How important is your data to you?
If the results and guidance you get from Hadoop-based analysis provide a significant benefit to your bottom line, then it clearly is important. While data stored in Hadoop may initially represent a small pilot ...
When evaluating a solution for high availability and disaster recovery, one should start with a few basic criteria. Here are four.
Principle #1: An HA/DR solution should be simple.
In the middle of the chaos of a disaster or outage, ...
Implementing fast recovery scenarios outside a single data center may become complex when using VMware environments. Most customers love the idea of using Data Stores as the way to provision storage to the Virtual Machines. The challenge in those ...
Storage Foundation Cluster File System (CFS) provides several advantages over a traditional file system when running in a VMware guest OS. The primary benefit is that multiple virtual servers (up to 64) using CFS can simultaneously access data residing ...
The Storage Foundation High Availability Product Management team is pleased to announce the upcoming SFHA 6.1 Beta Program . SFHA 6.1 is focused on I/O Optimization, reduction of infrastructure, and unparalleled availability of mission critical ...
One of the new features that has been introduced within Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA 6.0.1 is I/O Shipping. This new feature improves resiliency across Cluster File System nodes reducing downtime and improving resiliency. I/O Shipping is ...
I have faced Replication in Passthru mode twice, Once it happened at one of our client and then I faced it at my Internal office.
Firstly I read in detail what is the root cause of replication to enter into Passthru mode. This is the summary of why ...
Regulatory compliance is a critical factor in the development of an IT Business Continuity strategy. The requirements vary across industry sectors and geographies. It is also worth noting that not all regulations may apply in a specific business ...
In the systems world, customers have use cases to migrate from AIX Operating System to Linux in their Enterprise or Mission Critical Data Center. The key challenge with such a migration is to move production data seamlessly with very minimal ...
Last week Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.2 for Linux (and 6.0.1 for Windows) was released with new features to allow application failover in VMware environments. Basically that means VCS running in the guest but with a full integration with VMware, which ...