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CA Storage Management Solutions for z/OS Mainframes Contain Costs, Optimize Resources by CA
Read this paper for a discussion of how CA Storage Management Solutions for z/OS Mainframes manage data, information and its supporting infrastructure simply and efficiently, enabling companies to align...
Streamlining Storage Management With Virtualization-Aware EMC Navisphere Manager On Dell/EMC CX4 Arrays by Dell | EMC
By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource...
IDC Report: An ROI Analysis of FalconStor Storage Management Solutions by FalconStor Software
FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP).

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had...
3PAR Cloud-Agile Program Case Study: Freudenberg's Hosting Transforms IT From Cost Center to Profit Center by 3PAR
platform that would offer greater performance, reliability, and improved scalability while making storage management simpler and more efficient.

The 3PAR® InServ® E200 Storage Server was the perfect solution for FIT’s requirements for more performance, reliability...
Allocating Storage With Virtual Provisioning On Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays by Dell | EMC
EMC CX4 Series storage arrays is designed to dramatically increase storage utilization, simplify storage management, and minimize power and space requirements. Taking advantage of this flexible, automated approach to storage allocation can help reduce total cost of...
eGuide: THE GREEN AND VIRTUAL DATA CENTER, Chapter 8: Data Storage - Disk, Tape, Optical, and Memory by EMC Corporation
data growth. Demand to store more data for longer periods of time is driving the need for more data storage capacity, which in turn drives energy consumption and consequent cooling demands. This chapter looks at various data storage technologies and...
Windows Server and Storage eBook, Ch 3 - Assess Your Data Center Storage Needs by Dell, Inc. and Intel
operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better...
Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: New Developments in Scale-out vs. Scale-up Data Storage by 3PAR
and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors. Scale-out disk storage systems are built using nodes or modules that, when linked together, act as a single system. They allow...
Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: Right-sizing Primary Data by 3PAR
Most companies allow far too much data to reside on expensive primary storage. In this presentation transcript, Anne Skamarock Research Director, FOCUS, discusses the most effective methods for reducing and managing the data...
Simplifying Data Management, Reducing Storage Costs by F5 Networks
more time-intensive, and more expensive than they need to be.

Are you drowning in data? Storage growth rates that average 40 to 120% every year are causing skyrocketing costs, painful data migrations, lengthy backups, user disruptions, and costly...
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NAS Tips
For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) considering leaving behind their file servers and making the jump to network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, the decision is not as clear-cut as it is for large-scale enterprises with file servers tucked in every nook and cranny across the...
Feb 22, 2010
A network-attached storage (NAS) filer consists of one or more disks designed to attach to a network and act as a file server. NAS filers are attractive to small- to medium-sized...
Feb 15, 2010
From $300 filer appliances to gateways fronting data storage networks, network-attached storage (NAS) covers an enormous amount of territory. To get the most out of your NAS device, you need to consider your needs and options carefully. Here's a list...
Feb 8, 2010
few tools that may help. For example, data migration can be assisted by product such as Brocade's Data Migration Manager (DMM) EMC Corp.'s Rainfinity, (a NAS virtualization appliance that can be deployed for migrating data), Hitachi Data Systems' (HDS) Universal Replicator and open-source rsync. In...
Jan 25, 2010
Small Business Tips
Data storage management strategies: Managing logical unit numbers (LUNs) by Rick Cook
are standard in most data storage management software. Although extremely helpful in large data storage enterprises, LUNs are just as important for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This tip explores the background of LUNs in an SMB data storage environment, the different LUN...
Mar 1, 2010
SMBs and network-attached storage appliances: What you need to know before you buy NAS by Ron Scruggs
and cranny across the globe. This tip gives SMBs an idea as to whether or not they need a NAS appliance, and how to go about getting the best one for their business.

The basic idea of NAS is to take raw storage and present it in a user-friendly format, usually through either Windows shares (CIFS) or...

Feb 22, 2010
How to use flash-based SSDs in your environment by Alan Radding
drive as storage will easily swamp today's controllers," Teter noted.

Flash-based SSD uses: caching tier for servers or storage tier

But when you deploy a small amount of flash storage in the right place at the right time and for the right application, flash produces dramatic reductions in...

Feb 17, 2010
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Atrato self-healing disk arrays support DOE's server virtualization project by Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer
DOE's Golden Field Office in Golden, Colo., originally planned to use an iSCSI SAN from Dell Inc. EqualLogic for the project, based on the assumption that iSCSI storage would be the most cost-effective option.

However, Porter said, in the department's environment with 50 virtual...

Mar 5, 2010
Hybrid cloud data archiving offered by Iron Mountain and LiveOffice by Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Iron Mountain is expanding its Digital Records Center for Medical Images service, while LiveOffice is archiving on-premise SharePoint data to its cloud storage.

Iron Mountain and Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co. launched the medical images service in early 2008, installing a gateway...

Mar 4, 2010
SAN Advice
Continuous data protection by Jeff Boles
such as InMage, have products that can support routing traffic on the SAN as well.

More recently, continuous data protection has become an increasingly attractive solution for protecting the virtual infrastructure. The consolidation of multiple virtual machines on a single hypervisor can quickly make the...

Jun 29, 2009