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Thin Provisioning in an IBM SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment

This paper describes how to provision storage efficiently with IBM System Storage N series in a Fibre Channel or iSCSI deployment. Storage efficiency has historically been extremely low because of the difficulty provisioning or changing provisioning to adapt to changing needs with classic storage array architectures. System Storage N series...

Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, IBM Corp., Storage Efficiency, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-08-28

Thin Provisioning in a NetApp SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment

Traditional disk arrays force the IT storage specialist to allocate and dedicate storage space to a particular volume or LUN at creation time. The problem is that at creation time the true requirements are often not known, which forces overprovisioning and higher costs. Network Appliance storage systems offer powerful, flexible...

Tags: Environment, IP SAN, SAN, Provisioning, IP, NetApp, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-06-01

The State of iSCSI-based IP SAN by ESG

Tony Asaro, senior analyst from ESG, provides an analysis on the state of iSCSI-based IP SAN market. The report takes a close look at what triggered the need for storage networking in the first place and reviews the basics of IP SAN including IP vs. FC performance, its reliability...

Tags: iSCSI, IP SAN, SAN, IP, Ip storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, Network Technology, Storage Management, Hardware, Networking

White papers 2006-04-01

The Regional Cancer Center Sets the Stage for a Filmless Environment With a Network Appliance IP SAN Solution

The Regional Cancer Center TRCC is one of the largest freestanding community cancer centers in the country. The cancer center recognized that achieving its ambitious goal would require completely rethinking its infrastructure. Eliminating film and paper records made 100% availability and a robust disaster recovery strategy essential. The most challenging...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IP SAN, SAN, NetApp, Cancer, TRCC, Storage, E-mail, Hardware, Online Communications

Case studies

Southcentral Foundation Builds Exemplary Healthcare Structure on Network Appliance IP SAN

Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska native nonprofit healthcare organization serving Alaska native and American Indian people living in Anchorage, the Mat-Su Valley, and 60 rural villages. Southcentral wanted to replace the existing storage with a storage solution that can support high data growth, the integration of multiple facilities, and a...

Tags: Network Appliance Inc., IP SAN, SAN, NetApp, Alaska, Southcentral Foundation, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Ip storage, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

UCCXD - Contact Center Express/Unified IP IVR Deployment v3.0

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will gain hands-on experience and knowledge of tasks typically performed to deploy Contact Center Unified Contact Center Express v7.0 and Unified IP IVR v7.0, two products that run on the Unified Contact Center Express Engine. Tasks include planning, installation, configuration tasks, troubleshooting,...

Tags: Contact Center, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Training 2009-11-01

ACUCW1 - Administering Cisco Unified Communications Workspace Part 1: Basic

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this entry-level, Global Knowledge-exclusive course, you will learn to administer the Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM v6 and v7 products, Cisco Unified Messaging products Unity 5.0 and Unity Connection 7.0, and client devices. You will learn how to access the CUCM administrative pages to perform...

Tags: Dallas, Phone, Schaumburg, Washington, Unified Communications, Voicemail, Cisco Unified Communications System, Cisco Systems Inc., Chicago, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications

Training 2009-11-01

Gaping security hole in Time Warner cable routers

how about telling us how to fix it?Can the customer log into their own router and change the vulnerable settings? Please advise.Patetic simply pateticThis is a worst case scenario... Time Warner is guilty of having used the same Admin Name/Password on all their routers and from what I read on...

Tags: Routers & switches, Modems, Network technology, NETWORKING, SMC8014, Model Number, Time Warner Cable Inc., router, modem, Time Warner Inc., Comcast Corp., security

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Missing: Tim Berners-Lee?The Mouse, and the GUI ...... without the invention of the mouse or the GUI/WYSIWYG there would not be as many users as there are today, and I would hazard a guess that it would be restricted to business applications like accounting, and Data Analysis.LudoRE: The 10...

