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- 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
- Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com
- This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related issues that caused e-commerce giant Priceline.com to look for a storage solution that offered increased flexibility and higher utilization rates at a lower total cost of ownership TCO. The paper details the impressive results Priceline has achieved since consolidating its mission-critical, SAN-resident...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, 3PARData Inc., Priceline.com Inc., Storage, Roi/Tco, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Case studies
- 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
- Story of Book Club's Migration to In-House SAP and Storage Consolidation Makes Thrilling Reading
- ECI is a member of DirectGroup Bertelsmann, one of six divisions of Europe's largest media company, Bertelsmann AG. To enable the use of new direct marketing techniques, maintain close relationships with its 1 million customers, and support new service introductions, the Netherlands-based ECI book club had to solve numerous IT...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAP AG, Migration, ECI, Outsourcing, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Hardware
- Case studies
- Server and Storage Consolidation for High Availability at HKM
- Huttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann HKM is one of the largest steel producers in Germany. HKM had a lot of problems with downtime: in particular, it took a long time for services to be restored when a problem occurred. This put the production schedule at risk. To improve availability and ensure fast,...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., High Availability, Server, Huttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- 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, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-01
- 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
- 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, Network Appliance Inc., Small And Medium Enterprise, Data Management, NetApp, Smb/Sme, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- 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
- Home Directory Storage Consolidation With the StorageTek 5000 Family of NAS Appliances
- In the early days of distributed computing, home directories were commonly assigned to individual desktops, making it difficult for administrators to protect and preserve data availability during backup, restore, and disaster recovery operations. This paper describes these problems and outlines steps for implementing and consolidating home directories on a product...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, StorageTek, Home Directory, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Disaster Recovery, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- HP StorageWorks B-Series Multi-Protocol Router for Storage Consolidation White Paper
- Companies frequently find they are saddled with a legacy of poorly utilized IT resources, unexploited economies of scale, and massive administrative overhead. These issues are most acute in enterprise storage environments. Storage consolidation involves the pooling and provisioning of shared storage resources. Instead of direct-attached, server-dedicated storage that is potentially...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Sun StorEdge: The Business Case for Storage Consolidation
- To survive and be successful in today's knowledge age, companies must embrace the very thing that can bring them to their knees, digital content. No one denies the value of the ever-expanding corporate knowledge base; it's the life's blood of the business. But there are looming risks every business must...
- Tags: Business Case, Sun StorEdge, Storage Consolidation, Knowledge, Sun Microsystems Inc., Digital Content, Storage Management, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Management
- White papers 2005-12-01
- 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
- Sun StorEdge 5210/5310 NAS Appliance Storage Consolidation and Web Serving
- Organizations with the need to implement large web serving environments often deploy multiple web servers with their own storage resources, causing excessive system and storage administration overhead. Learn how the StorEdgetm 5000 NAS Series provides a framework for implementing and consolidating storage in a Web serving environment, maximizing storage and...
- Tags: Web, Sun StorEdge, Storage Consolidation, NAS, Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware
- White papers 2005-11-01
- StorEdge 6920 - Solving the Paradox of Storage Consolidation
- Download this Clipper Group Navigator report to read about Sun's StorEdge 6920 networked storage system and how it solves the paradox of storage consolidation -- i.e., the need for a storage infrastructure to be both unified and diversified. The paper provides an overview of each of the diversification and unification...
- Tags: Sun StorEdge, Storage Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-28
- Comparing Storage Consolidation Solutions
- High-end disk arrays offer enterprises many tangible business benefits, including 24/7/365 availability as well as improved performance and scalability, to name just a few. If your IT organization is ready to upgrade to a more robust storage infrastructure, you won’t want to miss this informative decision-support paper, which provides a...
- Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Disk Array, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2005-01-19
- 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
- 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
