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- Network Storage: Beyond the Hype
- More than a simple overview of latest developments in network storage technology, this sample chapter from The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management takes a challenging, critical approach to evaluating the business value of network storage opti
- Tags: acquisition, administrator, Holy Grail, marketing, network, network storage, Network Storage Management, Prentice Hall Inc., storage
- Download resources 2006-05-09
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- Network Storage: Beyond the Hype
- This sample chapter from The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management offers storage administrators and managers a critical, vendor-neutral introduction to network storage management. More than a simple overview of latest developments in network storage technology, this sample chapter from The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management...
- Tags: Network, Storage, Network Storage
- Book chapters 2006-05-09
- Storage Network Management - Part I
- Storage networks have now become so pervasive, and their configurations so extensive that it is somewhat difficult to remember their rather humble beginnings as loops of fewer than 100 devices. These difficulties caused several members of the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA to meet in private session in 2000 to...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Network Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-26
- Storage Network Management - Part III
- This paper provides a basic grounding in the history of network management interfaces and interface definitions as a background and introduction to the work being performed by the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA as part of the Storage Management Initiative. The paper contrasts the characteristics of predecessor definitions with the...
- Tags: Storage Networking Industry Association, Definition, Network Management, Storage, Network Administration, Networking, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-21
- Why SMI-S Compliance Is Key to Efficient Storage Management
- The rapid rise of storage networking has improved the effectiveness of managing storage assets. The downside has been increased complexity from trying to manage numerous heterogeneous storage networking components. Point storage management tools do not have a comprehensive enough view to allow them to address all of the resulting inefficiencies....
- Tags: Storage Networking, Downside, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-28
- Network Storage Management With HP StorageWorks iSCSI Feature Pack and HP StorageWorks Storage Servers - White Paper
- The emergence of the Internet SCSCI iSCSI standard and the broad industry support that it is garnering translate into lower-cost network storage solutions as compared to Fibre Channel architectures. By integrating iSCSI management solutions into the Microsoft Storage Server 2003 operating system, HP is delivering increased flexibility to IT management...
- Tags: iSCSI, Hewlett-Packard Co., Network, HP StorageWorks, Network Storage, Server, Storage Server, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware, Networking
- White papers 2004-09-01
- VICS: A Storage Virtualization Management System for SAN
- Storage Area Networks SANs have the virtues of high scalability, high availability and high performance. On the other hand, their storage virtualization systems are not compatible with multi-operating systems, and it is hard for the virtualization storage management system to manage multi-type storage. This paper proposes a new virtualization storage...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, SAN, Virtual Intelligent Control System, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-20
- Managing IBM TotalStorage DS300 / DS400 With IBM Director
- IBM Director Version 5.10 added support for managing the IBM TotalStorage DS300 iSCSI and DS400 Fibre storage subsystems as SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification storage devices. SMI-S is a standard developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association SNIA for storage devices. The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative SMI was created to...
- Tags: Storage Management, IBM Director, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., SMI-S, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-26
- Storage Networking: Back to Basics
- Rarely has there been a more confusing topic than storage networking. I get confused and this is what I do for a living, so I can only imagine the mind-numbing blather that the poor end-users — who have real jobs — have to deal with. This paper will help make...
- Tags: Storage Networking, Network, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2001-04-09
- Are You Ready for a SAN? How a Storage Area Network Can Improve Your Life
- If your IT organization is struggling to manage growing data in a direct-attached storage environment, it might be time to migrate to a storage area network SAN. There are several ways that a SAN can dramatically improve your storage management situation: Improve efficiency of...
- Tags: SAN, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Agentless Management of Windows Infrastructure White Paper: How HP Storage Essentials Provide Non-Invasive Management of Windows Based Servers
- HP Storage Essentials, the industry's leading storage area management solution, is built using open industry standards such as CIM, and takes advantage of WMI in Windows environments to deliver comprehensive management of applications, servers, storage network components, and direct attached storage DAS, network-attached storage NAS, and storage area network SAN...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Server, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software, 2007
- Storage Resource Management SRM vendors provide products that are mandatory for the effective management of shared storage environments. Niche vendors can offer solutions for functions not addressed by general-purpose products or to provide a lower-cost alternative when only a portion of the SRM functionality is required. In 2005, Gartner merged...
- Tags: Software, Quadrant, SAN, Gartner Inc., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-19
- HP Storage Essentials: A Business Justification
- The enterprise IT organization is responsible for delivering and maintaining the infrastructure and services that enable businesses to compete effectively and respond quickly to changing market requirements. Most enterprises have experienced fast-paced growth of storage capacity. The range of storage area network SAN and network attached storage NAS products offered...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Select the Storage Management Solution That Aligns Your Business and IT Needs to Help Address Your Data Management Challenges
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides centralized, automated data protection that may help reduce the risks associated with data loss, help reduce complexity, helps to manage costs, and help ensure compliance with regulatory data-retention requirements. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is also available with expanded capabilities such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager...
- Tags: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Storage Management, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Live Webcast: Simplify network management with virtualized storage
- Despite its growing popularity, many IT professionals remain skeptical of virtualized storage as an enabling technology for simplified storage management. So what's the real story behind virtualized storage solutions? Sponsored by Dell and hosted by Josh Gingold, this live ZDNet Webcast will: Explain...
- Tags: Webcast, Network, Network Management, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-02-25
- Storage Virtualization from IBM: Optimizing Storage Throughout the Information Lifecycle
- Learn how storage virtualization fits into an Information Lifecycle Management strategy and learn how IBM's market leading technology for storage area network SAN virtualization can improve storage utilization, decrease time and effort required for storage provisioning, simplify data migration, reduce application downtime and more.
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Storage Area Management: Business Brief
- This paper highlights the importance of tying the management of storage with the requirements of the business applications that use the storage and the business strategies and processes that depend on those applications. This paper presents a layered approach to storage management that stresses the importance of solidifying your lower...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Managing Storage Growth Tops User Challenges
- Enterprise storage users face challenges that go beyond simply looking for the lowest-cost tactical hardware procurement. One of the biggest challenges they face is to reduce their storage Total Cost of Ownership TCO and manage storage growth more efficiently. Storage area networks and information lifecycle management top the list of...
- Tags: Storage, ITIL, Hardware, It Services
- White papers 2004-11-10
- Network Drive vs Removable Storage
- I am installing a new machine - WinXP Pro, SP2. When I try to connect to our network drives, two show up connecting to the network but the other three show up as removable storage. How can I connect the other three to the network?Please disregardI went into disk...
- Tags: hanke@..., removable storage, network, storage
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Using Oracle 10g Database Automatic Storage Management With Network Appliance Storage
- Automatic Storage Management ASM provides an integrated file system and volume manager for the database files, built into the Oracle Database kernel. With this capability, ASM provides an alternative to some of the third-party file-system and volume management solutions for database storage management tasks, such as creating/laying out databases and...
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Oracle Corp., Storage Management, Oracle Application Server 10g, Automatic Storage Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2004-06-01
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