The document summarizes several customer success stories that used NetApp business continuity products like SnapMirror and MetroCluster. It provides brief overviews of how various companies from industries like energy, real estate, healthcare, and retail used NetApp solutions to strengthen data protection, improve disaster recovery capabilities, enhance storage management and performance, and gain business benefits.
This document provides an overview of Solid State Solutions (S3), an independent storage integration company. S3 specializes in big data, virtualization, and reducing costs through flexible services. The document discusses flash memory technology, different types of SSDs, and challenges like wear leveling and write amplification. It provides an example of how S3 implemented an all-flash array to support 1000 VDI users, achieving much higher performance and lower costs than a traditional disk solution. The document emphasizes choosing solutions tailored to specific application needs and workload characteristics.
NetApp Administration and Best Practice, Brendon Higgins, Proact UKsubtitle
This document provides tips and best practices for storage administration. It discusses fundamentals like DAS, NAS, and SAN configurations. It also highlights NetApp tools and features, such as snapshots, cloning, backups, and performance monitoring. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of testing solutions, understanding storage basics, and engaging support when needed.
This document discusses how to deliver maximum desktop virtualization performance and user satisfaction. It outlines some of the challenges organizations face with traditional monitoring tools, including high support costs, slow applications, and user frustration. It then describes how the eG Enterprise tool can help by providing rapid response to user problems, reducing the time to fix issues, enabling organizations to minimize unplanned outages, optimize infrastructure usage, and know when to add more capacity. The document presents examples of dashboards and reports that eG Enterprise provides to help with these goals.
Robbie Jerrom presents on Puppet, an open source configuration management tool. Puppet takes a declarative approach, allowing users to define what a system configuration should be rather than how to achieve it. Everything in Puppet is defined as a resource like packages, files, and services. Puppet uses a client-server model to manage configurations across multiple systems from a central Puppet master. It provides an easier way to deploy and manage software compared to traditional scripting approaches.
What is NetBackup appliance? Is it just NetBackup pre-installed on hardware?
The answer is both yes and no.
Yes, NetBackup appliance is simply backup in a box if you are looking for a solution for your data protection and disaster recovery readiness. That is the business problem you are solving with this turnkey appliance that installs in minutes and reduce your operational costs.
No, NetBackup appliance is more than a backup in box if you are comparing it with rolling your own hardware for NetBackup or if you are comparing it with third party deduplication appliances. Here is why I say this…
NetBackup appliance comes with redundant storage in RAID6 for storing your backups
Symantec worked with Intel to design the hardware for running NetBackup optimally for predictable and consistent performance. Eliminates the guesswork while designing the solution.
Many vendors will talk about various processes running on their devices to perform integrity checks, some solutions even need blackout windows to do those operations. NetBackup appliances include Storage Foundation at no additional cost. The storage is managed by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and presented to operating system through Veritas File System. Why is this important? SF is industry-leading storage management infrastructure that powers the most mission-critical applications in the enterprise space. It is built for high-performance and resiliency. NetBackup appliance provides 24/7 protection with data integrity on storage provided by the industry leading technology.
The Linux based operating system, optimized for NetBackup, harden by Symantec eliminates the cost of deploying and maintaining general purpose operating system and associated IT applications.
NetBackup appliances include built-on WAN Optimization driver. Replicate to appliances on remote sites or to the cloud up to 10 times faster on across high latency links.
Your backups need to be protected. Symantec Critical System Protection provides non-signature based Host Intrusion Prevention protection. It protects against zero-day attacks using granular OS hardening policies along with application, user and device controls, all pre-defined for you in NetBackup appliance so that you don’t need to worry about configuring it.
Best of all, reduce your operational expenditure and eliminate complexity! One patch updates everything in this stack! The most holistic data protection solution with the least number of knobs to operate.
Symantec continues to deliver on its information management strategy to enable organizations to protect their information completely, deduplicate everywhere to eliminate redundant data, delete confidently and discover efficiently with Enterprise Vault 9.0, Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector, NetBackup 5000 and the NetBackup Cloud Storage for Nirvanix.
This document discusses how Catalogic ECX copy data management software can be used with IBM FlashSystem V9000 all-flash storage arrays to provide software-defined agility. The IBM FlashSystem offers high performance storage with data compression and disaster recovery capabilities. Catalogic ECX automates copy creation, tracking, usage, refresh, and deletion to simplify management of copies for use cases like disaster recovery, testing/development, and self-service. A live demonstration shows how ECX streamlines recovery and enables self-service access to copies. Resources for learning more about the joint solution are provided.
This document provides an overview of Solid State Solutions (S3), an independent storage integration company. S3 specializes in big data, virtualization, and reducing costs through flexible services. The document discusses flash memory technology, different types of SSDs, and challenges like wear leveling and write amplification. It provides an example of how S3 implemented an all-flash array to support 1000 VDI users, achieving much higher performance and lower costs than a traditional disk solution. The document emphasizes choosing solutions tailored to specific application needs and workload characteristics.
NetApp Administration and Best Practice, Brendon Higgins, Proact UKsubtitle
This document provides tips and best practices for storage administration. It discusses fundamentals like DAS, NAS, and SAN configurations. It also highlights NetApp tools and features, such as snapshots, cloning, backups, and performance monitoring. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of testing solutions, understanding storage basics, and engaging support when needed.
This document discusses how to deliver maximum desktop virtualization performance and user satisfaction. It outlines some of the challenges organizations face with traditional monitoring tools, including high support costs, slow applications, and user frustration. It then describes how the eG Enterprise tool can help by providing rapid response to user problems, reducing the time to fix issues, enabling organizations to minimize unplanned outages, optimize infrastructure usage, and know when to add more capacity. The document presents examples of dashboards and reports that eG Enterprise provides to help with these goals.
Robbie Jerrom presents on Puppet, an open source configuration management tool. Puppet takes a declarative approach, allowing users to define what a system configuration should be rather than how to achieve it. Everything in Puppet is defined as a resource like packages, files, and services. Puppet uses a client-server model to manage configurations across multiple systems from a central Puppet master. It provides an easier way to deploy and manage software compared to traditional scripting approaches.
What is NetBackup appliance? Is it just NetBackup pre-installed on hardware?
The answer is both yes and no.
Yes, NetBackup appliance is simply backup in a box if you are looking for a solution for your data protection and disaster recovery readiness. That is the business problem you are solving with this turnkey appliance that installs in minutes and reduce your operational costs.
No, NetBackup appliance is more than a backup in box if you are comparing it with rolling your own hardware for NetBackup or if you are comparing it with third party deduplication appliances. Here is why I say this…
NetBackup appliance comes with redundant storage in RAID6 for storing your backups
Symantec worked with Intel to design the hardware for running NetBackup optimally for predictable and consistent performance. Eliminates the guesswork while designing the solution.
Many vendors will talk about various processes running on their devices to perform integrity checks, some solutions even need blackout windows to do those operations. NetBackup appliances include Storage Foundation at no additional cost. The storage is managed by Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and presented to operating system through Veritas File System. Why is this important? SF is industry-leading storage management infrastructure that powers the most mission-critical applications in the enterprise space. It is built for high-performance and resiliency. NetBackup appliance provides 24/7 protection with data integrity on storage provided by the industry leading technology.
The Linux based operating system, optimized for NetBackup, harden by Symantec eliminates the cost of deploying and maintaining general purpose operating system and associated IT applications.
NetBackup appliances include built-on WAN Optimization driver. Replicate to appliances on remote sites or to the cloud up to 10 times faster on across high latency links.
Your backups need to be protected. Symantec Critical System Protection provides non-signature based Host Intrusion Prevention protection. It protects against zero-day attacks using granular OS hardening policies along with application, user and device controls, all pre-defined for you in NetBackup appliance so that you don’t need to worry about configuring it.
Best of all, reduce your operational expenditure and eliminate complexity! One patch updates everything in this stack! The most holistic data protection solution with the least number of knobs to operate.
Symantec continues to deliver on its information management strategy to enable organizations to protect their information completely, deduplicate everywhere to eliminate redundant data, delete confidently and discover efficiently with Enterprise Vault 9.0, Enterprise Vault Discovery Collector, NetBackup 5000 and the NetBackup Cloud Storage for Nirvanix.
This document discusses how Catalogic ECX copy data management software can be used with IBM FlashSystem V9000 all-flash storage arrays to provide software-defined agility. The IBM FlashSystem offers high performance storage with data compression and disaster recovery capabilities. Catalogic ECX automates copy creation, tracking, usage, refresh, and deletion to simplify management of copies for use cases like disaster recovery, testing/development, and self-service. A live demonstration shows how ECX streamlines recovery and enables self-service access to copies. Resources for learning more about the joint solution are provided.
Learn how upcoming changes in the persistent memory market will affect deployments of in-memory computing and traditional applications. Using software innovations from SanDisk and the broad portfolio of flash storage hardware options, customers and developers can optimize applications for “flash extended memory”, the intersection of in-memory computing and persistent memory technologies.
Emc data domain technical deep dive workshopsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of EMC Data Domain products and services. It discusses Data Domain systems which provide scalable and high performance protection storage for backup and archive data. The systems integrate with leading backup and archiving applications. The document also summarizes Data Domain software options such as Boost, Encryption, Replicator and Extended Retention which provide additional functionality.
