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Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment
This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series...
Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, IBM Corp., Storage Efficiency, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-08-28

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A Guide to Storing More Intelligently
With enterprise IT organizations battling year-over-year information growth rates of 50 to 60 percent, we need to start storing information more intelligently. This will improve energy efficiency, reduce system complexity and save costs.Read this white paper to for a step by step guide to simplfying your storage covering topics such...
Tags: EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware
White papers 2008-03-18
NetApp Thin Provisioning: Improving Storage Utilization and Reducing TCO
Thin provisioning is a mechanism that is being adopted by many enterprise storage administrators to efficiently manage storage provisioning and storage utilization, by maintaining a common unallocated storage space that is readily available to other applications on an as-needed basis. Enterprise administrators who have been using this mechanism for some...
Tags: Provisioning, TCO, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-05-01
Advanced Storage for Microsoft Exchange
As every enterprise knows all too well, the amount of email generated by workers every day is skyrocketing. And yet many enterprises continue to rely on point products to solve their storage management challenges. That's a problem, according to Forrester Research Analyst, who observed recently: "As storage budgets skyrocket, enterprises...
Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-02-27
Better Together - Improving Data Center Operational Efficiency Using HP Server and Storage Solutions in a Virtual Environment White Paper
Operational efficiency is becoming increasingly important in today's IT environments. IT managers seek to - reduce operating costs, maintain uptime, maintain Service Level Agreements SLAs and increase effectiveness and utilization of computing resources. Virtualization is an approach that meets the needs of IT by pooling and sharing resources so that...
Tags: Storage Virtualization, HP Server, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Efficiency, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2005-12-01
ACNielsen ORG-MARG Boosts Operational Efficiency With NetApp Unified Storage Solution
ACNielsen is the world's leading provider of market research, information, and analysis to the consumer products and services industries, as well as to government and social services. The challenge was to improve efficiency, manageability, and scalability of a distributed storage infrastructure and enable a multisite disaster recovery strategy for critical...
Tags: ACNielsen, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
Case studies
Manufacturer Transforms IT Management With HP ILM Strategy
Today's manufacturers increasingly rely on Enterprise Resource Planning ERP and other major information-technology solutions to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs. When Advance, a leading maker of lighting components, decided to upgrade its suite of SAP R/3 Enterprise ERP solutions in 2004, the company took the opportunity to reengineer its...
Tags: IT Administration, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Information Technology, Storage, Storage Management, Strategy, Hardware, Management
Case studies
Storage Exec 5.3: Best Practices Controlling Storage Growth and Maximizing Storage Resources
Administrators can significantly turn the tide on uncontrolled storage growth and escalating storage costs simply by streamlining storage and backup resources to focus exclusively on data that is business-critical. VERITAS Software, the worldwide leader in Windows Data Protection, provides the ultimate solution with VERITAS Storage Exec. Storage Exec, a member...
Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., Best Practice, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2005-06-01
Pyramid Codes: Flexible Schemes to Trade Space for Access Efficiency in Reliable Data Storage System
This paper describes flexible schemes to explore the tradeoffs between storage space and access efficiency in reliable data storage systems. Aiming at this goal, two fundamentally different classes of codes are introduced under the same naming umbrella - Pyramid Codes. The basic Pyramid Codes are simply derived from any existing...
Tags: Data Storage, Microsoft Access, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2007-03-19
CX4: Leading-Edge Midrange Storage for Virtualized Environments
View this webcast and learn how you can enjoy next-generation innovation with UltraFlex technology, virtual provisioning, energy-efficiency technologies, up to twice the performance and scale, and more with EMC's new CLARiiON CX4 midrange storage. Find out why EMC leads all vendors as the storage platform of choice for VMware.
Tags: Environment, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware
Webcasts 2008-09-08
Univar USA Increases Ef?ciency, a Productivity With StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System and Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) System
Univar USA, a top nationwide chemical distributor, wanted to improve the efficiency and performance of its tape storage environment, which encompassed thousands of legacy 36-track and DLT tape cartridges. Univar sought to achieve these gains while holding the line on its storage costs. For this undertaking, the company turned to...
Tags: Streamline, Storage, Hardware
Case studies
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
Investigating Storage Layouts to Improve Parallelism in Interactive Brute-Force Search
As the storage and processing of data becomes less expensive, huge amounts of new data is being generated by government agencies, research labs and other organizations. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to store and search this data efficiently. This paper investigates different storage layout approaches and their...
Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Diamond, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2006-12-11
Meeting Business Objectives Through Unified and Simplified Storage
Enterprises need to store more information, and more types of information, than ever before. They also need to ensure that this information is safely retained for more rapid recovery and better corporate governance. IT executives responsible for acquiring and maintaining the storage systems that hold all this information also face...
Tags: International Data Group, Storage, Hardware
White papers 2005-09-01
Best Practices in Assessments Build IT Storage Value
IT storage assessments have raised in popularity in the last couple of years, driven by the rapid expansion of data, a myriad of compliance regulations and the increasing cost of storage management. In many ways conducting a storage assessment is like to planning for a home purchase. Evaluation techniques such...
Tags: Assessment, Information Technology, Best Practice, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Strategy, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Hardware
White papers 2005-12-01
EqualLogic PS Series with VMware - Virtual servers meet virtual storage
Consolidation of data center assets has become a trend in many IT environments, providing benefits such as improved hardware resource utilization, easier management,and lower costs. For storage, consolidation is accomplished by moving data off of a direct attached storage DASto inside the server onto a shared...
Tags: microsoft virtual server, equallogic, dell equallogic, vmware inc., storage, servers, hardware
White papers 2008-01-23
Royal Caribbean Cruises to Data Access Efficiency With IBM
Florida-based Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. RCCL has been an innovator, delivering getaways to travelers. RCCL outgrew its three-vendor storage environment, which was difficult to expand. The company needed to enhance its ability to support corporate growth and reduce storage maintenance fees. RCCL approached IBM Global Services-Storage Services, which recommended migrating...
Tags: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Data Access, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
Case studies
TechNet Webcast: Efficient Storage Management in Windows Server 2003 R2 (Level 200)
This webcast explores the new quota management and storage area network SAN management features, and describes how these are designed and configured. The webcast also shows how administration tasks can be simplified and how to use these tools to improve the efficiency of your storage assets. The presentation provides details...
Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, SAN, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Presentation, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
Webcasts
Heartland Financial USA Finds Scalable Storage Solution in iSCSI SAN
With industry regulations requiring archival of processed checks and other financial documents for up to 11 years, the storage needs of Heartland Financial USA were rapidly increasing. The company needed a robust storage solution that would scale with its growing needs, as well as help maintain the efficiency so crucial...
Tags: iSCSI, Industry, Storage, Hardware
Case studies
Customer Experiences With NetBackup PureDisk and VMware
Data deduplication and server virtualization help storage, backup and IT managers improve efficiency within the data center. How can these two technologies work together to provide customers with even greater benefits? This webcast will share customer experiences with deduplication and VMware and help to illustrate the benefits of both client...
Tags: Storage, VMware Inc., De-duplication, NetBackup PureDisk
Webcasts 2007-12-04
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