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| Date | Title | Catgeory | Synopsis |
| 04/15/2008 | Using Software to Reduce Hardware Requirements | Data Center |
Maximizing the value of existing hardware investments has never been a bad idea. Perhaps never before has it also been such a good idea... |
| 04/03/2008 | The Green Data Center— a Symantec Green IT Guide | Data Center |
High-performance IT consumes power and generates heat in enormous quantities—moving IT energy costs up corporate and national agendas. |
| 02/28/2008 | Ensuring Object Integrity and Recoverability within ECM Systems | Data Center |
Enterprise content management (ECM) systems present a unique data protection challenge within enterprise–wide backup and recovery practices... |
| 02/21/2008 | Dynamic Multi-pathing | Data Center |
This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation™ Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base... |
| 02/12/2008 | Symantec Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions | Data Center |
Gartner Group has identified Data Center power and cooling as the highest priority issue facing IT organizations worldwide... |
| 02/05/2008 | Microsoft Exchange: Good, Better, Best for Backup & Recovery | Data Center |
This paper sets out to be informative and educational in describing a number of solutions for protecting and recovering Microsoft Exchange installations... |
| 02/05/2008 | VMware: Good, Better, Best for Backup & Recovery | Data Center |
VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a "megatrend," VMware software is making its way into data centers of every size... |
| 02/05/2008 | Designing and Implementing NetBackup 6.5 Storage LifeCycle Policies | Data Center |
Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are intended to simplify the way in which backed-up data is organized. This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery service levels ... |
| 02/05/2008 | Implementing Highly Available Disaster Recovery with NetBackup | Data Center |
The data protection system must be regarded as a 'mission critical' element of any modern data center. The design of any data protection system must, as far as possible, eliminate single points of failure so that data can be recovered to an acceptable state and point in time in the t of data, server or site loss... |
| 02/05/2008 | NetBackup Operations Manager Technical Whitepaper | Data Center |
NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) was introduced with Veritas NetBackup 6.0. It is a core component of the product providing advanced operational monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting... |
| 02/05/2008 | NetBackup Operations Manager | Data Center |
NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) was introduced with Veritas NetBackup 6.0. It is a core component of the product providing advanced operational monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting. Designed to support NetBackup administrators and the operations team, NOM is focused on real-time, centralized monitoring across the NetBackup environment. |
| 02/04/2008 | TechTip: Greening Your IT Effort (Part 1 of 2) | Data Center |
The world is recognizing that data centers are big users of energy, and many corporations are now dealing with a crisis in power usage, power cost, or both. |
| 12/21/2007 | Enterprise Vault Backups | Risk Management |
Companies implementing Enterprise Vault typically purchase to solve one of several needs. They are either trying to offset the explosive growth of individual mailboxes, file server personal / shared areas, or insure relevant regulatory compliance in their country... |
| 12/21/2007 | Enterprise Vault Best Practice | Risk Management |
This best practice document discusses the inherent needs to securely backup operations Enterprise Vault servers to insure best available DR scenarios. With several... |
| 12/14/2007 | Global Data Deduplication | Data Center |
Enterprises are seeking new ways to tackle their data protection challenges. While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid... |
| 12/14/2007 | Enterprise Vault 2007 Indexing | Risk Management |
Enterprise Vault creates indexes of the items it archives. These indexes are created using the AltaVista search engine and are placed... |
| 11/29/2007 | Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 | Security |
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 combines Symantec Antivirus with advanced threat prtion to deliver unmatched defense against malware for... |
| 11/07/2007 | Enterprise Vault Best Practice | Risk Management |
Before going into more detail about the impact of mailbox moves it is worth spending some time reviewing the basics of archiving... |
| 10/24/2007 | Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility | Data Center |
The Prep Utility is a new tool for Storage Foundation users that simplifies and automates the installation and upgrade process to Storage Foundation 5.0. |
| 10/02/2007 | Green Data Center Storage | Data Center |
This paper explains how CIOs can potentially save tens of millions of dollars in advance of potential governmental data center energy conservation mandates and taxation penalizations. |
| 09/25/2007 | Green Data Center Storage- Part II | Data Center |
This is the second part of a three part paper on Data Center Power and cooling. It discusses data and disk types and how to match data and disks effectively within information life cycles. In addition, it examines data growth problems and how they directly impact data center power and cooling considerations. |
