This document discusses how storage virtualization can help IT management demonstrate the business value of storage investments by containing costs, minimizing risk, and improving productivity. It notes that storage costs are a large portion of IT budgets and operational expenses are a significant cost multiplier. The document argues that storage virtualization, through the use of a storage hypervisor, can aggregate physical storage into a virtual resource pool that reduces labor costs, provides unified management of heterogeneous infrastructure, and delivers storage resources more efficiently to meet business needs.
Organizations today face massive data growth and must choose between dedicated storage systems or cloud-based storage. There are pros and cons to each. Dedicated storage offers more control over data but requires infrastructure investment, while cloud storage provides scalability and flexibility at a lower cost but with less control. The best choice depends on an organization's unique needs, such as data security, compliance requirements, workload performance needs, and cost factors. The document provides details on how different data types and importance levels may be best suited for different storage technologies.
This document discusses implementing a virtualized tiered storage architecture to lower storage costs. It describes how such an architecture allows more efficient allocation of data across storage systems by matching storage attributes to application needs. This improves utilization rates, reduces hardware/software costs, and simplifies management. It provides an example of how tiered storage lowered costs for email storage at a university by allocating newer messages to high-performance storage and older messages to lower-cost storage.
Optimizing The Economics of Storage: It's All About the BenjaminsDataCore Software
Unfortunately, storage has mostly been treated as an afterthought by infrastructure designers, resulting in the over provisioning and underutilization of storage capacity and a lack of uniform management or inefficient allocation of storage services to the workload that requires them. This situation has led to increasing capacity demand and higher cost with storage, depending on the analyst one consults, consuming between .33 and .70 cents of every dollar spent on IT hardware acquisition. At the same time, storage capacity demand is spiking – especially in highly virtualized environments.
Bottom line: in an era of frugal budgets, storage infrastructure stands out like a nail in search of a cost reducing hammer. This paper examines storage cost of ownership and seeks to identify ways to bend the cost-curve without shortchanging applications and their data of the performance, capacity, availability, and other services they require.
IDC Spotlight: PBBAs Tap into Key Data Protection Trends to Drive Strong Mar...Symantec
Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have grown rapidly since their introduction around 2006, and they are expected to generate $3.38 billion in revenue in 2014. PBBAs are turnkey data protection solutions, providing hardware/software bundles targeted at helping organizations protect and recovertheir data in the highly dynamic 3rd Platform computing era. They are excellent options for enterprises looking to deploy their first backup solution or expand their existing data protection infrastructure.
PBBAs provide ready access to the latest disk-based data protection technologies to help organizations deal with the high-growth, highly agile, and extremely heterogeneous computing infrastructure that is quickly becoming a reality in today's datacenters. This Technology Spotlight examines the PBBA market, discussing the drivers of market development and the key benefits these appliances offer enterprises. It also looks at the role of Symantec in this strategically important market.
Software-defined storage (SDS) provides storage software that runs on standard server hardware to deliver data services. The document discusses the top five use cases and benefits of SDS, including reducing storage costs through scalable commodity hardware, improving performance by optimizing storage I/O, better provisioning and automation of storage resources, robust management of heterogeneous storage arrays, and tightly aligning storage with broader infrastructure management. SDS can lower costs while improving performance, efficiency, and flexibility compared to proprietary storage systems. However, SDS also presents challenges around integration, support skills, and interoperability that must be addressed.
The document discusses a data protection solution from Tributary Systems and IBM that combines Tributary's Storage Director software with IBM servers and storage platforms. This solution provides virtualized backup storage that allows data from any system to be stored on any backend storage, improving flexibility, utilization and efficiency. It also simplifies management and enables policies to store different data types in optimal locations.
In the Age of Unstructured Data, Enterprise-Class Unified Storage Gives IT a ...Hitachi Vantara
This document discusses the growing challenge of managing unstructured data in enterprises and proposes that unified storage is a solution. It outlines 3 trends driving greater adoption of file-based protocols and outlines 7 key elements that an ideal unified storage system for enterprises should have, including virtualization, intelligent tiering, flash optimization, and more. It then describes how Hitachi's VSP G1000 unified storage system meets all these elements to provide an enterprise-grade solution for unified storage without compromise.
The Next Evolution in Storage Virtualization Management White PaperHitachi Vantara
Hitachi's global storage virtualization solution combines advanced storage virtualization technology with integrated management software. This allows enterprises to pool, abstract, and mobilize storage resources across physical storage platforms, enabling more efficient management of large, complex storage environments. Hitachi Command Suite provides centralized management of Hitachi and third-party storage systems. When used with Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform and Storage Virtualization Operating System, it can manage global storage virtualization environments at enterprise scale with lower costs.
Organizations today face massive data growth and must choose between dedicated storage systems or cloud-based storage. There are pros and cons to each. Dedicated storage offers more control over data but requires infrastructure investment, while cloud storage provides scalability and flexibility at a lower cost but with less control. The best choice depends on an organization's unique needs, such as data security, compliance requirements, workload performance needs, and cost factors. The document provides details on how different data types and importance levels may be best suited for different storage technologies.
This document discusses implementing a virtualized tiered storage architecture to lower storage costs. It describes how such an architecture allows more efficient allocation of data across storage systems by matching storage attributes to application needs. This improves utilization rates, reduces hardware/software costs, and simplifies management. It provides an example of how tiered storage lowered costs for email storage at a university by allocating newer messages to high-performance storage and older messages to lower-cost storage.
Optimizing The Economics of Storage: It's All About the BenjaminsDataCore Software
Unfortunately, storage has mostly been treated as an afterthought by infrastructure designers, resulting in the over provisioning and underutilization of storage capacity and a lack of uniform management or inefficient allocation of storage services to the workload that requires them. This situation has led to increasing capacity demand and higher cost with storage, depending on the analyst one consults, consuming between .33 and .70 cents of every dollar spent on IT hardware acquisition. At the same time, storage capacity demand is spiking – especially in highly virtualized environments.
