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Global Records Compliance: What You Need to Know

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After the global economic and geopolitical turmoil of the past two and a half years, increased regulatory oversight is expected to become the norm. Organizations therefore need to be cognizant of their obligations and execute plans to manage information consistent with the records management, data retention, and data protection requirements across the countries in which they operate. Corporate written policies should address local requirements, keeping in mind that data protection implies obligations to (1) enforce the smart deletion of data and convenience copies as well as (2) prevent the destruction of critical business records due to legal and regulatory mandates. Written policies should also anticipate and plan for potential cross-border data transfer issues that may arise from these data protection and data retention (legal and regulatory) obligations.

Organizations should also have technical protocols in place to enforce these written policies. Operational service-level and cost objectives also demand that organizations seek ways to realize leverage and to have the ability to enforce policies consistently across multiple media and application types.

Adopting a global records management, data retention, and data protection framework and employing technology to enforce these policies into technical protocols will provide cost efficiencies and risk mitigation benefits.

IN THIS WHITE PAPER
This IDC White Paper discusses the impact of the critical records management, data retention, and data protection regulations across key geographies (namely, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia). It concludes with recommendations for developing global information governance best practices. Readers should note that providing legal and regulatory information is not legal advice. IDC does not provide legal advice. Readers should consult with their legal counsel experts accordingly. continue reading...

Simply Brilliant Braille HP Teams with ViewPlus to Put Braille in Living Color

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ViewPlus wanted to develop a too to help people with visual impairments communicate better with their sighted counterparts.

Approach:

ViewPlus teamed up with HP Specialty Printing Systems (SPS) to combine HP TIJ 2.x color inkjet printing technology with advanced paper embossing technology to produce raised color text and graphics, making it possible for people who are sighted and visually impaired, or have learning disabilities, to collaborate on the same document, communicate more effective and develop better comprehension and learning. HP SPS also helped bring the resulting product to market by providing engineering support and featuring the prototype at trade shows.

IT improvements:

• Emprint features a fully integrated solution without the need for an add-on product • Documents printed with Emprint have the same high quality as documents printed with HP inkjet printers • Emprint uses the same paper and reliable ink cartridges as HP inkjet printers • Emprint can print Braille and ink together or separate

Business benefits:

• Coupling HP color inkjet printing technology with Braille embossing serves multiple needs; people with visual impairments, normal sight and learning disabilities can work together more effective• Partnership with HP ensures high-quality printing and further bolsters credibility in the marketplace • Tripled initial sales forecasts in its frst month on the market continue reading...

HP StorageWorks EVA Cluster Virtualized Storage for a Converged Infrastructure

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Infrastructure Convergence is the key to successful IT transformation. Organizations are making a move to a Converged Infrastructure in order to gain higher returns from their IT investments while operating at lower costs under current constrained resources and budgets. One of the key elements to achieve total convergence is to pool your compute and storage resources via virtualization technologies. Recent trends show that many IT organizations are turning to a virtual server infrastructure to help address challenges of improving manageability, availability, and resource utilization. Though they have virtualized their server infrastructure, their storage infrastructure remains
siloed or stranded. This partial implementation of virtualization only in the server infrastructure creates a series of storage challenges that nullifies the benefits of server virtualization.

With your server virtualization solution in place, are you currently finding it difficult to manage your large and complex storage area network (SAN) infrastructure? Are you looking for cost-effective solutions that help you better manage your storage growth and make efficient use of your storage infrastructure? This white paper focuses on describing the main challenges faced by IT organizations that have adopted server virtualization but have not virtualized their storage infrastructure. It then describes how new flexible solutions like the EVA Cluster can be used to unleash the power of your physical storage, and provide you with a more effective storage solution that gets you better business results. continue reading...

HP Enterprise Virtual Array Cluster Best Practices

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This document defines the “Best Practices” for Enterprise Virtual Array Cluster (EVA Cluster). These best practices are strongly recommended based upon our field experience with the EVA Cluster solution and should be followed as closely as possible. The intended audience for this document is customers and administrators who configure and use EVA Cluster, testers, installers, and troubleshooters of the product.

Introduction and philosophy of best practices
The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Cluster is a bigger and faster product than a single EVA array. It comes with Command View software that makes it simple to manage, saving management time and money, and reduces configuration errors. You can help reduce errors and unnecessary expense by implementing a few best practices and enhancing your EVA Cluster for its intended applications. This paper highlights some basic configuration rules and tradeoffs for enhancing the EVA Cluster for cost, availability, and performance. Getting the most from your HP EVA storage has never been easier.

