Storage White Papers

Linking Disaster Recovery Time Objectives to Business Requirements [pdf only, 93kb]
This paper provides guidelines for basing recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives on real-world business processes.

Information lifecycle management best practices in business/IT alignment [pdf only, 142kb]
This paper describes a process for achieving business/IT alignment in support of an ILM strategy. We describe a simple framework that storage management organizations can adopt to achieve alignment and help their companies drive lower costs and improve revenues and business agility.

Storage resource management: An essential ingredient for information lifecycle management [pdf only, 171kb]
Storage resource management (SRM) is both foundational to ILM and essential to its ongoing execution. Implementing SRM processes and tools can leverage information lifecycle management’s contribution to the business in terms of increased business agility and competitiveness.

Storage Resource Management: An essential ingredient for ILM [pdf only, 171kb]
Implementing SRM processes and tools can leverage information lifecycle management's contribution to the business in terms of increased business agility and competitiveness.

Identity-Enabled Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) [pdf only, 104kb]
Identity-Enabled ILM takes data management to a new level by introducing data access based on organizational identities and support for bi-directional information flow. This paper describes Identity-Enabled ILM and Sun's rollout strategy.

Best Practices in ILM Security [pdf only, 125kb]
This paper is a high-level introduction to the main categories of storage security and considerations in balancing conflicting storage management priorities

Information Lifecycle Management Best Practices in Business/IT Alignment [pdf only, 142kb]
This paper describes a process for achieving business/IT alignment in support of an ILM strategy.

Business continuity, disaster recovery, and information lifecycle management [pdf only, 138kb]
Information lifecycle management is not normally associated with business continuity and disaster recovery, but in fact they share many common features.

Benefits of Deploying Sun StorageTek 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs in 2Gb SAN Environments [pdf only, 248kb]
Benefits of Deploying Sun StorageTek 4Gb Fibre Channel HBAs in 2Gb SAN Environments

Princeton Softech Optim Integration with the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance [pdf only, 2164kb]
Princeton Softech Optim focuses in the area of archiving structured data normally living in a database managed by an application. Princeton Softech provides enterprise solutions that align application data management with business objectives.