EMC for Network Attached Storage (NAS) Backup and Recovery Using NDMPEMC
This white paper discusses EMC's backup and recovery solutions for NAS systems using NDMP. It describes how EMC's Avamar and NetWorker solutions can provide optimized data protection for NAS using data deduplication and integration with Data Domain storage. The paper recommends using backups, snapshots, and offsite replication as best practices to meet recovery objectives while improving efficiency.
on the most suitable storage architecture for virtualizationJordi Moles Blanco
This is a paper I wrote on the most suitable storage architecture for virtualization that solved some of the problems we had with shared storage at CDmon. The paper talks about pros and cons of both ISCSI and NFS and tries to get the most stable and best performing storage solution with the tools we had available at that moment.
TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER▸ NetBackup 7.6 Plugin for VMware vCenterSymantec
In NetBackup 7.6, the NetBackup plug-in for vCenter integrates with VMware’s vSphere Client user interface to provide new VMware virtual machine administration capabilities.
The plug-in enables VMware administrators…
▸ To monitor their Virtual machine backups directly from the VMware vSphere Client UI.
▸ To export virtual machine backup reports from the vSphere Client UI.
▸ Initiate full virtual machine recovery directly from a Recovery Portal in the vSphere Client UI.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E7 v3-based X6 platforms + Lenovo Flex System Interconnect Fabric solutions deliver a highly-reliable, cost-efficient and scalable system for your data center.
This document provides an overview of the EMC VNX storage system. It includes 14 modules that cover topics such as unified management, block and file storage provisioning, data protection features, host integration, and more. The document also lists system limits and specifications for the different VNX models. It aims to educate customers on the technical capabilities and features of the VNX platform.
SnapVault in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 provides efficient, reliable backups of data using incremental Snapshot copies. It supports backups over any distance and fast, simple recovery from data loss. Storage efficiency is preserved during backups. Key features include policy-based backups, reliable restore capabilities including browsing, restoring files and volumes, and usable replica copies for read-only or read-write access. It can replicate data between clustered and 7-Mode systems and supports fan-in, fan-out, and cascaded configurations. SnapVault is configured through setting schedules, policies and creating relationships between volumes.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶NetBackup Appliance AutoSupport for NetBackup 5330Symantec
Symantec AutoSupport is a set of infrastructure, process, and systems that enhance the support experience through proactive monitoring of Symantec Appliance hardware and software, as well as providing automated error reporting and support case creation.
Through automation, internet access, and case management integration, Symantec can vastly improve the support process and give our support engineers the tools to solve problems faster. The AutoSupport infrastructure within Symantec analyzes the Call Home data from each appliance to provide proactive customer support and incident response for hardware failures thus reducing the need for an administrator to initiate support cases. It also enables Symantec to better understand how customers configure and use appliances, and where improvements would be most beneficial.
AutoSupport can also correlate the Call Home data with other site configuration data held by Symantec, for technical support and error analysis. With AutoSupport, Symantec greatly improves the customer support experience.
HP Storage: Delivering Storage without Boundariesjameshub12
HP provides several storage solutions including the P4000, 3PAR, X9000, and StoreOnce/D2D. The P4000 is a scale-out SAN optimized for server virtualization that offers features like thin provisioning, snapshots, and high availability. The 3PAR storage platform is designed for utility computing and reduces costs while improving storage management efficiency. The X9000 provides scale-out NAS for file serving workloads. StoreOnce/D2D offers scalable, efficient data deduplication and replication.
The document introduces the new HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged platform. It provides all-flash storage and compute resources with advanced data services like compression, deduplication, backup, and disaster recovery in a single building block for simplified management. Customers can realize significant cost savings and efficiency gains compared to traditional infrastructure or public cloud options like AWS. The HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers powerful and simple hyperconvergence combined with efficient and flexible operations for customers' workloads.
Real world experience with provisioning servicesCitrix
If you use Citrix NetScaler for secure remote access to your Citrix XenApp/Citrix XenDesktop deployment, you may be wondering if there’s more that it can do. You are correct! NetScaler also offers load balancing, global server load balancing, web interface integration, HDX traffic inspection and much more. It can enhance Citrix ShareFile StorageZones and Citrix mobile deployments. Join this session for a quick NetScaler refresher.
VMworld 2013: How SRP Delivers More Than Power to Their Customers VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheldon Brown, SRP
Girish Manmadkar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Citrix PVS Advanced memory and storage considerations for provisioning servicesNuno Alves
This document discusses memory considerations for Citrix Provisioning Services deployments. It explains how Windows handles memory, specifically the system cache which caches file data in RAM for improved performance. The size of the system cache affects storage performance. The document recommends calculating how much data is typically read from shared vDisks by target devices in order to determine the appropriate amount of RAM needed in Provisioning Services servers and target devices for caching this data in memory rather than reading it from disk. This improves performance by reducing disk read I/O operations.
EMC Data domain advanced features and functionssolarisyougood
This document provides an overview of advanced features and functions of Data Domain systems. It covers topics such as virtual tape libraries (VTL), snapshots, replication, DD Boost integration, capacity and throughput planning, and system monitoring tools. The document consists of multiple lessons that describe these topics in detail and includes configuration examples.
The document discusses Oracle's ZS3 series enterprise storage systems. It provides an overview of Oracle's approach to driving storage system evolution from hardware-defined to software-defined. It then summarizes the key features and benefits of the ZS3 series, including extreme performance, integrated analytics, and optimization for Oracle software.
Blue Medora - VMware vROps Management Pack for NetApp Storage OverviewBlue Medora
The document discusses a management pack for VMware vRealize Operations that provides visibility into NetApp storage systems. It connects directly to NetApp OnCommand to collect metrics, automatically detects and maps NetApp objects, and provides alerts, reports, and dashboards to view the end-to-end relationship between applications, VMs, and NetApp storage components from a single console. It collects over 700 NetApp storage metrics to monitor performance, health, capacity and help optimize storage usage.
This document provides an overview of the VNX storage solutions from EMC Corporation. It discusses the key capabilities of the VNX family such as unified storage, hybrid flash technology, and cloud readiness. The document is intended as a repository of slides for sales and marketing presentations on VNX. It provides information on the various VNX models and options, hybrid flash guidelines, management integrations, service provider partnerships, and customer case studies.
Learn how upcoming changes in the persistent memory market will affect deployments of in-memory computing and traditional applications. Using software innovations from SanDisk and the broad portfolio of flash storage hardware options, customers and developers can optimize applications for “flash extended memory”, the intersection of in-memory computing and persistent memory technologies.
Emc data domain technical deep dive workshopsolarisyougood
The document provides an overview of EMC Data Domain products and services. It discusses Data Domain systems which provide scalable and high performance protection storage for backup and archive data. The systems integrate with leading backup and archiving applications. The document also summarizes Data Domain software options such as Boost, Encryption, Replicator and Extended Retention which provide additional functionality.
EMC for Network Attached Storage (NAS) Backup and Recovery Using NDMPEMC
This white paper discusses EMC's backup and recovery solutions for NAS systems using NDMP. It describes how EMC's Avamar and NetWorker solutions can provide optimized data protection for NAS using data deduplication and integration with Data Domain storage. The paper recommends using backups, snapshots, and offsite replication as best practices to meet recovery objectives while improving efficiency.
on the most suitable storage architecture for virtualizationJordi Moles Blanco
This is a paper I wrote on the most suitable storage architecture for virtualization that solved some of the problems we had with shared storage at CDmon. The paper talks about pros and cons of both ISCSI and NFS and tries to get the most stable and best performing storage solution with the tools we had available at that moment.
TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER▸ NetBackup 7.6 Plugin for VMware vCenterSymantec
In NetBackup 7.6, the NetBackup plug-in for vCenter integrates with VMware’s vSphere Client user interface to provide new VMware virtual machine administration capabilities.
The plug-in enables VMware administrators…
▸ To monitor their Virtual machine backups directly from the VMware vSphere Client UI.
▸ To export virtual machine backup reports from the vSphere Client UI.
▸ Initiate full virtual machine recovery directly from a Recovery Portal in the vSphere Client UI.
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E7 v3-based X6 platforms + Lenovo Flex System Interconnect Fabric solutions deliver a highly-reliable, cost-efficient and scalable system for your data center.
This document provides an overview of the EMC VNX storage system. It includes 14 modules that cover topics such as unified management, block and file storage provisioning, data protection features, host integration, and more. The document also lists system limits and specifications for the different VNX models. It aims to educate customers on the technical capabilities and features of the VNX platform.
SnapVault in Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 provides efficient, reliable backups of data using incremental Snapshot copies. It supports backups over any distance and fast, simple recovery from data loss. Storage efficiency is preserved during backups. Key features include policy-based backups, reliable restore capabilities including browsing, restoring files and volumes, and usable replica copies for read-only or read-write access. It can replicate data between clustered and 7-Mode systems and supports fan-in, fan-out, and cascaded configurations. SnapVault is configured through setting schedules, policies and creating relationships between volumes.
TECHNICAL BRIEF▶NetBackup Appliance AutoSupport for NetBackup 5330Symantec
Symantec AutoSupport is a set of infrastructure, process, and systems that enhance the support experience through proactive monitoring of Symantec Appliance hardware and software, as well as providing automated error reporting and support case creation.
Through automation, internet access, and case management integration, Symantec can vastly improve the support process and give our support engineers the tools to solve problems faster. The AutoSupport infrastructure within Symantec analyzes the Call Home data from each appliance to provide proactive customer support and incident response for hardware failures thus reducing the need for an administrator to initiate support cases. It also enables Symantec to better understand how customers configure and use appliances, and where improvements would be most beneficial.
