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- Optimizing Enterprise Storage Total Cost of Ownership with IBM XIV
- A high-end storage system's total cost of ownership TCO is like an iceberg: the vast majority of costs are hidden from view. Comparing systems by looking at obvious factors, like capacity and box price, may be easier. But taking a fuller look at the factors impacting IT budgets over a...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, TCO, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Success Story: Bezeq International
- Bezeq International launched its XIV® storage solution by deploying a single system for peripheral enterprise storage needs. Within a year and a half, it had expanded the solution to four systems—and Overview 300 TB of single-tier storage—and extended its scope to businesscritical applications. Discover how in...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-10-08
- Veritas CommandCentral - Supporting the Virtual Enterprise
- Veritas CommandCentral is an enterprise storage management solution that provides the ability to manage storage effectively not only in the physical environment, but in the virtual environment as well. As organizations evaluate different physical and virtual solutions, it is imperative to consider the management implications of server and storage virtualization....
- Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Storage Management, Veritas CommandCentral, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Woz goes enterprise storage; Becomes chief scientist at Fusion-io
-  Steve Wozniak, best known for creating Apple with Steve Jobs in 1976, has a new gig now: Chief scientist at Fusion-io, an enterprise storage company. Wozniak had been an advisor to the company. According to a statement Techmeme, Wozniak will be an advisor to...
- Tags: Steve Wozniak, Enterprise Storage, Woz, Fusion-io, Storage, Research & Development, Investment, Hardware, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Seagate launches enterprise drives as it retools
- Seagate on Monday announced a new lineup of enterprise storage drives that aim to cut power consumption. Seagate's latest additions to its Constellation family of enterprise drives come just as units have plunged in its fiscal second quarter. The company is rolling out two new drive models,...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, Seagate Technology LLC, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Bringing Clarity to Hard Disk Drive Choices for Enterprise Storage Systems
- Technology migrations for IT organizations are often challenging. But choosing the right storage hardware technology wisely, and implementing it appropriately for a given storage application and its associated workload, can lead to improved performance and lower operating costs. Awareness of the Hard Disk Drive HDD technology trends is important for...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Enterprise Storage, Storage System, International Data Group, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2009-02-01
- Introducing Veritas Virtual Infrastructure From Symantec: Block-Based Virtualization Built on Enterprise Storage Management for Your Enterprise Infrastructure
- File-based virtualization solutions, like VMware ESX Server, are best suited to low-impact file, print and web services. For applications and databases, one needs a block-based virtualization system designed for high performance and seamless LUN management. Symantec's expertise in volume management has been focused on solving this problem, the result of...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Migrating Enterprise Storage to SSDs: Analysis of Tradeoffs
- Off late, flash-based Solid-State Drives SSDs have become standard options for laptop and desktop storage, but their impact on enterprises has not been studied. Provisioning enterprise storage is challenging. It requires optimizing for the performance, capacity, power and reliability needs of the expected workload, all while minimizing financial costs. This...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, Analysis, Provisioning Enterprise Storage, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Copan's approach demonstrates why a good data archiving strategy can translate into energy savings
- Back in February, I banged off sort of a Valentine's blog to Nexsan about some of the work it was doing around MAID Massive Array of Idle Disks, which is a concept that's being applied to enterprise storage architectures in order to eek out greater power efficiency. After all, storage...
- Tags: Strategy, Copan Systems, Archiving, Enterprise Storage, Copan, MAID, Chris Santilli, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
- iSCSI is a flexible and powerful Storage Area Networking SAN protocol that delivers superior capabilities and benefits across all market segments. In addition to providing enterprise-class data availability and performance, the iSCSI protocol enables breakthrough virtual storage designs that parallel the advanced designs of server virtualization technologies such as VMware...
- Tags: iSCSI, Enterprise Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Server Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Servers, Networking
- White papers 2008-03-01
- Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
- This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.
- Tags: iSCSI, Dell Computer Corp., Enterprise Storage, Dell EqualLogic, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-05
- TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage (Level 300)1
- This webcast covers the new cluster storage architecture and describes how the new quorum model works in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The presenter explores the new way that how shared storage is managed, how clustering is now totally Storage Area Network SAN friendly, how failover clusters arbitrate for disks to...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Failover, Enterprise Storage, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-31
- Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage
- In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are no widely deployed power-saving solutions for enterprise storage systems. The traditional view is that enterprise workloads make spinning disks down...
- Tags: Power Management, Enterprise Data, Enterprise Storage, Storage, Storage Management, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-18
- Technologies of Enterprise Storage ETERNUS8000
- Off late, there has been a huge Increase in the disk capacity of storage devices now being connected to multiple servers. Even when the servers undergo a scheduled stop, these storage devices must operate continuously for 24 hours a day year-round. This necessitates the development of highly reliable, high-performance devices...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, Fujitsu Ltd., Storage, Storage Management, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- An introduction to enterprise storage
- An introduction to enterprise storageGreat article George, thanks! NT...Nice WorkFor some reason I can't download the pdf. :((Nokia N800)Once again, great tech articleThanks GeorgeThanks everyone for the comments! More to come!I've got some really cool stuff that will blow conventional wisdom on storage performance. Thanks everyone for the...
- Tags: Storage management, Scripting languages, Nokia N800, storage, Adobe PDF, N800, enterprise storage, operating system, pop-up blocker
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- An introduction to enterprise storage
- I just finished this article to help demystify enterprise storage and how it all ties in together. From ATA to SAS and Fibre Channel to ATA over Ethernet, storage technology has come a long way. A PDF version of this article is also available for download. ...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Networking
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Decrypting Enterprise Storage Security
- It is important to avoid having data security become a bottleneck to productivity while taking the appropriate steps to secure all data based on applicable threat risks. To avoid treating all data the same, leverage storage system-based volume or LUN level encryption as part of an overall tiered storage security...
- Tags: Enterprise Storage, Security Strategy, Storage System, StorageIO, Security, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-11
- The NAS Gateway Effect: How the Re-Invention of NAS Is Changing Enterprise Storage
- IT managers looking for battle-hardened, enterprise-scalable storage for their most demanding applications have a surprising new alternative: NAS. While NAS itself is not new, the next-generation NAS solutions now on the market are new. NAS is into its next stage of evolution and now includes industrial-strength solutions for IT managers...
- Tags: NAS, Gateway Inc., Enterprise Storage, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-01
- Native iSCSI and the commoditization of Enterprise storage
- For years, many experts have been declaring iSCSIthe next storage revolution, but has it really lived up to the hype? Well,yes and no. ISCSI is still a relatively new technology and it still has a smallmarketshare in the Enterprise SAN Storage Area Network arena. But this isnow about to change...
- Tags: iSCSI, storage
- Blog posts 2004-11-04
- IT Professional's Guide to Enterprise Storage ISO
- Burn your own CD version of TechRepublic's IT Professional's Guide to Enterprise Storage CD-ROM. This download is a complete image of the CD available for sale in our TechRepublic catalog. TechRepublic's IT Professional's Guide to Enterprise Storage CD-ROM delivers the insights and articles to help you through the maze of...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Enterprise Storage, ISO, IT Professional, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Download resources 2004-10-20
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