QStar Vision & White Papers


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3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice

3-2-1 Archiving Vision
In these trying times, it’s prudent to go back to basics and review the foundation of a sound IT strategy. This is exactly what the 3-2-1 Archive Best Practice approach is all about. Endorsed by leading storage industry analysts, 3-2-1 provides a very simple, yet reliable approach to securing data for the long term through the efficient optimization of IT resources.

Storage Monsters in your Data Center

Storage Monster Overview
A QStar 3-2-1 Archive solution tames the monsters in your data center by optimizing storage resources and managing the lifecycle of your digital assets. QStar explains the six monsters and the archive methodologies available to combat each.

Over Provisioning Monster
The storage Over Provisioning monster is gorging himself on your data center resources. This indulgent creature has no concern for system efficiency, resource utilization or performance management. Learn how to slim him down using QStar's archiving solutions.

Backup & Disaster Recovery Monster
The Backup & Disaster Recovery monster is hiding throughout your data center. Originally contained in an isolated process designed to protect your digital assets, this creature now dominates administrative resources and invades IT budgets.

Preservation & Security Monster
The Preservation & Security monster is an elusive little fiend. In the name of secure, long term storage, he sneaks around your data center confiscating content and applying seemingly random infrastructure.

Compliance & Best Practice Monster
The Compliance & Best Practice monster is like a spider weaving a menacing web within your data center. The threat of noncompliance with industry regulations or the absence of a best practice regime can entangle an organization with potentially fatal consequences.

System & Data Refresh Monster
Frequently changing technology, pressure from vendors to upgrade equipment, and the desire for the latest and greatest are all factors that facilitate the hysterical behavior of the System & Data Refresh monster.

Power Consumption Monster
The Power Consumption monster has been lurking in the shadows for years, but has only recently merged as a major economic and social pariah. This brute glows with the excesses of the other data center storage monsters that encourage unbridled growth of magnetic disk based storage systems.

White Papers

Archive Storage Management
In developing a solid archive strategy, the first things to consider are the problems you’re trying to address. What are the key issues that need to be overcome? This whitepaper addresses the key issues associated with archive storage management and provides solid solutions.

The Greener Data Center
In a world where energy costs are not only rising, but where growing concerns are mounting with regards to sustainability, power consumption related to data storage has become serious business. Not only do we have more data to store, but rising energy costs mean that storing that data is now more expensive; and the impact to the environment is perhaps the largest price tag of all. Industry analysts and storage professionals alike are taking note.

Tiered Storage
Storage management through the utilization of tiers has brought about a means of managing data over a network in which the data resides on specific storage devices based on the value of the date. Intelligent storage management software that facilitates the management of files across storage resources to house data in the most appropriate media given its usage patterns and value to the organization is the basic concept behind tiered storage management.

The Benefits Among Backup, Tiered Storage & Archiving
What is the true value of archiving? Without a comprehensive business case, IT investments are becoming increasingly more difficult to justify to decision makers, especially decision makers that do not understand the technology involved. So the looming question is how do you justify an archive plan?

Articles

The 3-2-1 Best Practice Diet
Data centres are a lot like people. We succumb to those tempting treats, over indulge when we know better, and then struggle to break our bad habits. The result can be a little extra weight around the middle which does nothing for our ego or our physical conditioning. This same thing happens inside the data centre.