DCIG Thin Provisioning Blog
Check out Going from ‘Fat’ to ‘Thin’ Isn’t an Automatic in the Virtual World Either, the latest blog on thin provisioning by DCIG lead analyst Jerome Wendt. He breaks down the various scenarios for wh...
Blog Articles
Understanding Veritas Cluster Server Limits and Prerequisites
A very useful - yet often overlooked - feature of Veritas Cluster Server is Limits and Prerequisites. This feature is often used in conjunction with Service Group Workload Management (SGWM), but can a...
Storage Management: Data Deduplication - Don’t Store It in the First Place (Part 3 of 4)
Data deduplication is another technology that has gained wide acceptance as a tool to streamline the backup process. Deduplication eliminates duplicate data even when such data is unrelated, greatly r...
Storage Management: Turning Things Around (Part 2 of 4)
To make better use of storage resources, organizations can leverage storage management technologies. Storage resource management (SRM), for example, enables IT to navigate the storage environment and ...
New Functionality Available: Veritas Installation Assessment Service and VOS Labs
The following services have just been updated. Please find below new functionalities now available to you: Veritas Installation Assessment Service [VIAS] Combined Notification Center – Users can creat...
Storage Foundation for Databases
Check out the quick links to review our support for Databases: Product Page: http://www.symantec.com/business/storage-foundation-for-databases Implementing HA for Oracle: http://www.symantec.com/busin...
Creating Oracle HA on a Budget
Creating highly available Oracle databases with immediate failover is expensive, though sometimes justifiable. However, organizations whose SLA includes near-minute failover can consider a Veritas Clu...
How can you stop buying storage?
Even as IT organizations face significant budget pressure, business carries on and continues to drive storage growth. So, how can IT organizations meet organizational needs without buying more storage...
Customer Spotlight: Storage Foundation Reduced Data Migration Time From 3 Weeks To 30 Minutes
A group of DBAs that manage large databases at a large federal government agency had the challenge of migrating a mission-critical 35 TB database from a Fujitsu 2500 running Solaris to an IBM P595 run...
Reducing the cost of high availability with larger clusters
Hello from the Storage Foundation/High Availability Technical Product Management team, and welcome to the new Symantec Connect! In this first VCS blog entry under the new format, we'll take a look at ...
