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White Papers
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Break Free with Intelligent File Virtualization
Enterprises today face the challenge of managing and storing an ever-increasing amount of information. Intelligent file virtualization resolves this dilemma in a simple and effective manner. This white paper introduces the ARX intelligent file virtualization solution. It also discusses the key applications and benefits of this innovative technology.
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How to Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
This paper explores why it is important to have deep insight into your file storage environment, including knowing what kinds of files are being created, why they are being created, who is creating them, how old they are, and how much storage capacity they consume. This paper also looks at how storage reporting and capacity forecasting tools can help you create a smarter storage strategy by automating the critically important but time consuming process of data capture and analysis.
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IDC: The Economic Impact of File Virtualization: Reducing Costs for File-Based Storage
In one-on-one interviews with senior IT executives, IDC learned how storage tiering with file virtualization is helping companies tackle the financial and operational problems of storage growth. This F5-sponsored white paper shares the results: storage costs reduced by 50 to 80 percent, migration times cut by up to 90% and backup times and costs reduced by up to 90%.
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IT Professionals' Guide to a Smarter Storage Environment: Managing Data Growth and Controlling Costs
This informative guide features compelling case studies, analyst research and expert insight into how IT organizations can simplify the management of file data while reducing overall storage costs by up to 50%. It explores the drivers behind the accelerating movement toward storage tiering, a proven approach that relieves the strain and expense of data management. Analyst research highlights the problems associated with rapid data growth and the economic advantages of using file virtualization to resolve these issues. In addition, real-life examples provide concrete evidence of how the value of implementing smarter storage strategies.
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Tiering Best Practices with Deduplication Storage and File Virtualization
Storage tiering helps businesses cut costs by automatically migrating aged or reduced-value files to lower-cost storage. Combining file virtualization with deduplication storage provides a simple, fast, and economical path to effective storage tiering. This paper explains how organizations can leverage deduplication storage in a tiered infrastructure to provide a simple, cost-effective solution to the problem of data growth. It also reviews best practices for integrating Data Domain deduplication storage and F5 intelligent file virtualization solutions for long-term archiving and data protection.
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Product Literature
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ARX Series Product Overview
F5 ARX file virtualization devices enable you to dramatically simplify data management and reduce storage costs. By introducing intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, ARX eliminates the disruption associated with storage administration and automates many storage management tasks.
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Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
F5 Data Manager storage management software provides you with deep insight into your file storage environment so you can identify and optimize data management policies to create a more efficient and cost-effective storage infrastructure. Plus, Data Manager enables you to monitor multiple file storage resources through a centralized management platform and simplifies file virtualization deployments.
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Data Manager Product Overview
F5 Data Manager simplifies file virtualization deployments and helps you monitor multiple file storage resources through a centralized and extensible storage management platform. With a detailed understanding of your unique file storage structure, you can identify and optimize data management policies to create a more efficient and cost-effective storage infrastructure.
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Simplify Data Management and Reduce Costs with Intelligent File Virtualization
F5 ARX file virtualization devices help companies reduce overall storage costs by simplifying data management. Companies that implement intelligent file virtualization realize dramatic cost savings and huge gains in efficiency, including migration times reduced by up to 90%, spending on disk capacity lower by 50% to 80%, backup times cut by 50% to 80% and measurable increases in end-user productivity and business workflow.
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eWeek Podcasts
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Moving to a Virtual Infrastructure
In order to bring about the next-generation data center, enterprise infrastructure and data architectures need to be redesigned, explains Christopher Lynch, senior vice president of data solutions for F5 Networks, in this eWEEK podcast.
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Research Reports
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Data Manager File System Inventory Summary Report Excerpt
F5 Data Manager storage management software provides you with deep insight into your file storage environment so you can identify and optimize data management policies to create a more efficient and cost-effective storage infrastructure. This is an excerpt of a file system inventory recently performed for a mid-size technology company using Data Manager. Download this report to learn what this company discovered that allowed them to cut storage costs and boost operational efficiencies.
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Reviews
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F5 Offers One-Stop Appliance Service
With Version 9, F5 Networks Inc. has overhauled its familiar Big-IP line with new hardware and software to provide the bounty of services that companies used to get from several distinct appliances. (eWEEK Review)
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FirePass 4100
F5 Networks’ FirePass 4100 running the Version 6.0 controller software provides a granular administrative console that allows IT managers to control remote access users with finesse. (eWEEK Review)
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Technology Briefs
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Reducing Storage Costs with F5 ARX
Companies that have deployed ARX solutions have realized significant cost savings in several ways, including through greater use of lower cost storage with storage tiering, reduced backup media consumption from backup optimization, improved resource utilization, and simplified storage administration. This technology brief examines each of those scenarios and explains how those savings are achieved.
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Tools
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Storage Cost Savings Calculator
Use this calculator to determine the potential storage cost savings your company could realize by implementing intelligent file virtualization. Just answer a few simple questions about your environment to get an immediate three-year savings analysis.
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Videos
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6-Minute Whiteboard Conversation: Hassle-free NAS Consolidation and Data Migration
While data migrations are a fact of life in every data center, they are also costly, time-consuming and disruptive. Watch this short video whiteboard conversation to learn why migrations are so difficult, and how file virtualization can be used to cut migration times by up to 90%. With this technology, data migrations take place automatically, online and without disrupting your business.
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6-Minute Whiteboard Conversation: Maximizing the Value of Existing Storage Assets
In most data centers, it's not uncommon to have "islands" of storage and utilization rates that often hover at just 30 to 40%. Sharing excess capacity across systems can significantly boost overall utilization – maximizing your storage investment and postponing or even eliminating the need to purchase additional storage capacity.
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6-Minute Whiteboard Conversation: Optimize Backups to Reduce Backup Windows and Costs
Backup windows are almost nonexistent in most companies, but it’s not unusual for backups to take days to complete. Ironically, many companies back up the same files over and over again because, in most cases, only 10 percent of files are modified on a regular basis. Using file virtualization to implement a tiered storage strategy can help you implement policies that shrink backup times, media consumption and costs by up to 80%.
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6-Minute Whiteboard Conversation: Reduced Storage Costs through Automated Storage Tiering
Storage tiering is the process of moving data to different types of storage based on the value of the data. In response to rapid data growth and rising storage management costs, many organizations are using storage tiering to drive down costs, simplify storage administration and better utilize resources. But how much money does storage tiering really save?
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6-Minute Whiteboard Conversation: Simplify Data Management with Intelligent File Virtualization
Today’s IT infrastructures are complex, inflexible, inefficient and growing fast. Storage expenditures are growing out of control, IT staff resources are being consumed by labor-intensive tasks, and management costs keep spiraling higher. File virtualization eliminates the complexities, streamlining data management and delivering significant cost savings.
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