environment.
IT Services Firm Improves Data Center and Branch Performance
Sycor leverages WAAS solution to bolster central WAN security and control, restore branch application performance
1. A manufacturing company used Softek TDMF software to migrate 3TB of data from an old storage array to a new array with only 15 minutes of scheduled downtime. The migration was completed within 48 hours without significantly impacting the mission-critical Oracle application.
2. A large bank used Softek zDMF software to migrate mainframe data between storage arrays with zero application downtime. The financial institution could not afford any downtime for the critical credit and debit transaction application.
3. Softek data migration software allows organizations to simplify technology refresh projects by enabling migration of large volumes of data with minimal application impact and downtime, even for mission-critical applications.
The document discusses several computerized tree management systems that have been developed over the last two decades to help organizations effectively manage their resources. It provides details on a few specific systems currently available, including Arb Pro software designed for tree contractors, ezytreev software which offers online and desktop versions and additional modules, and Eye-TREE software which maintains tree inspection and work details for estates and organizations. The systems aim to help users monitor, control and manage all aspects of their tree-related businesses.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
Stefan Korsbacken is the Nordic Sales Manager for IBM. He is presenting on IBM's Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM), which is based on BigFix Technologies. TEM provides a single management platform for securing and managing servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices across operating systems. It offers modules for lifecycle management, security and compliance, patch management, and power management. TEM aims to help organizations simplify endpoint management and gain visibility and control over all their devices.
On April 11th IBM launched its converged infrastructure offering: PureSystems. We recently conducted this webinar to help customers understand the opportunity of a converged infrastructure, and the dramatic difference advanced technologies can make in the data center.
Turnkey Cloud Solution with GaleForce SoftwareGaletech
This publication offers a view into the Turnkey Cloud Solution offered with GaleForce Software that includes automated provisioning and orchestration of heterogeneous environments and globally distributed clouds.
IT Services Firm Improves Data Center and Branch Performance
Sycor leverages WAAS solution to bolster central WAN security and control, restore branch application performance
1. A manufacturing company used Softek TDMF software to migrate 3TB of data from an old storage array to a new array with only 15 minutes of scheduled downtime. The migration was completed within 48 hours without significantly impacting the mission-critical Oracle application.
2. A large bank used Softek zDMF software to migrate mainframe data between storage arrays with zero application downtime. The financial institution could not afford any downtime for the critical credit and debit transaction application.
3. Softek data migration software allows organizations to simplify technology refresh projects by enabling migration of large volumes of data with minimal application impact and downtime, even for mission-critical applications.
The document discusses several computerized tree management systems that have been developed over the last two decades to help organizations effectively manage their resources. It provides details on a few specific systems currently available, including Arb Pro software designed for tree contractors, ezytreev software which offers online and desktop versions and additional modules, and Eye-TREE software which maintains tree inspection and work details for estates and organizations. The systems aim to help users monitor, control and manage all aspects of their tree-related businesses.
This document discusses eight key challenges to effective infrastructure management: 1) detecting and handling incidents and problems, 2) handling changes with minimal impact on availability, 3) preventing security problems, 4) using emerging technologies effectively, 5) maintaining software and firmware, 6) having indicators of status and trends, 7) having the right tools, and 8) deploying infrastructure rapidly. It provides tactics to address each challenge, with the goals of improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing business value through better infrastructure management. Outsourcing and managed services are presented as strategic options.
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager - PCTY 2011IBM Sverige
Stefan Korsbacken is the Nordic Sales Manager for IBM. He is presenting on IBM's Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM), which is based on BigFix Technologies. TEM provides a single management platform for securing and managing servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices across operating systems. It offers modules for lifecycle management, security and compliance, patch management, and power management. TEM aims to help organizations simplify endpoint management and gain visibility and control over all their devices.
On April 11th IBM launched its converged infrastructure offering: PureSystems. We recently conducted this webinar to help customers understand the opportunity of a converged infrastructure, and the dramatic difference advanced technologies can make in the data center.
Turnkey Cloud Solution with GaleForce SoftwareGaletech
This publication offers a view into the Turnkey Cloud Solution offered with GaleForce Software that includes automated provisioning and orchestration of heterogeneous environments and globally distributed clouds.
High Availability og virtualisering, IBM Power EventIBM Danmark
This document discusses high availability considerations for IBM Power Systems and IBM i. It covers causes of downtime like system failure and maintenance and solutions like disaster recovery and high availability that provide continuous operations. Key aspects covered include service level agreements, application and data resilience technologies like clustering, replication, and switchable storage to minimize downtime from planned and unplanned outages.
Presentation SIG, Green IT Amsterdam workshop Green Software 12 apr 2011, Gre...Jaak Vlasveld
This presentation discusses green software and energy efficiency at the application level. It provides background on the Software Improvement Group, which analyzes over 90 systems annually and provides management advisory services and software quality certification. The presentation introduces a taxonomy of green aspects of software, including computational efficiency, algorithmic efficiency, data structures, and functional necessity. It discusses approaches to optimizing some of these aspects, like energy-aware coding of algorithms and data structures. The presentation also notes challenges like the currently energy-oblivious nature of most software development.
Cloud Computing is a model that provides convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services. These resources can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Cloud services are typically categorized as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud computing provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, but some organizations have needs that require a hybrid cloud or dedicated hosting approach for security, customization or reliability needs.
Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying infrastructure management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and
efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine which physical infrastructure management tools they need – and don’t need – to operate their data centers.
Open Source for the 4th Industrial RevolutionLiz Warner
An introduction to the LF Edge, Akraino and Time Critical Blueprint
This session will introduce LF Edge as an umbrella, and will also provide additional details on the anchor projects - Akraino Edge Stack and EdgeX Foundry and Time Critical Blue Print and how it fits into the overall edge stack
This document discusses accelerating customers' journey to the cloud with solutions from EMC and Intel. It highlights key drivers for cloud initiatives like business agility and reducing costs. EMC listens to customer needs and challenges around security, standardization and interoperability when adopting cloud. The alliance between EMC and Intel provides optimized solutions using Intel's latest processors. Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) helps enable secure cloud onboarding over distance by verifying platform integrity during boot.
The document discusses implementation options for a new document management system at Health First Manufacturing Division (HFMD). Four options are considered: 1) Direct cutover after migrating data/documents with progressive backfile conversion; 2) Direct cutover with full backfile conversion; 3) Parallel operations with progressive migration; 4) Agile methodology with staged releases. Option 1 or a combination of Options 1 and 4 is recommended, as it addresses immediate needs while allowing flexibility for future improvements.
