Storage Consolidation

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How to Simplify Information Management through Advanced Storage Consolidation by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs. Despite the benefits achieved from today's...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
fraction of the cost of traditional storage consolidation solutions. Learn more in this paper. Now small and medium-sized organizations can harness the storage consolidation and data management capabilities of a SAN, easily and cost effectively. The PowerVault...
Clustered Storage: From SMB, to Scientific, to File Serving, to Commercial, Social Networking and Web 2.0 by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth. Clustered Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive...
Clustered Storage by Isilon Systems
Storage is useful for server and storage consolidation without introducing bottlenecks or excessive energy consumption while enabling modular growth. This document is based on an Isilon Systems/TechTarget Webcast entitled "Clustered Storage." In this document...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore by Storage Magazine
and the IT caste system. Storage consolidation, utilization and automation via virtualization started around 1988 with Veritas Volume Manager, and it's still going on. Comparatively, virtualization in the server layer had a big-bang arrival. Virtualization in...
Modular Storage: The Dell™ Powervault™ MD Storage Family by Dell, Inc.
MD3000i iSCSI SAN array for storage consolidation, the PowerVault MD3000 disk storage array for highly available direct attached storage, the PowerVault MD1120 expansion enclosure for high-performance applications, and the PowerVault MD1000...
The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance by SearchStorage.com
the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. This presentation introduces the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today. It's a no brainer - consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer hardware and...
Storage Bin: Shining the Green Spotlight on Storage by Storage Magazine
center and the focus is shifting to storage. There's been a lot of hubbub lately about the greening of IT, and it's going to get worse. Unlike most buzz/noise fronts that come and go, this one didn't start in the marketing department. It began with someone finding out...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation by Incentra Solutions
are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open...
Cisco Storage Media Encryption: Meeting the Security Challenge by Cisco Systems, Inc.
paper is an introduction to Cisco Storage Media Encryption (SME), a heterogeneous, standards-based encryption solution for data at rest with comprehensive built-in key-management features. Unfortunately, storage and network virtualization adoption has...
Data Deduplication Made Simple by Data Domain
becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Take this opportunity to learn the key differences between deduplication technologies available today. Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a...
Podcast: How to compare data deduplication products by Data Domain
becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Knowing how to evaluate and compare vendor products will save you time, money, and sanity when making your next purchase.

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Hot Spots: Step One for DR: Server Virtualization by Storage Magazine
Remote replication on virtual machines adds up to a disaster recovery plan that can really work. Consolidating physical servers at the DR site eliminates the need for one-to-one mirrored physical machines and can deliver savings in power and cooling, management and maintenance. The portability of virtual machines also means that...
Forrester Report: IT Consolidation - 8 Successful Companies Explain How to Get Started by Hewlett-Packard Company
that have successfully executed IT consolidation efforts. This report provides guidance on how to prioritize and get started with a successful IT consolidation. Like most enterprise IT organizations, you probably struggle to accommodate growing business...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business...
HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers. This guide is designed to understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers. In addition, it...
Taking Your IT Consolidation to the Next Step with VMware, HP and Intel by VMware, Inc.
steps to consolidate server and storage systems. But to really make the best use of your resources, you need to add another element to your IT consolidation approach: virtualization. Virtualization allows you to pool and share your IT resources to reduce...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
organizations to rely on modular storage solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and technology needs evolve, businesses must...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
Iron Software knows the value of consolidation. The fast-growing Lowell, Massachusetts, firm provides server virtualization software that has helped more than 2000 organizations consolidate their servers and streamline their data centers,...
How to Ensure Fiber Cabling Performance for Server Consolidation by Fluke Networks
45;demand webcast discusses server consolidation, as well as how to ensure the fiber cabling and infrastructure can support these initiatives. Enterprises are developing new strategies to increase the efficiency and decrease the cost of running their networks...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this case study from HP, read how HP launched an IT transformation program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their...
Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide by Oracle Corporation
resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements. This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers,...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
especially reporting, storage managers often find it difficult to justify bringing in another product to overcome the limitations of their backup apps. Product choice is highly subjective and dependent on the storage and backup environment in...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end virtualization helps increase efficiency...
Intel IT: Implementing Virtualization in a Global Environment by Intel Corporation
that server virtualization and consolidation can benefit IT: everything from greater agility to lower energy bills. Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun implementing a virtualized business-computing production environment. Our multi-year initiative...
Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
information. Consolidation across systems and among dispersed facilities is improving access and control, and virtualization is a critical part of that process. Many organizations are aware of the tremendous benefits around server...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
files, but also to meet increasing storage traffic demands. Scalability should also tie into any storage consolidation plans within the organization, using fewer and larger storage boxes to limit power consumption and stay within a reasonable energy footprint.

Include data deduplication technologies

Data deduplication has become an indispensable element of disk-based... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In spite of the many different protective cassette designs... More...
FAQ's
Who should be responsible for storage security?
There can be several individuals responsible for storage security. Ultimately, there is going to be an executive responsible for information security in general, and storage security is certainly a part of that. This will likely be the chief information security officer (CISO), chief... More...
What security tools should I be using to test the security of my storage environment?
have to dig in deeper. When looking for vulnerabilities, go beyond the storage arena and consider any connected or related systems, including operating systems, Web applications, desktops, servers, switches, routers, firewalls and wireless networks -- practically anything that has access into the storage... More...
Are organizations using the same tools to back up virtual server environments that they have in the past?
a traditional approach, you've got client-side agents deployed, there's a storage device across the LAN somewhere that's actually collecting information from the agents, and there's a storage device maybe across the SAN that's collecting that data.

In the virtual server virtualization, it can be pretty similar... More...