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- Storage Virtualization - Part I
- "Storage virtualization" has become the buzzword in the storage industry, especially with the increased acceptance of storage networks. But besides all the hype, there is considerable confusion, too. Acting in its role as an educator, SNIA has undertaken to offer clearer definitions and terminology in general, and to convey them...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Storage Technology, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-27
Additional Resources
- Using Oracle Database 10g's Automatic Storage Management With EMC Storage Technology
- When laying out a database, administrators must consider many storage configuration options. The storage solution must facilitate high performance I/O. It must provide protection against failure of storage hardware, such as disks and host bus adaptors. Growing and changing workloads require a dynamic storage configuration. The automation of storage related...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Storage Management, EMC Corp., Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-03
- What is SAN?
- This revolution has been catalyzed by the advent of high bandwidth fibre channel technology and scalable switch/hub technology. It comes under the umbrella terms of Storage Area Networks SAN and the associated concept of intelligent Network Attached Storage devices NAS. In some senses these technologies can simply be thought of...
- Tags: NAS, Fibre Channel, SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware
- White papers 2000-01-01
- AMD64 Technology: Providing Storage Customers With a Competitive Advantage
- The storage market is breaking away from the legacy model (application servers with islands of difficult-to-manage storage) to on-demand, networked storage where systems are more fault tolerant and accessible. Storage customers are measuring the performance of I/O and data throughput, in addition to reliability, manageability, and scalability. As a result...
- Tags: Competitive Advantage, Storage Market, AMD64, Storage Customer, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-03
- Investigate storage virtualization: Emerging technology for simplifying data storage and management
- Storage visualization is an emerging technology that creates logical abstractions of physical storage systems and, when well implemented, hides the complexity of physical storage devices and their specific requirements from management view. It has tremendous potential for simplifying storage administration and reducing costs for managing diverse storage assets. This sample...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Data Storage, Storage Visualization, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware
- Book chapters 2006-07-06
- Veritas Storage Foundation in a VMware Environment: Linux and Solaris x64 Platforms
- VMware server virtualization is a technology that has significant benefits for a data center environment and it is changing the architecture of data centers. However, while it is great at virtualizing operating system instances, it does not solve or address storage virtualization. VMware has simplistic storage functionality that successfully addresses...
- Tags: Linux, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Environment, VMware Inc., Sun Solaris, VMware Server Virtualization, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-01
- An Introduction to Networked Storage
- This paper provides an introduction to the basics of networked storage and its relevance to smaller business operations where storage specialists are typically not found. It discusses the origins and development of the latest advances in storage technology, while illustrating the real-world advantages they bring. The development of networked storage...
- Tags: Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-08-17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- IBM System Storage N Series With MultiStore and SnapMover
- The storage system hardware is made up of CPUs, network cards, Fibre Channel controllers, power supplies, disk drives, and so forth. One can use System Storage N series with MultiStore software to effectively partition and dynamically assign a storage system's storage and networking resources to virtual storage systems to virtualize...
- Tags: Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage System Hardware, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-08-22
- Network Storage: Beyond the Hype
- More than a simple overview of latest developments in network storage technology, this sample chapter from The Holy Grail of Network Storage Management takes a challenging, critical approach to evaluating the business value of network storage opti
- Tags: acquisition, administrator, Holy Grail, marketing, network, network storage, Network Storage Management, Prentice Hall Inc., storage
- Download resources 2006-05-09
- Iomega REV - Removable Storage For the Future
- Learn about the latest cutting edge storage technology from the leaders of removable storage who brought you Zip®. Iomega's REV® technology features 35GB or 70GB hard disks (yes, Gigabytes per disk) which can be used in desktop, internal, server or automation applications. Nothing could be easier, safer or...
- Tags: Iomega Corp., Removable Storage, Storage, Hardware
- Presentations
- Comparison of the Performance of the DS4500 (FAStT900) and DS4400 (FAStT700) Storage Servers
- This paper provides the baseline performance of the IBM TotalStorage DS4500 Storage Server, which employs IBM DS4000 storage technology (formerly Fibre Array Storage Technology, i.e., FAStT). The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained using the Iometer tool to measure the raw performance of the DS4500's RAID...
- Tags: Performance, Server, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Server, DS4500, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2004-09-01
- AMD64 Technology: A Superior Foundation for Storage System Designs
- Storage has become a fundamental part of the enterprise datacenter. With the increased pressure to effectively manage stored information and the growing diversity of customers requiring storage systems, OEMs are tasked with providing differentiated solutions. And there are technology-based market shifts in play that also impact how OEMs must innovate...
- Tags: Storage System, AMD64, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-03
- 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
- 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
- Managing Storage Complexity for Healthcare Providers
- This paper is one of a series of papers that focus on the challenges healthcare providers face in information technology and the best practices for meeting those challenges. This paper focuses on the specific topic of data storage management. Advances in diagnostic technology and the increasing popularity of digital medical...
- Tags: Data Storage, Health Care Company, Health Care, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- What Is the True Cost of Storage?
- Storage is the AFLAC duck of information technology. Before AFLAC rolled out its pervasive ads featuring a duck quacking "AFLAC!" in humorous situations, not many knew of the company. Now people know AFLAC is an insurance company, but they are not quite sure of the details. Storage is a lot...
- Tags: CIOview, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-07-17
- New Life for Dead Storage Technologies: Consumer-Driven Optical Storage in the Data Center
- Download this white paper from PowerFile to find out why consumer-driven optical technologies like DVD and its next-generation blue-laser counterparts are leading a "coming rebirth" of optical technology in enterprise data centers. The paper examines: Why optical storage technology has been a near-failure for the last...
- Tags: PowerFile, Data Center, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-10-01
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