SUNNYVALE, CA - February 11, 2010 - The Evaluator Group, Inc. has released a white paper titled "Future Proof Your Data-Center with NetApp® V-Series," which provides valuable guidelines on how to increase service levels and reduce costs by leveraging technology prudently. According to the white paper, authored by senior analyst Russ Fellows, organizations today are looking for ways to streamline their operations and do more with less, resulting in increased scrutiny and reduced budgets for IT departments. Because storage is one of the largest components of IT spend, organizations are focused on improving the efficiency of their current IT storage investments while carefully determining what new IT storage investments are needed.
Virtualization technologies offer organizations the flexibility to use their existing IT infrastructure in new or different ways, while at the same time enabling them to future proof their data centers and seamlessly integrate new infrastructure deployments. According to the Evaluator Group, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) V-Series is one of the few storage virtualization products available today that can virtualize existing heterogeneous storage pools and manage new storage pools, all while providing multiple connectivity and protocol options with consistent data protection and storage management tools. To view the white paper, visit http://media.netapp.com/documents/ar-netapp-v-series.pdf.
V-Series systems provide customers with several key building blocks that are fundamental to achieving a more flexible and efficient storage infrastructure, such as virtualization capabilities, intelligent data management, data protection, application integration, and flexibility. The V-Series product line addresses each of these components through its multiprotocol support and an array of technologies that includes NetApp SnapManager®, NetApp Snapshot™, deduplication, thin provisioning, NetApp FlexClone®, and others, all of which are inherently part of NetApp's unified storage platform. The result is a storage virtualization product that enables organizations to consolidate both old and new storage capacity behind a V-Series controller, simplifying storage management while meeting both their business and application needs.
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Backup 2.0, The Next Generation In Data-Protection Technology For Virtual And Physical Server Environments, Generates Savings Of $15 for Every $1 Invested
Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in virtualization management solutions, is again at the forefront of major change in the industry by advancing the adoption of Backup 2.0 solutions. The Backup 2.0 campaign being introduced today by Vizioncore offers to help educate administration teams on the advantages of using images to reinvent data protection in all environments. This campaign is intended to assist organizations in transforming their environments and gaining significant cost-savings advantages in the process.
“Running separate backup jobs for each recovery scenario is a legacy data protection model that is incompatible with the recovery needs of today’s virtualized enterprise environments,” said Chris Wolf, senior analyst at Burton Group. “Organizations are increasingly looking for solutions that enable a myriad of recovery alternatives, such as a system image, single file, or email message, from a single application-consistent backup image. Solutions that meet these requirements are best positioned for long-term success.” Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware, adds: "Vizioncore continues to offer vital innovations in data and systems management for VMware environments. The Backup 2.0 campaign will help administrators better understand how to use images as a basis for data protection, and combined with VMware vSphere™, help customers on the journey to cloud computing.”
Why Backup 2.0? As data center deployments become more and more complex, Backup 1.0 methods are struggling to keep pace and are proving to be too expensive to operate and maintain.
Backup 1.0 methods also lack sufficient recovery options and are impractical in virtual environments. In contrast, Backup 2.0 uses images to reinvent how data is collected, transmitted and recovered, and the images are used to make backup copies rather than individual files. This approach leads to many advantages:
Ease-of-use: capturing images rather than files is faster, easier and allows for more types of data to be protected;
Improved recovery speeds: Backup 2.0 uses a single backup image to deliver all types of recovery quickly and with fewer resources consumed;
Increased flexibility: Backup 2.0 can image all environments, both physical and virtual;
Lower costs: With Backup 2.0, data protection infrastructure is streamlined, and backup agents as well as servers are eliminated, which lowers costs and simplifies operations.
In addition, Vizioncore studies show that the resulting ROI for image-based data protection is significant: Organizations adopting Backup 2.0 solutions can expect at least $15 returned for every $1 invested within the first year of deployment.
Backup 2.0 – Features & Benefits Because Backup 2.0 methods do not have to process the thousands of discrete files that images actually contain, they work very quickly. Recovery options are dramatically expanded to include the rapid reinstatement of entire systems complete with applications as well as individual data files or application objects. “In addition to the myriad of benefits a Backup 2.0 solution offers, the technology more importantly allows companies to redirect IT budget funds allocated to data protection towards more strategic initiatives,” said Chris Akerberg, President and Chief Operating Officer for Vizioncore. A popular Backup 2.0 method is Direct-to-Target, which delivers improved data compression, infrastructure consolidation and performance compared to proxy-based Backup 2.0 methods. In this market, Vizioncore’s vRanger Pro Data Protection Platform (DPP) solution is the leading Direct-to-Target Backup 2.0 product.
