White Papers

High Performance Primary Data Compression in Oracle™ Environment  
 
 

Continuous data growth is one of the greatest challenges that organizations, in general, and Oracle database managers, in particular,
face today. The Storwize data compression solution offers an ideal
solution to the costs and operational complications of data growth in Oracle environments. The real-time, lossless compression and random
data access are precisely the type of solution required in database environments...


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Power Struggle: Data Storage Costs and the Energy Factor - A Solution Emerges  
 
 

With the phenomenal data and hardware growth, power consumption
has surfaced as the newest hot-button issue. Deployment of additional hardware in data centers to shoulder more and more storage is leading
to dramatic increases in energy needs. Further complicating the situation, additional hardware leads to greater operational costs due to weight, higher cooling costs, floor space implications and more management expenses...


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Storwize - The High Performance, High Data Security Approach to Reducing Your Data Footprint  
 
 

Several technologies aim to reduce data volume to offset the financial costs and demands on resources. Storwize provides a solution with unique compression, performance, and data security advantages over other approaches. That translates to financial benefit and a solid assurance of protection for an organizationÕs critical data...


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Storwize Solution in VMware Environments - Need to Virtualize More with Less? Compress!  
 
 

Simply put, introducing Storwize into a VMware environment allows you to do more with less. Further, the real-time, random access capabilities of the Storwize solution extend the benefits of compression beyond just backups. Storwize compresses primary VMDK files on average from 60-80% while allowing the ESX server to interact with compressed VMDKÕs as if they were uncompressed...

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Preserving Data Integrity Assurance While Providing High Levels of Compression for Primary Storage  
 
 

Storwize has created a solution that provides high levels of data compression for primary storage. In most cases this compression is achieved with a performance gain making the Storwize solution viable for even high performance transaction processing environments. As part of
the design of the solution Storwize has developed the DIA Data Integrity Assurance architecture. This document describes the DIA Data Integrity Assurance architecture and shows how the DIA Data Integrity Assurance
is able to ensure end to end data integrity...



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Storwize STN-6000 Series System Architecture:  
 
 

The STN-6000 appliance from Storwize has introduced a new method of on-line data compression that has challenged some entrenched notions about what could be accomplished in this area. Although data compression is common on PCs, it has not been employed systematically on storage systems because there was no real-time, lossless, transparent solution that could achieve significant data compression with no performance impact. The following facts and figures summarize the accomplishment
and performance of STN-6000 series...


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Storwize STN-6000 High-Availability Configurations
for NAS Environments
 
 
 

Storwize technology deploys seamlessly and transparently into high availability network storage infrastructures. The STN device uses Storwize proprietary LSM technology to convey the active/passive status change between the switch and the NAS gateway, preserving the inherent availability of the storage system...

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