AutoSupport can also correlate the Call Home data with other site configuration data held by Symantec, for technical support and error analysis. With AutoSupport, Symantec greatly improves the customer support experience.
HP Storage: Delivering Storage without Boundariesjameshub12
HP provides several storage solutions including the P4000, 3PAR, X9000, and StoreOnce/D2D. The P4000 is a scale-out SAN optimized for server virtualization that offers features like thin provisioning, snapshots, and high availability. The 3PAR storage platform is designed for utility computing and reduces costs while improving storage management efficiency. The X9000 provides scale-out NAS for file serving workloads. StoreOnce/D2D offers scalable, efficient data deduplication and replication.
The document introduces the new HPE SimpliVity 380 hyperconverged platform. It provides all-flash storage and compute resources with advanced data services like compression, deduplication, backup, and disaster recovery in a single building block for simplified management. Customers can realize significant cost savings and efficiency gains compared to traditional infrastructure or public cloud options like AWS. The HPE SimpliVity 380 delivers powerful and simple hyperconvergence combined with efficient and flexible operations for customers' workloads.
Real world experience with provisioning servicesCitrix
If you use Citrix NetScaler for secure remote access to your Citrix XenApp/Citrix XenDesktop deployment, you may be wondering if there’s more that it can do. You are correct! NetScaler also offers load balancing, global server load balancing, web interface integration, HDX traffic inspection and much more. It can enhance Citrix ShareFile StorageZones and Citrix mobile deployments. Join this session for a quick NetScaler refresher.
VMworld 2013: How SRP Delivers More Than Power to Their Customers VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheldon Brown, SRP
Girish Manmadkar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Citrix PVS Advanced memory and storage considerations for provisioning servicesNuno Alves
This document discusses memory considerations for Citrix Provisioning Services deployments. It explains how Windows handles memory, specifically the system cache which caches file data in RAM for improved performance. The size of the system cache affects storage performance. The document recommends calculating how much data is typically read from shared vDisks by target devices in order to determine the appropriate amount of RAM needed in Provisioning Services servers and target devices for caching this data in memory rather than reading it from disk. This improves performance by reducing disk read I/O operations.
EMC Data domain advanced features and functionssolarisyougood
This document provides an overview of advanced features and functions of Data Domain systems. It covers topics such as virtual tape libraries (VTL), snapshots, replication, DD Boost integration, capacity and throughput planning, and system monitoring tools. The document consists of multiple lessons that describe these topics in detail and includes configuration examples.
The document discusses Oracle's ZS3 series enterprise storage systems. It provides an overview of Oracle's approach to driving storage system evolution from hardware-defined to software-defined. It then summarizes the key features and benefits of the ZS3 series, including extreme performance, integrated analytics, and optimization for Oracle software.
Blue Medora - VMware vROps Management Pack for NetApp Storage OverviewBlue Medora
The document discusses a management pack for VMware vRealize Operations that provides visibility into NetApp storage systems. It connects directly to NetApp OnCommand to collect metrics, automatically detects and maps NetApp objects, and provides alerts, reports, and dashboards to view the end-to-end relationship between applications, VMs, and NetApp storage components from a single console. It collects over 700 NetApp storage metrics to monitor performance, health, capacity and help optimize storage usage.
This document provides an overview of the VNX storage solutions from EMC Corporation. It discusses the key capabilities of the VNX family such as unified storage, hybrid flash technology, and cloud readiness. The document is intended as a repository of slides for sales and marketing presentations on VNX. It provides information on the various VNX models and options, hybrid flash guidelines, management integrations, service provider partnerships, and customer case studies.
This document discusses cloud security and provides an overview of McAfee's cloud security solutions. It summarizes McAfee's cloud security program, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and competitors in the cloud security market. It also discusses Netflix's migration to the cloud for its infrastructure and content delivery and outlines Netflix's cloud security strategy.
The document discusses the importance of data storage for large tech companies and the challenges of storing large amounts of data reliably. It provides an overview of NetApp's storage solutions, including Data ONTAP, WAFL file system, Snapshot technology, replication tools like SnapMirror, and management tools like My AutoSupport. NetApp believes in providing a unified storage platform with integrated data protection, management and optimization capabilities.
The survey found that over half of respondents are using some form of hybrid cloud services. Hybrid cloud adoption was popular across all business sizes and regions surveyed. Security, flexibility, and cost savings were the most common motivations for cloud adoption, especially among CIOs. The majority of respondents use cloud services primarily for storage, backups, and file storage workloads rather than more advanced analytics or disaster recovery. German medium-sized businesses were most likely to use cloud for storage, while larger businesses generally used cloud more for SaaS applications.
Net App Syncsort Integrated Backup Solution SheetMichael Hudak
NetApp has core technology for
block-level data protection .
What does Syncsort add?
A: Syncsort leverages NetApp core technology while adding the following: Heterogeneous application support for Exchange,Oracle, SQL• Deeper integration with VMware for advanced,
automated recovery scenarios• Catalog search and restore across disk-based backup• A catalog that spans both disk and tape• Recovery from SnapMirror DR destinations• Automated Bare Metal Recovery
This document summarizes concepts related to disaster recovery including objectives, concepts, targets, risks, opportunities, and solutions. The objectives are to review disaster recovery basics, explore customer business risks, and discover opportunities through awareness services and technology. Concepts discussed include disaster recovery, business continuity, availability, recovery time objectives, and costs of downtime. Target audiences are those with mission critical applications. Business risks include various physical events, user errors, hardware/software failures, and security threats. Opportunities discussed include Ricoh consulting and managed services as well as partner solutions for networking, hosting, storage, and data protection. Specific disaster recovery deep dives focus on solutions from SonicWALL, Dell, and IBM that can be combined
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
Data is being generated at rates never before encountered. The explosion of data threatens to consume all of our IT resources: People, budget, power, cooling and data center floor space. Are your systems coping with your data now? Will they continue to deliver as the stress on data centers increases and IT budgets dwindle?
Imagine if you could be ahead of the data explosion by being proactive about your storage instead of reactive. Now you can be, with NetApp's approach to the designs and deployment of storage systems. With it, you can take advantage of NetApp's latest storage enhancements and take control of your storage. This will allow you to focus on gathering more insights from your data and deliver more value to your business.
NetApp's most advanced storage solutions are NetApp Virtualization & scale out. By taking control of your existing storage platform with either solution, you get:
• Immortal Storage system
• Infinite scalability
• Best possible ROI from existing environment
Dynamic Data Centers - Taking it to the next levelsanvmibj
Delivering on the Promise of a Virtualized Dynamic Data Center
-Maximize economic value with end-to-end virtualization
- Break down your silos (silos of virtualization are still silos)
- Explore the potential of cloud services
This document discusses the challenges that IT departments face with increasing data volumes and virtual machine sprawl, including shrinking backup windows and rising storage costs. It summarizes how the HPE StoreOnce Backup solution with Veeam software addresses these challenges by providing industry-leading backup performance, scalability to support data growth, and up to 95% reduction in backup storage footprint through deduplication. It also highlights benefits like improved reliability, flexibility in restore options, and using backup data for testing and disaster recovery.
- The document discusses Actifio's solution to address three key IT priorities - agility, resiliency, and cloud - by virtualizing copy data management to break the bond between application data and physical infrastructure silos.
- Actifio's approach simplifies infrastructure, reduces costs by eliminating multiple third-party tools and vendors, and improves business agility by providing instant access to data.
- The solution has been adopted by hundreds of enterprise customers across over 35 countries, receiving recognition from analysts, press and investors.
Presentation riverbed steelhead appliance main 2010chanwitcs
Riverbed Steelhead appliances provide WAN optimization and acceleration. They can consolidate servers and storage in data centers without compromising end user performance, enabling up to 100x faster disaster recovery and backup across remote offices. Riverbed has over 7,800 customers including over 55 of the Global 100, and delivers an average 6.9 month payback period and 457% ROI.
Converged Everything, Converged Infrastructure delivering business value and ...NetAppUK
Converged Infrastructure solutions for Cloud create business value for many customers worldwide by shortening and simplifying the path to infrastructure adoption, and time to productivity. In this session hear Alan Watson, NetApp Alliances Business Development Manager, Julian Datta, Microsoft Private Cloud Channel Development Manager and Andrew Gunyon, Cisco Data Centre Sales Manager discuss the value of very well integrated software and converged infrastructure. Hear them share their experiences, along with the latest developments in FlexPod Converged Infrastructure.
Storage Efficiency Customer Success Stories Sept 2010 power pointMichael Hudak
See over 100 companies from Government, High Tech, Manufacturing, Financial, Retail, Health Care, Research and Technical, Information and Media, Telco and Service Providers, Transport, Education, Legal, Energy and Entertainment and their challenges regarding their storage challenges and how NetApp helped to resolve them
Companies in today\'s challenging economy need to do more with less...see how the combination of Cisco, NetApp and VMWare can help you in your data center.
Accelerating and Protecting your Virtualize EnvironmentCTI Group
VNX storage solutions provide a comprehensive infrastructure for deploying virtual desktop environments. Tight integration with VMware and Microsoft hypervisors allows for automated and powerful desktop virtualization. Features like FAST caching and tiering optimize performance of boot storms, logins, and other I/O-intensive operations common in virtual desktops. VNX solutions deliver affordable, simple and scalable storage for end user computing.
- IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) provides data protection, backup and recovery for both physical and virtual environments.
- TSM 6.4 includes enhancements like incremental 'forever' VMware backups, application-aware Microsoft backups, and SAP HANA support.
- The presentation discusses IBM's strategy to optimize storage infrastructure through virtualization, data reduction, analytics and automation.
How to achieve better backup with SymantecArrow ECS UK
Symantec provides holistic data protection solutions to address common customer challenges with backup and recovery, including:
1) Disparate backup solutions that add complexity and cost as data grows in volume and organizations virtualize.
2) Struggling to meet backup windows and service level agreements as data increases in size.
3) Looking for ways to reduce cost, complexity, and risk across their backup and recovery environment.
Symantec's portfolio includes NetBackup for large enterprises and Backup Exec for small and medium businesses, both utilizing shared deduplication and virtualization technologies. Symantec also offers appliances and cloud options for simplified backup and disaster recovery.
Veeam Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseArnaud PAIN
The document discusses the need for modern data centers to have always-available, reliable backup solutions due to 24/7 operations and no tolerance for downtime. It presents Veeam's availability suite as a solution that provides high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, leveraged backup data, and complete visibility compared to legacy backup systems. The document also summarizes new features in Veeam v9 including enhanced replication, automated recoverability testing, and integration with EMC storage.
Technoally Pte Ltd is a cloud solutions and managed services provider with 110 staff across Singapore, Malaysia, and India. It offers infrastructure as a service, software as a service, backup as a service, managed support services, communication as a service, and disaster recovery as a service to SMEs and MNCs. Technoally aims to reduce complexity and costs for customers by managing their infrastructure, applications, and security through a single cloud platform and providing predictable budgeting.
MT49 Dell EMC XtremIO: Product Overview and New Use CasesDell EMC World
This session provides an overview of the Dell EMC XtremIO all-flash, scale-out array and its design objectives.
The architecture will be discussed and compared to other flash arrays in the market with the goal of helping the audience understand the unique architectural differentiation and highlight some new and exciting customer use cases that create business agility and demonstrate XtremIO’s transformative value.
We will challenge your assumptions about storage infrastructure.
This document discusses a presentation about the CA arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution. The presentation covers:
1) The market need for a unified data protection solution due to the complexity of managing multiple point solutions and the growth of virtual environments.
2) How the CA arcserve UDP solution provides a single, unified platform for backup, replication, disaster recovery, and other data protection tasks across physical and virtual environments.
3) Key capabilities of the CA arcserve UDP solution like global deduplication, virtual standby, assured recovery testing, and a centralized management console.
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The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has p...Michael Hudak
The document defines cloud computing based on recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It identifies five essential characteristics of cloud computing (on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service). It also outlines three service models (Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service) and four deployment models (private cloud, community cloud, public cloud, and hybrid cloud). The purpose is to provide an informal definition to inform public debate on cloud computing.
Ar Accelerating Converged Infrastructure With FlexpodMichael Hudak
IDC investigates the transformation of IT delivery in the datacenter and the emerging role of pretested solutions that focus on unified, shared infrastructure. The paper focuses on the advent of converged infrastructure solutions that simplify the deployment and management of virtualized environments spanning server, storage, and networking components. The paper then takes a closer look at the FlexPod datacenter solution offered by NetApp and Cisco, with a focus on the VMware vSphere design configuration. IDC examines the importance of professional services to delivering the solution and the key role of a collaborative support model aimed at streamlining the support process for customers and channel partners.
Oak Hills School District Does The Math With A 1.27 Million Dollar SavingsMichael Hudak
The Oak Hills Local School District worked with Champion Solutions Group to build a virtual desktop infrastructure using Cisco UCS servers, VMware virtualization software, and NetApp storage. This replaced aging desktops and laptops, providing students and teachers with 24/7 access to learning systems from any device while reducing IT costs. Champion Solutions Group designed a solution allowing Oak Hills to virtualize 1,200 desktops in 2 months, update them 98% faster, and achieve $1.27 million in savings over 3 years with a 13-month payback period and 67% reduction in desktop total cost of ownership.
Champion Solutions Group VDI Advisory ServicesMichael Hudak
Champion Solutions Group provides advisory services to help organizations successfully deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions. Their advisory process includes assessing an organization's current IT environment, identifying which applications and users are suitable for virtualization, and developing a strategy for storage, networking, migration, and ongoing management. The final advisory report provides executive summaries and detailed recommendations to architect, design, implement, and manage a VDI solution that meets the organization's goals and addresses any issues or concerns.
NetApp was awarded the Enterprise Array SAN Quality Award from 2011 to 2010 as the overall winner, and co-winner in 2009, based on a Storage magazine/Searchstorage.com reader survey that assessed storage products in categories like sales competence, quality, features, reliability and technical support. 92% of respondents said they would purchase NetApp again.
Gartner Magic Quadrant Midrange High End Nas Mar11Michael Hudak
The document summarizes Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant report on midrange and high-end network attached storage (NAS) solutions. The report evaluates NAS vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. It places the vendors in four categories: leaders, challengers, visionaries, and niche players. The report is intended as a research tool and does not recommend any specific vendor or product.
This is a New list that CRN publishes that is similar to the VAR500 and Fast Growth 100. The following vendor certifications are part of the CRN Tech Elite: Emc, IBM,Cisco,VMware, Citrix, Dell, Symantec and NetApp
Todd Yohoy- Cincinnati, Ohio Superintendent explains how this district is usi...Michael Hudak
The superintendent of Oak Hills School District in Ohio, Todd Yohey, implemented a program called Oak Hills 2020 to increase the use of technology in classrooms to better engage students. As part of this program, the district relaxed restrictions on devices like phones and laptops and allowed educational uses of websites and apps. Teachers partnered with students to incorporate these technologies into lessons, such as using Skype for interviews or YouTube for supplemental content. Yohey believes exposing students early to appropriate technology use is preparing them for further education and careers. The community supported expanding technology access to help students learn in new ways.
NetApp provides several storage efficiency technologies including data compression, deduplication, RAID-DP, and SATA drives with flash cache. These technologies reduce the amount of physical storage needed, protect against disk failures, and improve performance. Data compression removes redundant data inline, while deduplication identifies and removes duplicate data blocks across applications. RAID-DP protects against double disk failures without sacrificing performance or requiring additional disks.
Champion Solutions Group Atlanta Solutions Lab PartnersMichael Hudak
Atlanta Solutions Lab –a state-of-the-art facility that enables us to replicate customers\' environments, validate storage solutions and solve customers\' business challenges. Our team of experts provide hands-on training and can help customers explore cutting-edge technologies such as SAN and NAS environments –on-site or remotely. With this Solutions Lab operating and on demand access, Champion is ready to help you solve your next big IT challenge, regardless of your location.
They use our centers for everything from intriguing customers with a new approach to educating them with in-depth demonstrations of complete and proven solutions
Risk Enterprise Management implemented VMware on NetApp to virtualize their server infrastructure, eliminating 35 physical servers and saving over $120,000 annually in lease and power costs. The new environment accelerated application deployment from 3 weeks to under an hour and improved disaster recovery capabilities. NetApp storage provided high availability, fast backup/recovery, and flexible storage allocation. REM achieved a two-year ROI and eliminated their annual 15-20% rise in IT costs.
Gartner Magic Quadrant Nov 15, 2010 for Midrange and High End Modular Disk Ar...Michael Hudak
The document provides an overview and analysis of the midrange and high-end modular disk array storage market. It discusses key trends in the market such as growth driven by server virtualization and product refreshes. The document evaluates 18 vendors in the market and places them in a Magic Quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. It provides analysis of individual vendor strengths and cautions.
The Best Storage For V Mware Environments Customer Presentation Jul201Michael Hudak
Server virtualization is being widely adopted throughout the industry. Server virtualization places new demands on the storage infrastructure that should be considered early in the design process. NetApp provides storage and data management solutions that uniquely enable effective server virtualization environments, and which further extend the benefits of server virtualization. In this presentation, we’ll review why NetApp is the best storage solution for virtualized server environments.
This white paper describes the design of a 50,000-seat virtual desktop deployment using VMware View and vSphere virtualization technologies. Key partners in the project include NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Fujitsu, and Wyse Technology. The design uses a "pool of desktops" approach with standardized server and storage configurations that can be replicated modularly to scale the deployment from 5,000 to 50,000 seats. Detailed specifications are provided for the servers, storage, networking, and other infrastructure components used in the deployment.
Storage for Microsoft®Windows EnfironmentsMichael Hudak
This document explores some of the common challenges Windows® architects and administrators face in managing storage for Microsoft® environments with workloads such as:
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Champion Circle Of Data Management Assurance Ibm OptimMichael Hudak
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Retirement-
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Data Privacy-
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Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
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.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
AI 101: An Introduction to the Basics and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceIndexBug
Imagine a world where machines not only perform tasks but also learn, adapt, and make decisions. This is the promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology that's not just enhancing our lives but revolutionizing entire industries.