| 09/20/2007 | The Symantec i³ Addon AppTier | Data Center |
Symantec i³ is a comprehensive product that monitors, reports, and improves the performance of web servers, middleware, enterprise applications, databases and storage arrays. |
| 09/11/2007 | Veritas Storage Foundation For Oracle RAC with EMC SRDF | Data Center | This whitepaper describes Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC clustering and replication technologies. It examines EMC's SRDF data replication... |
| 08/23/2007 | Migrating PST Files into EV 2007 | Risk Management |
This paper is intended to serve as a comprehensive source of information about the various tools available for PST migration with Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007. |
| 08/21/2007 | Symantec Security Information Manager | Security |
Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) enables IT organizations to identify, prioritize, investigate, and respond to security threats that impact... |
| 08/14/2007 | Advanced Cluster Server Solutions In a Nutshell | Data Center |
Building and maintaining enterprise computing infrastructures invariably involves balancing conflicting goals high missioncritical application availability versus lowest cost as one example. Now, Symantec Veritas Cluster Server features enable new server cluster server configurations that can simultaneously provide high availability at minimum cost. |
| 08/02/2007 | Veritas Storage Foundation™ and Sun Solaris™ZFS | Data Center |
This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers. |
| 07/31/2007 | Green Data Center Storage- Part I | Data Center | This is the first part of a three part series dealing with data center power and cooling issues that either are presently, or will soon, affect virtually every enterprise data center. The series outlines the challenges and Symantec solutions. |
| 06/19/2007 | Unlocking the Benefits of Efficient Information Archiving | Risk Management |
ESG research estimates that organizations will archive over 57,000 petabytes of e-mails, files and database data over the next 4 years. These digital assets may no longer be needed for current business operations, but are intentionally retained to satisfy records management, litigation support, data management, regulatory compliance or corporate governance requirements. |
| 06/05/2007 | Netbackup and Enterprise Vault Storage Integration | Risk Management |
With ever growing volumes of data in typical organizations and increasing scrutiny around management and retention of that data, companies are beginning to seek more cost-effective ways to scale their storage environments. |
| 06/01/2007 | Microsoft SQL Server Backup and Recovery Using NetBackup PureDisk | Data Center |
With more than 50% market share (Gartner May 2005); Microsoft SQL Server is the most popular general purpose database on the Microsoft Windows platform. |
| 05/29/2007 | Enterprise Vault: Technical Overview | Risk Management |
Enterprise Vault is designed to be a long term, highly scalable store for items of unstructured information. Now in its fifth version, Enterprise Vault delivers not only a scalable and robust storage system but also provides a wide choice of implementation scenarios addressing storage cost reduction and compliance driven information retention. |
| 05/22/2007 | Migrating PST Files into Enterprise Vault | Risk Management |
The purpose of this whitepaper is to provide a comprehensive source of information about the various tools available for PST Migration with Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0, and to provide some guidance on how best to use these tools. |
| 05/15/2007 | Enterprise vault 6 Technical Overview:Indexing and Search | Risk Management |
This paper will show how Enterprise Vault has taken an industry-standard indexing technology and modified it to produce a massively scalable, dependable, and cost-effective indexing system, while enabling the end user and investigative search functionality demanded by customers. |
| 05/09/2007 | PureDisk Remote Office Protection Export to NetBackup Feature | Data Center |
PureDisk 6.1 MP1A introduces the Export to NetBackup feature. This paper explains how to use this feature. I will give a detailed description on how to demonstrate this feature using a VMware environment. The download locations for everything you need are given so you can try this same demonstration in your own VMware environment. |
| 05/08/2007 | Enterprise Vault - Performance Guide | Risk Management | This document provides guidelines on expected performance when running Symantec Enterprise Vault. |
| 05/01/2007 | Ev: File System Archiving | Risk Management |
This white paper is designed to give technical staff, project managers, and Microsoft® Windows® file server experts an overview of Symante™ Enterprise Vault File System Archiving (FSA). |
| 04/24/2007 | Enterprise Vault - Intelligent Archiving and Email Clasification | Risk Management | With the recognition that email has become as mission critical as any other IT system, most organizations are evaluating their overall policies and systems for email management. |
| 04/17/2007 | Email Security & Availability | Risk Management |
This white paper details, at a high level, how to achieve an advantageous combination of best-of-breed email security and archiving technologies from Symantec Corporation. |
