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Efficient SAN Based Tape Encryption with Curtis Preston by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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 offer tips to efficiently secure your SAN environment and meet government regulations. You'll learn about a network-based...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area Networks (SAN) provided numerous advantages in both hard and soft dollar cost savings. The final evolution of storage management is to separate the boot disks from systems and turn them into stateless compute devices. The netBoot/i technology separates state from compute devices and allows them to run from...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization.

This paper helps you gain an understanding of the steps you can take to reach the level of IT agility needed to enable stronger competitive resilience. Learn about other tools and techniques that will enable you to:

  • Create virtualized servers and physical servers that are
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"Hurricane-Proof" Data Protection by Compellent
With the 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...
ESG LAB VALIDATION REPORT Exanet ExaStore Clustered NAS Performance by Exanet
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), however, give customers another alternative to expensive and complex SAN deployments. This report explores how scale-out...
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...
Where Are You Going with Virtualization? Next Steps in Technology by CDW Corporation
to watch. They include blade servers, storage area networks, more robust management tools, optimized hardware and input/output virtualization. This white paper briefy explores each
An Approach to Data Management with Higher Application Service Levels at a Lower Cost by Sybase, Inc.
simultaneously access the same data stored in a Storage Area Network. If one or more nodes in the cluster fail, others automatically take over. Patent-pending Virtualized Resource Management technology simplifies the task of consolidating and maintaining multiple applications on ASE Cluster Edition installation...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
used to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry-accepted interfaces and can be replicated across the enterprise.

You will learn about network virtualization and the various technologies that provide data, control, and management plane virtualization. This paper outlines networking best...
IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs by Hewlett-Packard Company
This document will focus on defining storage optimization and technologies available today that reduce data footprint. Rising energy prices and exponential data growth are driving organizations to seek solutions that minimize data footprint across all storage tiers. The challenge that managers face, though, is implementing the right...
Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
other can potentially offset the savings in one area with expenditures in another.

This is a complex area, in which there are no pre-packaged, end-to-end solutions. This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
There are numerous ways that your storage has already been virtualized, and there are many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub)system or service from applications, compute servers or general network...
Fibre Channel over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution by Cisco Systems, Inc.
technology, adoption of FCoE-based storage networking will be evolutionary and will happen in phases: FCoE server enablement, FCoE server proliferation, and FCoE arrays and SANs. The arrival of the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series, in conjunction with the availability of cost-effective 10-Gbps LAN technology for the server, enables unified I/O in the...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage that lets you store up to 10 times more file data on storage you already have. Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a breakthrough new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage. Rather than complex schemes to classify and move data across tiers of storage in the hope of lowering the cost of storage,...
2008 North American Storage Optimization Green Excellence of the Year Award by Ocarina Networks
for its breakthrough implementation of a novel storage optimization technique that brings down power, cooling, and storage costs, as well as reduces the digital footprint, and thereby the carbon footprint, involved with online storage. With this remarkable achievement, Ocarina Networks has helped advance a new era of ‘green' storage that brings...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by SearchStorage.com
There are numerous ways that your storage has already been virtualized, and there are many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why?

SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub)system or service from applications, compute servers or general...
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
stored on general purpose Network Attached Storage (NAS). This leads to a number of challenges:

  • High costs. While not all data merits the same storage capability in terms of its value to the business at any moment in time, IT groups are forced to provision to the highest common denominator.
  • Inefficiencies. A general purpose storage tier is not necessarily optimal for
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Wide Area Data Services (WDS): Optimizing the Remote Office by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS). Finally - some clarity in the application acceleration and WAN optimization space. Find out how WAFS, WAN optimization, compression, and Web acceleration technologies have come together into one powerful solution: Wide-area Data Services (WDS). Download today and dive into the technical...
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
is vendor neutral and can offer significant storage optimization for file-based storage. File system vendors, NAS vendors, as well as storage hardware and server vendors could differentiate their offering by leveraging Ocarina to deliver a smaller data footprint resulting in lower power consumption, smaller data center footprint and an overall cost...
Hot Storage Skills by Storage Magazine
and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech. As storage becomes more complex and costly, businesses are seeking storage professionals who can architect various tiers of networked storage, document what they,ve done, and help their business units select the type of storage that best supports their...
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 systems have...
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What are the top skills for systems administrators? by David Douhitt, Contributor
exists that one may be laid off or let go, and a network of contacts will assist in getting a new position. A network can be a set of people who can help troubleshoot problems.

Troubleshooting skills. Given a problem, how do you come to the resolution? Some problems are tenacious and can challenge your skills. The normal problems will call upon your... More...

Is your disaster recovery plan out of date? by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
came up without a hitch

This story illustrates an area that many IT organizations overlook when building disaster recovery plans. They build out a plan but fail to keep it up-to-date. Obviously, our email disaster customer needed to adhere to ITIL best practices and keep disaster plans up-to-date with operating system revisions and patch... More...

Data center consolidation, virtualization: Ultra-dense server deployments by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
disk expansion options, but we will consolidate the storage on the SAN anyway, so that's less of a concern.

Next, add virtualization to the mix. Virtualization of your servers will allow you to fit anywhere from three to thirty-three (or more) virtual machines on a single physical machine. The amount of additional server density you can get from... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
as you see fit," Burlew said. Not every part of the country has that luxury, and even that area of Texas might not in the near future. Burlew said the 17 counties served by the Woodbine Aquifer are in negotiations to form a consortium that would regulate access to the aquifer. Luckily, the Experian well has already been dug and, should regulatory changes be made... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
resources aren't shared when they shouldn't be, he said.

Finally, Porell said there is a storage benefit to running z/OS and Linux on the same box. In particular, zLinux can take advantage of the hot-failover capabilities of z/OS, because z/OS can also manage the data of a Linux environment on the mainframe. "So it's instantly available should the system fail," he said.

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AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
2 MB on the Barcelona chip.

Shane Rau, the research director, computing, networking, and storage semiconductors at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, said having 6 MB of L3 cache is ideal for workloads that require a lot of memory like those for virtualization. The hardware-assist "support for virtualization is also key because it helps make a server more efficient in... More...