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Storage Virtualization Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways...
Storage Virtualization Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways...
eGuide: Storage Virtualization: Understanding the Where and How by Hewlett-Packard Company
advice about the where and how of storage virtualization and option of split-path storage virtualization. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a lot of interest in server virtualization, and now that same kind of enthusiasm is appearing on the storage virtualization side. This...
Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways...
Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualization's merits in ways...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
to embed virtualization into your storage infrastructure. Here are the pros and cons of the various approaches. Virtualization is showing up in all layers of the storage infrastructure. Host, network and storage system-based block virtualization can each...
Combining Storage and Server Virtualization by LSI Corporation
combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware’s server virtualization product. This white paper describes the powerful combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware’s server virtualization product. The rapid...
LSI Extends Its Storage Virtualization Manager by LSI Corporation
brand by rearchitecting its Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) to more completely address the automation of holistic storage requirements. Addressing scalability, availability, simplicity, performance, management and enhanced storage resource utilization, the...
White Paper: Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause. This paper demonstrates six...
Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments. Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub)system or service from applications, compute servers or general network resources...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by SearchStorage.com
many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub)system or service from applications, compute servers or general network resources...
LSI StoreAge SVM: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization by LSI Corporation
at the IP Address of either of the Storage Virtualization Managers installed in a customer's environment. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based browsers are fully supported. Installation was a straightforward 'click-through' affair that took less than two...
PODCAST: Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments. Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller...
Storage Virtualization Tips by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. VMware, MS Virtual Server and VirtualIron make a lot of things easier: • They don’t make backup easier and can make it harder • I/O issues • Complexity issues with virtualized backups In this PowerPoint...
Hot Spots: Tap Virtual Servers, Storage for All They're Worth by Storage Magazine
many companies are now developing storage virtualization products that offer single pools of storage, thin provisioning and snapshot to create similar efficiencies...
Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide by Oracle Corporation
The combination of server and storage virtualization enables this technology to become the key enabler for a dynamic IT. Read on to learn how this technique can add value to your organization by doing the following: • Maximize data center efficiency with reduced power and...
Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
far fewer are actively pursuing storage virtualization with the same vigor, even though the benefits of doing so can be even greater. In fact, doing one type of virtualization without the other can potentially offset the savings in one area with expenditures in another. This...
Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real." In this document W. Curtis Preston, Vice President, Data Protection Services at GlassHouse discusses...
The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend by Citrix
platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization’s full benefits. When getting started with virtualization, most IT managers fail to integrate the virtualization platform and shared storage backend. This white paper explains...
Podcast: Taking the Mystery Out of File Virtualization by EMC Corporation
requirements. Virtualization is a hot topic these days. File virtualization is not a new technology, but it's not well understood either. This podcast provides an introduction to file virtualization, helping to sort it out from other technologies...
Best Practices: Viewing Virtualization from Every Angle by Storage Magazine
can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional methods while navigating new obstacles. Virtualization can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional methods while navigating new...
SARCOM Simplifies Storage: Virtualization Makes Provisioning and Management Much Easier − and More Cost Effective by Hewlett-Packard Company
the SARCOM staff could allocate storage resources to meet demand in real time. Improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data. Replace EMC CLARiiON storage array with a virtualized HP-based SAN...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization Challenges by Storage Magazine
fixed this problem through N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), which lets you assign a different WWN to each VM. However, you have to upgrade all of your HBA drivers. No big deal, right? Wrong. iSCSI and NFS don't have this problem because these protocols are IP based and you can...
Virtualization's Full Potential: Integrating Dell Equallogic Sans with Citrix XenServer by Citrix
platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization’s full benefits. EqualLogic SANs offer design attributes uniquely suited for virtualized IT environments, with their multiple protection features, advanced automation and...
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
explores the different types of virtualization available for deployment and how each independent category should be addressed before your company migrates to a fully virtual environment. Over the past few years Virtualization has become the new IT buzzword...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtually Changing Everything by Storage Magazine
will have a major impact on storage and storage networking. As the server side of the data center becomes more virtualized, the storage side will be required to follow suit. Additionally, this will drive the re-invention of how we manage, protect, store and...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore by Storage Magazine
is still higher on the food chain, but storage virtualization will have its day. A lot of storage types are put off by the overwhelming hoopla that's been generated by VMware and server virtualization. That's because storage intellectuals feel that it's unfair for 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
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
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...

How does data deduplication affect the backup process in a virtual server environment?
I'm hearing more and more questions about data deduplication and virtualization. And, it's not just server virtualization, another area is desktop virtualization. With server virtualization, you have lots of virtual machine images out there and they have the same operating system. For example, Windows Server... More...
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...