| 04/10/2007 | Enterprise Vault - Granular Provisioning Best Practice | Risk Management |
This document describes how to successfully implement granular provisioning using Enterprise Vault for Exchange V7 and the best practices that can be adopted. |
| 04/03/2007 | Drive-By-Pharming | Security |
This article describes Drive-By-Pharming – a new Internet Web attack method where attackers construct malicious web pages that, when victims simply view them, attempt to change home broadband router settings. |
| 04/03/2007 | Enterprise Vault - Acheiving High Availability | Risk Management |
Symantec Enterprise Vault software provides a unique archiving framework that enables the discovery of content held within email, file systems, and collaborative environments. |
| 03/27/2007 | Enterprise Vault - Enterprise-Scale Administration | Risk Management |
Over the past few years, archiving has quickly moved beyond its role as the pet project of the Microsoft® Exchange administrator for reducing Exchange storage. |
| 03/22/2007 | IMM in a Nutshell | Risk Management |
Since its inception, electronic messaging has constantly evolved in application, technology, medium, and usability. Today, these changes are rapidly accelerating in scope and method. |
| 03/22/2007 | Threat Report | Security |
STN talks with Dean Turner, whose team just released the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume XI. |
| 03/22/2007 | Raid 6 Principles | Data Center | SATA hard drives are continuing to assume new roles within enterprise applications. While a hard disk's expected useful life is largely independent of its host controller interface (SATA, FC-AL, SCSI, SAS, etc,), the present conventional perspective is that desktop hard drives have SATA interfaces and enterprise disks have FC-AL, SCSI, or SAS interfaces. |
| 02/27/2007 | Long Distance Replication Technologies | Data Center |
IT organizations consider several criteria when evaluating remote data replication architectures during Disaster Recovery (DR) planning efforts. |
| 02/06/2007 | XML Guide for Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) | Data Center |
This document discusses Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST). It primarily describes how to write XML placement policy rules. |
| 01/08/2007 | The Future Data Center: Multi-Core Processors | Data Center |
Today's IT departments face a multitude of challenges and impending changes.This series provides a brief overview of many IT considerations for these transitions that IT professionals may find useful in inevitable senior management discussions. |
| 12/07/2006 | Business Continuity Essentials | Data Center |
Business Continuity Management (BCM) comprises the activities organizations perform to ensure they continue essential operations following any disaster. This paper provides a brief overview of IT considerations for Business Continuity Management planning that IT professionals may find useful when engaging with senior management. |
| 10/13/2006 | International Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley | Data Center |
Sarbanes-Oxley precipitated a wave of regulatory legislation that continues to engulf the globe. There is no escaping it though legal counsel presently colors confused. Interestingly enough, management and legal counsel presently defer what should be done to effect compliance. Thus, the auditor’s interpretation "compliance" presently drives executive action and purchases... |
| 03/15/2006 | Ten Tough Tasks for Oracle Performance Management | Data Center |
The self-managing database is a great idea ... but it’s still a fantasy. Yes, vendors are building more "smarts"’ into their database engines. But we’re a long way from a self-tuning and self-managing database. |
| 01/11/2006 | Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Overview | Data Center | CDP is an emerging technology that enables enterprises to increase their ability to provide sustained application availability through enhanced data recovery operational capabilities. It usually involves a variety of hardware technologies within a tiered storage environment as well as awareness of ILM’s role in ensuring enterprise data’s accessibility. |
| 12/16/2005 | Storage Utility - From Technology to Service | Data Center |
This article provides an introduction to the storage utility concept. Simply put, storage utility provides a comprehensive support-system for storing and accessing data by production workloads. Physical and operational separation of the support-system from production workloads is essential for workload stability and storage management flexibility. |
| 12/02/2005 | Storage Virtualization - Part IV | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage virtualization. This fourth and final article in the series discusses Storage Virtualization and the SNIA Storage Management Initiative as well as Policy-Based Service Level Management. |
| 11/11/2005 | Storage Virtualization - Part III | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage virtualization. This third article in the series presents storage virtualization implementation and how to achieve high availability, performance, and storage capacity. |
| 11/04/2005 | Storage Virtualization - Part II | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage virtualization. This second article in the series discusses Host-Based, Storage-Based, and Network-Based, In-Band, and Out-of-Band Virtualization, as well as Snapshots and Data Replication. |
