Jukeboxes

With today's need to communicate with employees, customers and partners 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Microsoft Exchange servers are crucial for ensuring business success. As more and more demands are placed on those servers for expanding communication, the importance of keeping them up and running and highly available has become even more crucial to business today. The obvious challenge is to configure and manger Exchange servers to minimise downtime and recover quickly. The more difficult proposition is to do this all while containing the total cost of ownership for the Exchange solution. tech news

Many configurations for storage are available, from direct attach storage to clusters to storage area networks. Dell analyzes five models to determine which has the best reliability, availability, and mean time between failures. tech news

Information continues to transform business operations. Yet the accelerated pace of todays business is threatening the very data that made it possible. Enterprises are struggling to keep their critical information both safe and available, because conventional tape backup and restore processes are not keeping up with the velocity of real-time business.<br><br>Read about EchoView, a new data protection solution that continuously protects data at the time it is written. An enterprise data protection strategy combining EchoView with tape backup fully protects information without interfering with high-velocity business. tech news

The use of optical storage continues to grow at an incredible pace, spurred on by the flexibility and affordability the technology offers. The word optical in the computer industry refers to any storage method which uses a laser to store and retrieve data from media. This term includes such devices as CD-ROM, rewritable optical, WORM, CD-R, and optical jukeboxes or autochangers.<BR><BR>Most of us are familiar with CD-ROM, but other terms such as rewritable optical, WORM, and CD-R may be foreign. Rewritable optical devices use media that allows data to be written repeatedly, while WORM (standing for Write-Once-Read-Many) technology writes data permanently to disk. CD-R, (short for Compact Disc Recordable), allows up to 650MB of data to be written permanently to a compact disc and read on low-cost CD-ROM drives. hese devices are currently sold as single or standalone items, or as jukeboxes. Jukeboxes are storage units with built in robotics to automate access to hundreds of pieces of media and numerous optical drives. tech news

To strategically align themselves with corporate objectives, IT organizations are regularly involving themselves with business processes such as change management, skill set management, infrastructure, knowledge management and business continutiy practicess. By confronting these initiatives through storage management best practices, IT becomes well positioned to advance and implement the core competencies and strategies of the business. <BR><BR> This paper provides a list of storage management practices and describes how Sun StorEdge Resource Management Suite software can play a role in these practices. <BR><BR> You will need to register at the host site to view this paper. tech news