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Providing IT services to remote locations generally requires investment in local servers, storage, and networking. Even with all the equipment in place, supporting the branch is a whole different challenge. However, a new architectural approach allows IT to project virtual servers and data to the edge, providing for local access and performance while data is actually stored in centralized data centers. IT can now avoid the need to provision and mainta...

Data on the edge of the network may be subject to a variety of risks. Data centers are built to secure systems and data, and to help ensure business continuity and recovery after interruptions and disasters. Remote offices, on the other hand, generally lack the defenses typically employed by data centers to keep out the unwanted and harmful. It’s now possible to extend the virtual edge of the data center to the branch office, enabling complete ...

Many organizations have invested in server consolidation, particularly in their data centers. In remote offices, though, servers and storage exist as isolated islands of infrastructure that require management through separate operational processes and procedures, placing data at risk. A new kind of storage architecture allows IT to consolidate remote servers and data in the data center by decoupling storage from its server over any distance and still ...

Today´s small and midsized data centers need to provide the same seamless delivery of IT services as the ones of major enterprises. With Storwize® V3700, IBM® has tailored one system specifically to address the block storage needs of the smaller data center, with functions derived from IBM’s high-end storage platforms. This paper shows how the innovative and enhanced Storwize V3700 has helped change the storage paradigm by using an IBM...

Whether your business is focused on gaining competitive advantage, mitigating risk or controlling IT costs, your storage infrastructure matters—a lot. IBM Smarter Storage is an intelligent, efficient, automated approach to the design and deployment of storage systems. This approach enables organizations like yours to take control of their storage so they can focus on gaining more valuable insight from their data—and delivering greater va...

The recently released family of Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances offers significant new capabilities and features that eliminate the obstacles to adopting cloud storage. This whitepaper outlines how you can obtain the economics and data durability of cloud storage with immediate data access to your data, even in the case of a disaster.   If you are interested in improving your recovery times, eliminating tape, creating a new low cost ar...

IT managers and industry experts talk a lot about performance and capacity, but those are often only replacement terms for the real issue: economics. Storage decisions are only necessary because of economics -- otherwise all data would be stored in main memory. With the data avalanche always looming and growing, two key trends are critical: simply storing less, and then tiering or caching what is ultimately stored. ...

As small and midsize businesses (SMBs) struggle with the challenge of managing more data with fewer resources and limited budgets, the industry has responded with storage solutions that are either too small (low functionality and hard to deploy and manage) or too big (high capacity and performance with a high price tag). SMBs need the same storage services that the enterprise data center has become accustomed to but in a smaller, less expensive and ea...

This white paper details how enterprises can gain substantial benefits from the latest enhancements to the Riverbed Whitewater appliance using Amazon Glacier as the cloud storage destination. Policy driven data management allows the Riverbed Whitewater-Amazon Glacier solution to excel at addressing both enterprise backup and archival storage requirements.  With intelligent caching, built in replication and Amazon Glacier’s low prices �...

The explosive growth of enterprise data is posing new storage and data management challenges for enterprises. The advent of advanced storage and networking technologies makes it possible for IT organizations to take advantage of cloud-based IT services without sacrificing data integrity, security or application performance. This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The...