White Papers

Protecting high-value data and delivering 24x7 business continuity has become one of the top imperatives for organizations around the world, regardless of size.  Business has a mandate to their customers and stakeholders to cost-effectively keep key data accessible and fully up-to-date without impacting critical business applications.
In this application brief, we will explore how to create a robust, end-to-end data replication solution to safeguard valuable business data, reduce management time and overhead and maximize ROI to strategically support your company.  With the rise of highly intelligent storage solutions, technology exists today that leverages existing IP network infrastructure to address small to midsize business (SMB) and small to midsize enterprise (SME) disaster recovery and business continuity requirements at an extremely affordable price.

Protecting confidential data is nothing new to IT managers -- they have been responsible for restricting access to corporate data and maintaining its physical security since the early days of computing. But in the last couple of years, it has taken on a whole new dimension -- in large part due to the sheer volume of confidential data that is generated and moved around organizations today, the proliferation and tightening of corporate and federal regulations governing the protection of this type of data and the increasing number and visibility of data breaches often involving household name companies. In this white paper you can learn about the growing emphasis on securing data, various data protection strategies and how LTO-4 tape drive encryption can address data security concerns.

This white paper presents current best practices in long-term digital data storage and preservation. Although we primarily address digital archives held within or on behalf of an enterprise, the discussion is equally applicable to digital archives for public use. The general requirements and attributes of digital archive systems are presented, and comparisons are made with systems designed for other purposes, such as data backup, that are quite different. Several technical challenges are discussed, along with strategies and tradeoffs commonly made for cost and performance optimizing a digital archive system for a particular use. Finally, some examples are presented which that show how different industries have specific requirements (e.g. data security, multi-site archives and regulatory compliance) which, along with size, cost and performance requirements, affect choices in digital archive system selection.

Winning and retaining media consumers in a competitive marketplace requires content delivery solutions for digital media that are quick, reliable, repeatable, easily managed, and scalable as your business, content and customer demands grow. HP’s next generation of Scalable NAS provides an always on, highly available platform for static and streaming content management. Learn how HP’s solution offers central management and administration, scalable capacity and improved utilization, with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

In many organizations Windows file services are spread among a series of servers. These servers often originate from different vendors with diverse maintenance requirements and result in server sprawl - a storage landscape cluttered with various NAS servers. Server sprawl presents numerous challenges for IT organizations in terms of management, cost and performance.

With file-based data growing at an exponential rate as richer file types and storage requirements continue to increase, stress is placed on already fatigued storage environments.

This white paper explores consolidation as a solution for better utilization and management of storage infrastructures. Learn how consolidation can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing overall hardware and administrative time.

Download this white paper and learn how HP StorageWorks' Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA File Services) approach to consolidation offers the scalability, high availability and ease of management many organizations demand from their storage infrastructure.

Businesses with remote locations face unique challenges when it comes to a storage solution. Some storage vendors offer low-end systems that may be fine for a small branch office, while others offer large, enterprise-class systems that are really only suitable for the central office. In reality, provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the local needs of each location, while ensuring that the storage can be managed and protected from a central site, requires a comprehensive approach with a scalable storage solution. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators looking to install a Distributed NAS solution.

Research Findings Based on Surveys of IBM i and AIX Users

This report includes the input of  over 2,000 companies running AIX and IBM i Ii5/OS) environments regarding their data protection and recovery technologies and strategies. In addition to resiliency, systems optimization practices were also reviewed. .Learn how your peers are striking the balance between the sometimes antagonistic priorities of optimum IT availability and performance, service level agreements, budgets and personnel.

Many branch offices are already backing up to tape, but a tape-only backup strategy means high cost and risky shortcomings. Double-Take can reduce the cost of tape-only solutions and provide a higher level or recoverability for critical systems and data. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect and recover business critical data and applications.

Protecting high-value data and delivering 24x7 business continuity has become one of the top imperatives for organizations around the world, regardless of size.  Business has a mandate to their customers and stakeholders to cost-effectively keep key data accessible and fully up-to-date without impacting critical business applications.
In this application brief, we will explore how to create a robust, end-to-end data replication solution to safeguard valuable business data, reduce management time and overhead and maximize ROI to strategically support your company.  With the rise of highly intelligent storage solutions, technology exists today that leverages existing IP network infrastructure to address small to midsize business (SMB) and small to midsize enterprise (SME) disaster recovery and business continuity requirements at an extremely affordable price.

Protecting confidential data is nothing new to IT managers -- they have been responsible for restricting access to corporate data and maintaining its physical security since the early days of computing. But in the last couple of years, it has taken on a whole new dimension -- in large part due to the sheer volume of confidential data that is generated and moved around organizations today, the proliferation and tightening of corporate and federal regulations governing the protection of this type of data and the increasing number and visibility of data breaches often involving household name companies. In this white paper you can learn about the growing emphasis on securing data, various data protection strategies and how LTO-4 tape drive encryption can address data security concerns.

In this white paper discover the real cost of storing data long term in a SATA disk system and in an LTO-4 tape system -- and which provides lower total cost of ownership and optimizes energy use. A strategic blend of disk and tape may be optimal to address performance, data protection, archive, costs and energy use objectives.

This white paper presents current best practices in long-term digital data storage and preservation. Although we primarily address digital archives held within or on behalf of an enterprise, the discussion is equally applicable to digital archives for public use. The general requirements and attributes of digital archive systems are presented, and comparisons are made with systems designed for other purposes, such as data backup, that are quite different. Several technical challenges are discussed, along with strategies and tradeoffs commonly made for cost and performance optimizing a digital archive system for a particular use. Finally, some examples are presented which that show how different industries have specific requirements (e.g. data security, multi-site archives and regulatory compliance) which, along with size, cost and performance requirements, affect choices in digital archive system selection.