Storage & Data Centre Solutions White Papers

This paper details how to design and implement business backup and disaster recovery systems. Read to find out how to rapidly recover entire business systems, including business data, server OS, applications and user data in case of a system failure or disaster, without experiencing management pains VIEW SUMMARY

Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host-level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common — they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. VIEW SUMMARY

There are always a few “secrets” in any industry – and the backup and restore business has its share. Our secrets are widely known within the industry but less well-known outside, as none of these secrets helps the majority of the vendors in this space. In this paper, we will reveal these secrets. VIEW SUMMARY

This tongue in cheek white paper explores data loss from a contrarian point of view - exploring the top 7 shortcuts you can take to ensure that you lose your data. Scrupulously following these shortcuts should also ensure that you lose not only your data but your job as well. VIEW SUMMARY

A CFO is a corporate officer responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation with responsibilities including financial planning, record keeping and reporting to the board of directors. Given the job description, you’d think that “selling backup” to a CFO would be easy. You’d be wrong VIEW SUMMARY

This executive overview explains how cloud technologies are a viable and accessible alternative for many organisations needing to reduce their IT infrastructure costs and improve scalability and flexibility. It also reveals how migration tools can help you move and avoid downtime and risk. VIEW SUMMARY

MIMIX Availability for IBM i is purpose-built for the most demanding enterprises, providing innovative features that minimise administration while ensuring the integrity of your information, applications and systems. MIMIX Availability provides simplified availability in a complex world. VIEW SUMMARY

When it comes to providing data protection for virtual machines, IT administrators have a number of important considerations. It is important to consider virtual protection solutions carefully, and select the solution that will provide the right kind of coverage for your virtual machine workloads. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper addresses two keys areas; storage replication and host based replication, and identifies key differences between them. It also highlights the benefits of choosing a host-based solution. VIEW SUMMARY

This report by the Info-Tech research group evaluates 8 competitors in the storage market and is a useful independent resource for organisations planning or considering purchasing consolidated network storage, such as a SAN or unified storage solution. VIEW SUMMARY