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ARX® Series Intelligent File Virtualization Devices by F5 Networks
file virtualization into the file storage infrastructure, eliminating 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...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
the explosive growth of online storage that lets you store up to 10 times more file data on storage you already have. Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a breakthrough new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage. Rather than complex schemes...
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...
Open Source Storage: Addressing the need for new Storage Architecture by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
to start evaluating open storage architecture strategies and evaluating how an open storage architecture can better support their organization' business and budgetary goals. Open storage uses industry-standard components and open...
Automate Storage Management by Storage Magazine
Tools that automate complex storage processes are beginning to appear. Here's what's available and what benefits the tools can deliver. Managing all or most of your storage resources from a "single pane of glass" has been the Holy Grail of storage...
Storage Managers in Control by Storage Magazine
There may be a slight respite for storage managers who have spent the last few years trying to keep up with runaway storage growth, according to the results of Storage magazine's spring 2007 Purchasing Intentions Survey. There may be a slight respite for...
Executive Summary: Storage Panorama by CA
In 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding and in 2007 just five new storage companies were funded with first-round money, this has had the effect of slowing down the flow of new ideas and invention. Back...
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...
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...
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...
The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. The discussion will introduce the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the...
What Storage Managers Are Buying Storage Magazine Fall 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about currently available disk subsystems, storage networks, backup & DR, and storage management software. Learn what storage managers for large companies have to say about...
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...
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...
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...
Solve Exchange Storage Problems Once and for All: A New Approach without Stubs or Links by Mimosa Systems
NearPoint can reduce Exchange storage and keep email accessible to end users, without requiring stub files in Exchange. Microsoft Exchange administrators face the daunting challenge of maintaining adequate storage capacity and performance. Most...
Storage Virtualisation 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...
Storage Virtualisation Video: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualisation project. Storage virtualisation continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges. Storage vendors, the media and other sources expound on virtualisation...
What is the Case for Storage Management? by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
Understanding the storage challenges that your peers face can help you assess and address storage problems in your own virtualized data center. Read this white paper to learn more about the state of storage management in IT. This white paper...
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...
Clustered Storage by Isilon Systems
you will learn about Clustered Storage and how Clustered 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...
Scaling Storage with Clustering by Isilon Systems
In this Videocast, storage expert Greg Schulz breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Greg Schulz, Founder and a Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, looks at...
Dell PowerVault MD 3000i Configuration Guide for VMware ESX Server Software by Dell, Inc.
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration. This whitepaper provides instructions to setup the MD3000i iSCSI storage solution for usage with VMware ESX Server software. The Dell™...
Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i 5000 Mailbox Single Copy Cluster Microsoft® Exchange 2007 Storage Solution by Dell, Inc.
39;s PowerVault MD3000i Plus MD1000 storage solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, based on Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) Storage program. This document provides information on Dell's PowerVault MD3000i Plus MD1000 storage...
Leveraging Solid-State Technology (SSD) in the High Performance Storage Tier by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
in the high-performance storage tier to help storage professionals understand and make better decisions regarding their storage infrastructure. This SearchStorage Tech Report examines the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology in the high...
Sun Fire X4540 Storage Server: The Industry's First Open Storage Server by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The Sun Fire x4540 storage server, the first open storage server, integrates industry-standard compute and storage components in an open architecture and runs the Solaris OS and Solaris ZFS. The Sun Fire x4540 storage server, the first open...
Storage Bin 2.0: Ringing in a New Storage Market by Storage Magazine
industry news; it's a good time for storage consumers. In 2007, the storage system world had its share of relevant happenings. Isilon Systems went public at the end of 2006, heralding a new era in storage system value and setting the competitive stage for 2007...
Storage Standards: A Progress Report by Storage Magazine
Four storage standards (SMI-S, XAM, encryption key management and FAIS) promise to make it much easier to manage storage and data. Four storage standards (SMI-S, XAM, encryption key management and FAIS) promise to make it much easier to...
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...
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...
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 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...
What's the best methodology to use when testing for storage security vulnerabilities?
using testing tools such as those in my article "Five must-have storage security testing tools, and look for missing patches, poor configurations and other loopholes. Finally, try exploiting those vulnerabilities.

I normally recommend that you try to exploit your vulnerabilities as long as there... 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...