The document discusses how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software can help with operations, planning, and analytics for data centers. It provides examples of common issues that can occur without DCIM tools, such as accidentally overloading circuits or racks. The cheat sheet also lists questions that DCIM tools can answer, such as identifying hot spots or excess capacity. DCIM software allows monitoring of equipment power usage, generating audit trails, and calculating power usage effectiveness. It enables more efficient provisioning, load balancing, and capacity planning to optimize data center resources.
The document discusses creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan with 10 steps: 1) Build a team, 2) Analyze existing DR technology, 3) Do a business impact analysis, 4) Prioritize operations, 5) Set recovery goals. It then details 6) Identifying technology gaps, 7) Designing a recovery environment, 8) Creating recovery manuals and protocols, 9) Documenting important information, and 10) Implementing, testing and revising the plan. The key aspects of a DR plan include conducting a business impact analysis to understand downtime costs, prioritizing critical systems, and setting recovery time and data loss objectives that available DR technologies can meet.
This document discusses physical infrastructure designs to support logical network architectures in data centers. It examines Top of Rack (ToR) and End of Row (EoR) access models. ToR uses an access switch in each cabinet, requiring connections for each server. EoR uses chassis switches in the row middle, connecting cabinets within cable length limits. Designs must map logical networks to physical cable routing and manage connectivity growth.
The world’s information is doubling every two years. In 2011 the world created a staggering 1.8 zettabytes. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers", while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times. This session introduces students to various storage networking, & business continuity terminologies.
IBM provides a 3-step approach to smarter storage management:
1. Create a responsive infrastructure across multiple storage tiers and vendors to reduce complexity and costs while maintaining flexibility.
2. Standardize storage usage and processes through an intelligent storage service catalog to minimize custom solutions and drive automation.
3. Make storage management intelligent through analytics-driven automation of tasks like provisioning, migration, and archiving to improve efficiency.
A data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system collects and manages information about a data center's assets, resource use, and operational status. This information is analyzed and distributed to help optimize the data center's performance and meet business goals. Implementing DCIM solutions such as instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable proactive management of the physical infrastructure and IT systems. Emerson Network Power provides a comprehensive portfolio of DCIM hardware and software products to help organizations gain visibility and control over their data center resources.
A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability
IBM is promoting cloud computing and its cloud offerings as ways for vendors to generate recurring revenue through subscriptions and for customers to reduce upfront costs, increase flexibility, and improve efficiency. IBM provides private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions using its Power Systems, System z, and System x hardware and software. Key benefits of IBM's cloud infrastructure include security, reliability, scalability, and workload optimization.
Virtualizing More While Improving Risk Posture – From Bare Metal to End PointHyTrust
Virtualizing more of an organization's workloads presents both opportunities and risks. As more mission-critical workloads are virtualized, security and compliance become greater priorities. Purpose-built solutions that provide security, visibility, and control over virtual infrastructure and assets are needed. Intel, HyTrust, and McAfee are partnering to provide comprehensive solutions through technologies like Intel TXT, the HyTrust Appliance, and McAfee security products to help organizations securely virtualize more workloads while improving their security posture and compliance.
Customer Name: EDIF Holding SPA
Industry: Wholesale and distribution
Location: Corridonia, Italy
Number of Employees: 400
Challenge
• Improve customer service
• Reduce operating costs
• Strengthen operational resilience
Solution
• Unified data center architecture deployed across two sites for flexible and cost‑effective business continuity
Results
• Customer experience improved through optimization of online and logistics systems
• Total IT operating costs reduced by about 75 percent
• Business continuity strengthened by split site implementation
Technology Partners
• EMC
• VMware
This document discusses best practices for data migration and how IBM's Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) software can help. It outlines five key factors to consider for data migration: performance, source data protection, tiered storage, multivendor environments, and application downtime. The TDMF software allows for nondisruptive data migration that maintains application availability and balances data movement with system demands. It also provides capabilities like backout commands, fallback, and support for migrating across different storage media and vendor environments. Any change to storage infrastructure requires data migration, but traditional methods cause downtime - the TDMF software aims to minimize these issues.
SecureGRC™ is a world-leading solution for all enterprises, including small and medium businesses. SecureGRC™ includes all security and IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with easy to adopt compliance management framework with ready to use frameworks, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing and easy to use logging and monitoring solution.
Zephyr 2.0: Comprehensive Test Managementxmeteorite
Zephyr a test management system is based around the concept of desktops and dashboards. Every role in a Test Department has a customized Testing Desktop that allows doing their jobs faster & better. Zephyr makes QA fun with integrated tools.
This document is a petition submitted to the Supreme Court of India regarding alleged land corruption during Bhupinder Singh Hooda's time as Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. It claims Hooda and his associates, including politicians and real estate developers, changed laws and policies to favor a select group of builders for their personal gain. This led to rapid urbanization in Haryana without proper planning, damaging the environment. It alleges key decisions regarding land allocation and development were influenced by Hooda's inner circle for their commercial benefit. Major builders like DLF and BPTP saw huge gains from acquiring land at low costs during this time. The petition seeks Supreme Court intervention to investigate these allegations and decide if existing laws were
High Availability og virtualisering, IBM Power EventIBM Danmark
This document discusses high availability considerations for IBM Power Systems and IBM i. It covers causes of downtime like system failure and maintenance and solutions like disaster recovery and high availability that provide continuous operations. Key aspects covered include service level agreements, application and data resilience technologies like clustering, replication, and switchable storage to minimize downtime from planned and unplanned outages.
Presentation SIG, Green IT Amsterdam workshop Green Software 12 apr 2011, Gre...Jaak Vlasveld
This presentation discusses green software and energy efficiency at the application level. It provides background on the Software Improvement Group, which analyzes over 90 systems annually and provides management advisory services and software quality certification. The presentation introduces a taxonomy of green aspects of software, including computational efficiency, algorithmic efficiency, data structures, and functional necessity. It discusses approaches to optimizing some of these aspects, like energy-aware coding of algorithms and data structures. The presentation also notes challenges like the currently energy-oblivious nature of most software development.
Cloud Computing is a model that provides convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services. These resources can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Cloud services are typically categorized as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud computing provides benefits like reduced costs, increased flexibility and scalability, but some organizations have needs that require a hybrid cloud or dedicated hosting approach for security, customization or reliability needs.
Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying infrastructure management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and
efficient data center operation. This paper divides the realm of data center management tools into four distinct subsets and compares the primary and secondary functions of key subsystems within these subsets. With a classification system in place, data center professionals can begin to determine which physical infrastructure management tools they need – and don’t need – to operate their data centers.