Bottom line: in an era of frugal budgets, storage infrastructure stands out like a nail in search of a cost reducing hammer. This paper examines storage cost of ownership and seeks to identify ways to bend the cost-curve without shortchanging applications and their data of the performance, capacity, availability, and other services they require.
IDC Spotlight: PBBAs Tap into Key Data Protection Trends to Drive Strong Mar...Symantec
Purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) have grown rapidly since their introduction around 2006, and they are expected to generate $3.38 billion in revenue in 2014. PBBAs are turnkey data protection solutions, providing hardware/software bundles targeted at helping organizations protect and recovertheir data in the highly dynamic 3rd Platform computing era. They are excellent options for enterprises looking to deploy their first backup solution or expand their existing data protection infrastructure.
PBBAs provide ready access to the latest disk-based data protection technologies to help organizations deal with the high-growth, highly agile, and extremely heterogeneous computing infrastructure that is quickly becoming a reality in today's datacenters. This Technology Spotlight examines the PBBA market, discussing the drivers of market development and the key benefits these appliances offer enterprises. It also looks at the role of Symantec in this strategically important market.
Software-defined storage (SDS) provides storage software that runs on standard server hardware to deliver data services. The document discusses the top five use cases and benefits of SDS, including reducing storage costs through scalable commodity hardware, improving performance by optimizing storage I/O, better provisioning and automation of storage resources, robust management of heterogeneous storage arrays, and tightly aligning storage with broader infrastructure management. SDS can lower costs while improving performance, efficiency, and flexibility compared to proprietary storage systems. However, SDS also presents challenges around integration, support skills, and interoperability that must be addressed.
The document discusses a data protection solution from Tributary Systems and IBM that combines Tributary's Storage Director software with IBM servers and storage platforms. This solution provides virtualized backup storage that allows data from any system to be stored on any backend storage, improving flexibility, utilization and efficiency. It also simplifies management and enables policies to store different data types in optimal locations.
In the Age of Unstructured Data, Enterprise-Class Unified Storage Gives IT a ...Hitachi Vantara
This document discusses the growing challenge of managing unstructured data in enterprises and proposes that unified storage is a solution. It outlines 3 trends driving greater adoption of file-based protocols and outlines 7 key elements that an ideal unified storage system for enterprises should have, including virtualization, intelligent tiering, flash optimization, and more. It then describes how Hitachi's VSP G1000 unified storage system meets all these elements to provide an enterprise-grade solution for unified storage without compromise.
The Next Evolution in Storage Virtualization Management White PaperHitachi Vantara
Hitachi's global storage virtualization solution combines advanced storage virtualization technology with integrated management software. This allows enterprises to pool, abstract, and mobilize storage resources across physical storage platforms, enabling more efficient management of large, complex storage environments. Hitachi Command Suite provides centralized management of Hitachi and third-party storage systems. When used with Hitachi's Virtual Storage Platform and Storage Virtualization Operating System, it can manage global storage virtualization environments at enterprise scale with lower costs.
Edison IBM FlashSystem and Tributary White Paper FinalEd Ahl
This document discusses a new data protection solution combining IBM FlashSystem flash storage with Tributary Systems' Storage Director software. Storage Director virtualizes tape storage and applies data protection services. Using IBM FlashSystem as its cache improves Storage Director's performance dramatically by replacing mechanical disks with fast flash storage. Tests show the solution reduces batch processing times, allows multiple simultaneous access to data, and cuts effective flash storage costs through data compression. The combination delivers "tape at the speed of flash" for improved data protection and lower costs.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Backup/Recovery SoftwareNetApp
Backup is among the oldest, most performed tasks in the data center, but enhancements and alternatives are becoming available. The industry is undergoing significant change as organizations embrace new technologies and show a propensity to augment or switch legacy vendors and backup techniques.
Scale-Out Architectures for Secondary StorageInteractiveNEC
IT organizations have seen explosive growth in the amount of data for several years. Forecasts are for that growth to continue at a rapid pace and even accelerate for organizations where the deluge of data from next generation applications such as rich media or IoT networks is just beginning to have an impact. All this growth puts pressure on storage resources, IT budgets and on the delivery of IT services including data protection. This pressure in turn is driving organizations to re-evaluate various aspects of their IT environment including data protection strategies.
This paper addresses the major challenges that large organizations face in protecting their valuable data. Some of these challenges include recovery objectives, data explosion, cost and the nature of data. The paper explores multiple methods of data protection at different storage
levels. RAID disk arrays, snapshot technology, storage mirroring, and backup and archive strategies all are methods used by many large organizations to protect their data. The paper surveys several different enterprise-level backup and archive solutions in the market today and
evaluates each solution based on certain criteria. The evaluation criteria cover all business needs and help to tackle the key issues related to data protection. Finally, this paper provides insight on data protection mechanisms and proposes guidelines that help organizations to
choose the best backup and archive solutions.
G11.2014 magic quadrant for general-purpose diskSatya Harish
The document provides an overview of several vendors in the general-purpose disk array market, including their strengths and cautions. Key points:
- It outlines the strengths and weaknesses of vendors like AMI, DataDirect Networks, Dell, Dot Hill, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems in this market.
- For each vendor, it discusses their products, strategies, and evaluates their positioning in factors like reliability, performance, partnerships, and market presence.
- The document aims to help I&O leaders understand vendor capabilities and align infrastructure visions with supplier strategies and abilities.
