It is hard to find an IT organization that is not experiencing a tremendous amount of pressure when it comes to managing their data growth and I/O performance requirements. This is especially true in virtual environments as virtual machines are easy to spin up but have an impact on the amount of storage capacity required and on performance characteristics. 

In the two-part blog series below, DCIG highlights how Netapp storage systems seamlessly work with Symantec products, specifically Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) for VMware and Data Insight. Find out how these technologies can help you efficiently manage and control your structured and unstructured data and I/O performance in virtual environments. 

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In addition to the primary production service, copies (or clones) of business critical data are often required for many different purposes such as testing, Q&A, decision making analysis, reporting, recovery or backups. To facilitate this, snapshots are often employed. A snapshot is a common term for a "point-in-time" copy of the data.

Symantec offer a variety of snapshot technologies that will best suit your business needs, allowing you to process your production data without affecting the online availability of your application or service. Full copy volume snapshots using Veritas FlashSnap can also be transferred to another host so that the CPU and I/O processing requirements do not degrade the performance of the primary application.

Symantec volume snapshots have an advantage over Array based snapshots in that they work across different Tiers of storage (and storage vendors) so you are free to choose the most appropriate and cost effective storage for...

Virtualization has become THE buzzword within the IT community; in some circles it’s even bigger than Cloud. As with any new technology the buzz comes along with a considerable amount of hype and risk. Virtualization does have very tangible benefits to organizations, however wading through what’s real and what’s not can be a challenge.

Listen to this webcast to hear about:

• The risk of moving business critical applications to virtual environments
• How to avoid these risks and still reap the cost savings benefits of virtualization
• How to take advantage of your physical infrastructure in tandem with your virtual environment

The on demand webcast is available at http://www.symantec.com/offer?a_id=147034

Recently some have said that the ultimate goal for Business Continuity Management (BCM) practitioners is to get “business continuity management activities out from the computer room and into the business and boardroom”.  Most likely this is the remnant from bygone era in business continuity; the notion that the computer room, or more appropriately the modern data center, should be relegated to disaster recovery (DR) activities, undeserving of serious attention for the business-oriented BCM practitioner.    Nothing could be further from the truth in today’s business-world and if our ‘best practice’ provides this type of misdirected guidance then we have completely lost touch with reality.  

Technology has transformed the way we do business and that transformation puts the data center directly into the domain of business-oriented practitioner because the data center is the largest source of operational risk in any...