Open Source for the 4th Industrial RevolutionLiz Warner
An introduction to the LF Edge, Akraino and Time Critical Blueprint
This session will introduce LF Edge as an umbrella, and will also provide additional details on the anchor projects - Akraino Edge Stack and EdgeX Foundry and Time Critical Blue Print and how it fits into the overall edge stack
This document discusses accelerating customers' journey to the cloud with solutions from EMC and Intel. It highlights key drivers for cloud initiatives like business agility and reducing costs. EMC listens to customer needs and challenges around security, standardization and interoperability when adopting cloud. The alliance between EMC and Intel provides optimized solutions using Intel's latest processors. Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) helps enable secure cloud onboarding over distance by verifying platform integrity during boot.
The document discusses implementation options for a new document management system at Health First Manufacturing Division (HFMD). Four options are considered: 1) Direct cutover after migrating data/documents with progressive backfile conversion; 2) Direct cutover with full backfile conversion; 3) Parallel operations with progressive migration; 4) Agile methodology with staged releases. Option 1 or a combination of Options 1 and 4 is recommended, as it addresses immediate needs while allowing flexibility for future improvements.
The document discusses how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software can help with operations, planning, and analytics for data centers. It provides examples of common issues that can occur without DCIM tools, such as accidentally overloading circuits or racks. The cheat sheet also lists questions that DCIM tools can answer, such as identifying hot spots or excess capacity. DCIM software allows monitoring of equipment power usage, generating audit trails, and calculating power usage effectiveness. It enables more efficient provisioning, load balancing, and capacity planning to optimize data center resources.
The document discusses creating a disaster recovery (DR) plan with 10 steps: 1) Build a team, 2) Analyze existing DR technology, 3) Do a business impact analysis, 4) Prioritize operations, 5) Set recovery goals. It then details 6) Identifying technology gaps, 7) Designing a recovery environment, 8) Creating recovery manuals and protocols, 9) Documenting important information, and 10) Implementing, testing and revising the plan. The key aspects of a DR plan include conducting a business impact analysis to understand downtime costs, prioritizing critical systems, and setting recovery time and data loss objectives that available DR technologies can meet.
This document discusses physical infrastructure designs to support logical network architectures in data centers. It examines Top of Rack (ToR) and End of Row (EoR) access models. ToR uses an access switch in each cabinet, requiring connections for each server. EoR uses chassis switches in the row middle, connecting cabinets within cable length limits. Designs must map logical networks to physical cable routing and manage connectivity growth.
The world’s information is doubling every two years. In 2011 the world created a staggering 1.8 zettabytes. By 2020 the world will generate 50 times the amount of information and 75 times the number of "information containers", while IT staff to manage it will grow less than 1.5 times. This session introduces students to various storage networking, & business continuity terminologies.
IBM provides a 3-step approach to smarter storage management:
1. Create a responsive infrastructure across multiple storage tiers and vendors to reduce complexity and costs while maintaining flexibility.
2. Standardize storage usage and processes through an intelligent storage service catalog to minimize custom solutions and drive automation.
3. Make storage management intelligent through analytics-driven automation of tasks like provisioning, migration, and archiving to improve efficiency.
A data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system collects and manages information about a data center's assets, resource use, and operational status. This information is analyzed and distributed to help optimize the data center's performance and meet business goals. Implementing DCIM solutions such as instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable proactive management of the physical infrastructure and IT systems. Emerson Network Power provides a comprehensive portfolio of DCIM hardware and software products to help organizations gain visibility and control over their data center resources.
A Robust Industrial Ethernet Infrastructure Consisting of Environmentally Hardened Network Cabling, Connectivity, and Active Components Is Essential to Long-Term Performance and Reliability
IBM is promoting cloud computing and its cloud offerings as ways for vendors to generate recurring revenue through subscriptions and for customers to reduce upfront costs, increase flexibility, and improve efficiency. IBM provides private, public, and hybrid cloud solutions using its Power Systems, System z, and System x hardware and software. Key benefits of IBM's cloud infrastructure include security, reliability, scalability, and workload optimization.
Virtualizing More While Improving Risk Posture – From Bare Metal to End PointHyTrust
Virtualizing more of an organization's workloads presents both opportunities and risks. As more mission-critical workloads are virtualized, security and compliance become greater priorities. Purpose-built solutions that provide security, visibility, and control over virtual infrastructure and assets are needed. Intel, HyTrust, and McAfee are partnering to provide comprehensive solutions through technologies like Intel TXT, the HyTrust Appliance, and McAfee security products to help organizations securely virtualize more workloads while improving their security posture and compliance.
Customer Name: EDIF Holding SPA
Industry: Wholesale and distribution
Location: Corridonia, Italy
Number of Employees: 400
Challenge
• Improve customer service
• Reduce operating costs
• Strengthen operational resilience
Solution
• Unified data center architecture deployed across two sites for flexible and cost‑effective business continuity
Results
• Customer experience improved through optimization of online and logistics systems
• Total IT operating costs reduced by about 75 percent
• Business continuity strengthened by split site implementation
Technology Partners
• EMC
• VMware
This document discusses best practices for data migration and how IBM's Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility (TDMF) software can help. It outlines five key factors to consider for data migration: performance, source data protection, tiered storage, multivendor environments, and application downtime. The TDMF software allows for nondisruptive data migration that maintains application availability and balances data movement with system demands. It also provides capabilities like backout commands, fallback, and support for migrating across different storage media and vendor environments. Any change to storage infrastructure requires data migration, but traditional methods cause downtime - the TDMF software aims to minimize these issues.
SecureGRC™ is a world-leading solution for all enterprises, including small and medium businesses. SecureGRC™ includes all security and IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with easy to adopt compliance management framework with ready to use frameworks, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing and easy to use logging and monitoring solution.
Zephyr 2.0: Comprehensive Test Managementxmeteorite
Zephyr a test management system is based around the concept of desktops and dashboards. Every role in a Test Department has a customized Testing Desktop that allows doing their jobs faster & better. Zephyr makes QA fun with integrated tools.
This document is a petition submitted to the Supreme Court of India regarding alleged land corruption during Bhupinder Singh Hooda's time as Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. It claims Hooda and his associates, including politicians and real estate developers, changed laws and policies to favor a select group of builders for their personal gain. This led to rapid urbanization in Haryana without proper planning, damaging the environment. It alleges key decisions regarding land allocation and development were influenced by Hooda's inner circle for their commercial benefit. Major builders like DLF and BPTP saw huge gains from acquiring land at low costs during this time. The petition seeks Supreme Court intervention to investigate these allegations and decide if existing laws were
Launch: Silicon Valley 2013 is an annual event that provides early stage startups the opportunity to pitch their new products and services, which have been available for less than a few months, to top investors, customers, partners and media. Up to 30 companies from sectors like IT, mobility, digital media and life sciences will be selected to present at the event on June 4th, 2013 and network with attendees from Silicon Valley's startup ecosystem. Companies should submit a 2-page executive summary by April 26th for consideration.