"ESG Whitepaper: Hitachi Data Systems VSP G1000: - Pushing the Functionality ...Hitachi Vantara
The document is a white paper that discusses the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 storage system. It provides an overview of the business demands driving a need for more software-defined and agile storage capabilities. It then describes the key capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, which is presented as a solution that provides enterprise-class storage software and functionality to help customers address these business needs. The white paper evaluates the applicability of this storage platform for various market segments.
This document summarizes strategies for managing storage performance, including using disk arrays, caching, and solid state drives (SSDs). It discusses how storage performance is an important metric for evaluating IT efficiency and is leveraged by vendors. While SSDs provide much faster performance than disks, they have endurance limitations like wear from repeated writes. Storage virtualization has the potential to optimize performance without significant added costs.
This document discusses the need to redesign backup and recovery systems to address increasing data storage needs. It outlines some of the drawbacks of traditional tape-based backup systems, such as slow speeds, high costs, and complex management. The document then introduces disk-based application protection solutions as a better alternative that can provide faster backups and restores, data deduplication to reduce storage needs, high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, and easier management through a single solution. It provides questions to consider when evaluating backup technologies and resources on AppAssure Software, a provider of disk-based backup and recovery software.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
This document summarizes the findings of a case study comparing the 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) for 4 disk array solutions and 4 software-defined storage solutions for backup to disk. The study found that SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 provided the lowest overall 5-year TCO that was $181,457 less than the most expensive solution from EMC. SUSE offered multiple layers of cost savings, including using standard hardware, low annual software licensing fees spread over 5 years, and support included in the license cost. The study concludes that software-defined storage solutions can provide disk backup for half the cost of branded storage arrays.
This document discusses the need for a comprehensive data protection strategy that is guided by business process recovery requirements, inclusive of various protection tools and techniques, and applies services to data in a cost-effective way. It proposes having a "director" software that can coordinate different protection services and apply policies to associate specific data with the appropriate services based on an analysis of the data's criticality and recovery timeframe needs. The document also discusses challenges around testing protection strategies and argues the director could help streamline testing.
IDC Whitepaper: Achieving the full Business Value of VirtualizationDataCore Software
Are you struggling with how to choose the right storage virtualization solution, or just looking to achieve a scalable software-based storage virtualization solution that fits your budget? Consolidate storage and server assets
Increase the number of virtualized servers running on individual physical servers while doubling storage utilization rates for installed storage
Leverage lower-cost/higher-capacity storage tiers that can significantly cut the cost of acquiring new storage assets
Improve application and information availability while shrinking backup times
Significantly reduce the cost to meet the performance and business continuity objectives of virtualized IT organizations
On July, 20th, 2010 IBM announced the IBM TS7610 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance Express, a complete deduplicated storage subsystem for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and remote offices. The new subsystem is the newest and smallest member of the ProtecTIER series–a leading enterprise-suitable deduplication technology, which IBM acquired from Diligent Technologies in 2008 and continues to develop and enhance at a remarkable pace. The TS7610 uses the same ProtecTIER software found in their larger TS7650 solutions, has the same ProtecTIER functionality, is pre-configured (ready to use) and offers very competitive CapEx and OpEx pricing. Learn More: http://ibm.co/ONeH7m
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare).
Is consolidation a question mark hanging over the future of your colocation data center? Find out why this trend could be in fact good for you too.
Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
The document discusses the explosive growth in digital data that organizations are facing. It states that companies are seeing annual growth rates of 90% for email, documents, and presentations. This rapid growth is putting pressure on storage solutions and requiring new approaches like tiered storage and information lifecycle management to better manage data across different storage platforms. The document also notes that regulations now require companies to ensure customer and financial data is accessible and secure. New storage strategies aim to match the appropriate storage infrastructure to each type of data based on its business value and lifecycle stage.
The document discusses enterprise content management (ECM), which refers to strategies and tools for capturing, managing, storing, preserving, and delivering content and documents related to key organizational processes. It outlines some of the main benefits of ECM, including improved compliance with regulations, more efficient knowledge management, and reduced costs from lost or misfiled documents. It also describes some common ECM tools and processes like document capture, indexing, storage, and delivery.
Smarter Data Protection And Storage Management Solutionsaejaz7
This document discusses IBM's solutions for data protection, storage management and service management. It highlights IBM Tivoli Storage Manager which provides data protection, recovery and archival. It also discusses IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center which enables end-to-end storage management across the SAN. The document emphasizes that with increasing data growth, organizations need solutions that optimize storage resources, ensure data security and availability, and provide visibility and control over the storage infrastructure.
Data storage makes the process easier to back up files for safekeeping and quick recovery at the time of any unexpected computing crash or cyberattack.
UPyD pregunta por la estigmatización de inmigrantes en la UEupydeuropa
Este documento resume un estudio reciente que muestra que los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea sobreestiman los números reales de inmigrantes en sus países. Por ejemplo, los italianos creen que el 30% de su población es inmigrante cuando realmente es un 7%, y los belgas creen que es un 27% cuando es un 10%. El estudio también encontró que los ciudadanos sobreestiman significativamente las poblaciones musulmanas. Ante estos hallazgos, el autor pregunta qué mecanismos implementará la Comisión para evitar la estigmat
Edison IBM FlashSystem and Tributary White Paper FinalEd Ahl
This document discusses a new data protection solution combining IBM FlashSystem flash storage with Tributary Systems' Storage Director software. Storage Director virtualizes tape storage and applies data protection services. Using IBM FlashSystem as its cache improves Storage Director's performance dramatically by replacing mechanical disks with fast flash storage. Tests show the solution reduces batch processing times, allows multiple simultaneous access to data, and cuts effective flash storage costs through data compression. The combination delivers "tape at the speed of flash" for improved data protection and lower costs.