As a comprehensive backup and recovery solution for virtual infrastructures, vRanger Pro DPP complements existing data protection strategies such as Backup 2.0 to help reduce the backup window with minimal impact on IT resources. For more information on Backup 2.0, check-out Vizioncore’s resource center site at http://vizioncore.com/backup20/ to access a blog series, whitepapers, details on upcoming webinars and podcasts such as VMware’s “Understanding TCO & ROI for VMware View 4 – Purpose Built for Desktops” at 11am CT on January 27 as well as other resources. Also, sign-up for an upcoming webinar presented next month by Vizioncore and Chris Wolf entitled: “Backup 2.0: How Virtualization Has Launched Next Generation Strategies for Data Protection Technology.” In
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NetApp SANscreen helps the largest IT organizations to gain visibility into their complex virtualized environment to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues, improve storage utilization, and accurately forecast storage needs.
Virtualization management vendor Veeam just released Veeam Backup 3.1.1, an update that resolves a number of issues reported by customers from the previous version.
The following new feature has been added:
Added support for replication and remote backup over slow and unreliable links with moderate packet loss.
The following issues were resolved:
.NET Framework bug affecting some non-English locales (confirmed to exist on Norwegian locale) results in sporadic corruption of backup files chain (missing VBK files, extra VRB files).
Backup file repair after unsuccessful backup cycle fails if backup storage is low on free disk space.
Network backup in service console agent mode may fail with the following error: “Failed to validate command "dd if="/vmfs/volumes/...”.
Attempting to enable SSH connection to ESX host on Japanese locale fails with the following error: ["Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture. Make sure "VeeamSSH.strings.ja.resources" was correctly embedded or linked into assembly "Veeam.SSH" at compile time, or that all the satellite assemblies required are loadable and fully signed."].
Veeam VSS processing fails on specific OS configurations with various “Access denied” errors while specified VSS account has suffient permissions.
Veeam VSS processing fails on specific OS configurations with the following error: "The specified service does not exist as an installed service".
Veeam VSS integration does not support guests with Datacenter Edition of Microsoft Windows 2003.
Veeam Business View offers VMware vSphere management from a business perspective; Veeam Reporter Enterprise is updated with Business View integration and enhanced reporting
Columbus, Ohio, July 7, 2009 – Veeam Software, award-winning provider of systems management tools forVMware virtual datacenter environments, today made available a new add-on tool that works with other Veeam products to group, view and manage virtual machines based on criteria such as business unit, department, location, server purpose, or service level agreement. This alternate view of the VMware infrastructure supports chargeback and helps control “VM sprawl” by linking every virtual machine to a business service. At the same time, Veeam has updated its Reporter Enterprise product to enhance several reports and to integrate the new Business View capability.
“VMware vCenter provides only an administrative (technical) view of the VMware infrastructure, showing VMs grouped by datacenters, clusters, or ESX and ESXi hosts,” explained Ratmir Timashev, Veeam president and CEO. “IT professionals are increasingly called upon to think and work in terms of business services provided, and Veeam Business View was designed to help them do that.”
Veeam Business View automates the use of VMware’s native custom attributes to categorize VMs. Business View also allows editing the attributes manually for one or multiple VMs at a time, or automatically based on pre-defined rules. For example, VMware administrators can define an automated rule such as “if a VM has retail in its name, add it to the Retail Banking category.”
Manage VMs from a business perspective – Group, view and manage virtual machines based on business criteria.
Prioritize resource allocation and utilization – Business View’s unique dashboard view allows administrators to see at a glance the number of VMs, vCPUs, amount of memory and storage used by each business unit, department, and server type.
Control VM sprawl – Business View helps control VM sprawl by categorizing virtual machines. Unassigned VMs and the resources they consume can be immediately seen on the web-based dashboard.
Define a chargeback model – Together with Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter Enterprise, Business View provides the flexibility to define a customized chargeback model. VM group information can be exported to a Microsoft Excel document for reporting or integration with other chargeback, inventory, or billing systems.
Integrate with existing VM categorization process – Customers already using custom attributes to group VMs by business unit, department, purpose, or SLA can automate and extend what they already have – no need to recreate everything from scratch.
Open architecture – Because Business View integrates with VMware vCenter data, customers can leverage the advantages of Veeam Business View with the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client and other third-party products. To reduce complexity, Veeam Business View comes with a built-in web service that allows any application to quickly query a specific category’s content directly from the Business View server, without putting any extra load on the vCenter server.
“As IT organizations increasingly look to run more like a business, they need information to better align the business services that they deliver,” said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. “This is becoming more critical with all the changes being wrought by an increasingly virtual, multi-sourced IT environment. IT organizations should thus look for tools and develop processes that provide insight to key IT decision makers to ensure that future technology resource demands are able to be satisfied.”
About Veeam Software Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner and member of the VMware Ready Management program, provides innovative software for managing VMware vSphere 4 and Virtual Infrastructure 3. Veeam offers an award-winning suite of tools to assist the VMware administrator, including #1 for VMware backup: Veeam Backup & Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, for VMware performance, storage, capacity reporting and chargeback; Veeam Configurator, offering complete host configuration management; and Veeam Monitor, for VMware performance monitoring and alertingacross multiple vCenters. With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that incorporate VMware data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft. Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.
