ExaGrid's EX Series disk-based backup with deduplication revolutionizes how organizations backup and protect their data. By leveraging your current backup application and replacing tape in your nightly backup process, ExaGrid's simple, turnkey appliance can:  

The six core ExaGrid disk-based

backup appliances include GRID

computingsoftware which allows

them to virtualize into one another when plugged into a switch. As a result, any of the six appliance models can be mixed and matched into a single GRID system with full backup capacities up to 100TB (6 PB logical). Once virtualized, they appear as a single pool of long-term capacity. Capacity load balancing of all data across servers is automatic, and multiple GRID systems can be combined for additional capacity. Even though data is load-balanced, deduplication occurs across the systems so that data migration does not cause a loss of effectiveness in deduplication.

ExaGrid's unique approach to scalability provides the following benefits:

• Performance is maintained as your data grows - each additional ExaGrid server added to a system provides disk, processor, memory and GigE
• Plug and play expansion - adding an additional ExaGrid server is as simple as plugging it in and letting ExaGrid's automatic virtualized GRID software do the rest
• Cost-Effective and Flexible Solution with No "Forklift" Upgrades - no need to over-buy storage capacity up front - modular systems are easily combined in a virtualized GRID to smoothly scale up for larger capacities as needed with no painful "forklift" upgrades.
• Capacity utilization is load-balanced across servers - as a single server reaches full utilization, it can leverage space available on other servers in the GRID 

Power Distribution Units (PDUs): Power monitoring and environmental monitoring to improve uptime and capacity planning (by Raritan). Corporate America is more dependent than ever on computing resources to handle everything from mission-critical
financial transaction applications to storing vast amounts of patient information. Data center facilities are under increasing pressure to flawlessly add significant, reliable computing power whether the data center is experiencing rapid growth, consolidating from multiple locations or trying to extract more capacity out of an existing space.

This white paper explores the challenges of increasing computing power in both an inflexible and resource-constrained physical space, as well as centers that are experiencing high growth. Raritan also explores how companies can employ emerging support technology - like intelligent power distribution units (PDUs) - to help manage server uptime and capacity planning. Click here for the full white paper.

Economizer Fundamentals - Smart Approaches to Energy-Efficient Free-Cooling for Data Centers (by Emerson Network Power). The strategic business importance of today's data center requires a more complex and thoughtful approach to environmental control planning than ever before. Intelligent control to maintain the data center environment within acceptable ranges for temperature and humidity is essential for efficient data center operation, integral to protecting the significant financial investment in computer and network technology, and key to preventing downtime that can cost millions and drive away customers.

Economizers - with their promise of "free-cooling" - are attracting much attention for their ability to reduce energy usage. Economizers also lessen wear and tear on precision cooling equipment and lower operating costs. However, when considering the use of an economizer system, care must be taken to avoid introducing new problems that result in achieving the goal of reducing energy consumption at the expense of data center availability. Click here for the full white paper.

Leveraging a Persistent Hardware Architecture (by Compellent). Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to storage area networks (SANs). Yet traditional hardware vendors have failed to deliver on the promise of SANs. By relying on proprietary hardware designs, imposing restrictions on the types of technology that can be used and prohibiting customers from mixing and matching different drive and interconnect technologies, these vendors doom their products to early obsolescence and force their customers into costly forklift upgrades.

This white paper reviews the new Compellent Fluid Data storage design which uses an open, non-proprietary hardware architecture. This architecture enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch, and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software. This persistent hardware architecture allows administrators to configure storage systems using a combination of select industry-standard components for optimum flexibility, scalability and availability. Click here for the full white paper.

Optimizing Backup and Data Protection in Virtualized Environments (by ExaGrid Systems). The promise of maximizing IT investments while minimizing complexity has resulted in widespread adoption of server virtualization. In fact, VMware users are now deploying nearly half of their new servers as virtual servers, rather than as physical servers. That said, rapid adoption of server virtualization has brought with it a variety of challenges in backup and data protection.

While server virtualization does result in additional backup and data protection challenges, many of these challenges can be mitigated via a disk-based backup solution with data deduplication. There are a variety of these types of solutions in the market, however, each with their own approach. This white paper analyzes the disk-based backup and data deduplication segment and provides readers with specific items for consideration prior to purchase. Click here for the full white paper.

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