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The Green and Virtual Data Center - CHAPTER 8: Data Storage - Disk, Tape, Optical, and Memory by SearchStorage.com
cost-effective IT services from their virtual data center in a clean green profitable manner. Written by Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, The Green and Virtual Data Center examines the opportunities for organizations that want to sustain economical growth that is environmentally friendly.

In this chapter Schultz discusses how to...
Networking the Modern Data Center by SearchNetworking.com
where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology. Read on to learn more. Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work top the list of...
IT Briefing: Improving Data Center Efficiency with Network and Storage Consolidation by Cisco Systems, Inc.
IT Briefing will talk about the nightmare of the data center sprawl in the age of virtualization and how network and storage consolidation can reduce your total cost of ownership (TCO). Data center sprawl is a common precursor to virtualization. It occurs when requirements grow and you buy the next point solution, box, storage system, appliance, etc., and you put it in the data...
The Modern Virtualized Data Center by Pillar Data Systems
has been a positive evolutionary step in the data center, driving consolidation of these resources to maximize utilization and power savings, as well as to simplify management and maintenance. This white paper makes the case for the Pillar Axiom becoming the storage system of choice for the virtualized data center. Particularly in a virtualized data center...
Not "Just a Switch" Anymore -- Data Center "Backbone" Architectures by Storage Decisions
have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more. The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the...
Data Center Virtualization by Compellent
a flexible pool of resources and shrink the data center footprint. But to take full advantage of the benefits of server virtualization, organizations need the support of an advanced storage platform. This data sheet gives more details. Many organizations are adopting server virtualization technologies to reduce capital costs, create a flexible pool of resources...
Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center by Compellent
virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives. Traditionally, data centers have attempted to respond to growth...
Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
resource center is a one stop shop for all of your storage research needs around Open Storage and SSD (solid state drive). Here you will find expert editorial content as well as technical resources, business resources and free trial downloads. In this resource center get a more in-depth understanding of technologies, problems and solutions available around Open...
Presentation Transcript: Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data. According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside...
Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this videocast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data. According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on...
Transforming a Global Data Center Environment by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
purchases. This white paper will cover Global Data Center Environment Strategies such as:

  • Consolidating data centers, concentrating computing resources into fewer large, highly efficient hub data centers, and closing other local data centers
  • Accelerating server refresh, while implementing grid computing and server virtualization to increase utilization, and
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Protecting Data on the Edge by Hewlett-Packard Company
of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. Often, the data that these devices hold falls through the backup cracks and is inadequately protected, if at all. In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for...
ESG Brief: Hitachi Data Systems Helps Users Realize Maximum Benefits from Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
Server virtualization, data center consolidation, and IT efficiency all act as catalysts for the highly virtualized next generation data center. Hitachi storage systems enable customers to accelerate the adoption of virtualization and improve IT's service to the business. Server virtualization, data center consolidation, and IT efficiency...
Managing Backup and Archive Data with Data Domain and Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Integration by Data Domain
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution. Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup...
Symantec NetBackup (NBU) Design Best Practices with Data Domain by Data Domain
This white paper walks you through how Data Domain integrates with NBU, including planning and sizing considerations, operational considerations, offsite replication, and other integration basics so you can get the most out of this powerful solution. Standard practices and conventional technologies are being pushed to their limits in many backup...
Using Thin Provisioning to Your Best Advantage in the Data Center by Storage Decisions
about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. One reason is that no two vendors accomplish thin provisioning in the same way. Another reason is that thin provisioning serves disparate business needs ranging from capacity management to virtualization support to the green data center and more. This variety of usages makes for a powerful technology but a...
Driving Efficiency and Green Efforts Within Your Data Center by Data Domain
ESG analyst Brian Babineau examines how data deduplication can effectively contain the costs associated with massive data growth, improve capital and operating efficiencies and bolster green initiatives. While IT executives are buffeted by a multitude of demands, dealing with annual data growth of up to 60% is at or near the top of the list. In this...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent. One of the world's leading global financial institutions (GFI), distressed by the economic downturn and challenged with...
Why VirtualWisdom When You Have Other Monitoring Tools? by Virtual Instruments
Most IT managers have employed enterprise data center monitoring tools such as application monitoring tools, switch monitoring tools, host monitoring tools etc... all of which have specific purposes, but fail to recognize and address early symptoms of storage infrastructure issues, thus having the potential to affect application performance and availability.

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Establishing a Low Cost Disaster Recovery Site by Intel Corporation
storage system, and offload backup from the main data center. Learn about Intel IT's cost-effective disaster recovery (DR) strategy for one of its data centers in Israel that has a potential business value of more than USD 3 million. The solution was designed to avoid idle compute servers, use a tiered storage system, and offload backup from the main data center...
Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication by FalconStor Software
support Oracle Recovery Manager and Automatic Storage Management. The importance of adequate backup and disaster recovery (DR) for Oracle databases cannot be emphasized enough. These databases continue to grow and drive additional business processes throughout enterprises of all sizes. But with all the challenges that IT faces - such as budget constraints,...
Improving Data Center Efficiency with Network and Storage Consolidation by Cisco Systems, Inc.
This means IT managers must optimize their data center resources through consolidation which will increase resource utilization and improve operational efficiencies. Learn how Cisco and EMC can help you reduce your Data Center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Attend this webcast today and learn how:

  • To build consolidated Storage Area Networks (SANs) that require
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Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer: Root Cause Analysis for Supporting Fault Identification by Hitachi Data Systems
is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes. Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to...
Significantly Reducing Cost of Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Using Enterprise Data Recording by Axxana
and that stands to "fundamentally alter the way Data Center architects approach disaster recovery."

The solution combines zero data loss disaster recovery benefits as well as cost and distance advantages. The solution leverages the enterprise's existing storage infrastructure and, in many cases, enables the consolidation and elimination of redundant data centers.

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Hitachi's Approaches for an Increasingly Cost-Conscious Data Storage World by Hitachi Data Systems
must find ways to add efficiency to their data center's effectiveness and to drive costs out of, and value into, their storage infrastructures. This white paper relies on ESG research to clearly demonstrate that users understand this and are focusing on storage strategies and priorities that promise to deliver a better ROI.

The keys to this are:

  • Virtualization
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Data center facility control systems by Steve Blaine, Contributor
A data center has unique and demanding HVAC requirements. If its control system does not respond quickly and appropriately, a data center may experience a destructive and rapid failure -- even if redundant chillers, air handlers and power sources have been installed.

Yet in spite of these stringent... More...

Database support for data center managers by King Ables, Contributor

But even when you don't manage the database itself, data center personnel will most likely still manage the systems that run the database. This hardware still takes up space, uses power, and requires all the same support resources and activities as the other equipment in the data center.

Here is a list of management and operational issues that you... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...