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Intelligent Storage Provisioning for UNIX and LINUX Environments

Storage provisioning is the process used to provide appropriate storage capacity to applications. Intelligent Storage Provisioning ISP is a feature of the VERITAS Storage Foundation product family that allows application volumes to be created from disks1 that meet installation-specified criteria. Provisioning block storage capacity involves configuring physical storage devices, ensuring...

Tags: Storage Provisioning, Linux, Unix, Storage Capacity, Intelligent Storage Provisioning, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-07-05

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Technical Report:  Deploying Microsoft Hyper-V with PS Series Arrays

Server virtualization is a common practice is today's data centers for server consolidation, power reduction, rapid provisioning, high availability, and data protection. All of these reasons lead to lower data center costs and TCO. Virtual servers together with intelligent virtual storage increase the chances for successful deployments of virtual data...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Dell EqualLogic, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Data Center Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Roi/Tco, Storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-11-04

Automated Planners for Storage Provisioning and Disaster Recovery

Introducing an application into a data center involves complex interrelated decision-making for the placement of data where to store it and resiliency in the event of a disaster how to protect it. Automated planners can assist administrators in making intelligent placement and resiliency decisions when provisioning for both new and...

Tags: Storage Provisioning, Disaster Recovery, IBM Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-01

Should storage virtualization always be part of a virtual processing environment?

John Joseph, VP of Marketing of Dell EqualLogic Storage, and I had a short, but interesting dicussion about the place virtual storage should have in a well designed virtualized environment. If one is attempting to abstract functions away from the underlying physical platform, it simply makes sense to do the...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Environment, EqualLogic, Storage System, Storage, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Rumination on industry trends

Since starting this blog, I've had the chance to speak with representatives of over 80 different companies offering something related to virtualization. I find it's pretty easy to spot trends based upon what these suppliers tell me during our discussions. Although this certainly isn't an extensive or exhaustive list (I'm...

Tags: Channel Management, Dan Kusnetzky, Environment, Hardware, Marketing, Network, Networking, Storage, Storage Management, Supplier, Utility Computing, Virtualization

Blog posts 2007-11-08

SANmelody 2.0.1 (Windows)

A unique storage software that allows you to transform a standard PC server plus disk drives into an intelligent disk server at a fraction of the cost of what the traditional storage suppliers offer. Transform a general purpose PC server into a Powered by DataCore disk server with the following...

Tags: Disk, Server, Microsoft Windows, DataCore Software, SANmelody

Software downloads 2006-07-03

Power Shift: Meeting SLAs in the New IT Service Delivery Model

In IT departments, the emphasis is on delivering high levels of service availability. As these organizations have become more oriented toward serving internal customers, meeting Service Level Agreements SLAs has emerged as a top priority, since revenue-generating and otherwise business-critical applications must be highly available. Unfortunately, current approaches to delivering...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., SLA, Information Technology, Service Availability, Server, Service Oriented Resource Management, Service Level Management, It Management, It Operations, It service Management

White papers 2006-06-29

A further look into utility computing and transparent pricing

After a few days of immersion in Sun's orbit, you have to take a step back to access whether the well-crafted presentations about grids , Java, Solaris 10 , open source , subscription pricing and processor threads are the road to riches or a black hole in the making. I...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., pricing

Blog posts 2005-02-03