| 10/27/2005 | Storage Virtualization - Part I | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage virtualization. This first article in the series presents virtualization definitions, the SNIA Storage Model, virtualization solution problem areas, and the SNIA Storage Virtualization Taxonomy that differentiates disk (drive), tape storage, file/record, file system, and block virtualization. |
| 10/21/2005 | Storage Network Management - Part III | Data Center | This series provides an introduction to storage network management. This is the third article in the series and it presents Profiles of Storage Network Equipment Types, Available Tools and Development Facilities, and Future Developments and Goals. |
| 10/21/2005 | Storage Network Management - Part II | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage network management. This is the second article in the series and it presents an Introduction to Web-Based Enterprise Management and SMI-S, including CIM. |
| 09/26/2005 | Storage Network Management – Part I | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to storage network management. This is the first article in the series and it presents terminology definitions, a brief history of management protocols, and an overview of current management techniques. |
| 09/19/2005 | Configuring Business Critical Workloads | Data Center |
Rue, cash flow, and a company's long-term survival depend on business critical workloads that keep the company afloat. Consequently, considerations relating to quality of service; throughput, scalability, availability, and business continuity drive decisions concerning allocation of IT resources. This white-paper addresses the major quality of service issues related to these business critical workloads. |
| 08/26/2005 | Storage Networking Security – Part II | Data Center | This article is the second and final article in a series that provides an introduction to cryptography theory from a historical perspective. The series gives an overview of the different types of cryptography that are employed today as well as their applications and introduces the most popular ciphers used in various cryptography applications. A general risk assessment process, which can be used to assess the security requirements of a number of different types of systems, is formulated. |
| 08/19/2005 | Faster, Safer Oracle™ Data Migration, Part III | Data Center |
This is the third and final part of a three-part series discussing portable data containers (PDCs). Part I describes portable data containers and their relation to Oracle database migration activities. Part II describes the use of portable data containers(PDCs) to move Oracle 9i and 10g database data between database instances running on any combination of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and x86 Linux platforms. This part describes Oracle Transportable Tablespaces in greater detail. |
| 08/02/2005 | Storage Networking Security - Part 1 | Data Center |
This series provides an introduction to cryptography theory from a historical perspective, and gives an overview of the different types of cryptography e employed today and their applications. The most popular ciphers used in these types of cryptography are introduced, and a general risk assessment process, which can be used to assess the security requirements of a number of different types of systems, is formulated. |
| 07/21/2005 | Disaster Tolerance in Business Critical Environments | Data Center |
Disaster tolerant systems must support an availability continuum that addresses every-thing from single-points of failure in a single system to multiple points of failure involv-ing many systems at several locations. Disaster tolerance addresses end-to-end applica-tion availability which includes both system and data availability. That is, disaster toler-ance moves from managing systems in a cluster to managing multiple clusters and stand-alone systems at several locations. |
| 07/07/2005 | Intelligent Storage Provisioning For UNIX and LINUX Environments | Data Center |
Storage provisioning is the process used to provide appropriate storage capacity to applications. Intelligent Storage Provisioning (ISP) is a feature of the VERITAS Storage Foundation product family that allows application volumes to be created from disks that meet installation-specified criteria. The Storage Foundation ISP Administrator’s Guide serves as a comprehensive reference to the concepts and specification language introduced by ISP. It may be downloaded from the VERITAS support website. This ISP User’s Guide describes practical use cases where ISP can be used to enforce installation standards and to simplify common storage provisioning tasks. |
| 05/25/2005 | Backup Exec™'s Project "Panther" Beta | Data Center |
VERITAS's new Continuous Data Protection (CDP) offering, Backup Exec™ Panther, comprises a new, powerful tool for helping Windows-based organization exploit the revolution in data protection and business continuity advances. Backup Exec™ "Panther" Beta presently is targeted for Windows®-based file server environments. This short article discusses CDP requirements and shows you how to download the Beta software. |
| 05/04/2005 | Faster, Safer DB2 Data Migration | Data Center |