EVA Cluster can offer ease of use for day-to-day operations. However, the breadth and flexibility of EVA Cluster capabilities coupled with the implementation as a fabric based storage solution introduces multiple opportunities for issues with performance and stability of the solution.

This document is intended to describe practices that HP has learned from field experience that will help avoid issues with performance or stability. However, if a user chooses to operate beyond these best practices, this document describes tools to allow the administrator to pay extra attention to factors mentioned in this document, such as congestion of fabrics and saturation of array controllers. Careful monitoring can help to avoid issues. This document is a “work in progress,” questions, discrepancies areas that need to be clarified and areas where the recommendations do not meet your particular need should be directed to EVACluster@hp.com. It should be noted that this solution is different from the SVSP solution; there are different features highlighted and exposed for each of the products. Therefore this guide should only be used to reference the EVA Cluster solution, likewise refer to the SVSP best practices as a reference for that solution. continue reading...

HP StorageWorks MPX200 Solution Architecture Whitepaper

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As mid-range and enterprise businesses grow and deploy physical and virtual servers and storage arrays, information required to manage, share, and protect data also continues to grow. The HP StorageWorks MPX200 Multifunction Router (MPX200) extends the Fibre Channel SAN investment with integrated multi-protocol support, allowing customers to incorporate iSCSI servers, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) servers with no additional storage arrays or management costs. MPX200 provides (with optional licenses) Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP) connectivity for remote replication using HP Continuous Access software and online and offline data migration between heterogeneous storage arrays.

The MPX200 (Figure1) has enterprise-class availability with dual hot-pluggable power supplies and router blades to satisfy no-single-point-of-failure requirements.

Figure 1: MPX200 Multifunction Router

There are two blade options available for the MPX200 Multifunction Router:

• 10-1 GbE blades with two 10 GbE ports, two 1 GbE ports, and two 8 Gb/s FC ports

• 1 GbE blade with four 1 GbE ports and two 8 Gb/s FC ports

NOTE: The 10-1 GbE blade includes two 1 GbE ports.

Simple, Scalable, and Secure

The MPX200 provides a simple, scalable, and secure storage solution. It offers simultaneous Fibre Channel (FC) support, 1 GbE iSCSI, 10 GbE iSCSI, and FCoE support, providing modular multi-protocol SAN designs with increased scalability, stability, and return on investment. The MPX200 provides a secure storage solution for virtualized server environments. In addition, this solution enables customers to have the best of both worlds: low cost server connectivity using iSCSI and faster backups using Fibre Channel. continue reading...

Rethinking Server Virtualization

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Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility. But for many organizations, the savings that come from server consolidation are the primary reason for server virtualization.

Many of virtualization’s additional benefits—including built-in, cost-effective high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)—require external shared storage with a comprehensive feature set to support them. Without proper planning, it is all too easy to see the savings from server virtualization be misdirected toward inefficient storage systems. IP SANs are frequently seen as overcoming cost and management limitations of traditional storage area
networks (SANs) and are becoming very popular in virtualized server environments.

Advantages of scale-out iSCSI SANs
HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN Solutions are iSCSI-based and use storage clustering—a form of scale-out storage that creates a scalable storage pool by aggregating the critical components of a number of storage systems into a single pool of resources or storage cluster (Figure 1). The cluster accepts and responds to iSCSI requests as a single system. In an HP P4000 G2 SAN all physical capacity is aggregated and is available to all volumes created on the SAN.
When more storage is needed, additional P4000 storage nodes can be added to the SAN cluster online; the SAN seamlessly, non-disruptively reorganizes its storage to incorporate the new node into the cluster.

Built-in support for HA and DR implementations, superior, scalable performance, and straightforward management that any server administrator can understand and put into use make HP P4000 SANs the preferred choice to support virtualized infrastructures. This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas—cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management—and illustrate how the HP P4000 SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments. continue reading...

Getting to Know HP Web Jetadmin 10.0

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Capture As business infrastructures become increasingly complex, managing printing and imaging peripherals develops into a major challenge. It is often difficult to obtain a global perspective on the quantity and capabilities of your
company’s printing and imaging devices. In addition, as the number of your peripherals increases, so do your support and maintenance responsibilities. HP Web Jetadmin offers a solution to these challenges.

HP Web Jetadmin is a simple printing and imaging peripheral management utility for remotely installing, configuring, and managing a wide variety of HP and non-HP network peripherals via your Microsoft® Windows® desktop. Rest assured that HP Web Jetadmin and your network-connected peripherals are well protected with advanced security features, including Microsoft .NET platform technologies, Windows Active Directory integrated role-based user authentication, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v3.0, IPsec device configuration, and a secure online update feature.

