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- Automated Storage Provisioning for Windows Using TotalStorage Productivity Center and Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- The provisioning of SAN attached storage capacity to a server can be a time consuming and cumbersome process. The task requires skilled storage administrators. However, there is a solution to this through automation. This paper looks at how an automated storage provisioning solution can be realized for a Windows environment...
- Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Provisioning, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Storage Capacity, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Intelligent Storage Provisioning for UNIX and LINUX Environments
- Storage provisioning is the process used to provide appropriate storage capacity to applications. Intelligent Storage Provisioning ISP is a feature of the VERITAS Storage Foundation product family that allows application volumes to be created from disks1 that meet installation-specified criteria. Provisioning block storage capacity involves configuring physical storage devices, ensuring...
- Tags: Storage Provisioning, Linux, Unix, Storage Capacity, Intelligent Storage Provisioning, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-07-05
- Photos: New Hitachi hard drives
- These models are designed to operate in hostile conditions, compensate for vehicle motion and offer plenty of storage capacity.
- Tags: hard drive, Hitachi Ltd., photograph, storage, storage capacity
- Image galleries 2006-09-01
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- HP StorageWorks Utility Ready Storage Solution Technical Blueprint
- The HP StorageWorks Utility Ready Storage program is a utility pricing solution that allows one to select the storage configuration and software appropriate and pay monthly based on the amount of storage capacity configured for use. The key to Utility Ready Storage is - HP ensures storage capacity never runs...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, HP StorageWorks Utility Ready Storage Program, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-09-01
- An ITIL-Based Approach to Building Effective Storage Capacity Management in Support of ILM
- Capacity management is the foundation for establishing tiered storage in support of the information lifecycle management goals. It is best achieved by following a proven, ITIL based process for determining baseline storage capacity and performance baselines, establishing target utilization rates, and rebalancing assets. Once it is successfully applied capacity management...
- Tags: Information Lifecycle Management, Capacity Management, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), ITIL, Storage, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, It Services, Hardware, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2004-08-01
- The Frugal Storage Manager: Mapping Out a Careful Strategy Can Cut Costs and Increase Ef?ciencies
- When it comes to buying storage capacity, the mantra of many organizations is "too much is not enough." After all, storage requirements are exploding. E-mail messages and their associated attachments are gobbling up capacity at a dizzying pace. Regulations now force organizations to maintain and archive more data than ever,...
- Tags: Strategy, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2005-06-02
- Network Appliance Case Study: Meeus
- Meeus is one of the largest national service providers of insurance, mortgages, and real estate. The key challenges faced were centralizing company-wide storage infrastructure and realizing expandable storage capacity. The Data ONTAP operating system offered and the flexibility in expanding capacity, NetApp was finally chosen in a unanimous internal decision....
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., NetApp, Meeus, Storage, Hardware
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- iSCSI Simplifies Storage Area Networks
- Medium-size and enterprise-level business continue to experience expanding network storage capacity needs. This need for more capacity stems from a variety of causes. E-mail traffic volume, number of attachments and attachment sizes continue to increase. Collaborative work environments, databases, and multimedia usage further increase traffic and storage requirements. A new...
- Tags: iSCSI, Network, SAN, Network Storage, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Performance Analysis of IOP Processor (XScale) for SAN/NAS Application
- Over the past several years, applications such as data warehousing, e-commerce and online multimedia have placed enormous demands on computing infrastructures, not only from a network capacity perspective, but also increasingly from a storage capacity perspective. Effectively managing vast amounts of storage has created the need for a robust, scalable...
- Tags: NAS, Performance, Intel XScale, SAN, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-04
- Evaluation of Distributed Recovery in Large-Scale Storage Systems
- Storage clusters consisting of thousands of disk drives are now being used both for their large capacity and high throughput. However, their reliability is far worse than that of smaller storage systems due to the increased number of storage nodes. RAID technology is no longer sufficient to guarantee the necessary...
- Tags: Disk, Storage System, RAID Technology, Storage, Hardware
- White papers
- IBM System Storage DS8300 80,000 Mailbox Local Continuous Replication Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
- The DS8000 series offers high-performance, high-capacity storage designed to deliver scalability, resiliency and total value for large Exchange 2007 environments. The 8300 is designed to deliver robust, flexible and cost-effective disk storage for mission-critical workloads, scaling up to 512TB of physical capacity. This paper provides detailed information on IBM's storage...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Mailbox, Replication, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-19
- Storage Virtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
- This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system. Virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network SAN. The paper also describes...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Virtualization Technology, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Resizing the Root Volume on IBM System Storage N Series
- The N series storage systems root volume arrived preconfigured by default with a RAID-DP configuration of three disks. The default root volume of the storage system has the effective capacity of one disk while utilizing three disks for its parity and double parity. In an environment where the number of...
- Tags: Disk, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-07
- IBM and Tectrade Help Winterthur Life UK Meet Storage Demands
- Winterthur Life UK wanted to increase capacity and scalability of mainframe storage; improve performance and flexibility of storage for Microsoft Windows-based systems; and simplify storage management and enable faster response to new business requirements. Worked with IBM Business Partner Tectrade to implement an IBM TotalStorage DS8100 storage system, with IBM...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Tectrade, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-05-09
- Hitachi HiCommand Path Provisioning Software: End-to-end, Rules-Based Provisioning of Heterogeneous Storage
- Hitachi HiCommand Storage Services Manager software is the first storage management platform to make use of the open SMI-S protocols. Storage Services Manager software allows administrators to manage capacity across a broad range of heterogeneous storage systems, from application to spindle, using open standard interfaces. The HiCommand Path Provisioning module...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Provisioning, Storage Services Manager Software, HiCommand Path Provisioning Module, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Managing File Server Growth With Archiving
- One of the few certainties in business today is the ever-increasing growth of data and the persistent demand for storage resources. The amount of data accumulating in many organizations is far outpacing storage capacity. As a result, IT departments are increasingly burdened with mounting storage management duties, longer backup windows...
- Tags: Archiving, Server, File Server, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-09-20
- Lowering Database Storage Complexity and Management Cost With HP Thin Provisioning XP and Oracle Database 10g and 11g
- This paper explores and outlines how to apply HP StorageWorks XP Thin Provisioning and other HP XP technologies to help simplify and manage an Oracle Database 10g/11g environment. HP Thin Provisioning ThP provides significant capacity usage reductions as it allows administrators to allocate storage based on traditional methods, but only...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Provisioning, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- NAS or iSCSI?: Selecting a Storage System
- This white paper's aim is to help system administrators decide between the two storage technologies NAS and iSCSI. Both technologies were developed to help cover the exponentially increasing need for storage capacity by means of external, scalable storage devices that can be networked if necessary. In any company, the use...
- Tags: NAS, Storage System, Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-25
- HP Storage Essentials File System Viewer White Paper
- Storage managers encounter difficult problems every day. They are bombarded with questions about storage usage and face perplexing decisions regarding the storage. For instance, an executive might reasonably ask how much storage a particular business unit is using and whether its usage is excessive. Or, users may be complaining about...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., File System, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
- How the Oracle Enterprise Technology Center Scaled its Storage Infrastructure to Meet Customer Demand
- As its largest hands-on training facility, Oracle's Enterprise Technology Center ETC is used by Oracle and its customers to develop, demonstrate, and test Oracle solutions in a full-scale enterprise environment. But prior to a February 2005 storage upgrade, capacity limitations prevented the Oracle ETC from satisfying all its customers' support...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., 3PARData Inc., Storage, Workforce Management, Hardware, Human Resources
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