Launch: Silicon Valley 2012 is designed to uncover and showcase products and services from the most exciting of the newest startups in information technology, mobility, digital media, next generation internet, life sciences and clean energy. L:SV 2012 is particularly interested in receiving applications regarding products in the following areas- Artificial Intelligence/Robotics, Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing, Computer Visual & Audio Recognition & Response, Data Analytics/Business Intelligence, EduTech, Health-IT, Next Generation Collaboration.
The document outlines the master plan for Guwahati Metropolitan area, including objectives to develop infrastructure while conserving the environment, and details on land use, population growth, transportation networks, and strategies to address issues like flooding and traffic congestion. Zoning regulations and development controls are proposed to guide growth in a sustainable manner over the period to 2025. Institutional roles and financing options are also covered.
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions: Ensuring Business ContinuityMaryJWilliams2
In today's digital landscape, data protection and disaster recovery are critical components of any robust IT strategy. This article delves into various solutions designed to safeguard your data against loss, corruption, and cyber threats. Explore the latest technologies and best practices for effective data protection, from backup strategies to comprehensive disaster recovery plans. To know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/data-protection-disaster-recovery-solution/
Shielding Data Assets: Exploring Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Strate...MaryJWilliams2
Delve into comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery strategies with our detailed PDF submission. Discover best practices, methodologies, and technologies to safeguard critical data and ensure operational continuity in the face of unforeseen events. Gain insights into designing resilient backup plans, implementing disaster recovery solutions, and mitigating risks effectively. Equip yourself with the knowledge needed to protect your organization's data assets and maintain business continuity. To Know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/data-protection-disaster-recovery-solution/
The truth is that your customers don’t care about backup. They care about recovery.
In this webinar, backup specialist Christophe Bertrand of Arcserve will talk about on simplifying backup and discuss the key things you need to focus on when providing disaster recovery services to today’s businesses.
Join Christophe and the N-able team as we cover:
• The impact of downtime on an average business and how to minimize data loss
• Taking the complexity out of backup and talking about what matters
• How you can measure data protection and meet your SLA
The document discusses the need for converged backup solutions that can simplify and consolidate data protection across mixed server environments. It notes that individual vendor solutions often only address specific proprietary platforms. An optimal solution is a cross-platform approach using intelligent converged backup that applies appropriate data protection services based on each data set's criticality. The document then introduces Storage Director by Tributary Systems as a policy-based data management solution that connects any host to any storage technology and applies services to data based on business importance. Storage Director allows for data backup consolidation and virtualization across heterogeneous environments.
During a period when various proposed solutions under consideration were either too expensive, too proprietary
or functionally inadequate, FTEL was contacted by DataCore and introduced to the SANsymphony™ advanced
storage networking and management software. Ian Batten, FTEL’s IT Director, explained, “The DataCore solution
appeared to offer many of the aspects missing from other options, such as block level snapshot, easier device
sharing, single point of administration, better caching and the prospect of interesting solutions to the backup
issue.” FTEL decided to evaluate SANsymphony utilizing commodity RAID devices for storage. With even
relatively low-end storage, the results were impressive enough that the solution moved forward into a
production environment
Data Protection in the cloud, On-premises & anywhere in between.
A company’s most important asset is its data. No matter what a business’s data is comprised of, patent filings, architectural blueprints, medical files, customer account details, etc., it is critical to have comprehensive backup and disaster recovery plans to mitigate potential loss or access.
NEC's UNIVERGE BLUE BACKUP and UNIVERGE BLUE RECOVERInteractiveNEC
NEC's Univerge Blue Backup and Recover service provides comprehensive data backup and disaster recovery solutions for businesses through a cloud-based platform. It offers [1] fully managed and self-managed backup options that protect files, applications, and servers across on-premises and cloud environments, [2] secure storage of backed up data in Iron Mountain's data centers, and [3] centralized management and recovery capabilities for easy control and restoration of business data.
Migration to cloud is no easy task. Start small and learn the core technologies before leveraging the advanced features of the cloud. The cultural change will affect the whole organization from development to business management and sales.
Cloud native applications are the future of software. Modern software is stateless, provided from cloud to heterogeneous clients on demand and designed to be scalable and resilient.
The document discusses how the DataCore SANsymphony-V storage hypervisor can help virtualize business-critical applications without performance issues by managing resources across storage systems. It provides adaptive caching, auto-tiering of storage pools from different disk assets, and synchronous mirroring between fault domains. This allows applications to perform predictably even when virtualized, improves throughput by up to 5 times, and provides 99.999% availability. The storage hypervisor is a better solution than expensive hardware modifications to deal with virtualization issues, and provides benefits like preventing downtime and simplifying management of distributed infrastructure.
Disaster recovery in the Cloud - whitepaper Karolina Dryja
This whitepaper discusses disaster recovery strategies in the cloud. It notes that cloud technologies have transformed disaster recovery by making solutions more flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. The document examines factors to consider when selecting a disaster recovery provider such as recovery time objectives, regulatory requirements, security, service level agreements, and testing capabilities. It emphasizes the importance of performing due diligence and testing solutions to ensure they meet organizations' recovery needs.
Symantec offers NetBackup appliances to simplify deployment and maintenance of their NetBackup backup software. The appliances provide a turnkey solution for backup and disaster recovery that eliminates the effort of installing and configuring separate hardware and software components. Integrated appliances like NetBackup provide a better solution than standalone products by fully integrating the backup software to orchestrate backup and recovery in a simplified way. NetBackup appliances are pre-installed with the leading NetBackup software and provide scalable, efficient data protection for physical, virtual, and remote environments through intelligent deduplication.
Cloud Computing for Small & Medium BusinessesAl Sabawi
I presented this topic at the Greater Binghamton Business Expo in Upstate New York. It is meant to shed light on utilizing Cloud Computing for Small and Medium size businesses. It should help decision makers consider Software-as-a-Service offerings for their business as a way to save on IT cost and to deliver on better efficiency for their organizations.
CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY WITH EMC VPLEX Roy Wassili
A growing number of organizations are using
EMC VPLEX and other off-the-shelf technologies
to ‘stretch’ application processing and data
access across distance—for continuous
application availability that is practical,
affordable, and automatic.
This document discusses moving startups to the cloud. It defines cloud computing and explains its benefits like scalability and elasticity. It discusses types of cloud services, a cloud readiness test, total cost of ownership analysis, and reasons to move to the cloud. It also covers cloud deployment models, how to migrate applications to the cloud through steps like code preparation and infrastructure architecture. Finally, it provides examples of cloud use cases and contact details for cloud consulting services.
