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The Enterprise Strategy Group on Services Oriented Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate processes, simplify management and leverage physical assets without sacrificing performance or reliability. Service Oriented Storage Solutions is the idea of leveraging one's storage infrastructure to provide a service to the business. How this manifests itself will...
Dell PowerVault MD 3000i Configuration Guide for VMware ESX Server Software by Dell, Inc.
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration. This whitepaper provides instructions to setup the MD3000i iSCSI storage solution for usage with VMware ESX Server software. The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration...
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price/performance to the Open Storage market by integrating innovative storage software with hybrid storage pools and an open architecture solution. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
are driving organizations to rely on modular storage solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and technology needs evolve, businesses must adapt with new ways to organize their data centers and store structured and unstructured information. One...
Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V by Dell, Inc.
and virtual machine migration. The Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V provides an overview of:

  • Storage options available in Hyper-V
  • How Dell-supported storage solutions fit into a Hyper-V Deployment
  • Best practices associated with solution deployment

This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
explains the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility. VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has greater VDI scalability. The benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage are significant savings in storage...
The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
the following benefits over traditional storage solutions:

  • 97 percent reduction in management resources.
  • 22 percent increase in storage utilization which resulted, for an environment of the size used in the study, in a 37 percent decrease in the volume of storage capacity required.

The overall result of these advantages was a risk-adjusted ROI of 125 percent and a...
IDC White Paper: Striving for Efficiency in Information Management with Services Oriented Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
that are shaping the need for services oriented storage solutions and discusses the specific solution put forth by Hitachi. Hitachi's Services Oriented Storage Solutions (SOSS) are designed to better manage rapidly expanding IT infrastructures and allow organizations to achieve maximum efficiency and benefit from their IT investments. This white paper examines the...
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...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
tips to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and...
Project Your Data: Featuring TS2240 and DS3200 by IBM
IBMTotalStorage Productivity Center, an open storage infrastructure management solution designed to help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructure and to help improve storage capacity utilization. IBM System Storage products help you save, grow and innovate for the future.

End-to-end storage means that your data is well-managed,...
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together by IBM
on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions. An Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system is designed to contain unstructured information such as files, images, and drawings. Its purpose is the delivery of the right content to the right person at the right time, and in the right context.

In enterprise content management, the term content is used to...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
Infrastructure on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions in the areas of data protection; ease of provisioning; cost-saving storage technologies; virtual...
Open Storage Adoption by Incentra Solutions
This paper describes how Sun is leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent. Sun believes that open storage products and services will represent just under 12 percent of the total storage market by 2011. This includes storage hardware, software, and...
Combining Storage and Server Virtualization by LSI Corporation
the powerful combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. This white paper describes the powerful combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. The rapid proliferation of server virtualization technologies and especially...
Optimize your Thin Storage with 3PAR and Veritas Storage Foundation by Symantec Corporation
technology offers to its end users. Maximizing storage utilization continues to be an ongoing effort for many organizations and thin provisioning is now being aggressively adopted in many IT organizations as part of the solution. However, the deployment of thin provisioning storage can yield very different results if the server and storage infrastructure aren...
Total Cost Comparison: Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environments by NetApp
44; cooling, space considerations on VMware storage deployments and the estimates for cost of downtime in order to ensure validity for all types of environments. This study identified three primary reasons for lower total cost when deploying VMware with NetApp:

  • NetApp has a 29% to 34% advantage in Product Acquisition & Ongoing Vendor Costs due to storage
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Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
power, space, and cooling issues for the storage environment. 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...
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...
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
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...
Dell Storage Solutions for Virtualization, Exchange and SQL by Dell, Inc.
for your organization. Welcome to the Dell Storage Solutions for Virtualization, Exchange and SQL. Whether you're a small organization trying to extend the value of the assets you already have or a large data center pushing the envelope in automation, Dell is delivering solutions that make sense for your budget, staff and business. Discover how Dell can provide...
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,...
Open Source Storage: Addressing the need for new Storage Architecture by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
with the opportunity to start evaluating open storage architecture strategies and evaluating how an open storage architecture can better support their organization' business and budgetary goals. Open storage uses industry-standard components and open software to build highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage systems. Today's...
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Is effective performance management in the data center possible? by Richard L. Ptak, Cofounder and Managing Partner, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC

The marketing name for this concept and the solutions that support it is Business Service Management (BSM). Solutions are available that will provide early warning of potential service problems through intelligent, automated analysis of the full range of enterprise and IT management data.

For our purposes, we'll focus on performance and... More...

The Unix year 2038 problem by Bill Bradford, Contributor
issue for many years now, and are actively working on solutions. In most cases, the problem will be solved by having the operating system and applications eventually run in full 64-bit mode.

I expect all major desktop operating systems to be fully 64-bit in the next five to 10 years. Additionally, a trickle down effect will help to replace current systems... More...

Is Nagios right for your data center? by Roger Rustad, Contributor
projects, such as Oreon, or even commercial solutions, such as Groundworks, Zabbix, or Zenoss.

"To really trend your network traffic, however, you have to integrate Nagios with other tools, such as Cacti or Smokeping, and then use Nagios to monitor and alert on the running averages of those databases," Khoe says.

Like any tool, Nagios can be a double... More...

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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...

How will data centers weather the economic downturn? by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
Only mandatory buys will go on (in order to meet regulatory compliance, storage demand).

I think we'll see server life cycles stretched. Even the government will cut back. We're on a Continuing Resolution which keeps budgets at the same level, but since there are cost-of-living increases, it effectively cuts the budget for everything else.

The drop in... More...