Webcasts
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Six Ways to Reduce Your Backup Window
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Jun 25, 2009
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Eliminating the I/O Bottleneck that limits scalability in today's Virtual Servers
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Jun 09, 2009
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Leveraging Capacity Optimization to Reduce Datacenter Footprint and Storage Costs
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May 12, 2009
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Capacity optimization is becoming a must-have technology for organizations looking to reduce storage costs.
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New Approaches To Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared?
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Dec 04, 2008
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There are a number of different disaster recovery (DR) solutions available today, so it is incumbent upon IT storage managers to select an approach which is best suited to their requirements. Issues that need to be considered include the backup window, recovery point objective (RPO), and recovery time objective (RTO). In this webcast, we’ll describe and compare the pros and cons of various approaches to DR, including two common approaches – one based on enterprise backup software combined with a data de-duplicating virtual tape library (VTL) and an approach based on continuous data protection (CDP) technology.
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Disk Archiving for the 21st Century - New Strategies & Solutions to Improve Storage ROI
Originally Broadcast:
Nov 06, 2008
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With data growth rates in the 50% - 100% range for most enterprises today and IT budgets declining, it's clear that legacy approaches to managing storage capacity growth need to be rethought. The fact that, for most enterprises, the performance requirements of 70% to 90% of the data currently sitting on expensive primary storage can be met much more cost-effectively with an active archival storage platform provides an opportunity to drastically cut the average blended $/GB most organizations are paying to house all their storage (primary and secondary). The customer problem is how to cost-effectively manage explosive data growth over time horizons on the order of decades while at the same time meeting the demands of new regulatory requirements, such as e-discovery.
This session will present new archiving strategies and solutions that answer the needs of 21st century businesses. It will look at why yesterday's technologies, such as tape or tiered storage devices, fail to address both long term archiving requirements and cost efficiencies required by today's enterprises. Presenters will include case studies to demonstrate the real business benefits and cost savings enterprise can achieve by adopting a 21st century data archiving strategy.
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The Petabytes are Coming: Will Your Content Repository Scale?
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Oct 30, 2008
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An explosion of user-generated content has dramatically shifted the dynamics and economics of storage. Faced with terabyte- and petabyte-sized mountains of unstructured data, a broad range of industries including Digital Media, Web 2.0 and traditional enterprises are clamoring for fundamentally different approaches to their extreme storage needs. Whether they are hosting video, images, music, data or documents, these businesses need storage systems that can scale, are easy to use and manage, and break new ground in terms of affordability. For many of these companies, data is their business.
Join this webcast as Pete Brey of HP reviews how HP is helping customers build next-generation file serving environments that scale to meet ever-changing storage demands. Pete will preview the soon-to-be-released HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System. He'll explain how this turnkey platform targets the specific requirements of petabyte-scale deployments with independent performance and capacity scaling and simplified management, at a fraction of the cost of traditional enterprise class storage. Pete will also provide real-world examples of how companies can deploy ExDS to sustain their current storage needs while better positioning for growth.
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Server Virtualization and Its Impact on Storage
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Oct 23, 2008
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Virtual servers are red hot, but a virtualized environment has a lot of implications for end users' storage strategies.
In this webcast, the Taneja Group research and consulting firm will examine all of these issues, pinpointing the challenges and highlighting solutions that will enable users to get the most out of their virtual server environments -- including solid data protection and SAN strategies.
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Next-Generation Scalable NAS for Digital Media
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Sep 25, 2008
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The digital industry is in the midst of unprecedented growth and transformation. With so many ways to capture and share digital information, Web 2.0 businesses like social networking sites have propelled the growth and consumption of user generated rich media like photos, graphics, music and video files.
For video portals, live sports events and other online entertainment, the Internet is the vehicle for delivering on-demand digital content. Traditional broadcasting companies are also leveraging the Internet to deliver premium content in high-definition for on-demand viewing. As digital content and delivery evolve, both traditional enterprises and Web 2.0 companies need a solution that can scale to meet increasing demands.
Managing and delivering rich media files requires a special storage infrastructure. Attend this webcast as Srikanth Venkataseshu of HP explores the company’s next generation of Scalable NAS and discusses how its high availability and massive scalability is uniquely suited to address the demands of this new and exciting digital era.
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Backup vs. Archive: Never the Two Shall Meet?
Originally Broadcast:
Aug 21, 2008
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Backup and archive are often difficult to distinguish. Most IT organizations have either treated them as separate activities (each with their own requirements and solutions), or they have used tape backup as a cheap (but not always appropriate) solution for both.
Backup is a temporary record that is ultimately overwritten, while archived information is a permanent record that is moved – not copied – from one system to another and retained for a specified period of time. Backup is an ongoing process and archive is a policy- or event-driven process. Backup is performed to be able to restore data and archive is performed in order to retrieve data.
In this Webcast, Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, will review the basics of the individual functions and, importantly, discuss the benefits of tightly integrating these technologies to effectively manage data.
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Clustered File Storage: What to Look For
Originally Broadcast:
Jul 24, 2008
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Unstructured data is growing exponentially and the reasons for that are well known. However, how an enterprise should manage this data and harness its value is far from well known. NAS has been around for almost two decades, but traditional architectures are straining under the sheer weight of this data. This webcast will look at what clustered file storage is and how it is different from traditional file storage. We will discuss how it can contain the data tsunami. Then we will look at various factors that make one type of clustered file storage stand out and another one just be an incremental improvement over traditional storage.