Tags: Mice, Strategy, Operating systems, GUI, PARC User Interface, mouse, Microsoft Corp., IT History, Xerox PARC, operating system, IBM Corp., information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Motorola Debut i865 (Boost Mobile)

Most iDEN push-to-talk phones are quite bulky, and come in either a clamshell or candy bar form factor. The Motorola Debut for Boost Mobile, however, bucks that trend. It is the first ever iDEN push-to-talk phone to come in a slider design, which gives it a rather svelte appearance. Aside...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Motorola Debut, push-to-talk, phone, Motorola Inc., Boost Mobile, push-to-talk phone

Product reviews 2009-09-18

iStorage Server 1.40 (Windows)

KernSafe iStorage Server is an advanced and powerful, full-featured software-only iSCSI Target Server for Microsoft Windows both commercial and free versions. iStorage Server is IP SAN solution and allows you quickly export an existing storage such physical disk, partition, CD/DVD-ROM, generaic SCSI device and even a variety of popular CD/DVD...

Tags: iSCSI, Microsoft Windows, Data Sharing, KernSafe Technology, KernSafe iStorage Server, iStorage Server, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Ip storage, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing

Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...

Tags: Network, Environment, Pivot3, Storage, Servers, Networking, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 (Sprint)

The Sprint Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 mobile router shares the same hardware as the Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot with different branding and slightly different service and pricing.At $100, the device is actually more expensive than it seems when you factor in the required data plan by Sprint....

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Wi-Fi, Novatel Wireless, Sprint Communications, Sprint Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200, router

Product reviews 2009-07-28

Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot

Priced at $400 without a contract ($170 with a one-year contract or $100 with a two-year contract), the Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot isn't affordable, especially when you consider the data plans. There are two of them: either you pay $40 for 250MB a month or $60 for...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, INTERNET, mobile, Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200, Verizon MiFi 2200, router, Verizon Wireless MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, Verizon Wireless, MiFi

Product reviews 2009-06-11

Google I/O kicks off with bigger push into Android, Web apps and more

At Google I/O, the company's developer's conference being held in San Francisco today and tomorrow, the company is pushing HTML 5 as a standard that can redefine web applications. What the company hopes to do is unleash the power of applications in the web browser itself, just as it's done...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., I/O, Web Application, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-05-27

SysInfo 9.0 (Mac)

SysInfo is a system and storage solution for asset inventory and configuration reporting for most major Linux, UNIX, Apple Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms as well as leading NAS and SAN Storage Systems and logical volume software solutions. SysInfo provides extremely detailed system hardware, software, OS configuration, and storage asset...

Tags: Asset, Apple Macintosh, MagniComp, SysInfo, Storage, Asset Management, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Software downloads 2009-05-08

Network+ Prep Course

View Available Dates and LocationsCompTIA's Network+ is the premier vendor-neutral networking certification. Our Network+ Prep Course is designed to provide the foundation you need not only to be productive on the job but also to be successful in more specialized topics and in your pursuit of vendor-specific...

Tags: Certification, Network, CompTIA, CompTIA CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum Symbol, Networking

Training 2009-05-01

Nortel Communication Server 1000E Installation and Commissioning - Release 5.5

View Available Dates and LocationsThis course is designed for individuals responsible for Communication Server 1000E (CS 1000E) installation and commissioning. The Communication Server 1000 portfolio includes full featured, server-based IP PBXs that can be fully distributed over the IP LAN and WAN infrastructures of enterprise environments.What You'll Learn:Upon successful completion...

Tags: Software, Nortel Networks Corp., Server, Hardware, Communication Server 1000 Portfolio, Tools & Techniques, Management

Training 2009-05-01

Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

The Internet SCSI iSCSI protocol allows a client system initiator to send SCSI commands to targets on a remote server over an existing IP network infrastructure, thus providing a low cost alternative to a Storage Area Network SAN infrastructure. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports the iSCSI, NFS,...

Tags: iSCSI, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage System, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System, Automatic Storage Management, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Ip storage, Network Technology, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-01

Make no bones about it: Server 2008 R2 is really Windows Server 7

Whether you call it Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 7, there's no doubt that this is a major Server product release for Microsoft. While the Windows 7 Release Candidate is getting all the attention this week, I thought I might bring...

Tags: NTFS, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-30