Research Areas
ROBO Management
Includes WAFS, Wide Area Data Services or WDS, Replication.
Remote Offices have been the bane of IT for decades. Issues surrounding performance, collaboration, bandwidth management and latency abound. In this area of research Taneja Group analysts define a variety of new technologies and their pros and cons, the issues they solve, the players that are active and how they differentiate themselves from each other. Taneja Group analysts also provide guidance to IT as it struggles to evaluate new technologies and implement these new technologies in a coherent manner.
How to Improve Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise:Advanced Replication Powered by WAN Optimization
In this profile we examine the business and technology trends that complicate and increase the cost of enterprise-wide DR planning, and we summarize the proven benefits of disk-to-disk backup and replication technologies. We then dive deeper, and explore the critical role WAN optimization plays in unlocking DR efficiencies when deployed along with these data protection solutions. WAN optimization enables the enterprise to do more with its current network capacity—more frequent and faster backups and replication, plus faster recovery—while leveraging new capacity quickly and efficiently. We conclude that a WAN optimization solution, when combined with advanced replication technologies, delivers remarkable flexibility, performance, and cost benefits for multi-datacenter enterprise disaster recovery.
Creating PII Compliant Solutions With ROBOBAK
Government regulations require proper protection of personally identifiable information (PII) for many industries, including financial services, government, education, and healthcare, and are mandatory in those vertical markets. PII is defined as any private data specific to a customer, client, or patient that is retained by an organization in account records, and can include information such as social security numbers, credit card or bank account numbers, academic transcripts, and healthcare records. In this Solution Profile, we’ll take identify best practices for PII compliance that span industries, and show how ROBOBAK, a backup and restore solution targeted for use in remote office and branch office (ROBO) environments, can be used to meet those requirements.
Lowering Overall Storage Costs By Implementing A Long Term Data Preservation Strategy
To best optimize your infrastructure for cost-effective storage, you need to understand your blended cost to store your primary and secondary data, not just the $/GB cost to store each data tier independently. An effective storage tiering strategy will move you towards the blended optimal average cost of storage, lowering costs signfiicantly without requiring major changes to existing processes and infrastructure. In this Solution Profile, we discuss the concept of creating a tiered storage infraustructure using ProStor InfiniVault, a removable disk storage system, that promises to reduce primary storage capacity and energy usage, improve backup times and lower overall backup costs, and create a cost-effective, long-term strategy for data preservation that can be used to meet both business and regulatory mandates.
LeftHand Networks’ Virtual SAN Appliance
Opinion piece on the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) for VMware ESX Server
Mature Data Protection for Remote Office/Branch Office - ROBOBAK
Talks about data protection in the ROBO space, then gives a deep technical dive into ROBOBAK's ROBO product.
LeftHand Networks’ Virtual SAN Appliance: Highly Available Plus Scalable Storage for SMBs; Minus SAN
Opinion piece on the LeftHand Networks Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA) for VMware ESX Server