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Automate Storage Management by Storage Magazine
of glass" has been the Holy Grail of storage management, but the vision remains largely unrealized. For a variety of reasons, storage resource management (SRM) tools aren't engineered to deliver complex, multistep services such as storage provisioning, data migration and...
What is the Case for Storage Management? by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
to learn more about the state of storage management in IT. This white paper analyzes the key results of a survey of 347 IT decision makers around their storage needs and enables you to see where your organization sits relative to your peers. The white paper explores what...
ARX® Series Intelligent File Virtualization Devices by F5 Networks
the disruption and automating many storage management tasks. The result is a dramatic improvement in efficiency. File Storage Constraints Today's file storage environments comprise a complex collection of storage platforms, file systems and operating systems that...
Solve Exchange Storage Problems Once and for All: A New Approach without Stubs or Links by Mimosa Systems
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The NearPoint storage management strategy presented in this paper achieves the goal of massive Exchange storage reduction, without stubbing and without negatively impacting end users. Mimosa NearPoint benefits administrators by providing a...
Storage Standards: A Progress Report by Storage Magazine
four important major standards: the Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S), eXtensible Access Method (XAM), encryption key management and the Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS...
Best Practices: The Science of Storage Management by Storage Magazine
storage operation. The key to easing storage management is consistency. Whatever you do, be consistent at it. I'm not suggesting that if you're doing something counterproductive you continue to do it, but be consistent in the sense that you treat storage management as a...
What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. This document provides detailed...
Pulling the Thin Provisioning Lever to Improve Storage Management Efficiency by Symantec Corporation
is using it in important areas of the storage management market. The digital data explosion is creating more and more data, all of which has to be efficiently stored and subsequently managed if organizations hope to gain maximum value. The more data there is, the more...
Executive Summary: Storage Panorama by CA
for non-mainframe systems, where storage management capabilities lack those of mainframe systems.

Read this executive summary to learn more about what storage managers are keen on in the coming year and discover what the emerging storage technologies could be in the...
What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey by SearchStorage.com
networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. This document provides...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
45; consolidating servers reduces storage management costs, requires fewer hardware and software licenses and requires less administration. The real challenge is cleaning up your data prior to the server consolidation.

The solution is simple - identify and remove...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
need partners that incorporate storage management considerations into both the fundamental product design and into the deployment process. Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage midrange solutions support IT consolidation through virtualization, enable cost...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus, vendor virtualization approaches and strategy are important.

Today, storage managers need to balance the benefits of virtualization against the...
Services Oriented Storage: Principles and Applications - A Hitachi Data Systems White Paper by Hitachi Data Systems
to learn how Services Oriented Storage from Hitachi Data Systems facilitates intelligent tiered storage, common management of heterogeneous storage, data protection, archiving and performance optimization. Services Oriented Storage is a strategy...
Case Study: Hitachi Breathes New Life into Critical Applications at UHC by Hitachi Data Systems
After outgrowing its storage infrastructure, University HealthSystem Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized, tiered storage environment. Learn how UHC achieved such dramatic results by reading this end user...
How to Simplify Information Management through Advanced Storage Consolidation by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
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 breed of mature networked storage infrastructures, enterprises continue to struggle...
The Enterprise Strategy Group on Services Oriented Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate processes, simplify management and leverage physical assets without sacrificing performance or reliability. Service Oriented Storage Solutions is the idea of...
Disaster Recovery with Sunbelt Exchange Archiver by Sunbelt Software
designed Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM). The HSM store is integrated into the SEA server and redirects archived email into various storage media. Since the turn of the new millennium, disaster recovery has slowly grown into a challenging issue for...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility. VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has...
Storage Virtualisation Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
that powers them, and external storage management applications have matured. This can often create confusion. Thus, vendor virtualisation approaches and strategy are important.

Today, storage managers need to balance the benefits of virtualisation against the...
Solaris ZFS File System Features and Enhancements in the Solaris Operating System for Enterprise Users by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
153; file system to help streamline storage management. Now, new features and enhancements in the Solaris ZFS file system can help companies take advantage of open storage platforms, enhance data services, and ease administration, as evidenced by many Sun...
Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems bring a new level of simplicity and price/performance to the Open Storage market by integrating innovative storage software with hybrid storage pools and an open architecture...
Vendors Retool SRM Apps by Storage Magazine
Storage resource management tools come in a variety of flavors and offer features that take steps toward automating your storage environment, while reporting on the efficiency of the installed storage systems. It's no...
Editorial: People and Power by Storage Magazine
and listen to--the people who manage storage day in and day out. That's why we're frequently on the phone with some of you, and why we corner even more of you at conferences and trade shows.

The storage shows held each spring provide us with a great opportunity to hear...
IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together by IBM
on the file system, or via a storage management layer.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication will provide the necessary information to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet® ECM with IBM Storage Solutions...
IBM System Storage DS Family by IBM
this paper learn how the IBM System Storage DS Family is designed to help your company simplify its storage infrastructure, support business continuity and improve information lifecycle management. The IBM System Storage DS Family offers flexible,...
Talking Storage with Fred Moore by CA
compliance, and a variety of other storage topics. IT departments are faced and familiar with the challenges posed by evolving technology and mass arrays of data. New applications and technologies are constantly being promoted and optimized to adapt to the...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
There are numerous ways that your storage has already been virtualized, and there are many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal...
The Total Economic Impact of Isilon's Clustered Storage System by Isilon Systems
153; (TEI) of Isilon's Clustered Storage System", is a Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by Isilon which reveals that Isilon clustered storage systems deliver a risk-adjusted ROI of 125 percent and... "The Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) of...
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
As capacities grow and costs per gigabyte shrink, disk is being used as a backup storage target more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software can send a... 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
What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management solutions that also offer a pretty high-level monitoring of the backup process.

But the vendors that really fit into this category are the independents who offer multivendor backup reporting solutions... More...

CDP FAQ
CDP. Near-CDP is available from a number of storage array vendors, volume management vendors and RAID vendors. All near-CDP is, is a fancy term for snapshots and replication, which have been around for a long time.

So, if their requirements are such that they can be met by near-CDP, I would have them compare the costs of... More...

VTL Deduplication FAQ
you have to a staging area and capacity on the back-end for deduped storage. But these are all tradeoffs, and honestly I've seen cases where each approach can be very good for large and small customers. So it varies on your requirements and what you to accomplish.

Are pretty much all of the VTL vendors now... More...