Removing Storage Related Barriers to Server and Desktop VirtualizationDataCore Software
An IDC Viewpoint Paper: Virtualization is among the technologies that have become increasingly attractive in the current economic climate. Organizations are implementing virtualization solutions to obtain the following benefits: Focus on efficiency and cost reduction, Simplify management and maintenance, and Improve availability and disaster recovery.
This document discusses ensuring high availability and data security with Datacore software. It notes that companies' data is their most important asset and infrastructures have become more dynamic with server virtualization. As a result, storage systems and networks must also adapt quickly. Datacore provides a future-proof and flexible solution to ensure 24/7 availability even during operations, maintenance, extensions or migrations. It allows for central management and virtualization of storage resources across systems and locations for high performance, security and simplicity.
Managing data to improve disaster recovery preparedness » data center knowledgegeekmodeboy
The document discusses how large organizations are moving to disk-based data protection platforms to more efficiently manage massive amounts of data for disaster recovery purposes. These platforms use automation, integration with backup applications, and features like deduplication and replication to minimize costs while improving backup and restore speeds. They also allow for centralized management of policies to back up, replicate, store, and expire data across multiple sites according to regulatory requirements.
This document discusses how cloud computing can help startups by providing scalable and elastic IT capabilities as a service over the internet. It defines cloud computing and describes how cloud services allow scaling resources up or down as needed. It then discusses different cloud service models, factors to consider for cloud readiness, how to evaluate total cost of ownership, benefits of moving to the cloud, types of cloud deployment models and their benefits/risks, steps for moving applications to the cloud, example cloud infrastructure architectures, and use cases where cloud computing could help startups.
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Now in its 8th year, Launch: Silicon Valley is firmly established as the premier product launch platform for startups from the San Francisco Bay area, and around the world.
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SVForum today announced that Launch: Silicon Valley 2013, the annual, high profile, product launch platform for startups, will be held June 4, 2013 at Microsoft in Mountain View, California. Companies interested in presenting their products at Launch: Silicon Valley 2013 should send an Executive Summary of no more than two pages to Launchsv@svforum.org by Friday April 26, 2013.Further details available at www.launchsiliconvalley.org.
The language industry is ready for change, share and collaborate efforts are still early process. Global communications demands are increasing, the language industry wants to transform to evolve, to share to collaborate. Our language industry is ready to embrace the cloud!
The language industry is ready for change, share and collaborate efforts are still early process. Global communications demands are increasing, the language industry wants to transform to evolve, to share to collaborate. Our language industry is ready to embrace the cloud!
Disaster Recovery, Local Operational Recovery, and High Availabilityxmeteorite
InMage provides a single solution for disaster recovery, local operational recovery, and high availability for SAP. It leverages continuous data protection and heterogeneous replication to meet stringent recovery requirements. InMage supports automated recovery of entire SAP environments, including data and applications, on Windows, Linux, and Unix platforms to enable remote or local recovery that is faster and more reliable than conventional backup methods.
The Economics of Parallel System Design in Commercial-Scale Solar Plantsxmeteorite
This whitepaper will outline the cost-reducing nature of a parallel system architecture, starting with an overview of series and parallel wiring schemes. We will then look at a reference system design, including a detailed electrical bill of materials. Finally, we will compare the difference in hardware and labor requirements, and therefore system costs, between the two architectures.
Disaster Recovery Coupled with High Exchange Availabilityxmeteorite
InMage provides a software-based solution that leverages the advantages of diskbased data protection to eliminate backups and provide Exchange recovery that can meet remote and/or local requirements.
The Parallux vBoost 350 is a 350-watt DC-to-DC converter module that steps up the voltage output of a solar panel to create a parallel connection to a constant voltage bus. It has a parallel architecture with constant voltage output over the entire input power curve, allows direct connection to solar panels via MC connectors, and includes a complete cable assembly for interconnection and connection to PV modules.
The document is an installation and operations manual for eIQ Energy's vBoost 250 and 350 photovoltaic boost converters. It provides instructions on safely installing, commissioning, using and troubleshooting the vBoost systems. The vBoost allows for maximum power point tracking of individual photovoltaic panels connected in parallel to a centralized voltage bus.
eIQ Energy’s innovative, patent pending, power management technology makes solar energy more dependable and a ordable. Our Parallux solution enables solar arrays to harvest more energy, and has advantages throughout the entire deployment: from design to installation and daily operation.
SecureGRC: Unification of Security Monitoring and IT-GRCxmeteorite
SecureGRC from eGestalt Technologies, is a comprehensive solution covering enterprise security, governance, risk management, audit, and compliance needs through a unified solution offering delivered via Software as a service.
SecureGRC™ is a world-leading solution for all enterprises, including small and medium businesses. SecureGRC™ includes all security and IT-GRC functions required to be compliant with easy to adopt compliance management framework with ready to use frameworks, leading edge context based inference engines, most advanced alert processing and easy to use logging and monitoring solution.
QuEST Global ranked World No.1 in Engineering Service Outsourcing by the Blac...xmeteorite
QuEST Global was ranked the number 1 engineering service outsourcing vendor by the Black Book of Outsourcing in 2009. The company received high marks for operational excellence, design, mechanical, manufacturing engineering, and plant automation/enterprise asset management services. Customer feedback praised QuEST Global for its trustworthiness, breadth of offerings, delivery excellence, customization, reliability, and support. The CEO of QuEST Global said the ranking reflects the company's focus on engineering services and commitment to serving customers at the highest level of performance.
LeadForce1 officially launched today with a mission to change the dynamics of enterprise marketing automation. Helping enterprises to break free from the sales-marketing divide.
Big Blue sued for preventing mainframe customers from saving millions of dollarsxmeteorite
Neon Enterprise Software sued IBM Monday morning in federal court in the Western District of Texas claiming Big Blue is out "to crush" it and prevent mainframe customers from saving hundreds of millions of dollars. Neon's the Texas outfit with the newfangled mainframe widgetry called zPrime that, if unfettered, could supposedly drain IBM's prized mainframe revenue stream.
Supercharge Your Savings and Mainframe Performancexmeteorite
Specialty processors were introduced by IBM as a way to lower the cost of mainframe computing, but most organizations have not been able to move significant workloads off the central processors. There are many legacy applications that cannot take advantage of specialty processors. NEON zPrime makes this happen with zPrime™.
This white paper attempts to look at the various aspects of Demo/Eval programs that are commonly used by manufacturers to test the usability of their product and also understand some of the basic user requirements that should be offered to enhance saleability.
KUDLE Beach is a popular beach destination located along the coast. The beach features soft white sand and calm waters ideal for swimming, sunbathing, and other beach activities. Visitors can enjoy scenic ocean views and relax in the laidback beach atmosphere.
