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May 24, 2013

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ALSO CALLED: Data Consolidation, Consolidation, 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 include simplification of the storage infrastructure, centralized and efficient management, optimized … Definition continues below.
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Navicure achieves business agility and meets data storage sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This exclusive paper examines how a SaaS provider in the healthcare industry was able to utilize a storage solution that could expand its capacity by adding three to four storage arrays a year, allowing for smooth service delivery that's not bogged down by storage bottlenecks. Posted: 24 May 2013 \| Published: 24 May 2013 TOPICS: Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure

Top reasons why customers choose EMC VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft applications sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This short white paper provides you with the top eight reasons why customers choose EMC VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft applications. Posted: 22 May 2013 \| Published: 20 Nov 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Private Cloud \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

A question of scale: when to invest in an enterprise-class NAS sponsored by Dell, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This brief two page white paper provides four criteria IT organizations should consider when to migrating from a file-server solution to a NAS solution, as well as the benefits of NAS-based management over file server farms. Posted: 22 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| File Management Programs \| File Server Software \| NAS \| Server Management \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

How to Solve Application Performance Problems sponsored by Virident WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will discover how to gain a competitive edge over your competition and reduce storage cost with a comprehensive solution to your application performance problems. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 20 May 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Design \| Data Center Management \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Hard Disks \| Hardware \| RAID \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

Why CIOs Should Look To Data Deduplication sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll discover why CIOs should look to data deduplication as financial uncertainty has elevated cost control to the top of IT management's priority list. Check it out now to learn what IT executives are implementing to alleviate financial burdens. Posted: 20 May 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Budgeting \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Data Replication \| Financial Management \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management

Oracle's Pillar Axiom -- A Better Choice Than EMC sponsored by Oracle India Pvt. Ltd WHITE PAPER: The Oracle Pillar Axiom 600 storage system addresses some key challenges that competing storage vendors have yet to overcome. It's an ideal fit for consolidating storage for multiple Oracle Databases or Oracle Applications, and it's also a good choice for EMC CLARiiON customers nearing the end of a lease agreement. Posted: 17 May 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Data Compression \| Oracle (Product) \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Spending \| Storage Systems

Taking Advantage of Multicore/Multiprocessor Technologies to Meet Today's Storage Needs sponsored by Oracle India Pvt. Ltd WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores how Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances can perform complex processing for compression, deduplication, real-time storage analytics, and other advanced data services without slowing down I/O throughput and without costing more than competing solutions. Posted: 17 May 2013 \| Published: 24 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Compression \| Data Destruction \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Industry \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Spending

Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow's Data Center sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will gain insight into increasingly dynamic environments that require infrastructure integration that demands a high level of expertise – relinquishing IT professionals from their DIY mentality to implementing ICPs for optimal efficiency. Read now to learn more. Posted: 16 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Private Cloud \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

The business value of improved backup and recovery sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper provides you with a comprehensive approach to data protection – addressing the issue of complex requirements demanded by the continuous growth of information. Read on now to learn more. Posted: 09 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Infrastructure Management \| Private Cloud \| Public Cloud \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Strategic Planning

SanDisk FlashSoft for VMware vSphere sponsored by SanDisk Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, you will get insight into an innovative SanDisk product that accelerates application performance in VMware guest machines. Posted: 07 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Flash Memory \| Server Management \| Server Software \| Server Virtualization \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Migration \| VMware

Oracle's Pillar Axiom -- A Better Choice Than EMC sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This paper compares Oracle's innovative storage system with the EMC VNX family of storage products and describes how Oracle's approach can help organizations reduce costs and increase agility, while meeting the demanding performance requirements of today's virtualized application and server infrastructures. Posted: 07 May 2013 \| Published: 31 May 2012 TOPICS: Oracle (Product) \| RAID \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Buyer's E-Guide to Next Generation NAS sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper guides you in the right direction when investing in a NAS system in three criterions. Also, you will have an analytical overview of an innovative solution suitable for enterprise applications, virtualized environments, cloud infrastructures, storage consolidation and data protection requirements. Posted: 06 May 2013 \| Published: 06 May 2013 TOPICS: Data Acquisition Hardware \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| NAS \| Oracle (Product) \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

