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SRM Explained: Companies Try Green Storage Strategies to Reduce Power Consumption by 3PAR
Escalating storage demands are creating a dilemma for many storage administrators. This article explains the concepts of green storage, examines deployment issues, looks at one user’s struggles, and considers the future of green storage practices. This article explains the concepts of green storage, examines deployment issues...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
The growth of business-related data means IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a no brainer - consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer hardware and...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
addresses power, space, and cooling issues for storage. Learn how turning your storage green saves money and space for data centers with trapped budgets and limited room. Addressing power, space and cooling issues for storage not only helps the environment, it saves money and space for data centers with strapped budgets and limited room. This "Turning Storage Green...
The Eco-friendly Data Center by Hitachi Data Systems
This white paper discusses eco-friendly storage solutions that not only meet organizations storage requirements but also help them to reduce power, cooling and facilities costs while complying with environmental directives. This white paper discusses eco-friendly storage solutions that not only meet organizations’ storage requirements but also help...
Strategies for Reducing Datacenter Power Consumption by Dell, Inc.
Strategies such as storage tiering, thin provisioning, and automated load balancing improve efficiency and utilization resulting in reduced power consumption With concerns about power consumption and energy costs growing, efforts are underway to make data centers more “green” (energy efficient) and sustainable (reducing the use of non...
LSI Extends Its Storage Virtualization Manager by LSI Corporation
SVM is storage area network (SAN) software that runs on standard 1U Windows servers and provides virtual volume management in heterogeneous environments. LSI continues to leverage and enhance its StoreAge brand by rearchitecting its Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) to more completely address the automation of...
Data Migration Software by Dell, Inc.
chapter of the SearchStorage All-in-One Guide on Storage Consolidation, learn about data migration - the process of moving data from one storage location to another -- and how it is crucial to storage preparation… According to analysts, about 80% of corporate data exists outside of the data center, usually tucked away on user laptops or relegated to remote servers in...
Executive Summary: Storage Panorama by CA
In 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding and in 2007 just five new storage companies were funded with first-round money, this has had the effect of slowing down the flow of new ideas and invention. In 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding. In 2007 just five new storage...
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
technology for enabling unified I/O in the data center. Cisco is committed to developing, supporting, and promoting the FCoE technologies required to facilitate this transition in a smooth, evolutionary way. As is the case with any new networking technology, adoption of FCoE-based storage networking will be evolutionary and will happen in phases: FCoE server...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly...
Edison Group Paper - EMC, Net App and HP Mid Range Storage TCO by Hewlett-Packard Company
review of relevant published documents on storage cost of ownership, and reports on data center and storage administrator salaries. This study demonstrates how the superior user interface and virtualization offered by the HP EVA storage system can provide organizations with the benefits of higher administrative efficiency combined with the potential...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
us and learn more about HP's proven approach to data center consolidation. More organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources. Computing resources have proliferated over the years due to distributed computing architectures, low costs...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
strategy of incrementally building new data centers was not best suited to meet the business objectives. For a company of HP’s size and global reach, it became apparent that a more centralized approach was needed to allow for better prioritization of technology requirements and investment. The transformation initiative aimed to simplify, standardize...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data...
Data outside the data center by Iron Mountain Digital
Why is data outside of the data center so hard to control? Find out here, as legendary British comic, John Cleese gives his insight to some of the most pressing questions surrounding data management today. We're all aware that data located outside of our central data center is harder to control than data located in-house. There...
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
With virtual servers taking over the data center, planned storage systems must reap the benefits of virtualization. Server virtualization is quickly becoming the norm in data centers. The ability to host several operating systems and applications on a single server cuts capital costs for new equipment, and the reduction in physical servers helps...
Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways by F5 Networks
whitepaper focuses on virtualization in the data center. What does "going virtual" really mean in today's IT world? Virtualization as a concept is not new; computational environment virtualization has been around since the first mainframe systems. But recently, the term "virtualization" has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process obfuscation where a...
Webcast: The ROI and TCO Benefits of Data Deduplication for Data Protection in the Enterprise by Data Domain
enterprise customers who have implemented Data Domain systems into their storage fabric. Deduplication storage is quickly becoming the standard for disk-based backup and nearline storage use in enterprise data centers across many industries. It delivers clear benefits for the retention, recovery and replication of backup and other nearline data and...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager® by Egenera by Egenera, Inc.
managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing strategies such as industry-standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization. Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing strategies such as industry-standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and...
Case Study: Cassatt Resource Optimization through Active Power Management by Cassatt Corporation
with operating, equipping and constructing data centers. The project aimed to identify demonstrations for each of the three main categories that impact data center energy utilization: • Operation & capital efficiency • Equipment (server, storage & networking equipment) • Data center design & construction (power distribution & transformation, cooling systems...
Optimizing Digital Image Storage: An Online Storage Optimization Brief by Ocarina Networks
the Ocarina Solution, how it fits in to existing storage infrastructures, and provides an overview in to how Ocarina is able to optimize images for storage without giving up any image quality. Ocarina has created a solution that allows data centers to store as much as four times more image data on their existing storage platforms, without changing applications or...
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation
The IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER™ De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER™ De-duplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs...
Equallogic PS Series with VMware® – Virtual Servers Meet Virtual Storage by Dell, Inc.
PS Series solutions deliver the benefits of storage consolidation in an intelligent, enterprise-class storage system that is easy to install, manage and grow. Consolidation of data center assets has become a trend in many IT environments, providing benefits such as improved hardware resource utilization, easier management, and lower costs. For storage...
HP and Cisco Data Center Solutions by Cisco Systems, Inc.
of collaborating to deliver successful data center solutions. This brochure provides an overview of Cisco's industry leadership in networking infrastructure with HP's world-class leadership in IT solutions. HP and Cisco share a long history of collaborating to deliver successful data center solutions. Our alliance combines Cisco’s industry...
An Overview of PAN Manager® by Egenera by Egenera, Inc.
virtualization solution, will bring your data center to unprecedented levels of manageability. This paper gives an overview of how. You need a data center optimization strategy that ensures high availability, simplifies operational complexity, adapts to your existing environment, and delivers a secure and responsive computing infrastructure — all...
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Mainframes playing catch up: Open source advantages surpass traditional programming by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
IBM's z10 has arrived, but the company has not provided much support for open-source application use. With the rise in sophistication of open-source programs, this important part of the IT landscape is being missed. Open source development is often more cost-effective than traditional programming, and the programs are up-to-date and often more robust... More...
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Sun refreshes server blades, adds storage option by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
Sun's new Open Storage blade assigns up to 1.2 TB of capacity to a single Sun blade server, which now comes with the latest and greatest Intel, AMD and UltraSparc chips... More...