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- Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization
- In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing number of IT organizations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The features that VMware offers on the server side can be enhanced by a storage system that recognizes and enables the added intelligence of a virtualized...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, LeftHand Networks, VMware Inc., Storage, Virtualization, Storage Management, Server Virtualization, Hardware, Servers
- White papers
- City of Fontana Elects HP Storage Virtualization Solutions as Part of Winning IT Platform
- Based in southern California, The City of Fontana is committed to innovation, and its small information technology IT staff is determined to help city employees work more productively. In early 2003, the City's IT staff began seeking a centralized storage solution with virtualization capabilities to standardize and support a new...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Virtualization, Storage, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- Case studies
- Intelligent Fabric Applications (Networked Storage Virtualization - Phase III)
- This webcast discusses on trends and recent developments in the storage market.
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Cisco Systems Inc., Storage, Virtualization, Hardware
- Webcasts
- HP StorageWorks Virtualization
- Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure, and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients. The term Virtualization has really become an umbrella that...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage Virtualization Approach, Virtualization, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-28
- 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
- Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization
- In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing number of IT organizations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the datacenter and deploy applications across a shared pool of server resources allows organizations to break free of the limitations they face with...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, LeftHand Networks, Data Center, Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Server and Storage Landscape Virtualized and Consolidated
- The company wanted to have higher IT system availability and significant reduction in maintenance costs and IT administration overhead. It also wanted SAN extension for the existing server landscape. The challenge was to have storage and server virtualization and investment protection. One of the core elements of that foundation was...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-11-22
- An Analysis of Storage Virtualization Architectures
- Virtualization and Volume management are two terms that represent technologies that are very similar, yet with important differences, and both have a great deal of potential to solve problems for IT organizations. They can be applied to increase the utilization of storage subsystems, extend the scalability of storage volumes and...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Analysis, LSI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: LeftHand Networks Accelerates VMware Server Virtualization With SAN/iQ Software-Based Storage Systems
- In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing number of IT organizations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the datacenter and deploy applications across a shared pool of server resources allows organizations to break free of the limitations they face with...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, LeftHand Networks, Data Center, VMware Inc., Storage System, Data Centers, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-25
- Combining Storage and Server Virtualization
- Virtualization as a technology can offer tremendous benefits. It can also be deployed in several locations. For example, server virtualization, such as that offered by VMware can leverage the power behind a few large physical servers by creating hundreds of virtual machines. Storage virtualization can bring the original promise of...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, LSI, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Servers
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Circuit City Boosts IT Infrastructure Effectiveness With Storage Virtualization
- As a leading worldwide retailer of brand-name consumer electronics, PCs and entertainment software, almost every aspect of Circuit City relies on IT. The retailer wanted to build a scalable storage infrastructure that can keep pace with business growth; improve administrator productivity as well as application and server availability. Circuit City...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Circuit City Stores Inc., IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-09-01
- IBM takes the throne as king of storage virtualization
- Which company has the greatest storage virtualization solution in the whole wide world? According to CNNMoney.com, the king of storage virtualization is IBM. Here's an excerpt from the article: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its flagship storage virtualization solution has achieved benchmark results through...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- VICS: A Storage Virtualization Management System for SAN
- Storage Area Networks SANs have the virtues of high scalability, high availability and high performance. On the other hand, their storage virtualization systems are not compatible with multi-operating systems, and it is hard for the virtualization storage management system to manage multi-type storage. This paper proposes a new virtualization storage...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, SAN, Virtual Intelligent Control System, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-20
- 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 Virtualisation
- What is the relation between Storage virtualisation and storage area networks? Please give me some useful information about these that make me understand what actually the relation is.
- Tags: Storage management, libinbenedict@..., storage virtualization, storage
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- IBM takes the throne as king of storage virtualization
- Which storage solution do you use?According to a recent news story, IBM has the highest performing storage virtualization solution in the world.Do you use IBM storage virtualization within your organization? If not, which storage solution do you use?RE: IBM takes the throne as king of storage virtualizationAnd they said Big...
- Tags: Storage management, Sonja Thompson, storage virtualization, storage, IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-12
- Virtualized iSCSI Data Center
- Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving data center flexibility, reliability, and utilization, while reducing cost of management. By separating logical processing and storage resources from the physical hardware on which they run, virtualization can greatly improve the utility of these assets. Typically, server and storage virtualization are distinct products...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, iSCSI, Sanbolic Inc., Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-15
- The Next Step Forward in Storage Virtualization: IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) and IBM TotalStorage SAN File System (SFS) Come Together
- IBM has taken the next step in storage virtualization by merging the best in file system performance, scalability and flexibility. IBM has integrated key features of IBM TotalStorage SAN File System SFS into IBM General Parallel File System GPFS. The goal of this paper is to introduce GPFS, at a...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, File System, SAN, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- IBM System Storage Virtualization Engine TS7740 Performance White Paper
- This paper provides performance information on the IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740, which is the first product released in the TS7700 Virtualization Engine Series of products. The paper is intended for use by IBM field personnel and their customers in designing virtual tape solutions for their applications. The TS7740 virtualization engine...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, Performance, Storage, IBM Corp., TS7740 Virtualization Engine, Performance Management, Virtualization, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-22
- Ultra-Scalable Storage Provides Low Cost Virtualization Solutions: Flexible IP NAS/iSCSI System Addresses Current Storage Needs While Offering Future Expansion
- Companies are finding it increasingly expensive, time-consuming and difficult to manage the amount of data they generate (analysts estimate that the amount of data companies generate is growing at 60% per year). Faced with these pressures, IT managers need to find more dynamic ways to consolidate, allocate, maintain and secure...
- Tags: Storage Virtualization, iSCSI, NAS, Data Storage, IP, Globalstor Data, Ultra-Scalable Storage, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-06-27