The document discusses Software-Defined Storage (SDS), which virtualizes storage such that users can access and control it through a software interface independent of the physical storage devices. SDS has advantages over traditional network storage systems like SAN and NAS in that it has lower costs, greater flexibility and agility, better resource utilization, and higher storage capacity. It divides storage functionality into a control plane that manages virtualized resources through policies, and a data plane that processes and stores data.
Magic Quadrant For Enterprise Backup/Recovery SoftwareNetApp
Backup is among the oldest, most performed tasks in the data center, but enhancements and alternatives are becoming available. The industry is undergoing significant change as organizations embrace new technologies and show a propensity to augment or switch legacy vendors and backup techniques.
Scale-Out Architectures for Secondary StorageInteractiveNEC
IT organizations have seen explosive growth in the amount of data for several years. Forecasts are for that growth to continue at a rapid pace and even accelerate for organizations where the deluge of data from next generation applications such as rich media or IoT networks is just beginning to have an impact. All this growth puts pressure on storage resources, IT budgets and on the delivery of IT services including data protection. This pressure in turn is driving organizations to re-evaluate various aspects of their IT environment including data protection strategies.
This paper addresses the major challenges that large organizations face in protecting their valuable data. Some of these challenges include recovery objectives, data explosion, cost and the nature of data. The paper explores multiple methods of data protection at different storage
levels. RAID disk arrays, snapshot technology, storage mirroring, and backup and archive strategies all are methods used by many large organizations to protect their data. The paper surveys several different enterprise-level backup and archive solutions in the market today and
evaluates each solution based on certain criteria. The evaluation criteria cover all business needs and help to tackle the key issues related to data protection. Finally, this paper provides insight on data protection mechanisms and proposes guidelines that help organizations to
choose the best backup and archive solutions.
G11.2014 magic quadrant for general-purpose diskSatya Harish
The document provides an overview of several vendors in the general-purpose disk array market, including their strengths and cautions. Key points:
- It outlines the strengths and weaknesses of vendors like AMI, DataDirect Networks, Dell, Dot Hill, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems in this market.
- For each vendor, it discusses their products, strategies, and evaluates their positioning in factors like reliability, performance, partnerships, and market presence.
- The document aims to help I&O leaders understand vendor capabilities and align infrastructure visions with supplier strategies and abilities.
"ESG Whitepaper: Hitachi Data Systems VSP G1000: - Pushing the Functionality ...Hitachi Vantara
The document is a white paper that discusses the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 storage system. It provides an overview of the business demands driving a need for more software-defined and agile storage capabilities. It then describes the key capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, which is presented as a solution that provides enterprise-class storage software and functionality to help customers address these business needs. The white paper evaluates the applicability of this storage platform for various market segments.
This document summarizes strategies for managing storage performance, including using disk arrays, caching, and solid state drives (SSDs). It discusses how storage performance is an important metric for evaluating IT efficiency and is leveraged by vendors. While SSDs provide much faster performance than disks, they have endurance limitations like wear from repeated writes. Storage virtualization has the potential to optimize performance without significant added costs.
This document discusses the need to redesign backup and recovery systems to address increasing data storage needs. It outlines some of the drawbacks of traditional tape-based backup systems, such as slow speeds, high costs, and complex management. The document then introduces disk-based application protection solutions as a better alternative that can provide faster backups and restores, data deduplication to reduce storage needs, high availability and disaster recovery capabilities, and easier management through a single solution. It provides questions to consider when evaluating backup technologies and resources on AppAssure Software, a provider of disk-based backup and recovery software.
Enabling Storage Automation for Cloud ComputingNetApp
This paper looks at the requirements of both sets of customers and the challenges that each faces. It then overlays the NetApp strategy as a storage supplier in serving both sets of customers by providing policy-based storage automation and thus enabling IT service automation.
This document summarizes the findings of a case study comparing the 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) for 4 disk array solutions and 4 software-defined storage solutions for backup to disk. The study found that SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 provided the lowest overall 5-year TCO that was $181,457 less than the most expensive solution from EMC. SUSE offered multiple layers of cost savings, including using standard hardware, low annual software licensing fees spread over 5 years, and support included in the license cost. The study concludes that software-defined storage solutions can provide disk backup for half the cost of branded storage arrays.
This document discusses the need for a comprehensive data protection strategy that is guided by business process recovery requirements, inclusive of various protection tools and techniques, and applies services to data in a cost-effective way. It proposes having a "director" software that can coordinate different protection services and apply policies to associate specific data with the appropriate services based on an analysis of the data's criticality and recovery timeframe needs. The document also discusses challenges around testing protection strategies and argues the director could help streamline testing.
IDC Whitepaper: Achieving the full Business Value of VirtualizationDataCore Software
Are you struggling with how to choose the right storage virtualization solution, or just looking to achieve a scalable software-based storage virtualization solution that fits your budget? Consolidate storage and server assets
Increase the number of virtualized servers running on individual physical servers while doubling storage utilization rates for installed storage
Leverage lower-cost/higher-capacity storage tiers that can significantly cut the cost of acquiring new storage assets
Improve application and information availability while shrinking backup times
Significantly reduce the cost to meet the performance and business continuity objectives of virtualized IT organizations
On July, 20th, 2010 IBM announced the IBM TS7610 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance Express, a complete deduplicated storage subsystem for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and remote offices. The new subsystem is the newest and smallest member of the ProtecTIER series–a leading enterprise-suitable deduplication technology, which IBM acquired from Diligent Technologies in 2008 and continues to develop and enhance at a remarkable pace. The TS7610 uses the same ProtecTIER software found in their larger TS7650 solutions, has the same ProtecTIER functionality, is pre-configured (ready to use) and offers very competitive CapEx and OpEx pricing. Learn More: http://ibm.co/ONeH7m
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare)SP Home Run Inc.
http://DataCenterLeadGen.com
Should Colocation Data Centers Fear Consolidation? (SlideShare).
