Newsletter | September 28, 2009

9.28.2009--Power Lean Data Centers, Remove IT Waste

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Featured Articles
Removing IT Waste To Power Lean Data Centers
By Richard Muirhead, Tideway Systems
An automated infrastructure baseline can provide a 360-degree view of applications and infrastructure and take the cost and risk out of any critical data center project. Whether you have a planned move, consolidation, or virtualization, automatically base-lining your infrastructure before your project kicks off will not only eliminate IT waste, but it will help you deliver the overall project on time and on budget.

Today's Corporate Disaster Recovery Plans Should Begin With A Plan To Automate DR
By Jerome Wendt, DCIG, LLC
A few years ago an article appeared on TechTarget's SearchDataManagement site that examined the top 10 reasons that disaster recovery plans fail. Granted, that article is over three years old but the points that the author makes are just as valid now as they were then even though from a technology perspective a lot has changed.

Leveraging Single-Platform Backup For Mainframe De-Duplication
By Jim O'Connor, director of product marketing, Bus-Tech, Inc.
Traditionally, enterprise mainframe shops have maintained two distinctly separate processes for daily backup and restore operations. While the mainframe continues to handle certain business processing tasks, most companies have implemented newer open systems servers alongside the aging mainframes to handle additional tasks.

Top News Stories
Iron Mountain Ranks No. 55 On 2009 InformationWeek 500
Xiotech Secures $10M In New Equity Financing To Advance Development Of New Storage Systems And Applications
Provident Capital Leverages Mimosa Systems' Next-Generation Archiving Solution To Reduce Storage Requirements By 70 Percent While Eliminating Costly It Support Requests
Seagate Ships World's Fastest Mainstream Desktop Hard Drive; First Desktop Drive To Feature Serial ATA 6GBIT/Second Technology
Spectra Logic Delivers High-Performance Deduplication To European Market
G4S Wackenhut Launches Hi-Tech Security Monitoring And Data Center
SSISM Forum Promotes Blade Specifications To Revision 1.0
The Server System Infrastructure Forum Unveils SSI Blade Server Products From Leading Blade Component Vendors At IDF 2009
Panasas And Penguin Computing Bring High-Performance Storage To The Cloud
Skyservice Airlines Achieves Ultimate Data Center Efficiency With Pillar Data Systems
Featured Products
STORServer VCB Appliance
The STORServer VCB Appliance incorporates VMware® Consolidated Backup to improve manageability of backups and reduce costs, by centralizing the backup of VMware ESX servers on the STORServer, thereby eliminating the need to have individual backup agents on each virtual machine or VMware ESX server.
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STORServer VCB Appliance
Virtualized iSCSI SAN: Dell EqualLogic PS4000XV
The Dell EqualLogic™ PS4000 Series of virtualized iSCSI SAN arrays are designed to bring enterprise-class features, intelligence, automation, and reliability to remote or branch office, departmental and small-to-medium business (SMB) storage deployments.
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Virtualized iSCSI SAN: Dell EqualLogic PS4000XV
Spectra T120 Tape Library
The T120 library gives you an unmatched selection of features, along with enterprise-class reliability and management, all in an affordable midrange library. Why should you have to sacrifice sophistication or performance simply because your site requires a smaller library? The Spectra T120 library helps you get the most done, automatically, affordably, and easily.
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Spectra T120 Tape Library
Removable Disk Backup: Idealstor FrankeNAS
The FrankeNAS is a true disk-to-disk-to-disk backup solution that uses SATA disks for local RAID5 storage and as removable media to take the place of tape for offsite backup.
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Removable Disk Backup: Idealstor FrankeNAS
Featured Download
Selecting The Right SATA Storage Array For Business Critical Applications
As the volume of business information explodes, companies are struggling to find cost-effective solutions to store their valuable data. The combination of exponential data growth, tight storage budgets, and the complexity of data management has, in the past, required companies to choose between expensive, enterprise-level solutions that offer redundant and complex storage networks (with associated high management costs) and simple RAID storage solutions that provide lower hardware costs but offer no real paths for network growth or consolidated storage network management.
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