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Information Solutions Provider Upgrades to Cisco and IBM 4Gbps FICON Switching and Storage Infrastructure in Record Time by Cisco Systems, Inc.
provide value-added information with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. Thomson Transaction Services products provide value-added information with software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. In an effort to keep its IT infrastructure current, the...
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 holistic storage requirements...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
compute devices, allows them to run from iSCSI SAN, and provides many benefits to an organization. Storage has been evolving throughout the history of computer systems. Storing both operating system state and data within the computer caused management challenges such as storage over provisioning, data duplication as well as expensive and ineffective...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end...
The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile. Despite the efficiency improvements virtualization brings to the data center, the proliferation of virtual machines also introduces new challenges for the SAN, including problems related to loss of visibility, security, traffic isolation for...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
45;out ExaStore clustered NAS systems deliver SAN levels of performance with the ease of management and the lower cost of NAS. Typically, customers have implemented storage area networks (SAN) to meet the performance and high availability requirements of their mission critical applications. Recent technology advances with Network Attached Storage (NAS),...
The Benefits of Running VMware VI3 on Cisco MDS Optimized SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile. Read this Cisco MDS and VMware Joint whitepaper that describes the innovative approach to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile...
The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions - An Overview by Cisco Systems, Inc.
The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions reinforces the Cisco commitment to full and seamless product interoperability and consistency, as it protects the investment, lower your TCO and reinforces the vision and value. The Cisco MDS 9000 8-GB SAN Solutions reinforces the Cisco commitment to full and seamless product...
Switching on the Virtual World: The Role of Fabric-Driven Services for the Virtualized Environment by Cisco Systems, Inc.
in terms of managing and securing data-SAN management software depends on physical attributes of devices, which virtualization masks. This white paper explains how fabric vendors must evolve their sets and operating systems so users can employ virtualization without threatening QoS, security, performance, and troubleshooting. You'll learn about...
Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors by Dell, Inc. and Intel
enterprise server virtualization. Software acquisition and licensing costs are the largest drivers of TCO for server deployment in most IT shops. This white paper compares the performance of low- and high-end processors in enterprise and technical computing environments. You'll learn why servers that run on high-end processors deliver significantly...
IT Briefing: Virtualized Infrastructure Management with LSI StoreAge SVM by LSI Corporation
large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. This paper highlights a new solution with improved and secure tools to manage large SANs for overall better utilization of SAN assets. Discover how this solution addresses the major complexities and challenges associated with managing virtualized environments...
The Best Modular Systems for Network and Storage Availability by Dell, Inc. and Intel
IT shops can ensure availability of network and storage resources by addressing availability issues caused by changes in system configurations. This white paper explores a modular system that can help simplify this task. This white paper explores a modular system that helps ensure availability of network and storage resources. Modular...
Confront Escalating Data Storage and Power Requirement with HP's Enterprise Virtual Array by Mobius Partners
s Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis. The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis, due to which the university has been able to create 28 new...
VMworld 2008 - Managing the Virtualized Data Center by Akorri
more VMs and servers and a growing impact on the SAN. Watch this Q&A session with Akorri CEO Tom Joyce to gain expert insight on these challenges. From VMworld 2008 - Akorri CEO Tom Joyce notes how this years' attendees have changed their approach to virtualization due to increasing scales, more VMs and servers, and a growing impact on the SAN. As the virtualized...
Efficient SAN Based Tape Encryption with Curtis Preston by Cisco Systems, Inc.
this webcast for expert tips on securing your SAN environment and meeting government regulations. Learn about a technique that transparently encrypts data inside the storage environment without slowing or disrupting business critical applications. Watch this webcast to hear leading industry analyst Curtis Preston and Cisco expert Doug Anderson...
"Hurricane-Proof" Data Protection by Compellent
Storage Center storage area network (SAN) and Remote Instant Replay software as the catalysts for heftier business continuance, Moss & Associates implemented a resilient disaster recovery (DR) plan that can be activated remotely. This white paper examines how the construction company created seamless access between two locations with a proven...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
and outlines how to apply HP Data Protector 6.0/6.1 software and other key HP StorageWorks storage array technologies to manage and deploy an effective backup strategy in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Rapid adoption of server virtualization accelerates the deployment of high-utilization VMs, which in turn increases storage capacity usage. These changes are...
The Hidden Storage "Gotchas" of Server Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the obstacles of server virtualization, such as SAN storage requirements, performance issues related to oversubscription, and data protection issues, and provides solutions to avoid or overcome them. Learn how to enhance performance, high availability disaster recovery, and improve data protection and granularity...
Best Practices: Tackling Data Migration by Storage Magazine
be high and include platform-/OS-/network-/SAN- and storage- specific tasks. Detailed guidelines should be included for verification and validation at each level...
Podcast: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Virtualization - In One Hour by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
Download this Podcast to learn how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to actual products storage managers are using to centralize data, add flexibility and change the economics of storage. While virtualization is still a growing technology for storage, the merits behind this technology are countless. Understanding the benefits...
HP and Cisco Data Center Solutions by Cisco Systems, Inc.
of platform, network, storage, software, and service requirements-from design and deployment to integration and support. Today, you can leverage this experience and our complementary enterprise strategies to smooth your transition to the next-generation data center.