This is the second of a two-part series. Part I introduced VERITAS Storage Foundation (VSF) Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS) technology, portable data containers, and their relationship to DB2 database migration activities. This concluding part illustrates the use of portable data containers (PDCs) to move DB2 database data between database instances running on any combination of heterogeneous UNIX and Linux platforms. |
| 04/23/2005 | Dynamic Multipathing | Data Center |
With increasing deployment of storage networks, IT managers are becoming conscious of the important role that I/O paths play in keeping data available. Thus, a first independent path between server and storage increases the number of component failures an I/O subsystem can withstand without loss of function. But with an alternate path, I/O path failure can still be tantamount to storage device failure unless the system recognizes that it has an alternate path and reroutes I/O requests to it. |
| 04/18/2005 | Integrating Network Appliance™ Snapshot ™ and SnapRestore®with VERITAS NetBackup™ in an Oracle® Backup Environment | Data Center |
The Snapshot function of a Network Appliance storage system provides a fast and completely stable point-in-time copy of files, directory hierarchies, and LUNs. Snapshot copies give administrators near instantaneous access to previous versions of data, without the bulk and complexity of maintaining completely separate backup copies. |
| 04/11/2005 | Faster, Safer DB2 Data Migration- Part I | Data Center | This is the first of a two-part series. This first part introduces VERITAS Storage Foundation (VSF) Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS) technology, portable data containers, and their relationship to DB2 database migration activities. Part II illustrates the use of portable data containers (PDCs) to move DB2 database data between database instances running on any combination of heterogeneous UNIX and Linux platforms. |
| 04/04/2005 | Understanding Veritas Volume Replicator | Data Center |
VERITAS Volume Replicator can effectively and efficiently provide protection from disaster scenarios by replicating data to another location(s). VERITAS Volume Replicator allows organizations to replicate their data between any storage devices, over a standard IP connection, and across any distance for the ultimate in disaster recovery protection.This article provides current and potential VERITAS Storage Foundation users with a solid understanding of the VERITAS Volume Replicator (VVR) product. It is intended to provide an architectural/technical overview, as well as a product capability understanding. |
| 03/16/2005 | Faster, Safer Oracle Data Migration, Part 2: Using Portable Data Containers to Migrate Data in Oracle 9i Databases | Data Center |
This is the second part of a three part series describing the use of portable data containers (PDCs) to move Oracle 9i and 10g database data between database instances running on any combination of Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and x86 Linux platforms. This part compares traditional Oracle exp-imp data migration with Oracle exp-imp Migration using Portable Data Containers. |
| 02/15/2005 | Smoothing the Integration Road For Enterprise Linux | Data Center | Thanks to its attractive price point and increased reliability, Linux is carving a noticeable and rapidly growing niche in today’s enterprise datacenter. Helping its popularity spread are vendors like IBM, Oracle, Intel and AMD who are rolling out a myriad of enterprise technologies that keep pushing the boundaries of what this upstart operating system can do. Enabling customers to maximize the capabilities of these new Linux technologies and integrate them into the datacenter --without negatively impacting IT resources already straining to juggle Unix and Windows environments -- is where VERITAS and its platform-agnostic solutions comes in. |
| 02/11/2005 | Faster, Safer Oracle Data Migration, Part 1: Introduction to Portable Data Containers | Data Center |
In many business situations, Oracle 9i and 10g database data must migrate from a primary processing platform to an unlike platform for backup, mining, and software testing. Sometimes, it is necessary to move entire databases when, for example, applications migrate from one platform to another, or when applications that access a database are replaced by others that run on different platforms. |
| 02/02/2005 | 10 New Features For VERITAS Backup Exec™ 10 | Data Center |
For over a decade VERITAS Backup Exec™ software has provided the best data protection available to growing companies and large, market-leading enterprises alike. It is the gold standard in Windows data protection. With the release of VERITAS Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers, VERITAS is introducing the Backup Exec Suite, delivering continuous data protection and the fastest disk-based data recovery in a simple to grow, simple to manage single solution. |
| 01/18/2005 | Introducing VERITAS Backup Exec ™ Suite | Data Center |
VERITAS Backup Exec Suite brings three powerful storage technologies together to address the most pressing need in storage management: doing more with less. Backup Exec, Replication Exec, and Storage Exec all include productivity-enhancing features that maximize administrator efforts and storage resource return on investment. Through the centralized management console in Backup Exec 10 for Windows Servers and Backup Exec SmartLink, administrators have ready access to the features of all three products to leverage storage management efforts throughout the enterprise. End users will also benefit from Backup Exec Suite as administrators manage more data and more servers in more locations, faster and more effectively than ever before. |