6. Anadarko - Rick Stuart, Manager, UNIX and storage systems “ We can schedule a DR test without interrupting production—or IT administrators’ regular activities. This capability gives us added security and confidence knowing we can recover because we perform the tests more frequently,” Stuart says..” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/anadarko.pdf
9. Centaline Property “ With the NetApp storage technology and a VMware solution, we have achieved unified data storage, safe and effective management, constant costs, and reduction of the degree of maintenance difficulty. Moreover, we have greatly strengthened our business competitiveness.” Zhu Jiasheng Central IT Director, Centaline (China) For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/centaline.pdf
13. City of Sioux Falls - Monte Watembach Data Center Supervisor “ It was impressive to see that when we had problems with the fiber or other things, we never did have problems with SnapMirror. It’s been pretty bulletproof,” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/sioux-falls.pdf
25. Ijsselland Hospital - Klaas de Jong IT Manager “ With PACS, we can store X-ray and ECG image material in a single digital location. This material is currently still being stored in a traditional archive. We are one of the last hospitals to transfer to PACS. It will be a huge task that will also radically affect the way the various departments operate. We have already laid the foundation for a successful implementation with the NetApp MetroCluster.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/ijessland-hospital.pdf
28. MercadoLibre - Rodrigo Benzaquen Director of Infrastructure and Operations “ They [developers] no longer have to wait for database copies or request copies from IT operations staff—they now get daily clones of the current production database as standard procedure. FlexClone is accelerating our development efforts and helping us bring new features to market faster.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/mercado-libre.pdf
32. Nixon Peabody - Peter Allen Director of IT Operations, Nixon Peabody “ Do I think we buy less storage on a year‑to‑year basis because of how we use NetApp thin provisioning? I certainly do. We probably buy 20% to 25% less storage per year. That saves us between $75,000 and $100,000 annually. It allows us to give an application the illusion of having more space than it does, while properly allocating the storage for it behind the scenes.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/nixon-peabody.pdf
36. RMT - John Saley IT Architect “ NetApp Snapshot, SnapMirror, and NetApp Protection Manager work seamlessly together to simplify and automate all the mundane work of managing storage.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/rmt.pdf
39. Thomson Reuters - Christopher Crowhurst VP and Chief Architect “ Overall in the virtual-server environment, we aim for 70% utilization of the constrained resource and 15-minute recoverability of virtual machines. In reality, we’re consistently exceeding those goals.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/thomson-reuters.pdf
46. US Army North - Chris Miller Chief of Network Operations Branch “ It ensures that we are able to maintain the continuity of our critical communications. Looking back at my experience with NetApp over many years, I have never had any issues. I find NetApp to be a very consistent solution.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/us-army-north.pdf
49. Western National Group - Ken Hodges VP, Information Technology “ Our NetApp solution solves a multitude of problems. It helps us manage out data efficiently. It gives us disaster recovery capability. And it reduces our recovery times.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/wng.pdf
52. Activision Activision deployed a NetApp® FAS storage system and applications for backup and recovery at its corporate office in Santa Monica and at its DR site in Burbank. The IT team creates a SnapMirror® production image, and FlexClone® runs a script that builds the Oracle® volumes in minutes, and then proceeds to clone the database. NetApp SnapMirror replicates all Oracle Databases, Exchange mailboxes, and other media-based applications at least once a day to the DR site in Burbank using Symantec® NetBackup†.
53. Activision - Niel Armstrong, Vice President, Information Technology, Activision “ With FlexClone® reducing the time and cost of creating clones to a few hours, we’ve enthusiastically adopted a parallel development and implementation approach, with multiple types of activities all taking place at the same time. Our project schedules are aggressive: FlexClone greatly helps us keep to them.”
54. Activision Why NetApp? - Niel Armstrong, Vice President, Information Technology, Activision “ With NetApp® disaster recovery capabilities, Activision can now mirror all of its data and protect its intellectual property in all of its development studios. This is a significant addition to Activision’s overall infrastructure and has allowed us to fully comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.” For full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/activision.pdf
57. AutoTrader.com The AutoTrader.com core Web application now runs on NetApp ® FAS3070 systems in a clustered NAS solution, which includes a FAS980 cluster for business intelligence applications from Oracle ® and SAS, two NetApp FAS3020 clusters for the company's Oracle database test and development environments, and a NetApp R200 system for its disaster recovery backup system. For business continuity, AutoTrader.com uses NetApp SnapMirror ® to replicate data across its network between its two sites, one in Atlanta, GA, and one in the suburb of Suwanee.
72. BBM Canada BBM Canada developed a strategy to address business continuity and disaster recovery by creating reciprocal data centers and leveraging NetApp’s high-performance storage environment. The company runs virtual applications under VMware using a NetApp FAS3020 for proprietary and business intelligence applications from Oracle and two NetApp ® FAS250s for the company’s Oracle ® database test/dev environments.
77. Ford Otosan NAS NAS NAS & iSCSI Tape Library Tape Library NearStore NearStore® SnapVault SnapVault® FC SAN FC SAN FC SAN FC SAN NetApp Storage System Primary Data Center Secondary Data Center Disaster Recovery Site Archiving System CAD/CAM Applications on UNIX ® Servers Oracle9 i ™ RAC Servers Exchange Server Oracle9 i RAC Servers Exchange Server CAD/CAM Applications on UNIX Servers SnapMirror® NetApp FAS System With SyncMirror ™ and MetroCluster Software (Cluster Interconnect)
78. Ford Otosan Full story: http://media.netapp.com/documents/ford-otosan.pdf "NetApp uniquely provides single-architecture storage for all environments. Competitive offerings would have required us to implement separate architectures and backup processes for Fibre Channel SAN and NAS data. Overall, I estimate a 10:1 savings with the NetApp unified SAN and NAS architecture." Kurtulus Öztürk,Team Leader, System Administration, IT and IS Department, Ford Otosan
81. Gilead Sciences Gilead uses almost all of NetApp’s products in a clustered storage system with hundreds of terabytes of data. NetApp delivers availability, reliability, manageability, disaster recovery, and virtualization.
103. Case study “ We still call upon NetApp’s professional services team when we are doing something extremely complicated, but we’ve become largely self sufficient in terms of supporting our systems. The NetApp systems are easy for us to manage and inspire a level of confidence.” Head of IT
106. Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Storage Infrastructure NetApp Storage Systems SnapMirror ® Oracle ® and SQL Server Databases on Windows ® 2000 Servers Booting off SAN Matrix-One, Rational ClearCase, Borland StarTeam, and Pro/INTRALINK Applications on Windows 2000 Servers Booting off SAN (Servers Access Data via NAS) NetApp NearStore ® Las Vegas Hot Standby Site Reno Fibre Channel SAN Servers with Local Storage (Backed up Using Veritas NetBackup) Peribit Sequence Reducers Peribit Sequence Reducers Tape Library NAS Windows 2000 Servers in Hot Standby Mode NAS WAN
112. UZ Leuven SnapVault Exchange Database Enterprise Vault Archives on NearStore R200 Data Center 1 Exchange Database SyncMirror Data Center 2 NearStore R200 Data Center 3 Hourly Snapshot Copies of E-mail Database SnapMirror SnapVault Enterprise Vault Archives on NearStore R200 FAS3050s in MetroCluster Microsoft Exchange Server iSCSI Symantec Enterprise Vault Server CIFS
113. UZ Leuven “ Our number one priority is availability. The e-mail system must be up at least 99.99% of the time, and the NetApp-Symantec Enterprise Vault solution delivers.” — Reinoud Reynders, IT Infrastructure Director
Figure 1) How the City of Sioux Falls uses NetApp storage.The City of Sioux Falls supports its growing VMware environment with a NetApp FAS3050C storage system connected via iSCSI to an IBM Blade Server environment. About 30 virtual machines are supported across three ESX Server nodes, with support for applications, now virtualized, like the police department’s IVN digital video system and more traditional applications like Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and Blackberry Enterprise Server. A second NetApp FAS3020 system resides at the city’s remote DR site, with NetApp SnapMirror used to replicate data between the two storage devices. The city credits use of NetApp technologies like Snapshot, SnapMirror, and FlexVol with significant time and space savings, increases in IT efficiency, performance, and overall system reliability.
Organization Overview: Founded in 1988, Concord Servicing provides technology and loan servicing solutions for dozens of clients with more than 600,000 consumer accounts, representing a portfolio in excess of $2 billion. The company specializes in servicing and collecting installment loan receivables and maintenance fees, handling everything from sending out loan payment coupon books to processing payments as they come in and reporting on loan performance and running the call centers that support borrowers, although many clients keep that role in-house, with their call center staff accessing Concord’s proprietary Web-based application to get the information they need. Challenge: For Concord’s customers, business continuity is paramount, with speed of access to data a close second. Clients around the world keep Concord’s system busy at all times, accessing an AIX Universe database to check on payment status and customer history details through the company’s Web application. Concord wanted to ensure clients a consistent response time of under 200 milliseconds, but was reluctant to invest in additional disk drives to speed throughput. Several years ago, Concord moved from DAS systems to a NetApp SAN, implementing a NetApp FAS825 storage appliance and using NetApp SnapMirror technology to copy data at regular intervals from its primary system to a FAS250 backup storage system. Concord made tapes of its data daily, and stored them off-site. In the event of a major failure, the company also wanted the ability to fail over seamlessly to a synchronous copy of our data. Solution: Originally in two locations, today, Concord offices are consolidated in one building. MetroCluster runs on one controller on a NetApp FAS3140 storage unit in the data center on the third floor, and on another controller on a FAS3140 on the ground floor. MetroCluster software constantly mirrors and synchronizes data between the two floors, so even if a controller or multiple disks go down, service continues seamlessly, often without any IT intervention. When Concord upgraded to the NetApp FAS3140 storage platform, it also installed NetApp PAM cards in the machines, adding a dedicated read cache for faster, more consistent performance. Benefits: The switch to MetroCluster has virtually eliminated the risk of data loss. Concord’s RPO was previously up to 24 hours, now the company can promise zero data loss. With the NetApp solution providing rapid access to critical financial information, Concord’s clients receive consistently fast responses to their queries. What’s even more important is what they don’t see: no impact on speed or continuity of service, even when there are disk failures or other technical problems. With NetApp products, reliability comes at the right price. Concord is able to offer its clients affordable, uninterrupted service and maintain its own profit margin. Compared to traditional host-based clustering solutions for availability, MetroCluster delivers savings of up to 50% on hardware, software licenses, and ongoing staff administration time for Concord.