Is consolidation a question mark hanging over the future of your colocation data center? Find out why this trend could be in fact good for you too.
Copyright (C) SP Home Run Inc. All worldwide rights reserved.
The document discusses the explosive growth in digital data that organizations are facing. It states that companies are seeing annual growth rates of 90% for email, documents, and presentations. This rapid growth is putting pressure on storage solutions and requiring new approaches like tiered storage and information lifecycle management to better manage data across different storage platforms. The document also notes that regulations now require companies to ensure customer and financial data is accessible and secure. New storage strategies aim to match the appropriate storage infrastructure to each type of data based on its business value and lifecycle stage.
The document discusses enterprise content management (ECM), which refers to strategies and tools for capturing, managing, storing, preserving, and delivering content and documents related to key organizational processes. It outlines some of the main benefits of ECM, including improved compliance with regulations, more efficient knowledge management, and reduced costs from lost or misfiled documents. It also describes some common ECM tools and processes like document capture, indexing, storage, and delivery.
Smarter Data Protection And Storage Management Solutionsaejaz7
This document discusses IBM's solutions for data protection, storage management and service management. It highlights IBM Tivoli Storage Manager which provides data protection, recovery and archival. It also discusses IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center which enables end-to-end storage management across the SAN. The document emphasizes that with increasing data growth, organizations need solutions that optimize storage resources, ensure data security and availability, and provide visibility and control over the storage infrastructure.
Data storage makes the process easier to back up files for safekeeping and quick recovery at the time of any unexpected computing crash or cyberattack.
UPyD pregunta por la estigmatización de inmigrantes en la UEupydeuropa
Este documento resume un estudio reciente que muestra que los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea sobreestiman los números reales de inmigrantes en sus países. Por ejemplo, los italianos creen que el 30% de su población es inmigrante cuando realmente es un 7%, y los belgas creen que es un 27% cuando es un 10%. El estudio también encontró que los ciudadanos sobreestiman significativamente las poblaciones musulmanas. Ante estos hallazgos, el autor pregunta qué mecanismos implementará la Comisión para evitar la estigmat
El documento presenta la información sobre el inicio del curso 2016/2017 de una Diplomatura en Cinematografía. Se llevará a cabo de octubre de 2016 a mayo de 2017 con horarios por la mañana y tarde de lunes a viernes. El precio puede pagarse de contado o en cuotas mensuales. Se requiere tener 16 años y graduarse de la ESO. El objetivo es que los estudiantes aprendan todos los aspectos de la creación audiovisual a través de clases teóricas y prácticas.
Mucolipidoses Tipo II e III e Gagueira Não-Sindrômica são condições genéticas...Stuttering Media
http://gagueira.wordpress.com
Mutações homozigóticas nos genes GNPTAB e GNPTG estão classicamente associadas às mucolipidoses tipo II (ML II, alfa/beta) e tipo III (ML III, alfa/beta/gama), que são doenças raras de armazenamento lisossômico caracterizadas por múltiplas patologias. Recentemente, variantes nos genes GNPTAB, GNPTG e NAGPA (este último funcionalmente relacionado aos dois primeiros) foram associadas com a gagueira persistente não-sindrômica. Analisando uma amostra de escala mundial que abrangia 1.013 indivíduos com gagueira persistente não-sindrômica, sem relação de parentesco, encontramos 164 indivíduos que carregavam alguma rara variante não-sinônima de codificação em um destes três genes. Comparamos a frequência destas variantes com aquelas encontradas em grupos-controle nas mesmas populações e também em bancos de dados genômicos, e confrontamos a localização dessas mutações com a localização das mutações relatadas nas mucolipidoses. Descobrimos que pessoas com gagueira exibiam um excesso de variantes não-sinônimas de codificação quando comparadas a pessoas dos grupos-controle e a genomas pertencentes às bases de dados dos projetos “1000 Genomes” e “Exome Sequencing”. Ao todo, foram identificadas 81 variantes diferentes nos casos de gagueira analisados pelo nosso estudo. Praticamente todas eram substituições do tipo missense, das quais apenas uma tinha sido previamente relatada na mucolipidose, uma doença geralmente associada a mutações mais amplas, que levam a uma perda completa de função da proteína codificada. Nossa conclusão é que essas raras variantes de codificação não-sinônimas nos genes GNPTAB, GNPTG, e NAGPA podem ser responsáveis por até 16% dos casos de gagueira persistente, e que as alterações nos genes GNPTAB e GNPTG ocorrem em posições da cadeia nucleotídica que, em geral, causam efeitos menos graves na função da proteína do que aqueles vistos nas mucolipidoses tipo II e III.
Este documento resume la función cosecante y sus propiedades, así como ejemplos de su aplicación en arquitectura, música, navegación, geografía y astronomía. La función cosecante asocia cada número real x al valor de la cosecante del ángulo cuya medida en radianes es x. Se utiliza en arquitectura para curvar superficies y calcular alturas de edificios, en música para representar ondas sonoras, y en navegación, geografía y astronomía para medir distancias a través de la triang
Insider's Guide- Building a Virtualized Storage ServiceDataCore Software
This document discusses how storage virtualization can enable storage to be delivered as a dependable service through a software layer called a storage hypervisor. A storage hypervisor translates complex storage hardware into a centrally managed resource that can be dynamically allocated. It addresses issues like inefficient storage management, high product costs, and lack of flexibility. It allows organizations to manage more storage capacity with fewer administrators, keep hardware in service longer, and purchase less expensive gear. It also contributes to data protection and provides predictability in the face of changing technologies like server virtualization, desktop virtualization, and cloud computing.