| 12/09/2004 | Using Virtual Tape Libraries with VERITAS NetBackup™ Software | Data Center |
Using a Virtual Tape Library in a VERITAS NetBackup TM environment does not change the basic backup and recovery paradigm. However, this does raise some important questions. How does using virtual tape compare to using standard tape or disk backups or disk staging? How many virtual drives should be configured and does the type of virtual drive really matter? This article answers these and other questions. |
| 11/23/2004 | Backup and Recovery: First line of Defense for Disaster Recovery | Data Center | Backup and recovery technologies can add so much more value to an IT shop when it comes to meeting a disaster recovery situation. Unlike in the past, users can now implement simplified server recovery plus integration with other technologies like replication to help make sure all operations can be recovered easily. |
| 10/04/2004 | Increasing DB2 Database Utility with VERITAS FlashSnap | Data Center | Databases have become so vital to enterprise information services that it is often impractical to take them offline for backup, mining, or application testing. IBM offers the db2inidb tool for creating snapshot-based database clones that can be used for these purposes without taking databases offline. This paper describes how VERITAS Database FlashSnap integrates VxVM snapshots with the db2inidb tool for simple, secure DB2 database cloning. |
| 09/08/2004 | VERITAS Database Performance Solutions From Infrastructure to Application | Data Center | Solving application performance bottlenecks and maintaining optimized performance over time can require monitoring and management tools from many vendors. But with VERITAS Indepth and VERITAS Storage Foundation for Databases administrators have a comprehensive, solution-based approach for fast identification and pain-free resolution of problems - at the storage, database or application layers. |
| 07/20/2004 | Delivering Quality Of Storage Service | Data Center | The VERITAS Storage Foundation Multi-Volume Support(MVS) delivers quality of storage service by using a multidimensional storage hierarchy to optimize the performance, availability, and cost of storing digital data. MVS is closely integrated with the other main component of the VERITAS Storage Foundation, the VERITAS Volume Manager(VxVM). A volume set effectively forms a pool of storage from which the file system allocates user data and its own metadata. File system that utilize this feature are known as multi-volume file systems. |
| 04/06/2004 | Streamlining Backup and Recovery Operations Using Disk-Based Protection | Data Center |
IT administrators are straining to protect massive amounts of data due to ever-shrinking backup windows. Learn how VERITAS Backup Exec™ 9.1 for Windows Servers and VERITAS NetBackup™ 5.0 software can enable you to implement a disk-based data protection strategy that helps improve backup and recovery times while increasing system availability. |
| 03/30/2004 | Storage Technology Audit: VERITAS i³ Application Performance Management* | Data Center |
There is little doubt that as IT infrastructures become increasingly complex, the importance of APM products is growing. Although there are several APM products on the market, Butler Group believes that VERITAS is well-positioned to exploit and take a high share of this market because of its utility computing strategy and its vision of how its product portfolio will fit into that strategy. |
| 03/19/2004 | J2EE Expert Series: Common Bottleneck Symptoms* | Data Center |
A performance test uncovers performance problems. The tougher task is solving the problems the test uncovers. This chapter discusses how to recognize and eliminate common bottlenecks you might encounter in your testing or in production. |
| 03/12/2004 | VERITAS Indepth™ for DB2 Product Evaluation* | Data Center |
DB2 customers require non-intrusive monitoring, powerful drilldown capabilities, and intelligent problem analysis to enable their mission-critical DB2 applications to perform at peak efficiency and maximize ROI. An independent database expert explains how VERITAS Indepth™ for DB2 gets to the root cause of performance issues in DB2 environments and helps you eliminate bottlenecks. |
| 02/09/2004 | J2EE Expert Series: Addressing Performance* | Data Center | Developers face many challenges in designing, developing, and deploying J2EE applications. These challenges sometimes involve competing concerns of developer productivity and ease of maintenance with performance and scalability. This chapter describes the role of performance in designing J2EE applications, and it presents EJB specific issues such as minimizing remote calls and optimizing entity bean persistence. |
| 02/06/2004 | Accelerating Failover Times in IBM DB2 UDB Database Environments* | Data Center | This paper provides guidelines for design, implementation, and tuning of highly available IBM DB2 Universal Database™ environments using VERITAS™ Database Edition/HA for DB2 and VERITAS SANPoint Foundation Suite™. The configurations described in this document are customer deployable and fully supported by IBM and VERITAS. |
