White Papers

Data Protection / Backup & Recovery White Papers

BEX: Holistic Data Protection (2.5 MB)
This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model that provides actual return on your business investments. Highlights of Syncsort’s model include exceedingly rapid application and server recovery, enabled by mountable backup snapshots; fast backup with low impact on application performance and CPU, assuring high success rates and nearly continuous protection; minimal utilization of disk storage resources by means of substantial data reduction; industry-leading support of virtual environments; and a single console for broad, unified support of mixed environments and applications.
Fast and Simple Disaster Recovery with BEX Bare Metal Recovery (947.35 KB)
BEX Bare Metal Recovery provides a unique disk-to-disk server protection strategy for Windows, Linux, UNIX, or mixed environments that maximizes business continuity in every disaster scenario in a cost effective manner. The fundamental advantages are simplicity of recovery, optimal data integrity and consistency, and minimal business disruption in the event of system failure for enterprises of all sizes.
Near-Instant Oracle Cloning (127.21 KB)
BEX Advanced Recovery makes virtual cloning possible by providing immediate access to the latest or any past database image on the storage device. It enables permitted administrators to map independent clients to Oracle database images on the disk. This makes it possible to quickly generate multiple read/write virtual clones of an Oracle database from any stored point-in-time image, while utilizing little more storage than the database image on the storage disk.
Innovative Business Continuity Solutions (1.12 MB)
This paper describes a single, fifth generation data protection model that assures 24 x 7 uninterrupted business continuity for your organization's mission-critical applications in all information-related disaster scenarios. This single model protects your data at all levels, from a lost file to an organization-wide crisis. At the same time the model guarantees you’ll meet almost all service level agreements (SLAs) with respect to recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) expectations.
A Business Continuity Model for OES Migration (178.92 KB)
This paper offers technical and tactical guidelines to assess whether your backup/recovery plans successfully assure that business-critical data and applications are protected and always available during your OES migration project.
Backup Express and NetApp: A Better Backup and Recovery Solution (86.65 KB)
The ideal is minimal RPO and RTO without costly mirroring solutions and storage expansion. The new technology which fulfills this ambitious goal combines the benefits of disk-based backup, continuous block level incremental backup, synthesized virtual base and file-level restore to yield a next-generation data protection solution with revolutionary speed from both the backup and restore processes.
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions (155.01 KB)
It is true that VTL buys you certain advantages when compared with backup-to-tape. And it moves you and your enterprise forward to the next generation of data storage media. But VTL is limited as an end-to-end business continuity remedy. Like the PDA of a decade ago, there is much more that could be achieved. So before rushing into a VTL investment, ask yourself whether there's a better, more comprehensive, data protection solution.
Syncsort Backup Express and NetApp Lab Validation Report (2.59 MB)
Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s Backup Express (BEX) software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business. This ESG Lab report focuses on the technologies that make this possible, including transparent integration with NetApp snapshot and replication technology and valuable Syncsort BEX services such as application-independent, source-side data reduction, fast and reliable disk-based data protection, nearinstant data recovery and bare metal recovery of both physical and virtual servers.
New Strategies and Best Practices for Exchange Backup and Recovery (367.08 KB)
We know that MS Exchange is mission-critical for your company and your end-users – and therefore for you. We also know that a major pain point with Exchange is achieving fast, efficient backup and recovery. Microsoft has not provided the tools to achieve that, but we have.
The Evolving Landscape of Enterprise Data Protection (868.29 KB)
The Essential Series: The Evolving Landscape of Enterprise Data Protection will examine several of the key issues in backup and disaster recovery while illustrating how to optimize services with virtual environments and existing infrastructure.

Data Integration White Papers

It's Time for Your Data to Talk: A Look at Data Integration (64.87 KB)
Successful data integration can mean the difference between a company that realizes its full potential and one that keeps missing the mark. With DMExpress, you can design, schedule, and control all data transformations and integrations from a simple management interface.
Joins and Aggregates Are Critical for Achieving Faster Data Retrieval in a Dimensional Data Warehouse (538.59 KB)
Dimensional data warehouses provide the means to customize large data structures in meaningful ways. The key to data management in such environments is the ability to efficiently use join and aggregate commands. DMExpress is designed to handle sequential processing and can minimize the elapsed time needed to process large amounts of data, dramatically improving database performance.
Using DMExpress for Changed Data Capture Applications (1.28 MB)
Changed data capture, or delta processing, is a technique in which older and newer files are compared to identify changes that have occurred. This white paper describes using joins or sort/merge/summarize commands to perform delta processing. Both methods can be accomplished using DMExpress.
Mitigate Business Intelligence Project Risks with Rule-Based Audits and Proof-of-Concepts (223.51 KB)
Successfully implemented BI and data warehouse projects take measures to mitigate risk, such as rule-based audits and proof-of-concepts. With DMExpress, you can address all issues common to these techniques.
Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses (344.39 KB)
DMExpress, including its Advanced Data Management component, significantly reduces processing time of data-intensive operations using high-performance joins and aggregations.
Optimizing ETL: The Key to Accelerating Data-Driven Business Decisions (79.92 KB)
Reducing the elapsed time to run a BI application will enable you to analyze key trends and help your company make the right decisions for the least amount of money. DMExpress minimizes the elapsed time of applications as well as the computer resources needed to run those applications.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of DMExpress (113.3 KB)
In conducting in-depth interviews with an existing Syncsort DMExpress customer, Forrester found that the company achieved reduced costs through productivity savings, avoided hiring costs because of ease of use of the product, and improved process performance leading to incremental revenue through client retention.

Data Process / Sort White Papers

Exploitation of System Facilities in the z/OS Environment (139.06 KB)
SyncSort for z/OS is a high-performance sort/merge/copy utility designed to exploit the advanced facilities of the z/OS operating system and zSeries computers. Three facilities recently introduced by IBM are Parallel Access Volume (PAV) technology, the Modified Indirect Address Word (MIDAW) facility and the System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP). This paper examines the creative means by which SyncSort for z/OS exploits these facilities to reduce CPU time and elapsed time.

Featured White Papers

It's Time for Your Data to Talk: A Look at Data Integration

Fast and Simple Disaster Recovery with BEX Bare Metal Recover