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The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Isilon's Clustered Storage System", is a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by Isilon which reveals that Isilon clustered storage systems deliver a risk-adjusted ROI of 125 percent and... "The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of Isilon's Clustered Storage System" is a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by Isilon which...
The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
introduce the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. The discussion will introduce the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. In this information-packed session,...
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...
Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2008-2012 Forecast: Content-Centric Customers -- Reshaping Market Demand by Ocarina Networks
study provides a forecast of the worldwide disk storage systems market for 2008 to 2012 as well as a discussion of assumptions and major market trends. Hardware is a commodity, and value is shifting to software and services -- this thesis is widely accepted and has been seen within the IT market for a number of years. Most mature hardware markets expect to experience low...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
these environments. Atrato has developed a data storage system that exploits the low power characteristics of 2.5-inch disk drive technology that allows for:

  • Ultra-high-density packaging: 160 disk drives per 3U enclosure
  • Extremely low power consumption: 450 watts idle, 750 watts 100% active
  • Minimal cooling: ~5°C thermal gradient front to back

This novel approach to...
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...
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...
Solaris ZFS File System Features and Enhancements in the Solaris Operating System for Enterprise Users by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Solaris ZFS file system helps companies take advantage of open storage platforms, enhance data services, and ease administration, as evidenced by many Sun customers worldwide. As file-based data continues to grow and consume storage resources in the enterprise, datacenter managers are turning to the Solaris™ 10...
The Enterprise Strategy Group on Services Oriented Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
Solutions.

The goal of this paper is to utilize storage system assets to provide storage services to the business. For the most part, IT already provides these services, but typically has to achieve this by over-engineering the environment and providing a great deal of manual management. The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
of the storage infrastructure. Host, network and storage system-based block virtualization can each simplify volume management, ease data migrations and decrease storage provisioning times, but all of them increase the complexity of managing a storage environment. As the storage infrastructure becomes more abstracted, organizations may no longer be able to...
Storage Grid Pushes the Envelope by Storage Magazine
When a prominent storage vendor built a 1,000 node storage test grid, it learned plenty of lessons, and a lot of what it learned can be applied to architecting enterprise storage systems. IT projects can be divided into two camps: out-of-the-box implementations that require very little customization and risk; and highly customized jobs in...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Telecommunications by IBM
risk and enable business flexibility. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the Telecom industry.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a telecommunications business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage DS Family can support business continuity and improve...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Financial Svcs Institutions by IBM
This whitepaper explains how the IBM System Storage DS Family can support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management with competitively priced storage options. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for financial institutions.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a financial institution can take...
IBM System Storage DS Family--Electronics by IBM
for secure and resilient data storage. IBM System Storage DS-reliable data storage for the electronics industry

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step an electronics business can take toward meeting the needs of an on-demand business environment. The IBM System Storage DS Family can support business continuity and improve information...
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...
The New EMC CLARiiON CX4: Leading-Edge Midrange Storage for Virtualized Environments by EMC Corporation
The EMC CLARiiON CX4 series of networked storage systems combines CLARiiON five 9's availability with innovative, future-ready technologies to lower your cost of ownership. The EMC CLARiiON CX4 series of networked storage systems combines CLARiiON five 9's availability with innovative, future-ready technologies to lower your cost of...
IDC: Business Value of Virtualized IT: Ensuring That Your Virtualized Servers and Storage Work in Harmony by Citrix
is an integral component of the overall system architecture. The expansion in the range of applications and server environments that companies are deploying will have a significant effect on how they set up their datacenters (including server and storage systems). Organizations are now dealing with rapid data growth and the use of virtualized servers to...
Taking Your IT Consolidation to the Next Step with VMware, HP and Intel by VMware, Inc.
already taken steps to consolidate server and storage systems. But to really make the best use of your resources, you need to add another element to your IT consolidation approach: virtualization. Virtualization allows you to pool and share your IT resources to reduce costs, simplify your IT environment and increase business agility...
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER™ Enterprise-class Data De-duplication by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway based on innovative Diligent ProtecTIER technology was designed to meet the data protection needs of midrange and enterprise-class data centers. The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway based on innovative Diligent ProtecTIER...
Migrate Data without Mistakes by Storage Magazine
data from one array to another, or from one tier of storage to another, is a tedious process that's slowly becoming more automated. Data migrations are a fact of life. In many cases, the migration ends up being a tedious process. Automated tools can help ease migration woes. Host-based migration software takes the load off the storage array and can easily bridge the gap when...
Server Blades and Storage by Storage Magazine
servers, but they create some unique storage and application issues. Many IT shops are moving from traditional rack-mounted servers to blade configurations in hopes of reducing power and floor space requirements in their data centers. But combining blade architectures with server virtualization can cause problems with I/O and storage systems...
Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
server virtualization has an impact on storage infrastructures and may require tweaking disaster recovery plans for storage systems.

In this videocast, Ray Lucchesi addresses these issues, replication and restore capabilities with virtualized servers and other topics including the following:

  • With virtualization you may end up with more servers to
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Buying Update: Storage Managers' Purchasing Plans by Storage Magazine
The fall 2007 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions survey reveals some subtle changes in storage managers' buying plans as new technologies gain greater consideration. A quick scan of the results of Storage magazine's fall 2007 Purchasing Intentions survey might suggest a new chapter in our ongoing barometer of...
Best Practices: Pull the Plug on High Energy Costs by Storage Magazine
Storage systems account for a big chunk of the data center electric bill. Here are some ways to reduce your costs. There's been a flurry of activity among IT vendors to develop lower energy products and with good reason--the cost of electricity continues to rise in every part of the country. Energy experts' opinions differ on...
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IPMI Tutorial: Are you using it? Do you know how? by Ben Rockwood, Contributor
came together to resolve the complexity. First, system boards came to include a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), which acts as a hub for the various sensors throughout a system. Second, IPMI became the standardized way to interact with the BMC.

Almost every modern server motherboard has a BMC built into the mainboard. It's a common... More...

Open source system management suites: A viable alternative? by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
of open source management suites offers another system management alternative. Unlike the typical techie-oriented, do-it-yourself open source tools that have been available for quite a while, vendors of the new breed of open source management suites have created solutions that are more user-friendly, and in some cases are enterprise-ready. So... More...
Securing a CICS screen by Phil Emrich
include the names of programs, VSAM files, temporary storage queues and transient data destinations, but does not include BMS MAPSET names.

If you have one or more cases where a single transaction has been designed such that it may display one of several possible output screens or panels of information then you may be able to use the resource... More...

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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated Facility for... More...

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
past president of the mainframe user group Share

Data centers lean toward server consolidation, cloud computing to pinch pennies
While not every industry will be severely impacted by the economic downturn, I think you will see companies postpone major new IT expenditures and hold current projects under a new level of scrutiny at least for a quarter or two. The... More...