Practical guidance to apply storage in real-world situations

Implementing PAV on the V2Xf - AUG 2005
Highlights the benefits of parallel access volumes (PAV) working in conjunction with multiple allegiance and explains how to implement PAV on the V2Xf to help eliminate input/output supervisor queue (IOSQ) delays.

Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution - Content certificates: integrating verifiability with enterprise business logic - JAN 2005
IT managers are struggling with an explosive growth of information at the same time that government regulations have imposed strict records retention requirements on companies in many industries. Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution’s standards-based architecture provides access to a scalable, reliable and secure storage system through conventional file-based interfaces. It also extends this with easily accessible WORM functionality to meet both government regulations and industry best practices for records retention. Content certificates allow additional extrinsic validation of its non-erasable, non-rewritable nature, and allow access to object storage internals for business logic integration.

Using Lifecycle Director™software for IBM DB2 - Optimizing with database archival - JAN 2005
Lifecycle Director software provides robust, row-level archival and transparent data retrieval requiring no application changes. Lifecycle Director software overcomes many of the problems organizations have had maintaining old and aging inactive DB2 data and helps improve DB2 performance.

Configuring Storage Routers for Maximum Efficiency - JAN 2005
By using a configuration designed specifically for your needs, you can save considerable time and money. The methodology illustrated here is for configuring an effective routed storage solution which entails identifying the bottlenecks in your system architecture and optimizing the other components to deal with this limitation.

Using BladeStore disk systems with Tivoli Storage Manager software - AUG 2004
A valuation method for determining when disk-to-disk backup and restore makes sense in your environment.

Meeting application uptime requirements for data center relocation projects - JUL 2004
Explore the issues, solution, and business results of a financial services company's complete data center relocation.

Networked video - APR 2004
Benefits and techniques for moving from analog video to networked video systems, including design and implementation considerations.

Using Shared Virtual Array® (SVA™) disk systems and SnapShot software with NetWorker for Windows 2000 - APR 2004
Maximizing results with SnapShot, including configuring development and Networker backup servers in Windows 2000 environments, and how to restore

Using Shared Virtual Array® (SVA™) disk systems and SnapShot software with Time Navigator for HP-UX - APR 2004
Maximizing results with SnapShot, including configuring production and Time Navigator backup servers in multiple HP-UX scenarios, and how to restore

Using Shared Virtual Array® (SVA™) disk systems and SnapShot software with NetWorker on HP-UX - APR 2004
Maximizing results with SnapShot, including configuration and backup and restore with Legato NetWorker in a HP-UX environment

Driving cost out of data storage infrastructure - APR 2004
Today’s data management challenges are not being met by conventional storage infrastructures and strategies. A sustainable approach is to apply the concept of information lifecycle management (ILM) to balance the cost of storing and managing information with its changing value. StorageTek® has developed an ILM-based process that helps customers reduce their storage infrastructure costs by understanding their information’s value and adapting their storage systems and processes to manage it according to its value.

Tuning SANs for high availability - APR 2004
Today businesses operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and try to fit 55 weeks in a year. In such a compelling environment, the loss of data could have a significant impact on the top and bottom lines of organizations.

Disaster recovery and business continuation: planning for success - APR 2004
Regardless of the size of the business, by taking the necessary steps to support business continuance today, you can position your company for unexpected disruptive events — both large and small — for today and tomorrow.

V-Series disk systems in the IBM DB2 environment - MAR 2004
Backup and recovery for large, critical database systems is an important and complex requirement in today’s data processing environment. The traditional process of dump and restore has been used effectively for a long time. A major problem with this approach is the long outages with the attendant loss of service during these processes. The StorageTek® V-Series Shared Virtual Array® (SVA™) disk system can reduce or eliminate most of these outages.

Consolidating Enterprise Data with the StorageTek SL8500 - JUL 2005
Enterprise IT organizations are weighing the opportunities to gain management efficiency, improve utilization, and lower cost by consolidating storage systems. Many enterprises are evaluating plans to better manage distributed storage — disk as well as tape — through the use of high-capacity, high-performance systems. For larger enterprises, a robust tape library will be a part of the consolidated storage environment. IDC believes that tape remains a critical component in a large company's information life-cycle management (ILM) infrastructure. StorageTek has brought to market a system that is designed to be the central hub in a typical multivendor enterprise IT architecture.

In-depth analysis of technologies and products to help evaluate options.

Understanding Fibre Channel tape library implementations — native Fibre Channel and routed solutions - MAY 2005
There are two basic architectural approaches to connecting today’s tape subsystems with a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN). One approach connects a tape library’s drives and robotic interface directly to the SAN fabric using only native Fibre Channel connections. Another architectural approach to delivering Fibre Channel connectivity involves inserting an active connectivity (or routing) layer between the physical library resources and the SAN fabric.

