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- TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implemented New Storage Designs for Exchange Server 2007 (Level 300)
- How does Exchange Server 2007 enable a large enterprise to increase mailbox quotas globally by a factor of ten and still lower storage costs, reduce maintenance complexities, and simplify data recovery processes? Microsoft IT was able to take advantage of Cluster Continuous Replication CCR in new mailbox server designs based...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Webcast, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-28
- EqualLogic PS Series with VMware - Virtual servers meet virtual storage
- Consolidation of data center assets has become a trend in many IT environments, providing benefits such as improved hardware resource utilization, easier management,and lower costs. For storage, consolidation is accomplished by moving data off of a direct attached storage DASto inside the server onto a shared...
- Tags: microsoft virtual server, equallogic, dell equallogic, vmware inc., storage, servers, hardware
- White papers 2008-01-23
- One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic
- Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy, Pudding, Molalla and Salmon. The Aging Fibre Channel SAN could not scale to meet growing demands. Clackamas County replaced old Fibre Channel SAN...
- Tags: EqualLogic, Oregon, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-01-18
- HP Smart Array P800 Controller and HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Array (MSA70) 6,250 User Clustered Continuous Replication Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
- This paper provides information on the HP StorageWorks 70 Modular Smart Array (MSA70) Direct Attached Storage DAS solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Exchange, based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program ESRP - Storage program v2.0. The ESRP - Storage program was developed by Microsoft Corporation to provide a...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft Exchange Server, Replication, E-mail Servers, Storage, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- How Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates With Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration
- Cisco Systems IT has long been a proponent of Storage Area Networks SANs over the less efficient and more complex Direct-Attached Storage DAS-based networks. The majority of early Cisco SAN efforts used the McDATA Enterprise Director 6064 switch at the core and McDATA Sphereon 3032 switches at the edge. This...
- Tags: McDATA Corp., SAN, Migration, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Systems IT, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-19
- Benefits and Methods of SAN Extension Using QLogic Switches and Routers
- Fibre Channel based Storage Area Network SAN solutions continue to grow in popularity because they solve the following key storage issues: need for centralized management of storage, poor utilization of distributed, direct-attached storage, need for centralized backup/restoring of data, limited scalability of Direct-Attached Storage/Network-Attached Storage (DAS/NAS) solutions. QLogic software tools...
- Tags: Router, SAN, Benefit, QLogic Corp., Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-18
- Are You Ready for a SAN? How a Storage Area Network Can Improve Your Life
- If your IT organization is struggling to manage growing data in a direct-attached storage environment, it might be time to migrate to a storage area network SAN. There are several ways that a SAN can dramatically improve your storage management situation: Improve efficiency of...
- Tags: SAN, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- HP ProLiant Storage Servers: Family Guide
- Storage needs and complexity grow rapidly, while budgets continually shrink - making it difficult to deliver the service levels the environment demands using current storage architectures. And with management applications and direct-attached storage scattered throughout the infrastructure, storage is more complicated than ever. That's why HP ProLiant Storage Server solutions...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Compaq ProLiant, Storage Server, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Improving Scalability, Manageability, and Performance for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions
- No one disputes the theoretical advantages of Network-Attached Storage NAS compared to direct-attached storage. The inefficiencies involved with multiple, separate data storage platforms can be greatly improved with an alternative NAS solution. Scalability, availability, and performance can also be enhanced with the currently available NAS platforms. However, many NAS solutions...
- Tags: NAS, Performance, Scalability, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Customer Success: Hoover City Schools Case Study
- Hoover City School District needed a storage solution that could support over 13,100 faculty, staff and student applications such as e-mail, finance and student information databases, the systems management server and web development applications. With a previous direct-attached storage DAS environment, they had approximately 30 servers located at several locations...
