Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence; Data / Information Lifecycle Management; Business Continuity - Sun Microsystems StorageTek 9985V Manual

With the Sun StorageTek 9985V 's unique ability to manage other heterogeneous storage systems through
aggregation of these resources under one "umbrella"(Sun refers to this as Multi-Vendor Storage Pooling), the
Sun StorageTek 9985V takes storage consolidation to the next level.

Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence

Over the past decade, data warehousing and business intelligence has emerged as a "must-have" solution for
myriad of business challenges – from addressing the need for consistent information across the enterprise to
enabling rapid response to business change. Today, companies considering data warehouse / business
intelligence deployments face an evolving array of architectures, solutions and tools from which to choose.
The Sun StorageTek 9985V system is the ideal storage platform for implementing data warehousing and
business intelligence solutions. A Sun StorageTek 9985V provides heterogeneous connectivity and offers
extreme levels of availability, performance and security for the largest data warehouse / business intelligence
environments. The Sun StorageTek 9985V system incorporates the highest levels of scalability, along with
virtualization and blade architecture to add easily capacity as data demands of a warehouse increase. The Sun
StorageTek 9985V series systems are ideal for data warehouse SAN solutions and as storage companions to
Sun Fire 25K and Sun Fire 20K servers, underscoring the value of Sun's complete systems approach to meeting
customer needs.

Data / Information Lifecycle Management

One of the next big things in the storage industry is data lifecycle management (DLM) and information
lifecycle management (ILM). Simply stated, data lifecycle management allows for the correct storage of data
based on the data's information value. Information lifecycle management extends this concept through the
grouping of data and storage into classes and migrating data based on established policies from one storage
device to another. Data and information lifecycle management has become critical to companies for
compliance and regulatory reasons.
A Sun StorageTek 9985V is an ideal storage system from a data / information lifecycle management
perspective. With the Sun StorageTek 9985V 's future ability to support other heterogeneous systems through
aggregation or pooling storage resources under a single 9985V system. Critical digital assets can be
maintained on the Sun StorageTek 9985V and less critical digital assets can be migrated to lower-cost storage
systems managed by the Sun StorageTek 9985V. Adding to this software support for hierarchical storage
management, such as Sun's Storagetek SAM-FS and StorageTek QFS , and the ZFS File System products, the
Sun StorageTek 9985V becomes the answer to an enterprise's information lifecycle management needs.

Business Continuity

With outstanding reliability and availability characteristics, the Sun StorageTek 9985V is an enterprise's
answer to providing complete data protection for their critical data assets. The Sun StorageTek 9985V
system compliments its data availability through a suite of business continuity software, ensuring that all
essential data managed by a Sun StorageTek 9985V is fully protected. The Sun StorageTek 9985V provides
two point-in-time local copy protection packages – ST9900 In-System Replication Suite: ST9900
ShadowImage In-System Replication and ST9900 Copy-on-Write Snapshot. To support remote replication
of data, the Sun StorageTek 9985V offers a StorageTek 9900 Disaster Recovery Suite Software that
includes TrueCopy Sync and Universal Replicator that permits data replication across Sun StorageTek
9985V systems.
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