White Papers

Taneja Group Solution Profile: Incipient - Automated Data Migration

Automating the End-to-End Data Migration Process

In addition to providing a viewpoint on Incipient Data Migration software, this paper takes an in-depth look at the business drivers that result in an increase in the number of data migrations performed by companies today, as well as the direct and indirect costs associated with data migrations. It also highlights the challenges associated with coordinating the cross management domain interactions associated with the end-to-end data miration workflow.
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Network Data Migrations: Improving Operational Efficiencies While Reducing Operational Risks

This paper discusses the importance of implementing storage virtualization technology to provide network managed volumes. This allows users to perform data migrations without any disruption to hosts and applications. It also discusses Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP) software and its impact data migrations tasks and operations.
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Deploying iNSP Software in Cisco® MDS 9000 Based SANs

This paper will help you understand the benefits companies achieve by implementing iNSP software in a Cisco MDS 9000 based SAN environment. iNSP leverages Cisco’s industry leading MDS 9000 SAN switches and includes storage-related services such as non-disruptive data migration, automated storage provisioning and point-in-time copy services. iNSP runs natively on Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Services Modules (SSMs) that are designed to work with intelligent fabric applications. With SAN storage rapidly growing in capacity and complexity each year, the need to automate SAN management tasks, increase utilization, and reduce storage and storage management costs will become a requirement in most enterprise environments.
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Incipient NSP Data Mobility for SAN Management

This paper provides an introduction of how iNSP software delivers non-disruptive data mobility services for SAN environments. Data mobility is a broad term, but commonly used throughout the storage industry. Non-disruptive data mobility is defined as the ability to adaptively and fluidly move, copy and share data without any application or host disruption or downtime. This paper also discusses the subject of "data migration", a commonly associated event of data mobility. Data migration involves the movement of data from one physical storage array to another. It also provides a comparison of traditional approaches of data migration to an innovative new solution by Incipient.
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Incipient NSP Administrator's Role in SAN Management

This paper provides an overview of Incipient Storage Administrator software as it relates to the Incipient Network Storage Platform (iNSP) software. iNSP is storage virtualization software that provides a suite of storage services for SANs. These services include non-disruptive data migration, provisioning, and copy services. The paper also covers major feature sets such as deep discovery of storage and SAN components and provides a workflow example on storage provisioning.
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