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The storage consolidation continues: HP acquires IBRIX

HP on Friday picked up IBRIX, a file serving software company, in the latest round of merger and acquisition activity. Terms of HP's acquisition weren't disclosed. IBRIX provides enterprise-class file serving software designed for data protection, high availability and cloud computing environments. The deal...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBRIX, Mergers & Acquisitions, Storage, Investment, Finance, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-17

CRN: The Value of Storage Consolidation

When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga.,bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. The university was trying to keep more than 50 servers with direct-attached storage up and running....

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell EqualLogic, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2009-05-08

Five Reasons to Make Dell EqualLogic PS Series Your Storage Consolidation Solution

Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead. The PS Series' unique peer storage architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely accessed by servers across a standard Ethernet network. The PS Group Manager provides a single, intuitive administrative interface, accessible from anywhere on the network.

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, PS Series, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-08

Storage Consolidation Made Simple With FibreCAT SX

A SAN is a specialized network that provides highly available storage subsystems to multiple hosts servers. This storage network is primarily based on fibre optic technology and allows for very high transfer rates (up to 400 MB/s) between hosts and the storage system. The basic idea of a SAN lies...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, SAN, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-12-01

Sun Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Solution Boosts Performance, Lowers TCO

KnowledgeBase Marketing provides information and database marketing solutions that enable companies to acquire and manage profitable customer relationships across traditional and Web-based contact points. The company's challenge was to provide cost-effective storage for data growing at more than 35% per year to improve storage utilization and management. They wanted to...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., TCO, KnowledgeBase Marketing, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2007-12-01

Photo: Dell's PowerVault MD3000i

Dell is targeting the small and medium business market with a new storage consolidation system, the PowerVault MD3000i. by CNET News.com

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerVault, Storage, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2007-09-10

Storage Consolidation With the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI Storage

The PowerVault MD3000i is a cost effective, simple to manage iSCSI storage array that can be used to consolidate the storage of several servers, providing higher storage utilization, integrated snapshots and a single management interface. To demonstrate this, the application storage requirements of five servers were built on a PowerVault...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Dell Computer Corp., Dell PowerVault, PowerVault MD3000i, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-01

Storage Consolidation: The Best of Both Worlds

Storage consolidation has become a buzz phrase for IT departments looking for ways to escape the escalating storage-requirement rat race. More storage for less money: The promise of storage consolidation can seem like the way out of all the churning complexity that characterizes most storage environments today. The right way...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Datatec, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-07-01

Storage Consolidation: Overcoming Inhibitors to Simple and Effective Data Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

This white paper looks at some of the issues facing small and medium-sized enterprises and provides an overview of typical storage consolidation methodologies. The paper also points out some tips on what to look for as you develop the consolidation strategies and plans that are right for your business. ...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Small And Medium Enterprise, Data Management, NetApp, Smb/Sme, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-03-01

Using a Network Appliance SAN With VMware Infrastructure 3 to Facilitate Server and Storage Consolidation

Many companies are experiencing a rapid proliferation of commodity Intel and AMD x86 servers. These systems are typically equipped with a small amount of internal or direct-attached disk storage. As server numbers grow into the hundreds, the management complexity for both servers and storage increases exponentially, putting a strain on...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Network Appliance Inc., SAN, Server, VMware Inc., NetApp, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-03-01

The Business Case for Storage Consolidation

In the face of expanding data sets and shrinking budgets, making effective use of your company's storage assets is now more critical than ever. This white paper covers the data archiving challenges that companies are currently facing and outlines some disturbing facts about distributed server and storage environments. Download the...

Tags: Business Case, Storage Consolidation, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-12-01

The Financial Benefits of Storage Consolidation: Consolidation, Virtualization and Information Lifecycle Management

The term "Storage" conjures up many images, including lockers, warehouses, closets, attics, and that metal icon of the business world: the filing cabinet. But the term takes on new meaning in the digital world, with storage being one of the hottest topics in networking today. Demand for digital storage is...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization, Financial, Consolidation, Information Lifecycle Management, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-08-15

Comparing Storage Consolidation Solutions

High-end disk arrays offer enterprises many tangible business benefits, including 24/7/365 availability as well as improved performance and scalability, to name just a few. If your IT organization is ready to upgrade to a more robust storage infrastructure, you won't want to miss this informative decision-support paper, which provides a...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Disk Array, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2005-01-19

NetApp MultiStore and SnapMover: Adding Business Value With Storage Consolidation, Data Availability, Security, and Load Balancing

NetApp MultiStore allows a filer's storage and networking resources to be partitioned into multiple virtual filers, each of which appears as an individual filer on the network. The dynamic, flexible nature of virtual filers simplifies UNIX and Windows storage consolidation, and offers unified access to data over both CIFS and...

Tags: Security, Storage Consolidation, Network, Load Balancing, NetApp, NetApp MultiStore, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-01-01

NAS/SAN Fusion: Exchange and File Storage Consolidation

This white paper begins by introducing the reader to SAN-based and Windows Powered NAS-based technologies. Next, this paper describes the NAS/SAN fusion solution overview, the required components, the solution design, and the required hardware and software. A discussion on implementing a NAS/SAN fusion deployment follows, focusing on the design, sizing,...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, SAN, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2003-03-01

Storage Consolidation: Moving From DAS to SAN/NAS

The proliferation of on-line data and the need for instant access 24x7 has put pressure on IT professionals to do more with less. Consolidation is an approach to achieve more efficient use of IT resources. Server, Application, and Storage are some of the types of information system consolidations. This paper...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, NAS, Dell Computer Corp., SAN, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2002-08-01

Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com

This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related issues that caused e-commerce giant Priceline.com to look for a storage solution that offered increased flexibility and higher utilization rates at a lower total cost of ownership TCO. The paper details the impressive results Priceline has achieved since consolidating its mission-critical, SAN-resident...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, 3PARData Inc., Priceline.com Inc., Roi/Tco, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

Case studies

Nine Steps to Effective Networked Unified Storage Consolidation

Network storage consolidation makes it significantly easier for today's storage administrators to manage the ever-swelling amounts of storage while simplifying the data protection. To help simplify the process of networked unified storage consolidation, Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting lays out a nine-step process in this paper...

Tags: Storage Consolidation, BlueArc, Storage, Hardware

White papers

IP Storage: Changing the Economics of Storage Consolidation

This webcast outlines the many data storage challenges facing the IT staff in the mid-sized enterprises and discusses how IP-based networked storage can help them overcome these challenges.

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Data Storage, IP, EMC Corp., Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

Webcasts

Additional Resources

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