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Data is growing exponentially leading to runaway storage costs. The leading cause of this growth is the increasing amount of unstructured data generated both by individuals as well as applications. To control this growth enterprises need to use advanced technologies such as compression to reduce storage footprint while continuing to meet application SLAs. Learn how Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation helps customers control these costs by bringing compression to the file system.  Read the compete Primary Storage Compression with Storage Foundation solution brief now.

While virtualization brings many benefits, effective backup and recovery of applications in VMware environments has been a major challenge for IT organizations that are rapidly virtualizing their infrastructures. SearchServerVirtualization.com recognized Symantec's efforts to address this issue and awarded the Silver award for Backup Exec in the 2011 Backup and Storage category. 

 ApplicationHA and Backup Exec together provide automated recovery of virtualized applications from backup when the VMware Guest has been corrupted and cannot be restarted. ApplicationHA provides a three-tier recovery model  - Restart.  Reboot. Restore. - to recover from application failures in virtual envrionments. The proactive measures taken by ApplicationHA and Backup Exec together help organizations meet their stringent RTO requirements.

Increasingly we hear more and more that IT departments are being expected to do more with less. This translates to more projects and initiatives that require the same levels of service that the business has come to expect with budget looking very much the same as in the previous years. This divergence is causing customers to look at new ways of making their data centers more efficient. Generally speaking IT managers don’t want to “save” money, they are after all looking to grow their business and their infrastructure and delivery capabilities. However our customers are looking at initiatives to drive their efficiency up while maintain high levels to their business.

Symantec (formerly VERITAS) is a key vendor to 99% of the fortune 500 their data centre portfolio. The broad base of solutions has meant that Symantec really can offer customers a vendor independent view of the data centre without any reliance on any particular flavour of hardware. A major new...

While waiting for the support of Symantec applications with the new Solaris 11, I'm bringing an overview of the new operating system. 

Oracle Solaris 11 Express, from here you can download, you have the possibility to download a pendirve, as well as the possibility of using a live cd, two features that this new version incorporates the operating system for SPARC-solaris, here are some of the advantages we can get: 
A faster start, the people of Sun Oracle came working hard in the matter, wanted to run a startup type as the x86 and x86 machines, this towards standardizing them. 
IPS to upgrade, installation, removal of packages is similar to opensolaris faster than previous versions and this is one of the operating system's disadvantage, as in previous versions, the update manager was rarely used because it is not so friendly. 
SMF (Service Managment Facility) SNMPy incliyo of traps for smf integration with IPS,...