Microsoft System Center 2012

May 23rd, 2012 Abdul Saleem
Microsoft System Center 2012 is a comprehensive management platform that enables you to more easily and efficiently manage your IT environments, including your server infrastructure and client devices.
With System Center 2012, you get the most cost effective and flexible platform for managing your traditional datacenters, private and public clouds, and client computers and devices.
System Center 2012 is the only unified management platform where you can manage multiple hypervisors, physical resources, and applications in a single offering, versus multiple fragmented point solutions delivered by competitors.
As remarked by Peter Daniels, Vice President of T. Rowe Price, “System Center 2012 is truly a game changer.” Learn more about this comprehensive management platform below.
Microsoft System Center 2012

Microsoft System Center 2012

Cloud & Datacenter Management
Microsoft System Center 2012 is a cloud and datacenter management solution that provides a common toolset to manage private and public cloud applications and services and:
  • Spans physical, virtual and cloud computing models with common management experiences throughout.
  • Provides comprehensive end-to-end management for your infrastructure and applications, including interoperability for heterogeneous environments.
  • Offers compelling economic value.

Client Management & Security

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection provide a unified infrastructure to manage and protect physical, virtual, and mobile client environments, helping IT:
  • Empower users to be productive from anywhere, on whatever device they choose.
  • Provide a unified infrastructure for client management and protection.
  • Make it easier and faster to administer client systems and maintain system compliance.
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FalconStor File-interface Deduplication System (FDS)

May 17th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

Network-attached Data Deduplication Solution Minimizes Storage Capacity and Costs

FalconStor FDS delivers edge-to-core data protection

FalconStor® File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) is a LAN-based deduplication solution that is ideal for small-to-medium businesses (SMB) and remote office (ROBO) environments. Easy to deploy and manage, this deduplication solution reduces storage capacity by as much as 95% and is certified with all leading backup and archiving applications. FalconStor FDS also delivers a scalable, highly available architecture for the enterprise by sharing a global deduplication repository with FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL). FalconStor FDS provides multi-application data protection and deduplication at the remote office, and WAN-optimized replication to a scalable, shared deduplication repository at the data center.

Performance and specifications

Offering both post-processing and concurrent block-level deduplication, FalconStor FDS is optimized for high-performance data ingest of up to 1500 MB/s (5.4 TB/hr) for CIFS/NFS.

In addition, FalconStor FDS is a scalable, high availability (HA), global deduplication solution that provides up to 1PB of usable repository in a file (CIFS/NFS/OST) configuration. The FalconStor FDS/SIR Cluster configuration can support up to 8 FalconStor FDS nodes (4 HA pairs) and a 4+1 deduplication cluster.

Your business can benefit from flexible global deduplication

FalconStor FDS is the only scheduled, flexible, policy-based NFS/CIFS data deduplication solution available today. Through a centralized management GUI, users can define policies such as concurrent or post-process deduplication as well as exclude whole directories or files based on type, size, or last modified. These policies can be applied to deduplication, replication, and data integrity monitoring based on application and business needs, for maximum flexibility.

FalconStor FDS

FalconStor FDS

 

Flexible deployment options

FalconStor FDS scales from small-footprint, cost-effective ROBO deployments up to rack solutions that support multiple petabytes of logical storage capacity for enterprise and data center installations. All models offer the same enterprise-level functionality and support for NFS/CIFS, Symantec OST, and replication.

  • FalconStor FDS Virtual Appliance: for ROBO environments leveraging VMware technology
  • FalconStor FDS 300 Series Appliances: all-in-one appliances for the SMB/ROBO and midmarket
  • FalconStor FDS 600 Series Appliances: all-in-one appliances for the enterprise
  • FalconStor FDS Gateway Appliances: for large enterprises, offering high-availability clustered deduplication
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NetApp V-Series Open Storage Controllers

May 10th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

Expand your storage capabilities and increase your flexibility with NetApp V-Series while preserving investments in storage systems from major storage vendors.

V-Series can help you make the storage you already own more efficient and flexible. Our advanced data protection, data management, efficiency features, and Virtual Storage Tier will transform your FC-SAN storage systems.

Dramatically Reduce Costs
Use NetApp deduplication and other storage efficiency features to reclaim capacity and reduce your rate of spending for new disk drives. Deploy the NetApp Virtual Storage Tier, which combines intelligent caching and storage efficiency to optimize performance and reduce costs.

Improve Data Protection
Replicate data between storage systems from different vendors for disaster recovery with our effective, affordable SnapMirror® software.

Increase Flexibility
V-Series gives you native support for SAN and NAS protocols. Scale with V-Series by adding capacity to your current storage system or by attaching NetApp disk shelves.