HP Web Jetadmin increases business productivity by helping you manage supplies, proactively address potential printing problems, configure peripheral drivers, and update firmware. HP Web Jetadmin provides all of the peripheral management capabilities you need in one easy-to-use interface. Best of all, HP Web Jetadmin is a free software tool that you can download from www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin. continue reading...

HP Launches “LaserJet Pays You Back” Global Marketing Campaign

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HP today unveiled its “HP LaserJet Pays You Back” global marketing campaign to illustrate the significant cost savings – up to $2,500 in less than one year – that are possible when using an HP Color LaserJet Multifunction Printer (MFP).(1)

The campaign illustrates the surprising returns available from an HP Color LaserJet MFP. Over time, the printer pays for itself through money saved and then continues to pay customers back through energy, paper and toner savings.(1)

“Upgrading to an HP Color LaserJet MFP is like trading in your gas guzzler for a hybrid that pays for itself in gas savings and then continues to pay its owner after that,” said Ron Coughlin, senior vice president, LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. “The campaign helps demonstrate how HP LaserJet printers are an investment that keep giving back to your business.”  

To celebrate the significant cost savings businesses can achieve by using an HP LaserJet printer, HP is teaming with renowned entrepreneurs Ivanka Trump and Bill Rancic to host the HP “Pay Back” event today at 11 a.m. ET at the north corner of Madison Square Park (next to Shake Shack) in New York. Trump and Rancic will “pay customers back” with a gift, while supplies last, courtesy of HP.  continue reading...

HP Expands Portfolio of Sign and Display Printing Solutions to Accelerate Adoption of UV-curable and Latex Large-format Printing

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HP today expanded its portfolio of sign and display printing solutions to accelerate the industry’s conversion from solvent-based to UV-curable and latex-based large-format printing.

The company is refreshing its product line to help customers pursue profitable growth opportunities and capture a larger share of the growing digital printing market.(1)

At FESPA 2010, the major large-format printing and imaging tradeshow of the year, HP announced:

  • The new HP Scitex FB700 Printer, a versatile 98-inch (2.5-meter) flatbed printing solution that can load, print and collect up to six sheets of media simultaneously and offers an optional White Ink Upgrade Kit for specialty applications.
  • The first public demonstration of its expanded HP Latex Printing Technologies portfolio, an innovative technology that is only offered by HP.
  • Plans to spearhead a group of industry leaders to define open Job Definition Format (JDF) specification features for large-format printing, making it easier for print service providers (PSPs) to automate printing jobs and accelerate the web-to-print process.
  • The expansion of the HP Large-format Media take-back program to include six new compatible media and seven additional participating European countries.

“Since we began shipping latex and UV-curable printing systems, demand has increased steadily as our customers recognize the superb image quality, ability to pursue new applications and significant environmental advantages over traditional solvent technologies,” said Yariv Avisar, vice president and general manager, Scitex Large-format Solutions, HP. “In just two months, we have made significant advancements to our portfolio, including the addition of five new UV and Latex printers and new workflow solutions and services offerings, that will help the entire industry to transform.” continue reading...

HP StorageWorks P4500 SAS SAN vs. Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV: Feature and Functionality Comparison

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Hewlett-Packard (“HP”) commissioned VeriTest, the testing service of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to compare features and functionality between the HP StorageWorks P4500 SAS SAN Solutions and the Dell PS6000XV storage arrays. The 3-node HP P4500 SAN, a Virtualization SAN with an HP P4500 expansion node, has a current list price of $96,600.00. The 2-node Dell PS6000XV currently has a list price of $110,000. The goal of this study was to evaluate these devices in terms of high availability, capacity utilization under various common usage scenarios, and ease of upgrading the storage solution to meet future storage requirements.

Both HP and Dell provide a scalable iSCSI based solution, each claiming the following benefits: scalability, flexibility, cost effectiveness and high availability. Lionbridge developed a test methodology that compared these benefits between the two vendors to help end users better understand the real-world differences experienced with each product under test. Both solutions are based on a scale-out technology, combining multiple nodes into a cluster and thus presenting a common storage pool. For these comparable prices, the configurations below are what were available for each product. Therefore, the hardware configurations were not identical with regard to number of nodes and disk spindles.

The HP P4500 SAN configuration consisted of a three (3) node cluster running SAN/iQ version 8.1.00.0047.0 with RAID5, and 2-way replication. Each node contained 12 450GB 15K RPM SAS drives with a total raw capacity of 16.2TB. continue reading...

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