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ARX® Series Intelligent File Virtualization Devices by F5 Networks
intelligent file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, eliminating the disruption and automating many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in efficiency. File Storage Constraints Today's file storage environments comprise a complex collection of storage platforms, file systems and operating systems that result in...
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,...
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...
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...
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. Back in 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding; in 2007 only five new...
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...
Services Oriented Storage: Principles and Applications - A Hitachi Data Systems White Paper by Hitachi Data Systems
the white paper to learn how Services Oriented Storage from Hitachi Data Systems facilitates intelligent tiered storage, common management of heterogeneous storage, data protection, archiving and performance optimization. Services Oriented Storage is a strategy that aligns storage resources with business needs. The approach creates a flexible, adaptive...
How to Simplify Information Management through Advanced Storage Consolidation by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
to helping organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs. Despite the benefits achieved from today's breed of mature networked storage infrastructures, enterprises continue to struggle with...
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...
What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management...
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...
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...
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...
Storage Virtualisation Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
tips to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualisation project. Storage virtualisation continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualisation's merits in ways that might lead one to conclude that the term has a single, agreed-upon meaning and...
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...
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...
Leveraging Solid-State Technology (SSD) in the High Performance Storage Tier by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
drive (SSD) technology in the high-performance storage tier to help storage professionals understand and make better decisions regarding their storage infrastructure. This SearchStorage Tech Report examines the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology in the high-performance storage tier called Tier 0. This Tech Report discusses the differences between...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
ways to embed virtualization into your storage infrastructure. Here are the pros and cons of the various approaches. Virtualization is showing up in all layers 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...
Run Storage as a Utility by Storage Magazine
cost savings if different tiers of storage are parceled out to business units on a pay-for-use basis. You can achieve considerable cost savings if different tiers of storage are parceled out to business units on a pay-for-use basis.

Running storage as a centralized service has been touted as a good way to reduce costs, simplify storage administration and aid...
IBM System Storage DS Family-Telecommunications by IBM
In this whitepaper learn how the IBMSystem Storage DS Family is designed to help businesses optimize storage infrastructure, leverage information, mitigate 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...
IBM System Storage DS Family by IBM
In this paper learn how the IBM System Storage DS Family is designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management. The IBM System Storage DS Family offers flexible, scalable storage options.

Storage infrastructure simplification is an important step a business...
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
Learn how the IBM Systems Storage DS Family is an ideal partner for businesses in the electronics industry looking 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 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...
Case Study: Hitachi Breathes New Life into Critical Applications at UHC by Hitachi Data Systems
After outgrowing its storage infrastructure, University HealthSystem Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized, tiered storage environment. Learn how UHC achieved such dramatic results by reading this end user case study. The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) is an alliance of academic medical...
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Green UPS Tier IV data center water-side economizers by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
The data center also has a 650,000-gallon thermal storage tank with redundant water sources (a well and city water for backup). The thermal storage tank was designed to provide about 20 hours of emergency cooling, but Parrino's team also uses it for energy cost management.

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Using ASHRAE specs for data center metrics by Don Beaty, PE
controlExample 1Yes tightServers and storage products 2YesLooseServer and storage products (outside of data center) 3YesNoWorkstations,PCs and printers 4NoNoPoint of sales equipment ASHRAE 2006

Class 1 is typically a data center with tightly controlled environmental parameters (dew point, temperature, and relative humidity... More...

Storage performance testing -- Strengths and weakneses by Stephen J. Bigelow, Features Writer
Storage performance testing (SPT) may be called for when there is a pressing question that a data center manager needs to answer. Sometimes those questions can be answered through in-house performance testing. In other cases, outside testing makes more sense. And smaller organizations typically... 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...