The document discusses the need for converged backup solutions that can simplify and consolidate data protection across mixed server environments. It notes that individual vendor solutions often only address specific proprietary platforms. An optimal solution is a cross-platform approach using intelligent converged backup that applies appropriate data protection services based on each data set's criticality. The document then introduces Storage Director by Tributary Systems as a policy-based data management solution that connects any host to any storage technology and applies services to data based on business importance. Storage Director allows for data backup consolidation and virtualization across heterogeneous environments.
Capital expenditures (CapEx) refer to major purchases that are expected to provide long-term benefits, while operating expenses (OpEx) are ongoing costs related to running normal business operations. Some key differences are that CapEx purchases can include buildings and equipment that are depreciated over time, while OpEx are fully deductible in the year they are incurred. Storage-as-a-service provides an alternative to traditional storage infrastructure by allowing companies to pay an ongoing monthly fee for cloud storage rather than making large up-front CapEx purchases. This reduces costs and provides benefits like automation, accessibility, and data protection compared to maintaining an on-site storage system.
This whitepaper will help you understand how to realize measurable cost savings and superior ROI by using a comprehensive storage management solution. For more information on IBM Software Solutions, please visit: http://bit.ly/16Tj2M0
Know whether cloud based storage or dedicated storage is best for your business IT infrastructure depending on our organization requirements. Check Netmagic’s outlooks.
Storage virtualization can help organizations address key challenges like managing storage growth demands, leveraging existing assets, and simplifying data movement issues. It allows pooling of storage resources and thin provisioning to improve capacity utilization and reduce costs. Controller-based storage virtualization in particular separates logical views from physical assets, allowing heterogeneous storage systems to be managed as a single pool. This provides benefits like reduced complexity, improved flexibility, and leveraged cost savings.
Securing Your Future: Cloud-Based Data Protection SolutionsMaryJWilliams2
Explore the essential strategies for safeguarding your data with cloud-based protection solutions. This comprehensive guide delves into the benefits of using cloud services for data security, including enhanced scalability, reliability, and disaster recovery capabilities. Learn about the latest trends, best practices, and how to effectively implement cloud-based data protection to ensure your data is secure, accessible, and recoverable. To Know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/cloud-based-data-protection-strategies/
Securing the Future: A Guide to Cloud-Based Data ProtectionMaryJWilliams2
In an era where data breaches and cyber threats are increasingly common, cloud-based data protection emerges as a critical pillar for safeguarding digital assets. This article offers an in-depth exploration of cloud-based data protection strategies, tools, and best practices. Discover how leveraging the cloud can enhance your organization's data security posture, ensure business continuity, and provide scalability to meet future demands. To Know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/cloud-based-data-protection-strategies/
Why is Virtualization Creating Storage Sprawl? By Storage SwitzerlandINFINIDAT
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there is one area of the data center that has actually increased in cost since virtualization started to make its way into production… storage. Because of virtualization, more data centers need "ash to meet the random I/O nature of the virtualized environment, which of course is more expensive, on a dollar per GB basis, than hard disk drives. The single biggest problem however is the signi!cant increase in the number of discrete storage systems that service the environment. This “storage sprawl” threatens the return on investment (ROI) of virtualization projects and makes storage more complex to manage.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
Enterprise Storage Solutions for Overcoming Big Data and Analytics ChallengesINFINIDAT
Big Data and analytics workloads represent a new frontier for organizations. Data is being collected from sources that did not exist 10 years ago. Mobile phone data, machine-generated data, and website interaction data are all being collected and analyzed. In addition, as IT budgets are already being pressured down, Big Data footprints are getting larger and posing a huge storage challenge.
This paper provides information on the issues that Big Data applications pose for storage systems and how choosing the correct storage infrastructure can streamline and consolidate Big Data and analytics applications without breaking the bank.
InfiniBox bridges the gap between high performance and high capacity for Big Data applications. InfiniBox allows an organization implementing Big Data and Analytics projects to truly attain its business goals: cost reduction, continual and deep capacity scaling, and simple and effective management — and without any compromises in performance or reliability. All of this to effectively and efficiently support Big Data applications at a disruptive price point.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
Software-Defined Storage Accelerates Storage Cost Reduction and Service-Level...DataCore Software
- Over 25% of organizations have already invested in software-defined storage (SDS) in 2015, and a further 40% are evaluating options, as SDS can help reduce storage costs while improving service levels and efficiency.
- SDS separates storage services from hardware, allowing more flexible provisioning and management of storage resources. DataCore is one of the leading providers of hardware-independent SDS software.
- DataCore's SDS platform automates storage management across server, flash, SAN, NAS, and cloud storage, helping customers improve performance and availability while reducing costs.
Josh Krischer - How to get more for less (4 november 2010 Storage Expo)VNU Exhibitions Europe
1. Storage procurement accounts for a large percentage of data center costs, and new technologies are emerging to help reduce costs through improved efficiency and functionality.
2. When negotiating storage contracts, it is important to avoid restrictive damage limitations and carefully consider maintenance costs, upgrade options, and future price projections to maximize savings over the lifespan of the system.
3. Adopting strategies like tiered storage, deduplication, thin provisioning, and virtualization can help lower total storage costs through improved utilization and reduced power consumption.
Workload Centric Scale-Out Storage for Next Generation DatacenterCloudian
For performance workloads, SolidFire provides a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed
to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side,
allowing performance workload consolidation under a single storage platform. The SolidFire system
can be combined together over standard networking technologies in clusters ranging from 4 to 100
nodes, providing high performance capacity from 35TB to 3.4PB, and can deliver between 200,000
and 7.5M guaranteed IOPS to more than 100,000 volumes / applications within a single cluster.
