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The Microsoft Storage Partner Resource Center brings you the latest offerings from Microsoft and its strategic partners. Whether you're implementing a new storage strategy or looking for management tools for your current strategy, Microsoft and its partners can help.
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WHITE PAPER:
Leveraging Xiotech's DataScale Shadow-Copy Provider in Windows 2003
Sponsored by: Xiotech Corporation
This white paper reviews limitations of most backup solutions; specifically how open files cannot be backed up and point-in-time copy operation. These issues result in incomplete backups and downtime every time you perform a backup. In the vast majority of IT organizations, this downtime is unacceptable.
This downtime can be avoided by implementing transparent backup and disaster recovery protection without disruption. Xiotech Corporation's Magnitude 3D clustered storage system with its DataScale™ SP software integrates seamlessly with Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). With this innovative technology, you can now perform complete, online backups-including open files – and time while end users continue working" |
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WHITE PAPER:
Calm the Enterprise Data Storm - the Easy Way
Sponsored by: Microsoft and its partners
Storage administrators fret day-to-day over the lifetime cost of each piece of storage megabyte, the amount of storage hardware they need to maintain and where to find new tools to help them squeeze the most out of the storage they already have.
Microsoft has partnered with a number of storage vendors to help utilize current tools and present administrators with options tailored to their needs.
Learn about:
- Secure, reliable and simple disk-based backup of file servers both within the data center and in remote offices
- Automating and simplifying common storage management functions
- Simple and seamless storage functionalities within a WAN-linked branch office
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WHITE PAPER:
Branch Office Solution: Test Guide for the Single-Server Solution
Sponsored by: Microsoft
This guide reviews testing of a single-server solution within the Branch Office Infrastructure Solution. The focus of these test efforts is on the procedures documented in the Build Guide for the Single-Server Solution. This Test Guide for the Single-Server Solution covers the test planning, test environment, and test processes used to validate the deployment of the solution, as well as the test results of those test efforts. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Dell/EMC AX100 Entry SAN Solution Addresses SME Demands
Sponsored by: Dell Computer Corporation
This analyst white paper reviews a new SAN offering from Dell and EMC that addresses the data storage needs of small and medium-sized enterprises. This AX100 SAN solution is designed ideally for SME requirements and targets companies without existing SAN installations – although the AX100 array also appeals to large enterprise customers as a cost-effective direct-attached or near-line storage device. The solution is offered through a customer-installable package that includes all of the components of a SAN infrastructure, including storage array, switch, host adapter, and software stack.
The cost advantage of the solution is driven by three critical factors:
- AX100 employs the cost-effective Serial ATA (SATA) storage
- The bundled software provides significant savings to customers compared to the hefty software licensing prices regulated by other vendors
- The solution leverages Dell's pricing advantage to offer rock-bottom component pricing
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WHITE PAPER:
Deploy Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager in an iSCSI SAN
Sponsored by: EqualLogic, Inc.
This Technical Report describes the benefits of using SAN storage with Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006 (DPM), a server software application that provides near-continuous data protection and optimizes disk-based backup and recovery operations. Intelligent PS Series storage arrays provide fast setup, automated management, easy scalability, multipath I/O support, SAN boot support, and remote volume replication. This makes a PS Series group an iSCSI SAN consisting of one or more arrays connected to an IP network an excellent choice for the storage pool resources used in DPM configurations. Not only does a PS Series SAN improve storage utilization efficiency and availability, it also delivers flexibility and ease-of-management regardless of SAN scale. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Easiest Implementation of Disk-Based Backup for Windows
Sponsored by: Quantum
Businesses today are under constant pressure to lower costs while improving overall operational efficiency. In short, businesses are being asked to do more with less. As a leading supplier of data protection products, Quantum is in a position to deliver unique solutions to the marketplace to help customers solve these problems.
The Quantum DPM-Series addresses the most significant backup challenges facing IT professionals: meeting short backup windows, confidence that backups are complete, and the ability to quickly restore data when needed. The Quantum DPM-Series enhances an existing tape backup system by separating the backup target from the backup archive. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Introduction to Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006
Sponsored by: Microsoft
This white paper describes the challenges with the current data protection model. Because the current model is optimized for backup, not recovery, the recovery of individual application objects is often expensive, time consuming and often times unreliable. Storage IT professionals are being held to higher service level agreements, lower thresholds for data loss, and faster data recovery requirements; all while trying to find time to run a backup.