Organization Overview: Corelio nv is Belgium’s largest newspaper publisher, selling nearly half a million copies daily. The company produces newspapers, magazines, free sheets, and e-media and offers a broad array of printing, audiovisual, and advertising services. Challenge: The Corelio IT must maintian daily operations while expanding infrastructure functionality. Corelio divisions produce newspapers seven days a week, so continuous availability of data and application services is essential. Over the past 10 years, Corelio has quadrupled its revenue through a combination of organic growth, mergers, acquisitions, and investments, so the IT team is constantly working to integrate new businesses and facilitate new opportunities. Solution: Most recently, Corelio’s corporate IT team undertook a project to harmonize the IT infrastructures and application environments of three previously separate Corelio organizations. Goals included consolidating applications to eliminate duplication of services, centralizing data sets, establishing and implementing standards, and streamlining wherever possible to reduce IT costs. In support of the project, Corelio undertook a storage refresh with requirements to: 1) deliver continuous data availability for business-critical applications; 2) consolidate file serving across the three organizations; 3) integrate NAS and SAN solutions to maximize storage utilization, streamline provisioning, and simplify administration; 4) optimize efficiency for VMware® environments; 5) provide scalability and flexibility to support future requirements, including as-yet-undetermined applications and a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI); and 6) achieve cost efficiencies. Working with Uptime Technologies, the Corelio team deployed two NetApp V3140 open storage controllers, installing one node at Corelio’s primary data center and another at the company’s second metropolitan data center. To address availability requirements, Corelio implemented NetApp MetroCluster software, which includes synchronous mirroring with array-based clustering for continuous data availability. This gives Corelio site disaster tolerance by enabling an up-to-date, identical copy of critical data to be maintained and instantly available at the second site. In the event of a primary-site disaster event, the MetroCluster solution enables instantaneous, zero-data-loss failover to the second site. V-Series nodes front-end approximately 46TB of usable capacity on Corelio’s XP24000 disk arrays. The V-Series lets Corelio utilize NetApp data protection, deduplication, cloning, and other technologies to manage capacity on the HP arrays. Corelio manages both file and block-based services through the V-Series that provides CIFS-based service for Microsoft® Windows® 2003 file shares, NFS for UNIX® systems, and iSCSI-based access to Exchange 2007 databases. The V-Series also supports (via NFS) VMware test environments for Microsoft SQL Server® applications, domain controllers, and other Web and application servers. The V-Series currently provides storage for two test environments comprised of 40 virtual servers running on 2 ESX hosts. Benefits: In a deadline-driven business, any downtime that occurs during Corelio’s critical production windows would ultimately be visible in the newspaper. NetApp solutions deliver reliable access to Corelio user and departmental data shares as well as more than 2,200 Exchange mailboxes. Inherent reliability and robust data protection software, including NetApp Snapshot™ point-in-time copy technology, combine to give Corelio faster backup/recovery and improved information access and to have the organization receive fewer help desk calls. In the four years since the first NetApp V-Series with MetroCluster was deployed, the company has not experienced any storage-related downtime or non-recoverable data loss. The NetApp solution also enables Corelio to optimize utilization of existing resources and control the cost of growth. For example, the new NetApp solution increases storage efficiencies by letting the IT team pool storage resources and provision storage capacity only when needed. In addition, NetApp technologies such as deduplication and SnapMirror replication with built-in network compression help Corelio reduce capacity and bandwidth. Lastly, the NetApp solution provides a flexible, scalable IT infrastructure that can evolve to meet the company’s future requirements such as plans to run production VMware environments over NFS to the NetApp solution, as well as a desktop unification project.
Figure 1) How Nixon Peabody uses NetApp storage. Nixon Peabody has moved nearly all of its business applications onto its VMware-fueled virtual server environment. Now totaling over 240 virtual machines and 19 ESX servers, the environment’s foundation is built on a NetApp FAS6040 storage system using the NFS protocol for fast data I/O and rapid snapshots and restores. A second NetApp FAS3040 storage system resides at the firm’s colocation facility. NetApp SnapMirror replicates data between the two sites. Nixon Peabody credits use of the NetApp systems with the ultra-rapid growth of its virtual server environment, taking special note of the efficiency savings it has since gained through use of built-in NetApp features like NetApp FlexVol, Snapshot, and SnapMirror.
Organization Overview: Founded in 1946, Thunderbird School of Global Management is the first and oldest graduate management school focused exclusively on global business. Regarded as the world’s leading institution in the education of global managers, it is ranked number 1 in international business by the Financial Times , U.S. News & World Report , and The Wall Street Journal /Harris Interactive 2007 Survey of Corporate Recruiters. Headquartered near Phoenix, Arizona, Thunderbird has offices in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Challenge: With worldwide adoption of the Internet, Thunderbird moved to expand its potential pool of students by augmenting its classroom instruction with an increasing number of courses and degree programs online. This new business model required continued availability of critical systems and applications, effectively requiring IT to move from supporting the business 5 days a week to supporting it 24x7, while striving to keep operation costs down. In 2001, Thunderbird purchased two racks and two FAS940s and implemented NetApp SnapMirror® to keep them in synch. Immediately, the Thunderbird team noticed time savings in backups and restores, as well as improvements in availability of up to 99.9%. As its online business grew, IT decided it needed to move to a clustered storage model for even greater availability, choosing NetApp MetroCluster. Solution: Thunderbird uses the MetroCluster environment to support its most critical applications: My Thunderbird intranet, Student Information Systems (SIS), and file sharing for business groups. NetApp MetroCluster is run across two NetApp FAS3050 storage devices with four shelves on each side. The machines are located at opposite ends of the small campus, about 300 yards apart, and each side has a total of 84 spindles. The MetroCluster is in a fabric configuration, with four Fibre Channel switches, two on each side, connecting the FAS machines and the shelves. For the rest of the network, and the connection between the FAS3050s, Thunderbird uses iSCSI for its databases and NFS for its file shares over 10GbE. Gigabit Ethernet connects the data centers to the other campus buildings, using the CIFS protocol. VMware® virtualization for server consolidation simplifies server provisioning servers, conserves capital, and reduces energy costs. The school uses the MetroCluster deep technical integration with VMware ESXi to connect its VMware servers to MetroCluster, mapping through iSCSI and NFS. NetApp SnapDrive for Windows is used to manage storage, including MetroCluster, for error-free application storage provisioning, consistent snapshot copies, rapid application recovery, and simplified data management. Benefits: Since deploying NetApp solutions: MetroCluster supports continuous uptime for Thunderbird’s new online business model, providing zero data loss at the lowest cost. IT has reduced the amount of server and storage equipment in its data center by about 40%. Thunderbird is not paying to support and power extraneous equipment, and can avoid the cost of data center expansion for many years. Simplified storage management and continuous availability has helped Thunderbird deliver storage and other IT services rapidly. NetApp solutions have transformed Thunderbird’s ability to respond promptly—and cost-effectively—to support the changing needs of its business.
Customer Profile: Leading video game maker and publisher Activision, Inc, creates interactive entertainment titles that run on console game systems, personal computers, and handheld devices. Challenges: As Activision’s infrastructure reached its capacity, the company realized that it could not cost-effectively upgrade its current solution to provide the performance and availability the company required. Activision needed a modular storage environment to unify corporate departmental access across all company tiers and it had to be easily deployed within the company’s 12 game development studios and 2 main data centers and provide a unified way of communicating among all locations. The company also needed a major refresh of its business applications because it had outgrown its original Oracle E-Business Suite. The company sought to automate and consolidate its backup processes and substantially increase its disaster recovery capability to comply with its auditing process and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. Solution: Activision began by deploying a complete NetApp infrastructure to manage its corporate-wide data and application assets. Due to the growing size of its games, the company recently upgraded its R200 in Burbank to a FAS6030 to manage backup and recovery in its 12 Burbank studios. After moving to NetApp, Activision started work on a multi-million dollar initiative to create global regionalized implementations of the Oracle E-Business Suite 11 i across nine territories in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. NetApp SnapMirror replicates all Oracle databases, Exchange mailboxes, and other media-based applications at least once a day to the DR site in Burbank using Symantec’s NetBackup. This completely protects Activision’s intellectual property, ensuring that even if the company lost use of its systems, it wouldn’t lose more than one day’s worth of work. Activision deployed a FAS3000 series system in each of its 12 remote location and utilizes NetApp SnapMirror for disk-to-disk replication to complete its DR architecture. Benefits: NetApp’s multi-protocol support makes it easy for Activision to change protocols to optimize applications. It has also dramatically reduced the time it would have taken to develop, test, integrate, and implement its Oracle applications. Using FlexClone slashed the time required to clone the production environment from a week to less than four hours. This doesn’t just save time: Armstrong says that it has transformed the way Activision approaches the development process. FlexClone also delivered substantial storage savings, because the FlexClone process uses pointers to existing data instead of laboriously filling storage space with duplicate data. Armstrong estimates savings of at least 50% for each of the company’s 500 GB production environment, which translates to savings on power, HVAC, and rack costs of servers. Despite the major increases in storage and backup capabilities, Activision hasn’t had to increase IT operations headcount: it continues to have just two UNIX administrators managing backup and storage. Activision eliminated use of tape for its backups. It still does a traditional nightly incremental or full backup, but puts it on disk for archiving.