IT Consulting Services - Save your company moneyxmeteorite
GTSS Inc is a world class global provider of complete spectrum of e-business, Internet and communication technology services. GTSS domain expert professionals work with the latest technological software and networking systems. GTSS also aids in placing highly skilled IT professionals.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Let's Integrate MuleSoft RPA, COMPOSER, APM with AWS IDP along with Slackshyamraj55
Discover the seamless integration of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), COMPOSER, and APM with AWS IDP enhanced with Slack notifications. Explore how these technologies converge to streamline workflows, optimize performance, and ensure secure access, all while leveraging the power of AWS IDP and real-time communication via Slack notifications.
2. white paper A Cost-Effective Integrated Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery | 2
introduction Recovery is something for which all businesses must prepare. Most acknowledge the need for
comprehensive business continuity plans, but the expense and complexity of fully implement-
ing these plans leads many enterprises to only partially implement them. Business continuity
plans generally cover information technology (IT) infrastructure (applications and data), commu-
nications, people, and process recovery. This white paper discusses a cost-effective approach
to providing IT infrastructure recovery solutions to meet remote (disaster recovery) and local
(backup) requirements.
IT infrastructure recovery generally revolves around application and data recovery, which
translates to several separate types of products: backup software that is used for local back-
up and restore, shipping services to transport backup tapes to remote locations, replication
software that is used to replicate data to remote locations for disaster recovery (DR) purpos-
es, and clustering products that are used to automatically recover applications when they fail
(regardless of whether that is due to hardware or software failures). Operative concerns in-
clude setting up cost-effective DR plans, minimizing data loss when recoveries are required,
minimizing the time associated with recovering from data and/or application failures, and
making recoveries easy and reliable. Recovery point objective (RPO) is an industry metric
used to target the maximum allowable amount of data loss on recovery, while recovery time
objective (RTO) is another industry term used to target the maximum time to recovery, and
both metrics can be applied to either applications or data. Very stringent RPO/RTO require-
ments can result in near zero data loss on recovery and very short recovery times. High data
growth rates are compounding traditional recovery problems, in particular because dealing
with ever larger amounts of data can impose performance degradation and/or disruptions
and longer recovery times on application environments that are being protected.
Conventional data protection approaches have tended to rely on backup software and tape-
based infrastructure. As information stores have grown, the use of tape media for local back-
up has led to a number of problems, including an inability to complete backups within the al-
lotted time periods, manually intensive data protection operations, long recovery times, and
poor recovery reliability. These issues have driven interest in the use of disk-based recovery
technologies. Solutions built around disk-based technologies allow recovery operations to
become more automated, minimize the impact of data protection on production applications,
result in faster, more reliable recoveries, and can significantly improve DR performance rela-
tive to plans which rely on shipping backup tapes to remote locations.
If you are interested in moving to a more automated set of processes as the foundation
for your DR plan, your current recovery processes are causing problems with production
impacts, RPO/RTO, or recovery reliability, you are looking for easy, cost-effective ways to im-
prove application availability, or you are thinking about investing in a virtual tape library (VTL),
InMage Systems offers a disk-based recovery solution, targeted for use in heterogeneous
environments, that combines application and data recovery into a single platform that can be
used for DR, local backup and restore, automated application failover and recovery, or any
combination of the three.
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Storage Realities for Mid Market Enterprises InMage: A Single Platform To Comprehensively
Several trends are impacting data protection planning – both Manage DR, Backup, and Application Recovery
remote and local – for mid market enterprises today: InMage offers InMage, a software-based recovery solution,
• Unprecedented data growth rates in the 50% - 60% deployed in the network, which combines remote DR, local
range that are expected to continue for at least the backup, and application failover (both local and remote) into a
next 5 years single platform. Built upon a foundation of disk-based recovery
technology, InMage definitively resolves backup window, RPO/
• Increasingly stringent RPO/RTO requirements driven by
RTO, recovery reliability, and automated application recovery
evolving business and regulatory mandates
issues with a solution that can stand alone or be seamlessly
• IT groups that are oversubscribed and underbudgeted, integrated as a “front end” to existing tape-based infrastruc-
leading to strong requirements for cost-effective tures. Application-aware functionality is available for a number
solutions that are easy to use of key enterprise applications, plugging into the InMage core
Most mid market enterprises have implemented some form of platform (called the CX) and leveraging a set of centralized
local backup which is tape-based, and it is increasingly appar- management practices that are common across all protected
ent that tape-based solutions don’t cope well with the above applications. InMage’s architectural design flexibly accommo-
trends. Despite known issues with DR plans that depend upon dates Windows, Linux, and Unix servers, physical and/or virtual
regularly shipping backup tapes to remote locations by truck, servers, heterogeneous storage and storage architectures,
scalability, overhead, and/or cost issues may have prevented and any application environment on a platform with a low
evaluation of replication technologies which can clearly im- entry price point that scales cost-effectively to configurations
prove DR RPO/RTO. In an effort to improve overall application protecting hundreds of servers across multiple locations.
availability, clustering solutions have often been considered
LOCAL SITE REMOTE SITE
and even tried, but cost, complexity, and reliability issues are
Production Server All transmission occurs across Recovery Server
stalling wider deployments. Source cost-effective IP networks Target
Managing heterogeneity is a fact of life for mid market
CDP REPLICATION
enterprises, which generally have a variety of disparate server,
storage, network, and application technologies. Solutions
InMage CX
which impose vendor lock-ins can limit the ability to integrate LAN WAN
new functionality and technologies. Options which can
preserve existing investments in hardware and software while
CDP log
at the same time providing maximum flexibility for integrating Sources can be • Directs replication to targets
either physical or • Fault management/recovery
newer hardware and software products ultimately allow IT virtual machines • AppShot policy management
Targets can be
either physical or
• Application recovery policies
managers to deploy the most cost-effective IT infrastructure. • WAN optimization
virtual machines
• Encryption
Finally, technology deployments built around application • I/O profiling
solutions can provide richer functionality that is easier to
deploy and use for a given application, particularly for smaller
APPLICATION FAILOVER/FAILBACK
IT groups. There is a risk, however, when horizontal solutions
(e.g. backup, DR) are application-specific and can only be used • Can select recovery point
for a single application environment – it can lead not only to Data taps • Restarts application service(s)
• Mounts recovery point
higher costs but also to additional management complexity • Updates AD + DNS entries
as each application solution imposes its own learning curve
on already overworked administrators. What would be most Figure 1. To make it easy to understand InMage’s theory of operation, this figure shows a
interesting are solutions which are application-aware, offering configuration with one production server source and one recovery server target, although
rich functionality specific to each application, and yet are in production deployments there are generally multiple sources and multiple targets. The
deployed and managed within a common management storage owned by the sources and targets can be of any type (DAS, SAN, NAS). InMage
framework that spans multiple application environments. captures data from sources using CDP across a LAN, then replicates them to targets using
asynchronous replication over IP.