What's the solution? Disk storage provides customers a much more rapid and reliable way to handle recoveries, while providing a solution to the shrinking backup window. However, using existing tape software to write to disk reduces the problem of the physical unreliability of tape, but it does not optimize recovery because the backups are usually saved in the format of the tape vendor. Microsoft has created a new back up solution software, Data Protection Manager, whose goal is to provide efficient data protection and rapid reliable recovery at a lower total cost of ownership. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Protecting your business with HP Data Protection Storage Servers
Sponsored by: HP
Disk based backup is a fast and reliable way to protect your ever increasing data assets. Learn how HP and Microsoft are teaming up to deliver cost effective and easy to deploy disk-based backup solutions that reduce risk and lower IT overhead. This White Paper explains the advantages of disk-based backup, discusses Microsoft's entry into the backup market, and explores deployment scenarios based on the HP ProLiant Data Protection Storage Server family of products powered by Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2006. Learn how Data Protection Storage Servers can enhance your existing data protection strategy while delivering substantial business value. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Simplifying Exchange 2003 Deployment & Management in an EMC SAN
Sponsored by: EMC Corporation
SANs offered a big leap forward in deploying, scaling and protecting information storage for critical applications like Exchange. By deploying Exchange in a SAN environment and consolidating storage, companies can increase their resource utilization, simplify backup and recovery operations, and lower their cost of operations.
Managing Exchange in a SAN environment differs from how an Exchange administrator in an SMB today is accustomed to operating. This can create a hurdle for those who aren't ready to acquire the expertise to implement and manage a SAN environment.
In response, EMC has introduced Storage Administrator for Exchange. EMC Storage Administrator for Exchange offers:
- Simple movement of Exchange data from current deployment to a SAN
- Accelerated migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003
- Exchange management tool to automate SAN storage provisioning
- Resuming email operations on an alternative Exchange server without clustering
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WHITE PAPER:
Simplify Microsoft Exchange Mailbox Storage with a Clustered iSCSI SAN
Sponsored by: LeftHand Networks
This white paper explores some of the new ways Microsoft Exchange administrators are using iSCSI SANs to efficiently resolve their most critical storage issues with Microsoft Exchange management, and in particular why a clustered iSCSI SAN offers scalability and reliability benefits critical to an Exchange environment. The result is a simpler, cleaner management experience, better server uptime statistics, and integration with advanced Exchange backup and recovery functionality that allows administrators to back up and restore individual mailboxes, items from within a mailbox, or specific Exchange database stores, in a fraction of the time it used to take with more common disk- or tape-based backup methods. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Simplify SAN Adoption Through End-to-End Management
Sponsored by: QLogic Corp.
Historically, Fibre Channel-based SANs have been very costly and complex to implement. This has been especially true with SMBs running Windows Server environments. The problem for these sites has been equating Windows' ease-of-use with financial decisions to operate a minimal IT staff. As a result, demystifying SAN constructs and simplifying installation are key goals of major storage vendors. At the vanguard of this SAN simplification movement has been QLogic with its wizard-based SANsurfer Express, a software package designed to simplify configuration and on-going management of its Fibre Channel switches, HBAs as well as heterogeneous storage. |
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WHITE PAPER:
Using Microsoft Data Protection Manager with BrightStor ARCServ Backup
Sponsored by: Computer Associates International, Inc.
Easy-to-use backup and recovery solution protects MS DPM server and its data store. Includes enhanced functionality such as support of various applications, backup to tape for long term archiving, bare metal recovery, built in antivirus protection and rapid restore of client data in case of failure of the DPM server. Integrated and easy to implement, the BrightStor ARCserve Backup solution for Microsoft DPM extends data protection to MS Exchange and MS SQL Server while providing archival capabilities needed for regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. Users also benefit from reduced recovery time in case the DPM server is unavailable. BrightStor ARCserve Backup can restore data directly to client systems. |
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WEBCAST:
The Power of 64-bit Computing in the Enterprise
Sponsored by: AMD
In this vendor webcast, learn about the power of 64-bit computing in the enterprise. Dirk Meyer, president and COO of AMD's Microprocessor Solutions Sector, will give you an insider's view of AMD's 64-bit architecture and demonstrate how 64-bit computing dramatically improves performance and offers complete software compatibility. Brian Valentine, Microsoft's Sr. VP of Windows® Core Operating System Division, will help you decide whether your IT resources are enabling productivity or holding it back. The key differentiator is whether your enterprise is taking advantage of the power of 64-bit computing. "AMD in the Enterprise" web-cast series, with its on-demand Web format, allows you to access this new installment of "AMD in the Enterprise" whenever you choose.
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Microsoft and its Storage Partners
Microsoft's hardware and software partners are offering more and more solutions that work with Windows servers to make your job easier -- whether you work for a large, medium or small-sized business. Read on to find out about the latest offerings from: Microsoft, AMD, CommVault, EMC, EqualLogic, HP, LeftHand, QLogic, Quantum and Xiotech.
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