Mesabi Group

2005 Mesabi Group Papers, Reports and Presentations

Articles Originally Published In Charles King’s Pund-IT Review

PDF_Icon ”WAN Acceleration: Getting More Data Rabbits Out of the Bandwidth Hat Faster” Explains how WAN acceleration (a.k.a. WAN optimization) enables organizations to get more effective throughput a network, which can provide benefits such as speeding up backups from remote branch offices to a central site. (21Dec05)
PDF_Icon “Space Savers: The Benefits of Freeze-Drying Your Storage” Discusses how the different techniques for saving space on disk — especially an approach called data reduction — can have a significant impact on not only getting more out of both disk space and bandwidth, but also improve backup/restore processes. (23Nov05)
PDF_Icon “Only the Shadow Knows” Introduces continual shadowing protection (CSP) as a category that along with continuous data protection (CDP) meets the need for low data loss and fast recovery from logical data protection problems. (2Nov05)
PDF_Icon “Active Archiving Is Not an Oxymoron” Why the move to active archiving for fixed content is becoming an imperative. (19Oct05)
PDF_Icon “Sticks and Stones” Discusses tape encryption and electronic vaulting in helping to improve data security. (17Aug05)

Data Protection Related Documents

PDF_Icon “Tape: An Ongoing Bulwark for Data Protection”
Why tape will continue to play an essential role in data protection. How LTO Program-based tape technology is continuing to play a major role in open systems tape technology. (12Dec05)
PDF_Icon ”Tape Virtualization — You Need to Know More Than You Think You Do”
There are actually three types of tape virtualization — virtual tape library (VTL), virtual tape, and tape library virtualization. This paper explains how each is different from the others. (17Aug05)
PDF_Icon “Disaster Recovery Choices for Microsoft Exchange”
Discusses the use of CLARiiON CX arrays with EMC software for providing disaster recovery choices for Microsoft Exchange environments. (22Aug05)
PDF_Icon “Continuous Data Protection: A State Analysis” (Presentation, 9Jun05)
The need for continuous data protection.
• The way CDP works today.
• Data “forensics”: putting CDP to the test.
• CDP in action.
• Issues with CDP.
• Summary: CDP benefits.
PDF_Icon “Mimosa Systems: Getting to the Point with NearPoint”
The NearPoint All-In-One server solution simultaneously overcomes multiple e-mail management challenges. (12Apr05)
PDF_Icon “Data Protection: Take a New Look” A white paper that summarizes some of the concepts described in the “Data Protection: Take a New Look” report and lists companies that supply different data protection technologies. (7Jan05)
PDF_Icon “Data Protection: Adapting to the Sea Change” (Report Preview)
It’s well-known that data protection is a business necessity — yet few agree on exactly what data protection is. And failure to appreciate the full dimensions of the data protection challenge can lead to poor data protection management and costly resource allocation issues. (2005)

General Interest Publications

PDF_Icon “Moving to the Head of the Class with Enterprise Class with NAS Gateways”
Discusses the role of NAS gateways for enterprise-class file management. (6Sep05)
PDF_Icon “Storage Virtualization 101: The Cliff Notes”
The question of where storage virtualization should reside has generated a lot of “religous” fervor. (28Mar05)
PDF_Icon “EMC Tips the Scales Toward iSCSI Acceptance”
EMC’s offering of iSCSI on its CLARiiON strengthens the general acceptability of iSCSI SANs. (14Feb05)