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Storage Consolidation

ALSO CALLED: Data Consolidation, Consolidation, and Storage Centralization
DEFINITION: Storage consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while minimizing the time required to access and store data. Other desirable features  … 
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Internet Protocol & Fibre Channel in SANs
sponsored by Storage Decisions
WHITE PAPER: This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency
sponsored by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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Clustered Storage: From SMB, to Scientific, to File Serving, to Commercial, Social Networking and Web 2.0
sponsored by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER: Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth.
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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eGuide: Storage Virtualization - Help Your Customers Manage Growing Storage Demands While Boosting Your Services Revenue This Year
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
WHITE PAPER: This eGuide serves as a technology introduction to storage virtualization, and explores the areas where growing storage demands require attention.
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008
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Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference?
sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The way we think about backup and archiving has changed recently. This stems from advances in synthetic and incremental capabilities, as well as a breadth of support for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the difference?
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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Virtualizing Exchange
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Organizations encounter numerous challenges related to running Exchange Server as a mission-critical backbone of their communications infrastructure. This paper offers a best practices approach to running Exchange within a virtual environment.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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Cassatt 2008 Data Center Energy-Efficient Survey
sponsored by Cassatt Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Studies from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others show that data center energy use has more than doubled since 2000.
Posted: 15 Sep 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008
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Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: The growth of business-related data means IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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Optimizing Storage with Global File Virtualization
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Global file virtualization is changing network storage management. Learn about a solution that allows organizations to easily simplify management, increase utilization, resolve performance bottlenecks, leverage tiered storage and lower TCO.
Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 03 Sep 2008
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Taneja Group: Evaluating File Virtualization Solutions
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: File virtualization help address the management challenges of traditional NAS. Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn five strategic questions you should ask your vendors when evaluating a file virtualization solution.
Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 03 Sep 2008
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Meeting Data Storage Challenges with Eco-friendly Solutions
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WHITE PAPER: With eco-friendly demands coming in the form of economic issues, government directives and public pressure, organizations that fail to adapt their operations to address environmental issues face the prospects of incurring additional costs.
Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Chapter 1: Storage Consolidation Tools
sponsored by Overland Storage
WHITE PAPER: Storage managers need to know how to purchase products for their storage consolidation initiatives. This guide covers purchasing criteria and product specs for consolidation technologies such as NAS, disk arrays, data migration tools and virtualization.
Posted: 25 Jul 2008 | Published: 05 Feb 2008
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Making Virtualization and SAN the Perfect Combination
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, explains how putting virtual machines on your Storage Area Network (SAN) will give you high availability (HA) that protects your virtual machines if one of the physical machines goes down.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 09 Jul 2008
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Storage Virtualization Presentation Download: Should You Virtualize?
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization delivers several benefits for organizations if deployed correctly. Explore this presentation download for insights as to what these benefits are and get advice for if and how you should virtualize your storage.
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008
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VMware Data Backup and Recovery -- Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Data Domain
WHITE PAPER: VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
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Valuing the Need for Data Speed at Critical Business Inflections
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER: The survey represents a close look into the issues, drivers, challenges, imperatives and best practices in maintaining system uptime in the midst of exploding demand for increased data performance and storage.
Posted: 06 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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New Deployment Methods for Desktops
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization and diskless desktops are two deployment methods that enhance remote desktops, offering consolidation with fewer limitations.
Posted: 28 May 2008 | Published: 07 May 2008
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Strategies for Reducing Datacenter Power Consumption
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Strategies such as storage tiering, thin provisioning, and automated load balancing improve efficiency and utilization resulting in reduced power consumption.
Posted: 28 May 2008 | Published: 07 May 2008
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Five Reasons to Make Dell EqualLogic PS Series Your Storage Consolidation Solution
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document explains the five reasons to make dell EqualLogic PS Series your storage consolidation solution.
Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008
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Storage Consolidation 101
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide, features expert articles and tips from SearchStorage.com outlines the major aspects of initiating a consolidation project.
Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Business Velocity on a New Scale Resource Center
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
WHITE PAPER: Customers in all markets are seeing demand for new levels of storage performance, flexibility, and scalability to cope with today's data intensive environments. This Resource Center highlights technologies that can help you achieve this.
Posted: 30 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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ESG: Building an Information Infrastructure -- Focus on iSCSI
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: iSCSI has proven to live up to its promise of lower costs and simplified management. Read this ESG white paper to learn all about iSCSI - from the impact it's having on storage infrastructures to the benefits it delivers.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
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Disk Assisted Back-Up White Paper: Backup to Disk and How to Implement It with HP Data Protector
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Advancements in technology and price reductions have recently made it possible to use disk together with tape to improve data protection. This white paper discusses the benefits of this technology.
Posted: 31 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2006
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Leveraging New VMware Capabilities with the New CLARiiON AX4
sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: For organizations planning to consolidate their storage, they need a proven reliable solution. Read this white paper to learn about one such solution and how it leverages VMware capabilities to deliver even more benefits.
Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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STORAGE CONSOLIDATION DEFINITION (continued): …  include simplification of the storage infrastructure, centralized and efficient management, optimized resource utilization, and low operating cost.

There are three storage consolidation architectures in common use: network-attached storage (NAS), redundant array of independent disks (RAID), and the storage area network (SAN). In NAS, the hard drive that stores the data has its own network address. Files can be stored and retrieved rapidly because they do … 
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