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HP Announces Game-Changing Storage Integration: XP24000 Disk Array Simplifies Storage Provisioning and Improves Storage Infrastructure for the Delivery of Storage Services: Over the last number of years, the growth rate of storage resources has been extraordinary, driven by applications that have a greater thirst for more and larger files and a diversity of performance requirements. In the fall of 2004 with the initial announcement of the XP12000 Disk Array, HP set...; Tags: Storage Provisioning, Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Disk Array, Integration, Barometrix, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-21
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
An Introduction to Storage Provisioning With Tivoli Provisioning Manager and TotalStorage Productivity Center: This paper is intended as an introduction to the subject of storage provisioning and is written for anyone who needs to understand IBM's automated storage provisioning tools. IBM storage provisioning solutions are based on Tivoli Provisioning Manager TPM and IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center TPC. This paper examines TPM's support for...; Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, Storage Provisioning, Storage, Provisioning, IBM Corp.; White papers 2005-07-01
Automated Home Directory Management and Storage Provisioning With Novell Nsure and Condrey Consulting Corporation's File System Factory: In 2002, the University of Kentucky's IT department considered undertaking a large internal development project that involved writing custom software to automatically create user directories and allocate personal storage on the NetWare platform to over 35,000 students. The university's automated account creation process for eDirectory worked well, but it didn't...; Tags: Storage Provisioning, Novell Inc., File System, University, Novell Nsure, University Of Kentucky, Storage, Hardware; Case studies

University of Kentucky Uses File System Factory With Novell eDirectory and NetWare to Provide Automated Home Directory Management & Storage Provisioning: In 2002, the University of Kentucky's IT department considered undertaking a large internal development project that involved writing custom software to automatically create user directories and allocate personal storage on the NetWare platform to over 35,000 students. The university's automated account creation process for eDirectory worked well, but it didn't...; Tags: Storage Provisioning, Novell Inc., File System, University, University Of Kentucky, Novell eDirectory, Novell NetWare, Storage, Directory Services, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies

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ESG Report: Thin Provisioning: ESG believes that Thin Provisioning is one of the most important yet misunderstood advancements within data storage. This report defines and discusses Thin Provisioning, its economic impact and how it works. Thin Provisioning minimizes the cumbersome task of storage provisioning while improving capacity utilization. The economic impact...; Tags: Provisioning, Storage System, 3PARData Inc., ESG, Thin Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2006-04-01
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
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
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
Thin Provisioning in a NetApp SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment: Traditional disk arrays force the IT storage specialist to allocate and dedicate storage space to a particular volume or LUN at creation time. The problem is that at creation time the true requirements are often not known, which forces overprovisioning and higher costs. Network Appliance storage systems offer powerful, flexible...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IP SAN, Problem, SAN, Provisioning, IP, NetApp, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2006-06-01
Netapp Thin Provisioning: Better for Business: Industry trends towards adoption of grid architecture and virtualized server environments have been driving the need for more dynamic and flexible storage provisioning. As these technologies enable the concept of utility computing, thin provisioning supports the concept by providing storage-on-demand functionality to ensure alignment of server and storage utilization. This...; Tags: Environment, Provisioning, NetApp, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-03-01
Reclaiming Storage on the HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System: The HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System includes a software tool that greatly simplifies the task of migrating application storage to the All-in-One Storage System. The software tool provisions iSCSI-based storage on the All-in-One Storage System for use by an application, such as Exchange and SQL Server. The software tool is...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, All-in-One, Storage System, HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System, Software Tool, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-03-01
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
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
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
QoS Provisioning Framework for an OSD-Based Storage System: Quality of Service QoS is crucial for certain applications such as multimedia. As the Object-based Storage Device OSD protocol emerges as the next generation storage technology, QoS provisioning for OSD-based systems has also received a great deal of attention. This paper proposes a QoS framework for OSD-based storage system that...; Tags: QoS, Storage, Storage System, OSD; White papers
Database Storage Consolidation: The Next Logical Step to Improved Storage Utilization: The introduction of the Automatic Storage Management ASM feature in Oracle Database 10g provides another positive step in consolidation. ASM further facilitates database consolidation not only from a server perspective, but also allows a consolidation with a shared pool of storage for both clustered and non-clustered environments. ASM enables the...; Tags: Database, Oracle Corp., Consolidation, Automatic Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2005-10-01
Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2004 Vendor Shares: The server provisioning market continues to grow as IT organizations drive down costs associated with server consolidation and standardize on processes for server management. This paper identifies the server provisioning market leaders and is a follow-on study to the previously published Worldwide Server Provisioning Software 2005-2009 Forecast. IBM is the...; Tags: Server Provisioning, IBM Corp., International Data Group, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-06-01
Levanta Marries Provisioning with Data Virtualization: So many vendors provide console-based systems provisioning these days that it's hard to keep track of the differences—both claimed and real—between them. If that weren't enough, there's another smaller set of products that do data virtualization of one sort or another. Find out how the marriage of these two approaches--provisioning...; Tags: Virtualization, Provisioning, Levanta Corp.; White papers 2005-07-08

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