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Photo: Dell's PowerVault MD3000i
Dell is targeting the small and medium business market with a new storage consolidation system, the PowerVault MD3000i. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, dell, powervault md3000i, TechRepublic Inc., Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerVault, Storage, Photograph, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2007-09-11
Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)
Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Data Protection, Dell EqualLogic, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2009-11-20
Boston University's College of Engineering Achieves 90% Storage Consolidation
Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research. With more than 30,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, BU is one of the largest independent universities in the United States. Boston University was experiencing inconsistency moving data back and forth between Linux and Windows...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, NetApp Inc., Boston University, Storage, Hardware
Case studies 2009-03-01
NAS/SAN Fusion: Exchange and File Storage Consolidation
This white paper begins by introducing the reader to SAN-based and Windows Powered NAS-based technologies. Next, this paper describes the NAS/SAN fusion solution overview, the required components, the solution design, and the required hardware and software. A discussion on implementing a NAS/SAN fusion deployment follows, focusing on the design, sizing,...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
White papers 2003-03-01
Five Reasons to Make Dell EqualLogic PS Series Your Storage Consolidation Solution
Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead. The PS Series' unique peer storage architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely accessed by servers across a standard Ethernet network. The PS Group Manager provides a single, intuitive administrative interface, accessible from anywhere on the network.
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, PS Series, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2009-05-08
CRN: The Value of Storage Consolidation
When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga.,bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. The university was trying to keep more than 50 servers with direct-attached storage up and running....
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell EqualLogic, Storage, Hardware
Case studies 2009-05-08
Storage Consolidation Made Simple With FibreCAT SX
A SAN is a specialized network that provides highly available storage subsystems to multiple hosts servers. This storage network is primarily based on fibre optic technology and allows for very high transfer rates (up to 400 MB/s) between hosts and the storage system. The basic idea of a SAN lies...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, SAN, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2008-12-01
Storage Consolidation With the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI Storage
The PowerVault MD3000i is a cost effective, simple to manage iSCSI storage array that can be used to consolidate the storage of several servers, providing higher storage utilization, integrated snapshots and a single management interface. To demonstrate this, the application storage requirements of five servers were built on a PowerVault...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerVault, PowerVault MD3000i, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware
White papers 2007-09-01
Sun Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Solution Boosts Performance, Lowers TCO
KnowledgeBase Marketing provides information and database marketing solutions that enable companies to acquire and manage profitable customer relationships across traditional and Web-based contact points. The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., TCO, KnowledgeBase Marketing, Storage, Hardware
Case studies 2007-12-01
Storage Consolidation: The Best of Both Worlds
Storage consolidation has become a buzz phrase for IT departments looking for ways to escape the escalating storage-requirement rat race. More storage for less money: The promise of storage consolidation can seem like the way out of all the churning complexity that characterizes most storage environments today. The right way...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Datatec, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-07-01
The Financial Benefits of Storage Consolidation: Consolidation, Virtualization and Information Lifecycle Management
The term "Storage" conjures up many images, including lockers, warehouses, closets, attics, and that metal icon of the business world: the filing cabinet. But the term takes on new meaning in the digital world, with storage being one of the hottest topics in networking today. Demand for digital storage is...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization, Financial, Consolidation, Information Lifecycle Management, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2005-08-15
Using a Network Appliance SAN With VMware Infrastructure 3 to Facilitate Server and Storage Consolidation
Many companies are experiencing a rapid proliferation of commodity Intel and AMD x86 servers. These systems are typically equipped with a small amount of internal or direct-attached disk storage. As server numbers grow into the hundreds, the management complexity for both servers and storage increases exponentially, putting a strain on...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Network Appliance Inc., SAN, Server, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-03-01
Storage Consolidation: Overcoming Inhibitors to Simple and Effective Data Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
This white paper looks at some of the issues facing small and medium-sized enterprises and provides an overview of typical storage consolidation methodologies. The paper also points out some tips on what to look for as you develop the consolidation strategies and plans that are right for your business. ...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Small And Medium Enterprise, Data Management, NetApp, Smb/Sme, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-03-01
NetApp MultiStore and SnapMover: Adding Business Value With Storage Consolidation, Data Availability, Security, and Load Balancing
NetApp MultiStore allows a filer's storage and networking resources to be partitioned into multiple virtual filers, each of which appears as an individual filer on the network. The dynamic, flexible nature of virtual filers simplifies UNIX and Windows storage consolidation, and offers unified access to data over both CIFS and...
Tags: Security, Storage Consolidation, Network, Load Balancing, NetApp, NetApp MultiStore, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2005-01-01
IP Storage: Changing the Economics of Storage Consolidation
This webcast outlines the many data storage challenges facing the IT staff in the mid-sized enterprises and discusses how IP-based networked storage can help them overcome these challenges.
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Data Storage, IP, EMC Corp., Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
Webcasts
Nine Steps to Effective Networked Unified Storage Consolidation
Network storage consolidation makes it significantly easier for today's storage administrators to manage the ever-swelling amounts of storage while simplifying the data protection. To help simplify the process of networked unified storage consolidation, Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting lays out a nine-step process in this paper...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, BlueArc, Storage, Hardware
White papers
The Business Case for Storage Consolidation
In the face of expanding data sets and shrinking budgets, making effective use of your company's storage assets is now more critical than ever. This white paper covers the data archiving challenges that companies are currently facing and outlines some disturbing facts about distributed server and storage environments. Download the...
Tags: Business Case, Storage Consolidation, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2005-12-01
Storage Consolidation: Moving From DAS to SAN/NAS
The proliferation of on-line data and the need for instant access 24x7 has put pressure on IT professionals to do more with less. Consolidation is an approach to achieve more efficient use of IT resources. Server, Application, and Storage are some of the types of information system consolidations. This paper...
Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, Dell Computer Corp., SAN, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
White papers 2002-08-01
The storage consolidation continues: HP acquires IBRIX
HP on Friday picked up IBRIX, a file serving software company, in the latest round of merger and acquisition activity. Terms of HP's acquisition weren't disclosed. by Larry Dignan
Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Merger, M&A, Storage, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
Blog posts 2009-07-20

Additional Resources

Simplify storage with a utility model
The best way to simplify the complex undertaking of data storage is to switch to a storage utility model, according to Ron Lovell, storage practice director for Greenwich Technology Partners. The transition can be complex, but the end result will be a more responsive data storage management system coupled with...
Tags: storage, Ron Lovell, Carl Weinschenk, consolidation, server, server virtualization
Technical articles 2003-09-26
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