One of the first steps of this transition is to free technology...
Sun Storage 7000 Series Family: Radical Simplicity Combined with Breakthrough Price/Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics software, and self-healing capabilities. The Sun Storage 7000 Series family helps simplify storage deployment and management with its unprecedented easy-to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics software, and self-healing capabilities. These features enable you to quickly find and fix issues, help minimize...
ESG: EMC EmailXtender Centralized Message Control and Intelligent E-mail Archiving by EMC Corporation
the capabilities and value of EMC EmailXtender software with a specific focus on new features added in version 4.8 including User Directed Archiving and Archive Process Tracking. Thousands of organizations worldwide rely on the EMC EmailXtender family of products for e-mail management capabilities to improve the operational efficiency of their messaging...
Differentiating Hardware- and Software-based Data De-duplication by Symantec Corporation
44; also it may be deployed via hardware- or software-based approaches-each having advantages and trade-offs. Data de-duplication is the process of examining data to identify and eliminate redundancy. It can have a significant impact on the capacity of data stored, which, in turn, can deliver significant economic benefits.

Data de-duplication is...
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The mainframe as a "Green Monitor" by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
IBM has made a major push in both "green" hardware and software, and the mainframe has been a big player. The z10 is taking a leadership role by supporting data center energy use monitoring, using virtualization to pack more computing power into a single machine, and figuring out how to reduce per-chip and per-disk energy requirements. According to IBM... More...
Sys admin recommended reading: Improve your skill set by By David Douthitt, Contributor
a UNIX Systems Administrator for a major healthcare software company. His blog is Unix Administratosphere, where he continues to write on UNIX, Linux and OpenVMS. He has also written two books on system administration. He still has his copy of Red Hat 2.0 and 4.4BSD. If your bookshelf is crowded with technical manuals, it might be time to make room for books... More...
Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS by Robert Crawford, Contributor
and each new application implementation or system software configuration change brings the possibility of emergency hardware upgrades. Luckily for us most of the time things ramp up smoothly and enterprises are able to buy the CPU when they need it.

But what happens during that odd, ten second interval, when sensitive workloads suddenly choke and... More...

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
based Transitive Corp., a privately held technology company whose translation software enables applications written for one kind of CPU and operating system (OS) to run on various combinations of CPU and OS without modifying the source code or binaries. Terms of the deal have not been announced.

IBM already uses Transitive technology as the basis of its... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
At CA World 2008 in Las Vegas this week, software giantCA announced its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less... More...

Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
is new to mainframe technology. Jim Porell, the chief architect of IBM System z software, said some financial firms in Japan, China and Hong Kong have just begun to build their infrastructure and didn't have legacy z/OS mainframes but still want to consolidate Linux servers onto big iron.

Technology benefits of combining z/OS and Linux
Even though IBM has... More...