Organization Overview: With the largest online selection of vehicles, and revenues exceeding $400 million annually, AutoTrader.com is the world’s leading online automotive marketplace, attracting about 14 million unique visitors each month. Challenge: Since its inception in 1997, AutoTrader.com has experienced massive growth in its storage requirements, from 80TB to 500TB of recognizable storage in 2008. The company could no longer manage storage growth by incrementally purchasing new servers and adding direct attached storage (DAS) for each project or application. Its storage approach was both costly and difficult to manage, with no adequate provision for failover, quality assurance, or disaster recovery. To maintain its market-leading position and continue to deliver always-on service despite 30% to 40% annual growth, AutoTrader.com needed to redesign its storage infrastructure. It also sought a cost-effective and flexible solution that would be easily accessible across the corporate network. Solution: The AutoTrader.com core Web applications now run on FAS3070 systems in a clustered NAS solution and a R200 system with 48TB of data for its disaster recovery backup system. For business continuity, it uses SnapMirror to replicate data across its network between its two sites in Atlanta and Suwanee, GA. AutoTrader.com also implemented a disk-to-disk backup solution for essential applications, featuring daily replication with SnapMirror and SnapVault. It stores more than 100TB of backup data on low-cost disk storage hardware at the Suwanee location, leveraging NetApp deduplication technology to reduce the amount of disk space it uses. For less-critical applications, the company backs up using tape. The company protects its Exchange Server implementation with SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies on a FAS3020. With Snapshot copies every 5 minutes, the management and restore features of SnapManager, and Single Mailbox Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, it now takes just 15 to 20 minutes to recover if there’s a problem with Exchange—83% faster than the company’s previous implementation, which took 2 hours. Benefits: AutoTrader.com now leverages NetApp’s software suite to rapidly roll out new capabilities that expand its offerings, bring in additional revenue, and deliver innovative services ahead of the competition. Ordinarily, for a system this size, two or three staff would be required, at an annual cost of about $150K, so the NetApp solution saves money. At the same time, the NetApp infrastructure minimizes the skill sets needed to support the environment—and delivers 100% uptime. The NetApp solution frees AutoTrader.com to use this money that it would otherwise have spent “keeping the lights on,” to improve its competitive position through innovation or acquisition. The greatest benefit for AutoTrader.com is total reliability for greater customer satisfaction, all for a low TCO.
Organization Overview: Alston & Bird LLP (www.alston.com) is a major U.S. law firm with more than 800 attorneys providing a full range of services to domestic and international clients who conduct business all over the world. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the firm has been in business since 1893 and has overlaid its broad range of legal skills and business knowledge with a commitment to innovation and technology. Challenge: In 2004, the firm launched its “Everything. Everywhere. Always.” initiative. This initiative enables people to work anywhere in the world with fast, seamless, around-the-clock access to the same resources they would have in the office. Such an ambitious information strategy requires a robust, reliable storage infrastructure. When working outside of the office, the firm’s legal professionals now can access a range of productivity applications from their laptops via Citrix MetaFrame and VPN. Alston & Bird understands that effective document management can pay off in lower costs, faster response, and better-quality work. The firm recently made the transition to the Interwoven content management system, a replacement for another vendor’s system that simply wasn’t able to support the firm’s needs. As the firm managed the transition to Interwoven, the value of NetApp solutions became apparent. Solution: At the firm’s main data center in Atlanta, more than four million legal documents are stored in a Microsoft SQL Server database on a clustered pair of NetApp FAS6030 systems. The systems also support Microsoft Exchange 2003 and the Concordance litigation system, along with providing general file shares for the central office. Alston & Bird’s five regional offices in the United States access the main data center using redundant high-speed networks, and four of the five have their own NetApp FAS270 systems to store local e-mail and files. The fifth site is able to utilize the high-speed networks and centralized data storage to save on system and support costs. While Alston & Bird was revamping its document repository, the firm also implemented a disaster recovery system. The firm called on NetApp’s consulting services for help with planning, architectural design, and implementation of the disaster recovery (DR) plan. At a colocation DR site in Dayton, Ohio, a pair of clustered NetApp FAS3050 systems holds a mirrored copy of the firm’s legal documents, e-mail, databases, and files. The main data center and the four regional offices continuously update information to a NetApp FAS3050 system at the DR site using NetApp SnapMirror software. Benefits: The infrastructure at Alston & Bird powered by NetApp solutions has resulted in significant benefits to the firm. Perhaps the greatest is an enhanced ability to take on the most challenging cases. Eliminating the tape system and the staff costs of managing and maintaining local tape backups saved Alston & Bird more than $700,000 over a five-year period. It also eliminated the need for a full-time tape backup administrator—that person has been reassigned to more strategic tasks. The company has experienced no storage-related downtime since it switched to NetApp storage more than five years ago.
Customer Profile - Responsible for public security throughout Austria -Oversees divisions of Central Management, Central Police Command, and Austrian police -IT supports >32,000 users across 100 remote offices NetApp employees can read a SMAI customer story: Austrian Ministry Reduces TCO for Managing File Data by More than 40% with NetApp Solution http://my.netapp.com/psweb/jsp/DownloadContent.jsp?dDocName=P_022515 Hear the NetApp account manager Johann Hans Halper speak about this government sector win: NetApp employees can click to http://netappu-web.corp.netapp.com/bused/sell/ebl_extra.html and scroll down to BMI Austria. Also, there is a PPT: http://netappu-web.corp.netapp.com/bused/sell/Presentations/EBL_Extra-BMI_Austria_v3.ppt
SnapMirror consolidates and provides DR protection for regional systems VFM “push” agents replicate data from small offices to regional NetApp systems
Organization Overview: BBM supplies Canadian broadcasters and advertising agencies with viewer and listener numbers for television and radio stations. In operation since 1944, the organization uses electronic measuring systems and diary surveys to gather data from hundreds of thousands of households and analyze it to help set advertising rates and measure viewer levels. Challenge: The biggest challenge BBM faced in meeting its mandate was protecting its nightly influx of data. Tens of thousands of in-home and wearable devices across Canada automatically call BBM’s systems nightly to deliver data about how many people were tuned in to a certain channel or radio station at a certain time. BBM captures this information, analyzes it, and by 3:00 p.m. the next day turns out reports on who tuned in to which stations when. BBM’s storage environment was inefficient. The company had servers and direct-attached storage (DAS) for each version of its applications: production, development, testing, and DR. With the company continuing to boost its survey sizes and variety of analytical offerings, the IT team knew that its infrastructure would increasingly become a liability. Solution: BBM worked with RootCellar, a NetApp reseller, to develop a strategy to address business continuity and disaster recovery by creating reciprocal data centers in Toronto, Ontario, and Richmond, BC. The company runs virtual applications under VMware using a NetApp FAS3020 for proprietary and business intelligence applications from Oracle and two NetApp FAS250s for the company’s Oracle database test/dev environments. BBM uses a proprietary application that runs a variety of analytic processes to suit the requirements of its different clients. As data is captured, BBM’s application begins checking the validity and origin of the incoming data and ensuring a representative sample. At all its sites, BBM runs this and other applications as virtual applications and stores images of its virtual machines (VMs) on storage from NetApp. It stores all applications and Oracle databases on NetApp storage and replicates them to both sites by using SnapMirror, so BBM can bring up entire VMs, with applications and data, at either location. BBM backs up its data according to the needs of the applications, using NetApp Snapshot technology to back up several times per day or after key processes complete. Benefits: Virtualization saves BBM hundreds of thousands of dollars in Oracle licenses. Because creating additional Oracle test environments costs BBM nothing but additional disk space used by the FlexClone volumes, the company can now afford to thoroughly test all of its processes and applications in an Oracle environment. With consolidated, virtualized storage, BBM makes much better use of its capacity. The company has increased utilization from about 30% to over 60%. Its consolidated, virtualized, and mirrored storage infrastructure reliably delivers near-instantaneous failover.