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Simple, Cost-Effective DR site can be restored, at which point application services can be
DR best practices recommend that DR sites be located at least failed back while keeping all data changes incurred at the DR
200 miles from primary sites to ensure that a widespread ca- site. In sending this data back to the primary site, InMage uses
tastrophe like a tornado, earthquake, or hurricane cannot wipe delta differencing technologies which determine the minimum
out both sites. If tapes are being regularly shipped to a DR site number of blocks that have to be sent across the network to
and a recovery requires accessing these tapes, companies can re-create the DR site data states at the primary site, another
generally expect to lose at least several days of data. Recover- technique which minimizes network bandwidth requirements.
ing applications from tape-based data stored at remote loca- Taken together, these technologies makes very efficient use
tions can also take anywhere from several days to a week. of available bandwidth, allowing us to protect large application
environments while meeting stringent RPO/RTO requirements
If, on the other hand, replication is used to deploy a DR capa- with minimal bandwidth.
bility, data loss can be reduced to no more than a few minutes
and recovery times can be on the order of minutes to hours. InMage offers several key advantages relative to more con-
This is primarily because replication collects data continuously ventional replication-based DR products. First, we offer a more
as it is created, sending it immediately to target locations like comprehensive recovery capability that includes not only the
DR sites across networks instead of on the trucks that physical data but extends all the way up to the application. At the push
tapes require. Shipping physical tapes can introduce days of of a single button, InMage will fail application services over to
transit time. Asynchronous replication can meet long distance the target location. Instead of the manual process that conven-
DR requirements, supporting effectively unlimited distances tional replication products require to get an application back up
between primary and DR sites. and running, we have fully automated that process, making it
faster and more reliable.
InMage leverages continuous data protection (CDP) and
replication technologies to move data from source servers Second, we can enable that automated recovery to occur
(the production servers) through a network-based control from any retroactively selected recovery point, given our
server called the CX to target servers. Target servers can be underlying CDP foundation for local data capture. This recovery
either local or remote, as long as there is an IP-based network granularity for a DR solution allows us to recover from data
connection to them from the CX. The storage attached to corruption problems with minimal data loss, perform better
source servers can be any type (DAS, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, root cause analyses of failure events, and potentially recover
FC) and from any vendor, and the same is true for target an application to any previous point in time that may be desired
servers (we can replicate between heterogeneous storage for reporting or maintenance purposes (a quarterly close, a pre
subsystems). This heterogeneous support provides significant patch state, etc.).
deployment flexibility since any new equipment can be Third, InMage gracefully manages transient network outages
purchased or pre-existing equipment can be re-purposed for and transparently recovers from them without any data loss,
use in these configurations. ensuring that protection is always continuous.
Applications that have large data sets can present DR challeng- Fourth, InMage supports mixed physical/virtual server configu-
es, particularly if there is limited network bandwidth between rations when setting up source and target server definitions.
primary and DR sites. Because it uses a variety of capacity The use of virtual servers as recovery targets can significantly
optimization technologies, InMage can protect very large data lower the cost of setting up DR configurations, and the fact
sets while using minimal bandwidth. Once an initial baseline is that we support all three major virtual server environments –
established, it collects only data changes. As it moves this data VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen – provides maximum deployment
between source and target servers, InMage employs WAN op- flexibility.
timization to minimize the amount of data that has to be sent And fifth, InMage’s “hot site” recovery capabilities support
to a given target to support recovery operations. WAN optimi- much better recovery performance than “cold site” options.
zation algorithms include built-in TCP optimizations that mini- That translates to faster, easier recovery, which is what you
mize the amount of data that has to be sent across the net- want when time is of the essence.
work and compression, while bandwidth shaping is performed
by administrator-defined quality of service (QoS) policies for Eliminate Backup Impacts While Improving
co-existing with other production traffic on the network. If a di- Recovery Capabilities
saster occurs, InMage supports failover of application services
InMage moves enterprises away from the “point in time” ori-
to the DR site so that business operations can be quickly re-
entation of backups that impact production operations. Since
started despite a catastrophic failure at a primary site. Produc-
data is being continuously captured as it is created, backup
tion operations can be run from this DR site until the primary
windows become a thing of the past, yet enterprises have
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more granular access to recovery points. InMage effectively • Application-specific functionality is not a set of custom
moves backup operations off production servers so that they scripts put together in the field - it is fully productized,
do not impact business operations. meaning that it is developed, tested, documented and
This approach can significantly minimize the need for tape- supported by InMage, a fact which results in a reliable
based infrastructure. Since most local recoveries are per- solution with predictable performance
formed from relatively recent backups, companies that use • Multiple application solutions can be combined on a single
InMage to keep several days to several weeks of changes CX but managed through a single secure, web browser-
resident on disk will end up performing most recovery opera- based GUI (a command line interface is available as well)
tions from disk, resulting in faster, more reliable recoveries to produce well integrated solutions that are easy to
that, given InMage’s granular data capture and recovery point install, deploy, and manage
selection capabilities, can meet much more stringent RPO/RTO AppShots have other administrative value than just as opti-
requirements. Companies that before were performing a single mum recovery points. They make it easy to cut off copies of
weekly full backup with six incrementals may decide to dump production data sets at any time without impacting production
data to tape far less frequently, possibly once a week, only operations. These AppShots can be mounted on non-produc-
after data ages out of an administrator-defined data stream tion servers to support business intelligence tasks and other
retention period, after data has been replicated to a remote reporting functions as well as test and development opera-
site, or only after data reaches a certain defined age at the tions. Since AppShots can be retroactively created to repre-
remote site. Remote offices that previously were dealing with sent any desired point in time, they can be used to time shift
tapes can now move to tape-less operations that rely on disk- administrative operations to optimize operator productivity.
based recovery that is centrally managed. Enterprises that do
not keep “backup” data around for more than several months InMage: Unique Hybrid Recovery Technology
may in fact be able to move to completely tape-less backup
operations. InMage uses an architecture that is unique in the industry. Key
concerns this unique architecture was built to address include
Application-Aware Solutions cost-effective scalability across a wide range of configurations
from several to several hundred servers, non-disruptive deploy-
InMage supports a number of different application-aware ment (in terms of both host impact and in failure modes), and
recovery solutions for key enterprise applications, including an ability to accommodate heterogeneous servers and storage
Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint, as well as Oracle, as well as a variety of different storage architectures. Granular
MySQL, Blackberry Server, SAP and any Windows, Linux, or
, data capture and selection of recovery points was a critical
Unix file systems, among others. Multiple application solu- design tenet, both for minimizing the impact of data protec-
tions can run on a single CX although each application solution tion operations on protected servers but also in providing the
includes application-specific integration, particularly for instal- maximum flexibility in selecting the optimum recovery point to
lation, tracking application-consistent recovery points (known meet a variety of different RPO/RTO requirements.
as AppShots), and for managing application failover/failback.
