White Papers and Design Ideas
From Tecniq
Since the early 1990s, the term "white paper" has also come to refer to documents used by businesses as a marketing or sales tool. For example, many white papers today advertise the benefits of particular technologies and products.
These types of white papers are almost always marketing communications documents designed to promote a specific company's solutions or products. As a marketing tool, these papers will highlight information favorable to the company authorizing or sponsoring the paper. Such white papers are often used to generate sales leads, establish thought leadership, make a business case, or to educate customers.
There are three main types of commercial white papers:
- Business-benefits: Makes a business case for a certain technology or methodology
- Technical: Describes how a certain technology works
- Hybrid: Combines high-level business benefits with technical details in a single document
Below are some of the "White Papers" published by IBM, which may be useful.
TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager)
IBM TSM for SharePoint 6.1 VSS Backup and Restore Solution Guide - IBM System Storage DS6000 & DS8000 with DocAve 5.1.2.1
IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) for SharePoint provides farm, site, subsite, and item-level backup with restore granularity down to the single document or version level. Granular restore capability is the key to quicker restore times with SharePoint. When TSM is combined with a reliable, scalable disk subsystem like the IBM System Storage™ DS series, the result is a highly effective solution that is ready to help your organization meet demanding backup and recovery point/time objectives, without added administrative complexity.
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IBM TSM for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Backup and Restore Solution
IBM® TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) for SharePoint Server 2007 provides site, subsite, and item-level backup and restore granularity down to the single document level. Granular restore capability is the key to quicker restore times with SharePoint. When TSM is combined with a reliable, scalable disk subsystem like the IBM System Storage™ DS4000 series, the result is a highly effective
solution that is ready to help your organization meet demanding backup and recovery time objectives, without added administrative complexity.
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Installing and Configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5.1 with Microsoft Exchange 2007
This installation and configuration guide provides best practices for installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5.1 for Exchange Server 2007 with IBM storage subsystems. Following these implementation guidelines provides you with a successful Microsoft Exchange data protection solution.
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BWA (Business Warehouse Accelerator)
BW Accelerator Admin Processes
This document describes SAP BW Accelerator (BWA - formerly called BIA) administrative processes, such as enabling HA, managing scheduled blade service, and adding nodes to or removing nodes from a cluster.
Since release of this document, SAP has documented many BWA administrative processes in its BIA operations guide, referenced in SAP note 1056662.
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AIX and Power Systems
Using USB Removable Disk Drive for BackupRestore with AIX and Linux Power Systems
This document explains best practices and methods for disk-to-removable disk backup and restore of files on the AIX and Linux Power Platforms using the new USB Removable Disk Drive for Backup/Restore. The backup and restore are done using standard AIX and Linux commands.
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Understanding AIX 6.1 best practices for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence users on IBM POWER6
Monitoring each SAS component and understanding how users work in the environment helps system administrators understand the best way of optimizing the infrastructure to deliver the best performance.
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SAS AIX 5L and AIX 6 Tuning Guide
These papers provide a starting point for performance optimization from a system-wide perspective to create an enhanced environment for SAS® 9 on IBM® POWER™ processor-based servers that run IBM AIX® 5 and AIX 6.
Click here to Download AIX 5L.
Click here to Download AIX 6.
Understanding the Performance Implications of Cross-Site Mirroring with AIX’s Logical Volume Manager
The base HACMP product can be used to provide cross site disaster recovery for applications under certain conditions. This document discusses the conditions and testing required for a customer to determine if it is feasible in their environment.
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