Storage Management

Stop Buying Storage Best Practices: Veritas CommandCentralStorage and Veritas Storage Foundation

A best practices guide for optimizing efficiency at each level of the storage stack, improving management practices along the stack, and encouraging efficient consumption behavior.

Start Thin, Get Thin, and Stay Thin with Thin Provisioning Technology from Symantec and 3PAR

This paper examines 3PAR Thin Provisioning software and also discusses how, for applications already deployed on legacy storage, IT administrators can successfully migrate existing volumes to a thin environment by leveraging Thin Provisioning 2.0 technology within 3PAR Utility Storage and Veritas Storage Foundation.

ESG Brief: Symantec Tackles Server and Storage Virtualization with launch of Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0

Simplified Operations and Reduced Storage Cost with Veritas Storage Foundation and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Evaluating or deploying Thin Provisioning? Read this technical whitepaper for insights on how to efficiently migrate legacy data to a thin provisioned environment.

ESG Analyst Report - Critical Design Decisions: Server Virtualization and Networked Storage

IDC Executive Brief - Identifying Storage Management Challenges When Deploying Server Virtualization

Veritas CommandCentral Storage: An Integrated Approach to Storage Resource Management

Veritas CommandCentral Storage—Supporting the Virtual Enterprise

This white paper discusses the various virtualization categories, and demonstrates how CommandCentral Storage enables IT organizations to manage storage in the virtual enterprise.

Delivering Business Intelligence with Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

Managing information, along with the storage infrastructure, has become a critical element of competitive strategy, and a necessary organizational competence across industries. This white paper discusses key concepts and considerations related to implementing a business intelligence platform for storage

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multi-pathing

A Guide to understanding how Dynamic Multi-pathing improves data availability and I/O performance as well as best practices for tuning DMP in Storage Foundation 5.0.

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Windows : Best Practices for Storage Management

This technical document discusses storage design best practices for Microsoft Windows based servers that utilize the Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) solution for storage management. This paper will explain basic storage design principles for the Windows environment, as well as recommended storage practices for Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows.

Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows: Maintaining Optimum Availability in Microsoft Exchange Environments

This paper discusses the threats to availability in Microsoft Exchange environments and the tools available with Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows to address them.

Veritas CommandCentral by Symantec and the Storage Management Evolution

As IT budgets remain flat, data volumes increase, and a continued shortage of skilled individuals to manage the infrastructures persists, the need for better storage management is occurring now. This white paper discusses the challenges of storage resource management and provides suggestions to approaching the issues.

Desperate for Space in Your Data Center?

The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management

Storage Management for Virtual Environments

Attend this webcast discussing the state of server virtualization as it relates to storage management and learn how to preserve and apply storage management techniques that you rely on in your physical environment to server virtualized environments as well.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management and High Availability

Delivering High Availability for Mission-critical Applications in a Windows Server Environment

As Windows Server moves up into the datacenter, more organizations are running mission-critical applications on Windows - Microsoft Exchange and applications based on Microsoft SQL Server are the most obvious examples. With increasing scale, comes increasing management complexity.

Saveen Pakala, Senior Product Manager and Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager

Really Really Fast Failover for SAP with Veritas Cluster File System High Availability from Symantec

SAP is viewed by many as a mission-critical application, with low tolerance for down-time. Your organization can benefit from really fast failover by using a robust, datacenter-proven, highly scalable file system. Listen to this live webcast and learn how SAP down-time can be significantly reduced.

David Noy, Senior Product Manager and Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager

Storage Management Considerations in Virtual Environments

Virtualization solves the server sprawl problem allowing organizations to consolidate their physical environments to save money on power, cooling and space. However, server virtualization presents a new set of storage management complexities and challenges that may not have been anticipated.

Mike Reynolds, Product Marketing Manager and Roger Reid, Technical Product Manager

Veritas Storage Foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility

All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure flexibility is paramount to business agility. Attend this webcast to learn how the centralized management of Veritas Storage Foundation dramatically simplifies storage management, enables dynamic heterogeneous array migration, and enables heterogeneous server migrations.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management

Improving Storage Utilization with a Storage Service Management Approach

Join this webcast to learn how Veritas CommandCentral Storage will help you reduce your storage costs by understanding the current state of the storage infrastructure, improve storage utilization rates by 30% or more, and enable tiered storage and leverage the existing storage assets within your environment.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management Data Center Management Group

Mastering Storage Complexity

Bringing Order to the Data Center

Gaining Control of the Storage Environment

Advanced Storage for Microsoft Exchange