This integration results in a solution that produces fast, reliable Granular Data Capture and Recovery
application and data recovery but is managed under a set of
Conventional backups are performed periodically, and as data
policies (installation, deployment, marking AppShot recovery
sets grow this “point in time” approach presents problems.
points, creating and using AppShots, failover/failback, etc.) that
InMage completely avoids the problems associated with trying
are common across all application environments. InMage’s
to back up an ever increasing amount of data through static
ability to manage multiple application recovery solutions under
network links and within given backup windows by collecting
a common management framework provides a compelling
changes continuously, as they occur. This effectively spreads
alternative to application-specific solutions that support only
the “backup” throughout the day and provides excellent
one application type.
protection for even large data sets across network links with
There is a big difference between application-specific and appli- very limited bandwidth. The changes appear to InMage as a
cation-aware solutions, and the latter offers significant benefits: data stream, and this stream is annotated with time stamps as
• They make comprehensive recovery solutions for specific well as any number of markers that denote application events
applications easy to buy and deploy of importance when it comes to recovery or other business
operations. These markers, also referred to as bookmarks, can
• They leverage application-specific domain expertise in our
be inserted into the data stream either manually or through
engineering groups to provide recovery capabilities tailored
policies to mark any number of potential recovery points, such
to application-specific requirements, producing better
overall products
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as application-consistent points created using application APIs Note that the data flow originates at the production server
(e.g. VSS for Windows applications, RMAN for Oracle, etc.), sources, flows through the CX, and then onto one or more
pre- and post-patch points, or meaningful financial milestones recovery server targets. This is a unique architecture that is nei-
such as quarterly closes. The administrator specifies a reten- ther host-based nor appliance-based replication. It is a unique
tion time frame for this data (e.g. 3 days, 2 weeks, a month, design – the only one of its kind in the storage industry – that
etc.), and any point in that data stream of retained data can be imposes minimal server overhead, offers graceful scalability
retroactively selected and used for recovery purposes. across a wide range, and can flexibly accommodate a number
Once a recovery point has been selected, the administrator of different source and target devices. It does not suffer from
can choose between creating a physical or a virtual disk-based the scalability and overhead problems of traditional host-based
image of that point. Think of it as turning a dial back to any replication, does not require appliance pairs at each loca-
desired point and generating the desired image. These images tion like traditional appliance-based replication, and does not
can be designated as read only or read/write, depending on impose the vendor lock-in that is a disadvantage in array-based
what they will be used for. Image creation can be scheduled, replication. It really is a hybrid model deploying elements of
event-driven, or generated upon demand without impacting both host-based and appliance-based replication, which is why
production applications in any way, and are mounted on recov- InMage refers to it as “hybrid recovery technology” .
ery server targets for use. AppShots (application-consistent The CX includes the processing power necessary to provide
points in time) are generally used for most application and significant functionality, such as driving the data stream marking
data recoveries since they support the shortest RTOs, but policies, managing the creation and disposition of AppShots,
other points that are generated based on time or other events minimizing the amount of data that has to be sent over the
can be valuable for root cause analysis, business intelligence, WAN through capacity optimization technologies such as delta
reporting, or other purposes. differencing, compression, and bandwidth shaping, managing
encryption for data that is in-flight across the WAN, handling
What Makes InMage Unique fault management issues such as transient network outages
To manage data capture, InMage deploys filter drivers, referred and application failover/failback, and performing I/O profiling.
to as data taps, on each server for which protection is desired. I/O profiling is an interesting area. The InMage Analyzer can be
The data taps pass writes directly through to storage targets installed prior to production deployment to determine I/O rates
owned by the production server while at the same time asyn- across the network, which provides valuable data in under-
chronously passing them over to the local CX. The CX will then standing what sort of RPO/RTO requirements you can meet
replicate that data to one or more recovery server targets, and with your existing infrastructure. This allows you to deploy
those targets can be local and/or remote. The CX does not store with confidence, knowing what your recovery performance will
data over time, it only acts as a “way station” for the data. The be. After deployment and during normal operation, the CX acts
data is stored on the recovery server target(s). InMage uses as a focal point through which the data streams of potentially
both CDP and replication as foundation technologies. multiple servers flow. InMage can monitor these I/O streams
over time, helping administrators understand how the I/O load
LOCAL SITE REMOTE SITE on their networks may vary at different times of the day and
Production Server Source(s) over time. This trending analysis provides valuable input for
Sources can be either network capacity planning.
physical or virtual machines
A single CX can simultaneously
provide the recovery foundation
Summary
for multiple applications
InMage is targeted for environments that have at least several
servers that need either remote disaster recovery, better local
InMage CX
backup, and/or higher application availability managed through
LA N WAN
an automated failover/failback capability. It leverages low cost
All transmission occurs across Recovery Server Target(s)
IP-based networks for all data capture and replication, support-
Data taps cost-effective IP networks ing low entry price points. Its heterogeneous support allows
the use of any storage devices using any type of architecture,
Recovery Server Target(s) Targets can be either physical
or virtual machines and this investment preservation story contributes to its flex-
ibility and cost-effective deployment. 50% of our customers
Figure 2. InMage collects data from source servers at a very granular level (write by write) use InMage to meet both DR and local backup requirements,
across a LAN, then replicates that data to one or more target servers which can be either
local or remote.
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and find themselves able to remove heavyweight backup and InMage is a great solution for mid market companies that are
other agents from many servers, freeing up CPU cycles (a par- looking for cost-effective DR options, may be struggling with
ticularly important issue in virtual server environments) through tape-based backup infrastructure, are considering a virtual tape
InMage’s “host off-load” design. Since most data recoveries library, and/or want higher application availability but are put off
use the most recent data, customers generally keep several by the cost and complexity of conventional clustering solutions.
days to several weeks of data within the InMage repository, It is the only block-based replication option available on the
leveraging the advantages of InMage’s very granular data cap- market that combines remote DR, local backup, and application
ture and recovery capabilities as well as the benefits of disk- failover/failback in a single, easy to deploy platform. Its’ non-
based recovery to handle most recoveries. If customers want disruptive deployment, heterogeneous support, and granular
to migrate older backup data into another application, such as recovery capabilities offer a compelling value proposition for
backup or archive software, that data can be staged from App- enterprises concerned about DR, backup windows, RPO/RTO,
Shots without imposing any production impacts whatsoever. recovery reliability, and/or application availability.
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