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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
An Overview of HP StorageWorks All-in-One (AiO) storage systems and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Database Snapshots: This paper is an introduction to All-in-One AiO Storage System snapshots of Exchange 2007 Server databases, using the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target and Volume Shadow Copy Services VSS. It covers the required components to take snapshots, and how they interact during the snapshot process. The procedures for taking snapshots of...; Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Microsoft Exchange Server, Snapshot, Microsoft Corp., Storage System, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-11-01
MAID for Green: Energy Conservation With Fujitsu ETERNUS storage systems: This paper describes best practices on how customers can conserve energy using ECO mode on Fujitsu ETERNUS storage systems. Today, because of strong demand for storage capacity, customers are faced with serious issues of power and cooling in their data centers. The density of today's storage systems, the insatiable demand...; Tags: Data Center, Fujitsu Ltd., Storage System, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-11-01
Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: LeftHand Networks Accelerates VMware Server Virtualization With SAN/iQ Software-Based storage systems: In order to meet the challenges of running today's datacenters, an increasing number of IT organizations are turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the datacenter and deploy applications across a shared pool of server resources allows organizations to break free of the limitations they face with...; Tags: Storage Virtualization, LeftHand Networks, Data Center, VMware Inc., Storage System, Data Centers, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-25
Philips Medical Systems Cures Storage Heartache With the Intel Entry storage system SS4000-E: Until recently, images sent to the Philips Xcelera Focus system were stored on 5-1/4" optical disks and managed via third-party storage software. But this process was quite labor intensive for their customers, who often have very little technical know-how. When clinicians needed to view and compare a patient's prior exams,...; Tags: Philips Medical Systems, Storage System, Intel Corp., Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware; Case studies 2007-10-01

A Comparison of EMC CLARiiON and the Network Appliance FAS Array: A Detailed Review: The CLARiiON line of storage systems from EMC and the Network Appliance FAS series are both positioned as shared storage platforms for customers interested in Fibre Channel and iSCSI solutions. Network Appliance positions FAS as a general purpose storage system to satisfy a wide range of application needs. Even the...; Tags: Network Appliance Inc., EMC Clariion, EMC Corp., Storage System, Storage, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-01
Using HP StorageWorks All-in-One storage system With VMware ESX Server Solution - Overview and Configuration Guide: Corporate data is undoubtedly one of the most critical assets of any company. Businesses of all sizes worldwide are experiencing more rapid data growth than ever before. Growth rates of over 100 percent per year are no longer uncommon. While companies are dealing with out-of-control storage growth, CIOs and IT...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Server, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Storage System, VMWare ESX, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-10-01
Thermal storage system Provides Emergency Data Center Cooling: Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage.; Tags: Data Center, Storage System, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-09-01
Using Symantec Backup Exec With the HP StorageWorks All-in-One storage system (AiO): Although the HP StorageWorks All-in-One AiO storage system includes integrated HP Data Protector Express software, some users may already have standardized on other backup software. With AiO release 1.3 and beyond, it is possible to use pre- and post-scripts generated by AiO with other backup software to protect data hosted...; Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Symantec Backup Exec, Backup Software, Storage System, AiO, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-09-01
IBM System Storage N Series With MultiStore and SnapMover: The storage system hardware is made up of CPUs, network cards, Fibre Channel controllers, power supplies, disk drives, and so forth. One can use System Storage N series with MultiStore software to effectively partition and dynamically assign a storage system's storage and networking resources to virtual storage systems to virtualize...; Tags: Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage System Hardware, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-22
Integrating Lotus Domino 7.0 for Windows 2003 With a NetApp storage system Using SnapDrive 4.2: The tight integration of SnapDrive with Windows and NetApp storage systems offers the ease of storage management and high data availability required for Lotus Domino environments. A NetApp storage system in conjunction with SnapDrive offers an enterprise-class solution for Lotus Domino. This paper describes steps necessary to integrate a NetApp...; Tags: Microsoft Windows 2003, IBM Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows, Storage System, NetApp, IBM Corp., Storage, E-mail Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2007-06-17
PACISSO: P2P Access Control Incorporating Scalability and Self-Organization for storage systems: A common challenge in fully distributed storage systems is the management of access rights to stored files. PACISSO is an efficient and scalable solution for distributed access control, applicable to systems consisting entirely of untrusted nodes. The paper gives both theoretical bounds on the cost of basic operations, and also...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., P2P, Scalability, Access Control, Storage System, PACISSO, Peer To Peer (P2P), Storage, Storage Management, Internet, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01
Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier storage systems: Enterprise storage systems typically contain multiple storage tiers, each having its own performance, reliability, and recoverability. The primary motivation for this multi-tier organization is cost, as storage tier costs vary considerably. This paper describes a file system called TierFS that stores files at multiple storage tiers while providing high recoverability...; Tags: Storage System, Tier, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-01
storage system Availability: No Longer Just a High-End Requirement: This paper examines how many organizations are addressing high-availability requirements with respect to their storage environments. It explores the evolution of high availability, as the need has migrated from large, high-end IT environments to more pervasive deployments among midsize organizations looking to provide increased availability among a much broader set...; Tags: EMC Clariion, Storage System, International Data Group, Storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2007-05-01
Photos: Sun does streaming video: Sun's Streaming System, announced Wednesday, consists of a group of servers and at least one storage system.; Tags: Web site development, Sun Microsystems Inc., streaming video, storage system, storage, photograph, video, server; Image galleries 2007-04-25
Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale storage systems: Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that are taken for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage systems is the cost of keeping hundreds of thousands of disks spinning. This paper presents a simple idea that allows...; Tags: Power Consumption, Cornell University, Storage System, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-04-10
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
HP StorageWorks All-in-One storage system - iSCSI Advanced Topics: This white paper gives an overview of basic iSCSI concepts and dives into some more advanced iSCSI topics. It is not meant to provide exhaustive information regarding all the capabilities and options available for iSCSI technology. In many cases, detailed documentation already exists from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft about iSCSI and...; Tags: iSCSI, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage System, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Networking; White papers 2007-04-01
Deployment Guide: Implementing FileNet Image Services on AIX Platform With Network Appliance storage systems: This paper discusses high-level information on deploying IBM's FileNet Image Server product by integrating Network Appliance storage system solutions in UNIX environments. This paper specifically discusses Oracle Database server. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the prerequisites and general steps required to deploy FileNet Image...; Tags: FileNet Corp., Network Appliance Inc., Environment, IBM AIX, Storage System, NetApp, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-04-01
Implementing a Tag storage system Designed for Fast Retrieval: In a storage system where the amount of data exceeds the size of the computer memory, it is necessary to store the data on disk rather than directly in memory. However, the time it takes to access and read from a disk is far greater than the time it takes...; Tags: Disk, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Memory, Storage System, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-03-22