Deduplication on Encrypted Big Data in HDFSIRJET Journal
This document discusses data deduplication techniques for big data stored in HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). It begins by defining data deduplication as a data compression technique that eliminates duplicate copies of repeating data to reduce storage space. The document then reviews different levels and types of deduplication (file-level, block-level, inline, post-process, client-side, target-based) and discusses how deduplication can reduce storage needs significantly for backup applications and file systems. However, security and privacy concerns arise when sensitive user data is deduplicated in the cloud. The document proposes a new authorized deduplication scheme that considers access control policies of users in addition to the data itself.
Software Defined Storage Accelerates Storage Cost ReductionDataCore Software
IDC, a major global market intelligence firm, assesses DataCore in the Software-Defined Storage (SDS) space. DataCore is one of the leading providers of hardware independent storage virtualization software. Its customers are actively leveraging the benefits of software-defined storage in IT environments ranging from large datacenters to more modest computer rooms, thereby getting better use from pre-existing storage equipment.
This IDC Technology Spotlight discusses the emerging storage architecture of software-defined storage and how DataCore enables its customers to take advantage of it today.
This document discusses how storage considerations are often overlooked when planning cloud applications. It introduces DataCore's role in providing storage virtualization software to help organizations tackle storage issues. Key aspects covered include establishing shared storage pools with different tiers to optimize performance and costs, using thin provisioning to efficiently allocate storage, and automated storage tiering to dynamically optimize workloads across different storage devices.
Solve the Top 6 Enterprise Storage Issues White PaperHitachi Vantara
Storage virtualization can help organizations solve common enterprise storage issues by consolidating multiple physical storage systems into a single virtual pool. This allows for increased utilization of existing assets, simplified management across heterogeneous systems, and reduced costs through measures like thin provisioning and automation. Virtualization helps organizations address issues like exponential data growth, low storage utilization, increasing management complexity, and rising capital and operating expenditures on storage infrastructure.
This White Paper provides an introduction to the EMC Isilon scale-out data lake as the key enabler to store, manage, and protect unstructured data for traditional and emerging workloads.
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NVMe and all-flash systems can solve any performance, floor space and energy problems. At least this is the marketing message many vendors and analysts spread today – but actually, sounds too good to be true, right?
Like always in real life, there is no clear black or white, but some circumstances you should be aware of – especially if you intend to leverage these technologies.
You may ask yourself: Do I need to rip and replace my existing storage? What is the best way to integrate both? What benefits do I receive?
Well, just join our brief webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A so you can get the most out of these technologies, make your storage great again and discover:
• How to integrate Flash over NVMe in real life
• How to benefit of some Flash/NVMe for your entire applications
Zero Downtime, Zero Touch Stretch Clusters from Software-Defined StorageDataCore Software
This document discusses stretch clusters and how they can provide zero downtime and zero touch failover between geographically separated sites. It describes how stretch clusters use synchronous mirroring between sites to create a single shared storage volume accessible from both locations. If one site goes down, virtual machines can automatically failover and resume at the other site without interruption. When the failed site returns, resynchronization occurs in the background. The document provides examples of how healthcare organizations and others can benefit from stretch clusters for high availability across multiple facilities.
From Disaster to Recovery: Preparing Your IT for the UnexpectedDataCore Software
Did you know that 22% of data center outages are caused by human error? Or that 10% are caused by weather incidents?
The impact of an unexpected outage for just a few hours or even days could be catastrophic to your business.
How would you like to minimize or even eliminate these business interruptions, and more?
Join us to discover:
• Useful and simple measures to use that can help you keep the lights on
• How to quickly recover when the worst-case scenario occurs
• How to achieve zero downtime and high availability
How to Integrate Hyperconverged Systems with Existing SANsDataCore Software
Hyperconverged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations.
While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers.
However, there are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyperconverged systems to realize their promise. Sign up to discover:
• What are hyperconverged systems?
• What challenges do they pose?
• What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
• A solution that helps integrate hyperconverged systems with existing SANs
How to Avoid Disasters via Software-Defined Storage Replication & Site RecoveryDataCore Software
Shifting weather patterns across the globe force us to re-evaluate data protection practices in locations we once thought immune from hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters.
Offsite data replication combined with advanced site recovery methods should top your list.
In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services that continuously replicate data, containers and virtual machine images over long distances
• Differences between secondary sites you own or rent vs. virtual destinations in public Clouds
• Techniques that help you test and fine tune recovery measures without disrupting production workloads
• Transferring responsibilities to the remote site
• Rapid restoration of normal operations at the primary facilities when conditions permit
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
Regardless of whether you use a direct attached storage array, or a network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, or a storage area network (SAN) to host your data, if this data infrastructure is not designed for high availability, then the data it stores is not highly available by extension, application availability is at risk – regardless of server clustering.
The purpose of this paper is to outline best practices for improving overall business application availability by building a highly available data infrastructure.
Download this paper to:
- Learn how to develop a High Availability strategy for your applications
- Identify the differences between Hardware and Software-defined infrastructures in terms of Availability
- Learn how to build a Highly Available data infrastructure using Hyper-converged storage
At TUI Cruises, a high level of availability and security are essential for IT systems at sea, and also pose a special challenge. Very fast and expensive shipyard time slots are needed for installation and maintenance. A consistent internet connection cannot always be guaranteed during remote maintenance at sea. Because of the monthly costs of about $50,000 for a 4-Mbit line, larger data transactions are not possible in any case.
