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This white paper demonstrates how to increase profitability by reducing the operating costs of backup and archiving using Riverbed Whitewater and Amazon Glacier cloud storage, instead of traditional tape backup methods. Amazon Glacier is designed for low-cost storage of large datasets of infrequently accessed data, such as long-term archives, yearly full backups, and other data sets which typically, once written, are rarely read.  Analysis of the r...

Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances are purposely built for data protection and archiving.  They seamlessly integrate cloud storage into your existing data protection applications without changes to your application, schedules, policies or infrastructure.  Download this whitepaper to learn best practices around how to properly size an appliance, suggestions for securing optimum performance for virtual appliances and specific tips for us...

Riverbed Whitewater cloud storage appliances support a broad ecosystem of cloud storage services with Amazon’s Glacier quickly becoming one of the most popular due to its extremely low cost.  This whitepaper details best practices for using Whitewater appliances and Amazon Glacier, how to choose between S3 and Glacier, as well as how to create an additional low cost storage tier leveraging this popular new cloud storage service.     Be...

When a customer used a USP to relocate one of their two-cabinet Superdome systems from one data center to another, it took the USP several days to determine they lacked the expertise necessary. Learn how the customer could have spared days of downtime by using HP Relocation Services. ...

After a customer awarded hardware support on their server to a USP to cut costs, a hardware failure was unable to be resolved by the USP over several days. Read how HP solved the issue, and how they saved the customer valuable uptime. ...

There are multiple considerations when selecting a technology support provider. What do you get from HP Authorized Support Providers that you won’t from an unauthorized support provider (USP), and why do these differences matter? Learn the key areas to consider, and how HP can keep you ahead of the competition. ...

When HP took over a customer’s hardware and software support contract from a USP, a hardware site audit found a large number of counterfeit hard drives installed on failed servers and storage, which resulted in a large volume of disk drive failures.  Learn how HP resolved the issue, and how they saved the customer valuable uptime. ...

In this paper, Evaluator Group highlights the critical features necessary to move beyond server virtualization by leveraging key integration capabilities between IT components with a particular focus on the important role that storage plays in the evolution of data center architecture. Intel, the Intel Logo and Intel® Xeon® Processor inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. ...

Implementing Converged Storage is an evolution and by putting a plan into place now, enterprises can optimize their current storage investments while building toward a converged future and accruing concomitant benefits along the way. Virtualization and cloud computing can help corporate IT meet these demands by helping it become more flexible and agile. But the ultimate solution is to transform the way IT is delivered. Many enterprises have already st...

In today’s business environment, customers rely on the most efficient, high performing, and reliable backup systems to protect critical business information. Customers need to protect increasing levels of data while keeping costs under control. HP StoreOnce Backup systems provide a disk-based data protection platform while addressing data growth by applying HP StoreOnce deduplication software for efficient, longer term data retention.This docum...