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DEFINITION: Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators. Functions  … 
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Storage Resource Management White Papers (View All Report Types)
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Disaster recovery planning fundamentals: DR testing basics
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
WHITE PAPER: A disaster recovery plan represents an organization's detailed roadmap of where to go, what to do and when to do it in the event of a disaster. Understanding what does the business need, and is it capable of addressing this need with regard to both capabilities and cost is essential in the overall planning stages.
Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009


Nine Storage-Related Attributes of an Enterprise Cloud
sponsored by Compellent
WHITE PAPER: A robust enterprise cloud should not be focused myopically on CPUs, memory, disks, and a range of IP addressees. Businesses instead should include the nine attributes presented in this paper when formulating an enterprise cloud platform strategy.
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009


Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009


Real-Time Data Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Double-Take Software UK
WHITE PAPER: To provide disaster recovery for virtual machines running on a Hyper-V host, look to Double-Take for Hyper-V from Double-Take Software to protect your workloads with real-time replication and automated failover for virtualized workloads. Read this white paper for more details.
Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009


Path Aware Performance Management for HP EVA and XP Array
sponsored by Avnet, HP and Partners
WHITE PAPER: This paper will address how current performance management challenges can be resolved through HP Storage Essentials Performance Edition (HP SEPE) software.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009


Finding the Risks and Opportunities in Your Storage
sponsored by NTP Software
WHITE PAPER: Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009


Four Critical Imperatives for Data Protection and Recovery: BEX Innovative Architecture Delivers Holistic Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009


Virtualization, Deduplication, and the Data Protection Connection: Reinventing IT Infrastructure Consolidation with Efficient Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: As data center resource consolidation gains traction, many organizations are missing the big picture. For reducing primary storage footprints, they're looking at virtualization in isolation; for reducing secondary backup storage, they're focusing on deduplication in isolation. To consolidate optimally, they must consider the full landscape.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009


Value Proposition for IBM DB2 9.7 -- Cost Savings Potential Compared to Oracle 11g; International Technology Group; July 2009
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009


Desktop Virtualization Strategy – Choosing the Right Solution for Your Needs
sponsored by SHI
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to create a virtualization strategy that improves mobility, flexibility, security, and compliance. It also introduces comprehensive desktop-virtualization solutions from Microsoft. Finally, it provides high-level guidance to help companies develop a desktop-virtualization strategy.
Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009


How an SRM Tool can Improve and Centralize Storage Technologies
sponsored by Northern Parklife
WHITE PAPER: Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data.
Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009


E-Guide: Storage Virtualization Best Practices
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Using VMware Infrastructure 3 with 3PAR Utility Storage in Datacenter Deployments
sponsored by 3PAR
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009


Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Did you know it’s possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this whitepaper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009


Centralized Data Backup: Proven Strategy for WAN based backup
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.
Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009


Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009


Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009


E-Guide: An Overview of Scale-Out Network Attached Storage
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide provides an overview of the benefits of Scale-out storage and includes guidance on how to create an RFP when you are ready to invest in a NAS system.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009


Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009


Where Do You Put a Million Files? HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Today’s storage-intensive businesses bring extreme data volumes with them. This must be stored as economically as possible, while providing the critical uptime to satisfy thousands of diverse users.
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 | Published: 21 Sep 2009


Six Easy Ways to Control Storage Growth
sponsored by NTP Software
WHITE PAPER: Controlling storage growth has become one of the most important challenges for many companies. This White Paper explores six ways that others have used with great success.
Posted: 21 Sep 2009 | Published: 21 Sep 2009


Mimosa NearPoint for SharePoint: A Better Approach to SharePoint Recovery, Retention, and eDiscovery
sponsored by Mimosa Systems UK
WHITE PAPER: The benefits SharePoint delivers are undeniable —better and more efficient team collaboration, version control for documents edited by multiple team members, and faster access to information via search; SharePoint brings a new level of control to high-volume, user-generated content.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009


Take Control of SharePoint Proliferation with Unified Recovery, Retention, and eDiscovery
sponsored by Mimosa Systems UK
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how an archiving solution supports the management and protection of SharePoint content across an enterprise by providing: Back-Up & Recovery, Storage Optimisation, Retention Management, eDiscovery, and Seamless End User Access.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009


Consolidating SQL Server for Lower TCO
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Because of the success of SQL Server in recent years, unintended consequences have developed. These include low levels of utilization, poor availability, and an enormous management burden inflicted on many IT departments. This paper describes a solution: HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server.
Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009


File Systems Define the Future for Managing Storage
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Read this study for a thorough review of the file-based storage market. It describes technology while establishing use cases, analyzing the opportunity, and putting forth assumptions about the future.
Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

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STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): … Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators. Functions of an SRM program include data storage, data collection, data backup, data recovery, SAN performance analysis, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, forecasting of future needs, maintenance of activity logs, user authentication, protection from hackers and worms, and management of network expansion. An SRM solution may be offered as a stand-alone product, or as part of an integrated program suite.
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