Organization Overview: Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a $3 billion research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet need. With each new discovery and experimental drug candidate, Gilead Sciences seeks to improve the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. The company specializes in HIV palliatives, partnering with other drug companies to create co-branded drugs that consolidate multi-drug cocktails. Challenge: In this business, time-to-market is critical—even one day makes a difference, especially when successful treatments can bring in up to a million dollars daily. As a result, Gilead needs to keep to its project timeline commitments to ensure drugs are released on schedule. It has to have ready, reliable access to all information related to drug research and development to comply with stringent FDA regulations. To support its double-digit growth and comply with industry regulations, Gilead needed to implement an efficient and manageable storage infrastructure that supported easy upgrades and data migration. The company also wanted to deploy Oracle ERP and roll out a PeopleSoft application worldwide. The goal was to have both applications supported by a comprehensive and reliable data protection solution. Solution: Gilead stores all its Oracle Databases, Siebel, PeopleSoft, and Oracle E-Business Suite applications and data on NetApp systems, leveraging NetApp capabilities for storage management, disaster recovery, and virtualization. Gilead relies on NetApp tools to simplify administration. NetApp snap technology automates replication of all business and patient data. SnapManager for Exchange with Single Mailbox Recovery simplifies management of Gilead’s 3000-user mail system and SyncMirror ensures the company’s business and mission critical application data are available and up-to-date at all times. Benefits: Gilead’s NetApp storage solution has enabled the company to meet its expanding needs for storage while improving system reliability and operating efficiency. Chris Chan, Gilead’s manager of storage operations, estimates that NetApp saves Gilead at least half a million dollars a year in system administration costs alone. Non-specialists can perform many storage-related tasks in the course of doing their jobs due to the ease of use of NetApp systems. Using NetApp storage systems, Data ONTAP, and SnapRestore, individual employees can easily recover their data from local or vaulted snapshots. With NetApp clusters delivering high availability, the storage team works Monday through Friday only. NetApp and VMware partnered in working with Gilead, and together have implemented an impressive example of virtualization.
Organization Overview: Synopsys, Inc. is a world leader in delivering semiconductor design software, intellectual property (IP), design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions, and professional services that companies use to design systems-on-chips (SoCs) and electronic systems. Challenge: For Synopsys, data is not just a part of the business: It is the business. Synopsys markets electronic design automation (EDA) tools and other digital assets used to design integrated circuits and electronic systems. The source code for these software tools must be protected and continuously available, or the company’s operations and profits suffer. One of Synopsys’ biggest challenges is that it has a lot of data to back up in a short time. And it’s growing—35% a year or more. Every hardware box, every software solution—everything the company deploys in its storage infrastructure has to scale. There’s a global challenge, too, since Synopsys has 80 field offices and 6 major design centers located around the world—with more than 5,100 employees who need access to data to do their jobs. To drive down IT overhead expenses, Synopsys has to standardize on solutions that can be implemented worldwide in a consistent way. Solution: After examining the offerings from Data Domain, EMC, and Hitachi, Synopsys decided to go with NetApp NearStore technology and software to help the IT team build out an architecture that would add the ability to store multiple copies of data on secondary SATA disks. Synopsys ordered nine NearStore R200 systems for the secondary tier of storage. The deployment is underway, with NetApp providing the installation services and the Synopsys team handling configuration, testing, and production deployment. In the data centers where the new architecture is fully deployed, Synopsys keeps four copies of data on disk, created and managed using software from NetApp. On the primary storage, a local copy of the working data is kept current using Snapshot technology. SnapVault software backs Snapshot copies up to a local NearStore R200 system. Synopsys uses SnapRestore software to recover information quickly. It was important to Synopsys to centralize as much of the data backup as possible, and that’s where NetApp Open Systems SnapVault added value. Synopsys uses tape as one more level of protection, writing an archive copy of the data on the local R200 to a tape library although the long-term goal is to eliminate tape backups entirely. Benefits: A benefit of using NetApp’s multitiered storage is that Synopsys can now implement an information lifecycle management (ILM) system. By migrating data over time to less expensive storage, the company can save money without compromising data protection. Synopsys runs a tight ship financially, so the IT group had to show a rapid ROI to justify the infrastructure refresh. After less than 18 months of production operation, NetApp’s solution has more than paid for itself. It has reduced administration costs by one full-time equivalent. NetApp’s scalability has helped Synopsys handle its growth and keep running 365 days a year.
The Customer: Annual global revenues exceed £400m. This company’s work can be found throughout the capital in buildings such as Lloyd's of London, Tate Modern, City Hall, Swiss Re Building (also known as The Gherkin), and Millennium Bridge. International projects include the Sydney Opera House, Australia; HSBC HQ, Hong Kong; and the Phoenix Library, USA. Story focuses on the Building Engineering division in London, which is split into eight separate groups housed in three offices more than a mile apart. Each of the eight groups had dedicated e-mail and data servers, so a total of 16 servers were being individually managed by the IT team. (total of 100 servers in London across multiple divisions and 2,000 employees) The Challenge: Existing systems required 16 separate backups and demanded a high level of support Staff needed storage for a range of data including office automation documents, CAD/CAM engineering files, and large spreadsheets Microsoft® Exchange failures were occurring every six to nine months, with recovery times in excess of 24 hours; this put intense pressure on network support resources while causing major disruptions to business and staff. The Solution: Storage consolidation across the eight groups using NetApp storage systems, SnapRestore, SnapManager for Exchange, SnapMirror Central NetApp storage system supplemented by a remote NetApp system that provides a mirror of the Exchange site Business Benefits: Project done on time, 15% under budget Reduction of eight mail domains into one has delivered cost savings in areas such as licensing, maintenance charges, and tape media while reducing backups 90% cuts admin costs Exchange recovery time cut from 24 hours to 25 minutes Centralized solution enables their staff to work flexibly across divisions while Self-restore from Snapshot copies improves productivity They now plan to transfer all of its London offices to NetApp storage within the next two years.
Organization Overview: This is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services. Headquartered in London, with 85 offices in Europe, Australia, Asia, and the U.S., the firm has revenues exceeding US$950 million and more than 9,000 employees worldwide. Challenge: They have project experience behind some of the most innovative engineering and design projects in the world such as the Sydney Opera House, Channel Tunnel Rail Link in the U.K., London Heathrow Terminal 5, and the Seattle Central Library. Like any large company, this company depends on both structured database and unstructured office files to run its business. Company financials run on Oracle E-business Suite and JD Edwards software. Microsoft Exchange e-mail files, CAD/CAM drawings and office automation documents are also stored on the company’s network. Meanwhile, tracking time and materials is handled by a specialized package called Progression by RedSky. With so much mission-critical data at stake, management focused on its disaster recovery ability following a growth spurt and series of mergers in the 2002/2003 timeframe. The company was outsourcing its DR operation to a firm with its own data center. They retained backup tapes and in the event of a disaster, the vendor would attempt to restore theirdata within 24 hours using a mix of Windows and UNIX hardware and software. Because they used a wide range of applications, software versions, and operating systems, if felt at risk depending on the vendor’s equipment and skills. The head of IT – project delivery, and his staff spearheaded a project to streamline their server estate and to implement an in-house disaster recovery system. Key to success was a solution that would leverage its existing IT skills with minimal retraining, offer rock solid performance and reliability, and be more cost-effective than the prior solution. Solution: The company selected a DR solution based on NetApp hardware and software, including two NetApp FAS3050 storage systems, one for its London data center and another for its data recovery facility approximately 100 miles away. Primary data protection is achieved by replicating data between these two facilities using NetApp SnapMirror software; local file protection and file restores is achieved by using NetApp’s SnapManager software, including SnapManager for SQL Server and SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange. Additional data redundancy is made possible by replicating data with the international offices in Australia, Europe, and the U.S. Benefits: Perhaps the best indicator in the companies DR success is that it’s had no major network outages as a result of a problem with its NetApp storage servers. The time required to recover mission-critical applications and databases has been slashed by 99%, from 24 hours with the old outsourced solution to less than 15 minutes today. Restoring local files that have been accidentally erased, once a six hour process, now takes 10 minutes or less. Savings from data center consolidation and DR combined are US$3.6 million in hardware, software, and support costs over three years. And, they have been able to leverage its existing IT/IP skills without adding any new staff, and to increase shared access to information by replicating data to corporate offices worldwide.
Organization Overview: UZ Leuven is one of the top medical healthcare providers in Europe, with 5 locations and more than 2000 beds. Situation : LZ Leuven was using Eudora for e-mail and Microsoft Outlook for calendar functions. Database corruption was a frequent occurrence. Restoring the database took hours, lowering productivity. Fifteen percent of all help desk complaints were related to e-mail. With a projected volume of more than 100,000 e-mail messages a day and double the number of users, UZ Leuven had a concern about the long-term viability of its messaging infrastructure. Solution: The hospital upgraded to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and deployed Symantec Enterprise Vault. The primary Exchange database is stored on a NetApp FAS3050 system connected to the Exchange server over IP-SAN (iSCSI). E-mail archives—currently 1.5 terabytes—are stored on a NetApp NearStore® R200. Enterprise Vault automatically archives e-mail messages over 30 days old, moving them off the FAS3050 and onto the R200. The Single-Instance Storage feature of Enterprise Vault ensures that only one copy of each attachment is archived, no matter how many e-mail messages link to that document. Archiving is virtually transparent to the users. Results: Restoring a mailbox takes just two hours. The average number of help desk calls per user has fallen dramatically: By avoiding hiring1.5 more full-time equivalents (FTEs), LZ Leuven saves 122,000 USD (90,000 EUR) yearly. Now e-mail complaints account for just 5% of help desk calls, one-third of the previous volume. After moving to the Exchange-Enterprise Vault-NetApp solution, annual downtime dropped to just 5 minutes, for better than 99.999% availability. The financial benefit avoiding lost productivity is estimated to be 391,000 USD (287,000 EUR). The hospital will realize full payback on its investment in the new e-mail infrastructure in 41 months.