NetApp V-Series Open Storage Controllers

NetApp V-Series Open Storage Controllers

Key Points:
  • Build on your current storage investments and expand your capabilities with V-Series.
  • Reduce spending for disk drives with deduplication and other storage efficiency features.
  • Improve data protection with better backup and recovery as well as affordable, effective disaster recovery.
  • Increase your flexibility with native support for SAN and NAS protocols.
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Symantec NetBackup Appliances

May 1st, 2012 Abdul Saleem
Symantec understands the shifting needs of the data center and offers the NetBackup appliances as an additional option for customers to simplify deployment and maintenance of marketing-leading NetBackup.The NetBackup appliances are ideal for customers looking for turnkey solutions for their organization. The appliances enable efficient, storage-optimized data protection for the data center, remote office and virtual environments.

 

  • Simple–Easy to install, configure, and use.
  • Scalable–Modular capacity depending on data center needs.
  • Flexible–Source or target deduplication, a solution for the data center, remote office/branch office and virtual machine backups.
  • Reliable–enterprise-class hardware and software.

Key Features

The NetBackup appliances share many common features: 

  • Installs in minutes
  • Built-in client and target deduplication
  • Inline and post-process deduplication
  • Optimized synthetic backup to minimize data movement
  • Bandwidth efficient, built-in disk to disk replication for disaster recovery and an alternative solution to tape based vaulting
  • Tape support for long term data retention
  • Hardware monitoring with call home feature
Symantec NetBackup Appliances

Symantec NetBackup Appliances

 

Product Families

Symantec’s NetBackup Appliance family consists of two series: 

  • NetBackup 5200 series – a single-vendor enterprise backup appliance with deduplication that can be deployed as a master server, media server, or both for a NetBackup domain.
  • NetBackup 5000 series – a content aware, scalable global deduplication appliance for the enterprise.

Ease of Installation

NetBackup appliances come preinstalled with all necessary hardware and software components and can be set up within minutes.

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Sun ZFS Appliances

April 25th, 2012 Abdul Saleem
Best-in-class performance, efficiency, and Oracle integration

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Appliance family delivers enterprise-class network attached storage (NAS) capabilities with leading Oracle integration, simplicity, efficiency, performance, and TCO. Sun ZFS Appliances provide robust application and data storage for Oracle’s Exadata,SPARC SuperCluster and Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and offer immediate benefits for customers using NAS for enterprise applications, virtualization, cloud, storage consolidation, and data protection.

Sun ZFS Storage Appliances

The Sun ZFS product line combines industry-leading Oracle integration, management simplicity, and performance with an innovative storage architecture and unparalleled ease of deployment and use.

Sun ZFS Backup Appliance

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is a high-performance backup and recovery system that’s optimized for Oracle’s engineered systems.

Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Solutions

Sun ZFS Storage Appliance solutions are designed for a wide range of industries and applications, and help reduce costs, simplify management and lower TCO.

Feature Benefit
Integrated with Oracle Engineered Systems and Oracle Optimized Solutions Accelerates business performance, increases productivity, and speeds time to market
Hybrid Columnar Compression support with industry-leading storage efficiency for Oracle Databases 3x to 5x greater storage efficiency and lower acquisition costs for NAS-based Oracle Databases with in-database archiving for data warehousing, OLTP, and mixed environments
Rich set of data services and network protocol support available for every system Provides a single-vendor solution with high out-of-the-box functionality and low TCO
Hybrid Storage Pools with automated use of four tiers of storage Increase enterprise NAS performance without extensive storage administration costs
Integrated, intuitive, Web-based storage management Up to 36% less storage administration costs than NetApp
Integrated, visual, real-time storage analytics Get more from existing NAS resources and reduce future storage purchases by identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving bottlenecks
High-availability configurations Deploy midrange to data center NAS solution with rapid remediation of disk and controller failure
ZFS file system with advanced error detection and self-healing capabilities Virtually eliminates the risk of undetected data corruption and automates storage failure remediation
Built-in, inline deduplication combined with ZFS compression Significant cost and space savings with file-based data in storage consolidation, virtualization, and other data-intensive environments
Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Integration Eases management of multiple Sun ZFS Storage Appliance systems in Oracle software environments and includes provisioning of capacity and different SLA levels
Simultaneous multiprotocol support across multiple network interconnects, including GbE, 10 GbE, fibre channel and InfiniBand Reduce complexity by consolidating multiple storage interconnects into one system, simplifying deployment and reducing risk
High-performance SPC and SPECsfs benchmark results Proven performance for any workload
Sun ZFS Appliances

Sun ZFS Appliances

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