Backups White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: When most IT Pros and CIOs think virtualization, the first thing that comes to mind is server consolidation using server virtualization. However, there is a lot more to virtualization than just "consolidating your servers with VMware." In this analysis, we'll help you to understand the different types of virtualization and which works best for you.

Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Although there are many e-mail platforms available, Microsoft Exchange is by far the most dominate with a commanding 65-percent share of the overall market. This eGuide explains the three best practices for reducing Exchange downtime and teaches how to proactively approach disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange.

Posted: 02 Mar 2009 | Published: 02 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many organizations that rely on desktop solutions to house data are frustrated with their lack of flexibility and scalability. This paper shows how online databases are an alternative to desktop products, combining speed and ease of use with the collaborative functions required to power organizations' unique business processes and performance.

Posted: 24 Feb 2009 | Published: 24 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how the costs associated with recovering email messages from Microsoft® Exchange Server backups can be significant and also provides us with the practical information on how to minimize those costs.

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft's Hyper-V technology provides a full-featured server virtualization environment that is well suited for Windows and non-Windows environments. This article will help you understand Hyper-V with some guidelines for getting started using the technology in NetApp environments.

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 | Published: 09 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups.

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have you extended your virtual infrastructure to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization? This white paper serves as an in-depth, step-by-step guide to successful storage virtualization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the protection of stored data, particularly the data that resides on backup tapes.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: With sophisticated key management, multiple integration options and a stateless architecture, SecureData enables enterprises to quickly secure their test and development application environments to ensure against the risk of data compromise.

Posted: 15 Dec 2008 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Find out how a VMware healthcare customer used VMware View, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has many great new features that will allow you to develop higher performing, more scalable next-generation applications using more than just relational data.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database 11g introduces the Advanced Compression Option to help customers cope with data growth and storage, regulatory compliance, and application scalability and performance challenges.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how the IBM® Optim™ Data Growth Solution for z/OS offers proven capabilities that align the management of application data with your business objectives to maintain z/OS service levels and control costs.

Posted: 05 Dec 2008 | Published: 05 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Archiving for compliance is an important step in securing your company's future. Learn how to implement an email archiving solution that will minimize the burden on your Exchange server and help to avoid costly legal penalties in this whitepaper.

Posted: 24 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: Every IT manager knows the importance of having an effective and fast disaster recovery (DR) plan. Organizations without an adequate plan may find themselves out of business quickly after experiencing a major disaster. Organizations that ensure survival..

Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this white paper is to focus on the key issues involved in developing an e-discovery capability and to help organizations plan to become better prepared for the rigors of the e-discovery process.

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This VMware® white paper, especially useful for senior IT managers, describes best practices for implementing virtualization technology and provides strategies for convincing decision makers and others to support server virtualization.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Companies need to reevaluate traditional methods of protecting branch office and PC data such as tape backups and other localized do-it-yourself solutions. Read this white paper to learn about remote on-demand services.

Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains the top 12 Most Difficult Active Directory Management Tasks and provides solution for making them easier.

Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 17 Oct 2008