Infortrend

• ESVA Storage Solutions for Next-Generation Datacenters
  This white paper analyzes the advanced technologies of Infortrend’s ESVA, and examines how these technologies create an ideal storage solution for next-generation datacenters.

Index Engines

• ESG Market Report: Tape Remediation Provides Measureable Capital and Operations Cost Reduction Options
  Enterprise Strategy Group has just released a new market report that details why every IT department concerned with risk and maximizing the budget should implement a tape remediation project. Senior Analyst, Brian Babineau, discusses the vast amount of corporate data on tape and how this isn't going away anytime soon. He recommends taking a proactive approach to wading through tape stockpiles. Babineau sites remediation as the way to reduce risk, and effectively implement enterprise data management policies. Read this report and learn why remediation is both practical and economical. Click here to read the full report:
  
• The Anatomy of Tape: Dissection for Intelligent Culling, Discovery and Remediation
  This white paper outlines a strategic approach to identify and collect the valuable information stored among useless data on large volumes of backup tapes. This approach provides a method to filter through large stores of duplicate data and system files to find what's relevant. Click here to download this paper:

Fujifilm

• Optimizing Performance and Maximizing Investment in Tape Storage Systems
  Tape storage systems, valued for their reliability and portability, are a large and growing investment for companies, especially as the volume of data increases and performance requirements become more numerous and complex. One serious outcome of increased volume and complexity is the loss of system "visibility," that is, the ability of the site administrator to anticipate and prevent damage to and loss of data.

Spectra Logic

• Tape or Disk: Why Not Both?
  In the tape vs. disk debate, there and pros and cons to both tape and disk as independent strategies for data protection. More likely, the conclusion most will reach is that deploying both technologies will leverage the merits of each and provide a safety net for the weakness each impose. Furthermore, virtual tape technology is the key enabler to optimally leveraging this two-tier strategy and realizing significant business value.
• Tape Drive Technology Comparison
  This white paper looks at today's tape drive technologies for all sizes of organizations. This white paper reviews proprietary Oracle/Sun/STK and IBM drives, which up until recently were considered enterprise, but are now competing relatively poorly with LTO. LTO, including LTO-5 and LTO-4, effectively serves the enterprise, as well as mid-sized organizations. LTO's advantage is, in part, due to its cost effectiveness; the proprietary drives are simply not cost competitive.
• LTO-5 Tape Drive Technology Overview
  With the release of LTO-5, LTO tape backup technology continues to dominate the market. LTO is the most used data protection media by organizations with terabytes of data to store, up through petabytes and more. LTO-5, the fifth generation of the technology, stores 1.5 TB of data native (not compressed) on tape - with compression the value is 3 TB of data per tape. LTO-5 improves on LTO-4 performance as well, increasing from 120 MB/s to 140 MB/s. LTO-5 and its role in data protection, backup, and archive are reviewed in detail.
• Tape without Pain
  Tape, far from being dead, is increasingly necessary in data centers—and as the emphasis on the green data center continues, tape will become increasingly important. Its future provides additional possibilities not available through the use of other storage methods, including disk. Tape is, and will continue to be, indispensible. At the same time, Spectra Logic promises to continue its long history and successful methods of providing tape without pain

Vision Solutions 

• Achieving Rapid Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments
  Planning for recovery is a requirement in businesses of all sizes. In implementing an operational plan that ensures that both data and applications can be recovered, IT personnel are generally confronted with several challenges: How can I ensure my applications and data are recoverable without impacting business operations? Do I have data protection approaches available to me that meet my recovery point and recovery time objectives? Can I afford to implement a comprehensive plan that covers both my local and remote (disaster) recovery requirements? Are there cost-effective alternatives that meet my requirements?
  
• The Benefits of Data Replication in HACMP/PowerHA AIX Cluster Management Implementations
  PowerHA (formerly HACMP) clusters multiple servers to shared storage, offering automatic recovery of applications and system resources if a failure occurs with the primary server. But clustering is only one part of a truly resilient IT infrastructure. The other essential component is data replication technology.
  
• Introduction to High Availability for IBM System i High Availability
  This paper presents an overview of IBM System i high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology. The critical components of high availability solutions are detailed in this paper, including data replication engines, system monitors, role swap capabilities, and the importance of autonomic processes. Also provided is information on the cost of planned and unplanned downtime, and a brief overview of disaster recovery strategies.
  
• Five Reasons Why Smaller Organizations Should Consider High Availability
  Dramatic changes in cost and ease of use have made downtime-reducing technologies more accessible. This white paper will provide a review of the core causes and costs of both planned and unplanned downtime and will then provide a detailed discussion of current options for High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions. Most importantly, as you read you will learn why true HA and DR protection are now within reach of even the smallest of businesses.
  
• The Benefits of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) for IBM i5/OS and AIX Environments
  Downtime and data loss pose intolerable risks to every business today. From IT departments to the Board Room, managers have seen the importance of business uptime and data protection for continued success, productivity and profitability. This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.
  
• State of Resilience of IBM Power Systems (AIX and i5/OS)
  The newest edition of this unique report is filled with survey findings from over 4,000 individuals responsible for the resilience and protection of AIX and IBM i (i5/OS) environments. Discover if and how your peers are meeting recovery-time and recovery-point objectives, disaster recovery plans and more.
  
• Journaling and High Availability - Understanding IBM i Data Protection
  Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software.
  
• Breakthrough Data Recovery for IBM AIX Environments - How New Technologies Are Making Data Protection, Recovery and High Availability Easier and More Affordable
  How New Technologies Are Making Data Protection, Recovery and High Availability Easier and More Affordable. For AIX IT departments looking to take the next step in data protection strategies, CDP is essential. Analysts agree that businesses will be incorporating this strategy in the next few years as part of an integrated solution. CDP enables you to reverse data corruption in a fraction of the time and labor required for recovery from tape. It doesn’t require planned downtime for backups and recovers data instantly at the push of a button. Whether as a standalone solution or integrated into an HA solution, CDP provides the easiest, most effective protection against lost data.
  
• High Availability in an SAP Environment- Keep mission-critical SAP operations running no matter what
  Due to its integration into every aspect of your business, any lack of availability of your SAP® application, or its underlying data, represents a serious threat to your ability to deliver your products and services to your customers. But time and effort are required to protect both the application and data through regular backups and maintenance, while also ensuring that unplanned business interruptions don’t mean business catastrophe. This white paper will review the unique issues related to High Availability and Disaster Recovery in your SAP environment, including 2- and 3-tier architectures, and guide you in developing appropriate SAP data and application management strategies.
  
• How to Solve Downtime Challenges to Manufacturing and Supply Chain Operations
  Every manufacturer—from heavy-duty industrial and automotive to consumer products and packaged goods—faces one ongoing challenge: time. Time—all the delay and latency still remaining within your business processes—impacts every level of the organization, adds to your costs, saps your productivity and reduces profits. Ultimately, time reduces the value you can return to expectant shareholders. Recapture that time and gain peace of mind with this helpful white paper which enables you to take action.
  
• Information Availability: What Every Health Organization Should Know
  As providers become increasingly dependent on automated patient record and medical delivery technologies, they must keep those applications, databases and networks available and accessible—no matter what. This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance.