Storage & Clustering Community Blog

Congratulations to our Symantec Data Center Game winners for the month of July! Winners were selected from a random drawing of names from the top 50 scores from both games for the month of July.

• First Place - Deepak Waghmare, of Miele Security won 1,000 Symantec Connect Reward points
• Second Place - Frank019 won 500 Symantec Connect Reward points
• Third Place - John Atkins, of Lifeway won 250 Symantec Connect Reward points

As registered users of Symantec Connect, these prize winners will have the opportunity to continue to accumulate points or redeem the points now for a prize. Click here to read more about the Symantec Connect Rewards program.

Coming in Fall, anyone who plays can submit their name at the end of the game, to be entered into a random drawing, no need to be in the Top 50, although we will still be tracking the top 50 scores for users to view. The winner of the...

Imagine a storage strategy that could make storing data more flexible and efficient while reducing storage costs. With an increasing amount of data to manage, accommodating growth and controlling costs becomes virtually impossible without the knowledge of a trusted partner and a powerful set of tools. Randy Cochran, vice president of NAM channel sales provides four innovative technology practices that will drive immediate return on existing investments or ROY (return on yesterday):

1. Identifying unused capacity to improve storage utilization, decrease power and cooling costs, and reduce floor space and maintenance.

2. Using thin provisioning to reduce storage set aside for applications by allocating storage as needed and discovering what data the server and applications are actually using.

3. Avoiding redundant data with data deduplication, a technology that divides individual chunks of data into smaller segments that can be placed in available disk space....

As a quick introduction, I am a product manager within the Symantec Information Management Group - specifically responsible for the File System Archiving component of Enterprise Vault.

We are always looking for input from our customers as to what they would like to see us developing next. One area that we've talked about internally for a while is that of Unix Archiving. By Unix Archiving I mean archiving content out of the Unix platform rather than an archiving application running on Unix. We would like to know whether you have demand for such an applicaton and if you do, what are the key features you would be looking for. If you are operating a unix environment, but not necessarily requiring Unix Archiving today, we would still like to hear from you to obtain environmental information.

To help us gather this information, we are conducting a short survey which should take 15-20 minutes to complete. If you do have an interest in this topic, we would very...