After TUI Cruises adopted DataCore SANsymphony they benefited from:
- High level of availability, thanks to synchronous mirroring
- Transparent failover: if a section of a data center fails, the other side automatically takes over
- Scalable in terms of capacity, output, and performance
- Easy to use on-site, with worldwide remote management by the partner
With Thorntons having so many locations—operating across two time zones—basic store functionality is imperative and the reason why Thorntons is such a write-intensive enterprise. Everything that Thorntons does at the store level is considered “mission critical” and is contingent upon system uptime due to their 24/7/365 operation. Attaining non-stop business operations as well as better performance management and capacity management is what drove Thorntons to explore new alternatives to its Dell Compellent SANs that were deployed previously.
After Thorntons adopted DataCore SANsymphony they benefited from:
- Zero-downtime with SANsymphony software-defined storage deployed as two synchronous mirrors
- 50% faster backups (including VMware VMs and SQL
databases), which enables the number of full backups from one to three times a week
- Significant risk reduction attained due to the ability to replicate volumes instantaneously to both the primary and secondary sites
Top 3 Challenges Impacting Your Data and How to Solve ThemDataCore Software
Demands on your data have grown exponentially more difficult for IT departments to manage. Companies that fail to address this new reality risk not only data outages, but a significant loss of business. In this white paper we review the top 3 critical challenges impacting your data (maintaining uninterrupted service, scaling with increased capacity, and improving storage performance) and how to solve them.
Download this white paper to learn about:
- How to maintain data availability in the event of a catastrophic failure within the storage architecture due to hardware malfunctions, site failures, regional disasters, or user errors.
- How to optimize existing storage capacity and safely scale your storage infrastructure up and out to stay ahead of changing storage requirements.
- How to speed up response when reading and writing to disk while reducing latency to dramatically improve storage performance.
Business Continuity for Mission Critical ApplicationsDataCore Software
Unplanned interruption events, a.k.a. “disasters,” hit virtually all data centers at one time or another. While the preponderance of annual downtime results from interruptions that have a limited or localized scope of impact, IT planners must also prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic event with a broader geographical footprint.
Such disasters cannot be circumvented simply by using high availability configurations in servers or storage. What is needed, especially for mission-critical applications and databases, are strategies that can help organizations prevail in the wake of “big footprint” disasters, but that can also be implemented in a more limited way in response to interruption events with a more limited impact profile.
DataCore Software’s storage platform provides several capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery that are well-suited to today’s most mission-critical databases and applications.
Dynamic Hyper-Converged Future Proof Your Data CenterDataCore Software
IT organizations are continuously striving to reduce the amount of time and effort to deploy new resources for the business. Data center and remote office infrastructures are often complex and rigid to deploy, causing operational delays. As a result, many IT organizations are looking at a hyper-converged infrastructure.
Read this whitepaper to discover that a hyper-converged approach is flexible and easy to deploy and offers:
• Lower CAPEX because of lower up-front prices for infrastructure
• Lower OPEX through reductions in operational expenses and personnel
• Faster time-to-value for new business needs
Community Health Network Delivers Unprecedented Availability for Critical Hea...DataCore Software
The use of DataCore Software-Defined Storage resulted in providing CHN with a highly available infrastructure, improved application processing, and the total elimination of storage related downtime. Considering that CHN is using the SANsymphony software to virtualize and manage over 450TBs of data, with an environment supporting 14,000+ users, the seamless availability of all that data is certainly impressive.
With DataCore SANsymphony now in operation at Mission Community Hospital. storage management is less labor-intensive, systems are easily managed and data is simple to migrate when necessary. The overall cost effectiveness of DataCore storage virtualization software platform and DataCore's ability to make the physical storage completely "agnostic" so that hardware is interchangeable are just two of the great benefits for the hospital's IT team.
We have alot of exciting things happening at VMworld 2016. Both during the event and on our social channels. Check out this presentation to see everything we have going on and how you can participate and connect with us.
Integrating Hyper-converged Systems with Existing SANs DataCore Software
Hyper-converged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations. While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers. There are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyper-converged systems to realize their promise. During this session you will learn:
- What are hyper-converged systems?
- What challenges do they pose?
- What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
- About a solution that helps integrate hyper-converged systems with existing SANs
Next to performance and scalability, cost efficiency is one of the top three reasons most companies cite as their motivations for acquiring storage technology. Businesses are struggling to control the storage costs, and to reduce OPEX costs for administrative staff, infrastructure and data management, and environmental and energy. Every storage vendor, it seems, including most of the Software-defined Storage purveyors, are promising ROIs that require nothing short of a suspension of disbelief.
In this presentation, Jon Toigo of the Data Management Institute digs out the root causes of high storage costs and sketches out a prescription for addressing them. He is joined by Ibrahim “Ibby” Rahmani of DataCore Software, who will address the specific cost efficiency advantages that are being realized by customers of Software-defined Storage
What will $0.08 get you with storage? Typically, not much. But, on $0.08 will change the way you think about storage and cause you to question everything storage vendors have told you. Find out more in this presentation
The Need for Speed: Parallel I/O and the New Tick-Tock in ComputingDataCore Software
The virtualization wave is beginning to stall as companies confront application performance problems that can no longer be addressed effectively, even in the short term, by the expensive deployment of silicon storage, brute force caching, or complex log structuring schemes. Simply put, hypervisor-based computing has hit the performance wall established decades ago when the industry shifted from multi-processor parallel computing to unicore/serial bus server computing.
In this Presentation Jon Toigo and DataCore will help you learn how your business can benefit from our Adaptive Parallel I/O software by:
- Harnessing the untapped power of today's multi-core processing systems and efficient CPU memory to create a new class of storage servers and hyper-converged systems
- Enabling order of magnitude improvements in I/O throughput
- Reducing the cost per I/O significantly
- Increasing the number of virtual machines that an individual server can host without application performance slowdowns