T9840C FICON tape drive performance - APR 2005
This paper describes the general characteristics of the T9840C FICON drive in brief and explores its performance characteristics in detail.

A comparison of StorageTek's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) system's clustered VTSS and IBM's Virtual Tape Server Peer-to-Peer option - APR 2005
There are significant differences between IBM’s Virtual Tape Server Peer-to-Peer (VTS PtP) and StorageTek’s clustered virtual tape storage subsystem (clustered VTSS). With either approach, the functionality is intended to provide greater data protection against unscheduled outages, such as component failures, as well as scheduled, or planned, outages.

Lifecycle Director™ software for IBM DB2 supports Sysplex technology - MAR 2005
Database applications contain the heart of today’s businesses — information. To protect these applications, most companies employ redundancy using Sysplex technologies. Learn about the advantages and implementation issues of using Lifecycle Director software in a Sysplex configuration.

Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution - Archival WORM storage on magnetic disks - JAN 2005
Government regulators in the most strictly controlled financial sectors have accepted rewritable magnetic disk storage as compliant archival WORM storage. This has made it possible for the storage system itself to enforce record retention policies that were formerly handled in an expensive and error-prone manual fashion. The Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution is such a system. It provides a compelling solution to the records retention problem, making regulator-compliant disk-based storage safe, economical, easy to use and continuously accessible through future generations of hardware evolution.

Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution - Next-generation object storage solutions - JAN 2005
IT managers are struggling with the explosive growth of information. However, not all of this information is created equal. Industry analysts recommend that enterprises create a multi-tier storage infrastructure. Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager 100 Series solution is a software product that turns standard servers into scalable, secondary disk storage that meets enterprise needs to store increasing volumes of information online at a reasonable cost.

Lifecycle Director software for OAM - NOV 2004
Lifecycle Director software for OAM can help an organization automate the data migration process, free up valuable primary disk space and improve backup efficiency. In this role, Lifecycle Director software facilitates the cost savings and productivity gains embodied in an information lifecycle management strategy. This document describes the difference between Lifecycle Director for OAM and the OAM product, highlighting the advantages of Lifecycle Director for OAM.

E-mail Archive Master for Lotus Notes - JUN 2004
Guidance on improving email management in Lotus Notes environments, including cost reduction and user productivity increases.

E-mail Archive Master for Microsoft Exchange - JUN 2004
Guidance on improving email management in Microsoft Exchange environments, including cost reduction and user productivity increases.

StorageTek® T-Series tape drive technology roadmap - JUN 2004
The T-Series tape drive product roadmap demonstrates StorageTek’s commitment to delivering products with a superior throughput-to-capacity ratio, delivering not only the increased data storage capacity that users demand, but maintaining and reducing the time required to .ll the higher capacity cartridge. We continue to focus on meeting enterprise-class operating requirements with high reliability and high duty cycle performance. Finally, the roadmap commits to allowing reuse of the third generation media in later drive technologies, continuing to drive down the total cost of ownership of tape assets.

Assessing the storage infrastructure - MAY 2004
Using StorageTek's Storage Architecture Services to identify opportunities to improve efficiency, increase utilization and reduce costs

Enterprise support services offerings - APR 2004
How to consolidate support for mainframe environments to reduce costs, improve service level attainment and simplify management

PowerPPRC software and V-Series disk - APR 2004
Description of Power Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PowerPPRC) for V-Series SVA disk systems, including comparison to standard PPRC and use cases

T9840C tape drive reliability - APR 2004
A description of the high reliability design and performance of the StorageTek T9840C tape drive

Introduction to Open Systems PPRC - APR 2004
An introduction to the capabilities and use of Open Systems Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) software for V-Series SVA disk systems

Tape mirroring on the StorageNet 6000 - APR 2004
Automating tape replication with the Tape Mirroring option for StorageNet 6000 storage domain managers

Application Storage Manager (ASM) software for UNIX - APR 2004
How to use ASM software to manage data in a UNIX environment, including capabilities and implementation strategies

Remote Managed Storage services security - APR 2004
Achieving security and fault tolerance in an enterprise storage environment with StorageTek's Remote Managed Storage services

Open Systems tape drive performance - DEC 2003
Test results comparing Open Systems performance for StorageTek T9840B, T9840A, T9940B and IBM 3590-E11 tape drives

VSM and SVA component redundancy - AUG 2003
A survey of the redundant design features of Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) and V-Series SVA products

Legato Networker and BladeStore disk performance report - JUL 2003
A comparison of backup and restore performance between tape and BladeStore B-Series disk using Legato Networker software.