Buyer's E-Guide to Tomorrow's SAN Technology sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This informative resource provides you with three criterions to make the right decision when investing in a SAN storage system. Posted: 06 May 2013 \| Published: 06 May 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Oracle (Product) \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Strategic Planning

Making the Right Storage Choices: 10 Must-Ask Questions sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This brief guide will arm you with ten must ask questions you need to consider when reviewing your storage strategy. Posted: 03 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Management \| Hardware \| High Availability \| Scalability Testing \| Software \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Strategic Planning \| Vendor Selection \| Vendors

Fidelity Information Systems and IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM System Storage for Easy Tier sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark testing that was done with IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and Fidelity information services in January 2012. Posted: 02 May 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| Hardware \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management

Princeton Insurance Increases Flexibility, Strengthens Competitive Edge with Private Cloud sponsored by Arrow + NetApp WHITE PAPER: This short case study reveals how Princeton Insurance deployed a converged storage platform and created their own private cloud, and the considerable cost and efficiency benefits they now enjoy. Read now to learn more. Posted: 01 May 2013 \| Published: 30 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Cloud Storage \| Cloud Storage Services \| Cloud Storage Strategy \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Service Providers \| Storage Spending

Sepaton S2100 Enterprise Data Protection Appliance: The safe bet for enterprise and government data centers sponsored by SEPATON WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a data protection platform that accommodates massive data volumes, rapid data growth, and changing storage architectures, empowering enterprises to take on the most critical data protection challenges. Posted: 26 Apr 2013 \| Published: 26 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| Data Center Management \| Disk Backups \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

The Five Must-Haves of Big Data Storage sponsored by Red Hat WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores five must-haves to master big data storage for your company. Learn about the distinct factors that contribute to the challenges of storing big data and how one vendor's software-based, scale-out storage platform can help your organization address them. Posted: 24 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Backup Software \| Backups \| Capacity Planning \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Storage \| Data Management \| Hybrid clouds \| Public Cloud \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management

Best Practices for Optimizing IT sponsored by FalconStor Software WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an outline for conducting an audit of your existing IT infrastructure, including operations and costs, to assess where optimization could be applied. It also explores the best practices for implementing an optimized IT model to simplify IT and make it more cost-effective and efficient. Posted: 22 Apr 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Deduplication \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Security

Top 10 Endpoint Backup Mistakes sponsored by Druva Software WHITE PAPER: From choosing the correct deduplication solution to not picking the right deployment model, this white paper sheds light on the top ten endpoint backup mistakes made in the IT landscape today. Posted: 04 Apr 2013 \| Published: 04 Apr 2013 TOPICS: Backup for Virtualized Servers \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage for Virtualized Servers

Storage optimization: Improve utilization and boost performance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This resource presents a next-generation storage solution that will enable you to virtualize and optimize your current storage environment. Posted: 28 Mar 2013 \| Published: 30 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

Managing Virtualized Storage Environments with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center solution, from IBM. Continue on to discover how this next-generation platform can help you efficiently manage your virtualized storage environment. Posted: 27 Mar 2013 \| Published: 30 Jun 2010 TOPICS: Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Gain visibility, control and automation in your storage environment sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents the next-generation storage tool from IBM, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. Continue on to see how it will help you efficiently manage your complex storage environment. Posted: 27 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization

Hit the Reset Button for Storage sponsored by Barracuda Networks WHITE PAPER: Discover how using a two-tiered storage optimization solution will eliminate duplicate data and compress data before storage, helping you cut both storage and labor costs within your organization. Posted: 26 Mar 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Communications Services \| Data Compression \| Data Deduplication \| Data Governance \| Data Replication \| Data Security \| Messaging Security \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Storage Service Providers \| Storage Spending

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and VMware vSphere 5 Best Practices sponsored by HP and VMware WHITE PAPER: Access this comprehensive best practices paper to get a grip on your vSphere 5 environment with 3PAR StoreServ federated tier-1 storage. Posted: 20 Mar 2013 \| Published: 28 Feb 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Storage \| Data Recovery \| Data Storage \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Spending \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| VMware \| VMware Server

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STORAGE CONSOLIDATION DEFINITION (continued): … 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 not compete with other computers for processor resources. In RAID storage consolidation, the data is located on multiple disks. The array appears as a single logical hard drive. This facilitates balanced overlapping of input/output (I/O) operations …
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