Tiered Storage and Virtualization in the Real World
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
CASE STUDY:
Does a transition to virtualized tiered storage deliver true value, a fast return on investment (ROI), and verifiable cost savings? This case study documents the specific business and economic value realized by one enterprise company after its first year using new storage architecture built on Hitachi tiered storage.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009
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Storage Efficiency: The Key to Green Storage Operation
sponsored by Xiotech Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server-related equipment is generally understood, the story is quite different when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009
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eBook: 6 Essential Strategies For Economizing Your Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WHITE PAPER:
There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Intelligent Tiered Storage: Focus on Hitachi Data Systems
sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
WHITE PAPER:
Implementing different tiers of storage is very common. But mplementing an Intelligent Tiered Storage environment is still the exception than the rule. Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class Intelligent Tiered Storage through its storage management software, storage virtualization solutions, digital archiving, NAS, and VTL offerings.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Presentation Transcript: Best of Breed Data Protection: Architecting Deduplication and Virtualisation
sponsored by Data Domain
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This transcript documents a presentation featuring Brad Blake, Director, IT at Boston Medical Center. Mr. Blake will discuss how he initially started working with Data Domain as part of a VMware project. The meat of his presentation focuses on architecting deduplication and virtualisation for best of breed data protection.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Ensuring Success: Conesco chooses IBM servers with multi-core Intel Xeon processors to consolidate its data center and reduce costs
sponsored by CompuCom and IBM
CASE STUDY:
When Conseco IT management needed to consolidate their hundreds of different servers into a more streamlined hardware and software environment, they chose the IBM 3850 M2 server and the Intel Xeon processor 7300 series with four cores per processor. Read this paper and find out why.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Building a Powerful, Resilient, Affordable IT Infrastructure
sponsored by CompuCom and IBM
WHITE PAPER:
Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Affordable Consolidation Solutions with VMware and IBM System Storage DS3000 series
sponsored by CompuCom and IBM
ANALYST BRIEF:
Consolidating servers with VMware Infrastructure can deliver significant benefits, including: reduced capital and operating costs, infrastructure costs, faster IT response to business demands, improved IT service levels, and more consistent business operations.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Tape Killed The IT Guy
sponsored by SEPATON
VIDEO:
In this very funny though obvious over-dramatization of the weakness of tape as a backup solution, see how tape can end the life of an IT administrator and a 30-minute fix that could be lifesaving.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 18 Nov 2009
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Four Ways to Improve Your TSM Environment with A SEPATON VTL
sponsored by SEPATON
VIDEO:
Get expert insights on the key benefits of VTL technology in a TSM environment. Understand how VTL technology can improve TSM operations and enhance the existing disk pool.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 18 Nov 2009
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DeltaStor Data Deduplication Software
sponsored by SEPATON
DATA SHEET:
This data sheet details DeltaStor® software, SEPATON’s data deduplication application for SEPATON S2100®-ES2 virtual tape libraries (VTLs).
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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SEPATON S2100-ES2 and DeltaStor: Scale-Out VTL and Deduplication
sponsored by SEPATON
WHITE PAPER:
SEPATON S2100-ES2 is architected to efficiently support backup and recovery for demanding enterprise-grade sites. Its DeltaScale scale-out architecture enables expansion in performance or capacity by simply adding a processing node or additional disk capacity.
Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009
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Solutions Guide: Business Ready Configurations for Data Center Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER:
Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009
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Optimizing Business System Management in a Challenging Global Economy: Delivering Service Quality While Improving IT Efficiency
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
ANALYST REPORT:
This IDC White Paper examines the roles of virtualization and automation in improving operational efficiencies. Delivering end-to-end service visibility across both physical and virtual infrastructures is a key requirement for preventing service outages or failures.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009
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Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs (Podcast)
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
PODCAST:
As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2009
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Choosing Your Virtualization Hardware Vendor: Seven Keys to Ensuring Success with Your Customers
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
This paper examines seven key questions you should ask yourself when choosing the prime hardware vendor for your virtualization solutions.
Posted: 17 Nov 2009 | Published: 17 Nov 2009
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Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection
sponsored by Double-Take Software
WHITE PAPER:
Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Real-Time Protection for Hyper-V
sponsored by Double-Take Software
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: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Virtualization Challenges Are Highlighted by User Survey
sponsored by Syncsort
ANALYST BRIEF:
To understand the impact of server virtualization, Syncsort commissioned Ziff Davis Media to conduct a survey around end-user experiences with migrating physical servers to virtual machines (referred to as P2V migration). Read the results here.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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EVault Software: The most advanced solution for online data backup and recovery
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
DATA SHEET:
EVault Software is a proven, reliable, disk-to-disk backup and recovery solution trusted by customers globally to protect mission-critical data and keep their businesses running. Advanced, patented technology ensures that you can securely protect a growing, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed network using one simple solution.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009
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3PAR Thin Technologies
sponsored by 3PAR
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
3PAR Thin Provisioning software improves storage system efficiency and optimizes capacity utilization system-wide. No more up-front capacity allocation. No more dedicating resources for each application. No more paying to power, house, and cool disks you may not need for months or years to come, or may never actually need.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009
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Eight Questions to Ask When Considering an All-in-One Data Protection Solution
sponsored by i365, A Seagate Company
WHITE PAPER:
Many administrators who oversee their organization’s backup and recovery are considering an all-in-one data protection (DP) solution. There are eight things to consider before you make your decision on which solution to purchase and this white paper explains them.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009
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Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and Resource Provisioning
sponsored by Virtustream
WHITE PAPER:
This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009
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Storage Virtualization Seminar Presentation Download
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION:
This presentation highlights how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage.
Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009
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Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
RESOURCE CENTER:
On the Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, you will find storage resources from leading industry experts exploring the technologies, problems and solutions available around Open Storage and SSD.
Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009
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