- Tags: equallogic, training, web development, systems management, workforce management, training and certification, e-mail, storage, it services, human resources, online communications, hardware
- Case studies 2007-08-22
- Dell PowerVault MD1000 2000 Mailbox Clustered Continuous Replication Microsoft Exchange2007 Storage Solution
- The Dell PowerVault MD1000 is a modular disk storage expansion enclosure for PowerEdge servers capable of housing up to fifteen 3.5-inch disk drives in a single 3U rackable chassis. The direct attached storage enclosure supports both Serial Attached SCSI SAS and Serial ATA SATA disk drives. This paper provides information...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Disk, Dell PowerVault, Mailbox, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Replication, Dell PowerVault MD1000, Storage, E-mail Servers, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-07-16
- Transitioning From Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007 While Using HP StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System for Storage
- Microsoft does not provide an in-place upgrade path for transitioning from Exchange Server 2003 to Exchange Server 2007; therefore, Exchange administrators must move their existing Exchange Server 2003 data from its current storage location to a new storage location. In an environment where the Exchange server uses dedicated, direct attached...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft Exchange Server, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Storage System, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Integrating With Decru DataFort and NetApp Storage Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and FCP
- Networked storage helps enterprises speed access to data and reduce administrative overhead, but can leave critical data vulnerable. Without the physical separation provided by traditional direct-attached storage, data assets become comingled in both NAS and SAN environments, putting them at much greater risk for unauthorized access, theft, or misuse. Technologies...
- Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Oracle Corp., Red Hat Inc., Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, NetApp, Decru Inc., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Effective Exchange Server storage policies
- I've seen many small to large corporations embrace decentralized storage policies to let the employees deal with their own Exchange Server storage in the form of PST files which is usually caused by lack of storage capacity at the Exchange server. But does this really solve a problem or...
- Tags: storage
- Blog posts 2006-07-25
- Symantec sues Microsoft on storage tech
- Symantec sues Microsoft on storage techSubjective, no?I've seen a number of your other posts and you are often quite objective. So what happened here? Why not wait for the details and see if there's merit?Though I could be wrong, I doubt that Symantec bought Veritas and its...
- Tags: SECURITY, storage, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- University Creates Flexible, Customized Data Storage Solution
- Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota serves 60,000 students annually, offers a faculty of international repute, and provides a premier research facility. University of Minnesota wanted to consolidate Direct-Attached Storage DAS into a single centralized SAN and implement information sharing between previously unconnected systems. The challenge was to optimize...
- Tags: Data Storage, University Of Minnesota, Cisco Systems Inc., Disaster Recovery, Data Centers, Storage, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Optimizing Storage Performance, Provisioning and Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft SQL Server has become very popular as a database environment driving a broad range of midlevel business applications, ranging from CRM to eCommerce and from ERP to supply chain integration. The combination of affordability, performance, ease of deployment, and sophisticated analytical features has led to a significant proliferation of...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Environment, Provisioning, Server, Microsoft Corp., Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Local Education Authority Chooses Remote Back-Up Solution and Ensures Secure Exchange and Storage of Data Across Schools
- Flintshire Local Education Authority LEA has an educational ICT Unit that supports 75 primary schools, three special schools and 12 secondary schools. One of the LEA's key responsibilities is to ensure that schools can offer a broad and high-quality education. LEA wanted to find a more efficient and cost-effective method...
- Tags: School, Dell Computer Corp., Education Authority, Flintshire Local Education Authority, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-09
- 82.7% more terabytes of external storage sold in Asia-Pacific in Q3 2005
- According to IDC, the demand for external disk storage capacity continued to surge in Q3 2005 in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan. New storage capacity was 82.7% higher than for the corresponding period in 2004. This maintained the strong growth rates recorded in the two previous quarters. The demand for external storage...
- Tags: storage
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
- Benefits of Diskless Servers in a Blade Server and SAN Environment
- To save time and money, reduce risk, and improve manageability, Intel IT implemented a Diskless Server DS Proof-of-Concept PoC solution in a blade server and Storage Area Network SAN environment. Although several strategies exist for implementing a diskless server solution, one used an approach in which one removed the direct-attached...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, SAN, Benefit, Intel Corp., Blade Servers, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-11-01
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