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U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform

U.S. Air Force wanted to meet business demands more flexibly; manage data more simply and efficiently; and mitigate the risk of lost data with a Storage Area Network SAN that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources. U.S. Air Force virtualized SAN-attached storage, which is available with the new HP...

Tags: U.S., Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., Air Force, Aircraft, Storage, Hardware

Case studies 2009-07-01

SANRAD - Storage virtualization for high availabiltiy

SANRAD - Storage virtualization for high availabiltiyLooks like lock-inWhen you sell hardware to go with your software, you are trapping customers into a proprietary system. What if something goes wrong and you lose all of your data? It happened to Ford when IBM's SVC took a dump and couldn't recover....

Tags: IP storage, Storage management, Virtualization, SANRAD, storage virtualization, storage

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

SANRAD - Storage virtualization for high availabiltiy

Dr. Allon Cohen, VP Product Management of SANRAD, and I had an interesting conversation about high availability/disaster recovery in a virtualized environment the other day. His company is doing its best to bring "enterprise features and performance" to smaller organizations that have embarked on the journey to a more virtualized...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Environment, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Enabling the Virtual Data Center: Simple, Affordable Virtualized iSCSI Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Environments

Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many organizations are advancing toward the next step, which is to couple storage virtualization with server virtualization in a highly available, scalable, and manageable environment. Building the...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Virtual Data Center, iSCSI, Data Center, Microsoft Windows Server, Environment, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-08

Growing Beyond the Limits: Maryland government agency responds to user needs faster thanks to a server and storage virtualization solution from Dell

Growth is inherent to IT organizations, and this Maryland government agency is no exception. The agency is charged with providing IT resources to the Governor's office and other state agencies. Having room for growth is critical. The IT team is dedicated to meeting its government users' requests for services, applications...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Maryland, Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, IT Team, Ip storage, Storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, Strategy, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2009-05-08

HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (HP SVSP)

The HP StorageWorks SAN virtualization Services Platform or SVSP is a network-based storage virtualization solution that enables enterprises to manage, pool, and share storage resources to improve efficiency, simplify operations, and lower Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This paper provides a general overview of virtualization technology and explains in more...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage, Data Management, Storage Management, Virtualization, Ip storage, Roi/Tco, Utility Computing, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-05-01

Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: Using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 for Improved Ease of Use, Reduced Cost and Complexity, Increased Availability, and Complete Compatibility

In order to meet the challenges of running today's data centers, an increasing number of IT organizations like turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the data center and deploy applications across a shared pool of server resources allows them to break free of the limitations they...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Data Center, Ease Of Use, Hewlett-Packard Co., SAN, Infrastructure Inc., VMware Inc., Server Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-04-01

Innovation Network Lecture Series: A New File System Organization for Storage Virtualization

The design and organization of modern file systems has been traditionally driven by practical considerations related to the physical properties of computer disks. Storage virtualization makes such considerations largely irrelevant. One important example of this phenomenon is the relationship between disk seek times and the placement and organization of file...

Tags: Innovation, Storage Virtualization, Network, File System, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-01-07

Enabling The Virtual Data Center

Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many organizations are advancing toward the next step, which is to couple storage virtualization with server virtualization in a highly available, scalable, and manageable environment. Building the...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Virtual Data Center, Data Center, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Ip storage, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Virtualized Storage and Windows Server® 2008

Storage virtualization is nothing new, but what is new and exciting with regard to storage virtualization and Windows Server® 2008? In this podcast, Computerworld Vice President Bill Laberis poses this question to Dell's Stan Stevens, who explains the core benefits that organizations can get from storage virtualization, as well as...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Server, Stevens, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2008-12-01

FalconStor

FalconStor's product marketing manager, Peter Eicher, and I had a chat recently about Hyper-V, storage virtualization, life and the universe recently. The news is that FalconStor is supporting Microsoft's Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Multi-Site Clustering and Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Servers. FalconStor' NSS enables automated, application-consistent failover in geographically dispersed clusters...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, FalconStor, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Storage Management, Ip storage, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Servers, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Maryland Government Agency Responds to User Needs Faster Thanks to a Server and Storage Virtualization Solution From Dell

A Maryland government agency couldn't grow within its data center, which had reached capacity with 58 physical servers that were underutilized. The agency implemented a new model for data center efficiency with a Dell server and storage virtualization solution that enabled users' ever-growing needs. The solution includes Dell PowerEdge servers...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Agency, Government, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2008-10-01

Citrix Business Solutions: Powered by Datacore Software

DataCore Software provides storage virtualisation solutions that make storage and SAN infrastructures efficient, fault tolerant, flexible and virtual. DataCore Storage Virtualisation is the foundation for the Total Enterprise Virtualisation - the combination of proven virtualisation solutions into comprehensive, enterprise-wide, virtual infrastructures, comprising desktops, servers and storage. ...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Citrix Systems Inc., DataCore Software, DataCore Storage Virtualisation, Virtualization, Storage, Storage Management, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-09-03

CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out

CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants outNews Flash: 60% of CIOs plan to upgrade to Vista!Larry, does this mean the tide is turning?RE: CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants outI'd really like a good, clear article on this point. We've been...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Virtualization, IP storage, Storage management, storage, Microsoft Windows Vista, PC Upgrade, storage virtualization, PC, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-04

CIOs: Storage, virtualization, IT staffing in; PC upgrades, Vista, consultants out

CIOs expect their IT spending to be up 2.3 percent in 2008, but PC upgrades, outsourcing and consultants are viewed as the most discretionary items in budgets, according to a survey by Merrill Lynch. Virtualization, storage and labor are among the least likely items to be cut. ...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, CIO, Staffing, PC, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows Vista, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Using Storage Virtualization to Meet the Challenges of Rapid Data Growth: Leverage Existing Assets, Reduce Costs, and Simplify Storage Management

For businesses around the world, data volume is growing exponentially. Each day, companies gather and store more information to meet business and regulatory requirements. It all adds up to exploding data growth - and persistent storage problems. For most businesses, this legacy IT strategy is not only costly, it's unsustainable....

Tags: Asset, Storage Virtualization, Storage Management, Data Growth, Storage, Ip storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-06-04

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

HP StorageWorks Virtualization

Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure, and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients. The term Virtualization has really become an umbrella that...

Tags: Storage Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage Virtualization Approach, Virtualization, Storage, Ip storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2008-02-28

Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?

Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?IBM's P-series virtualization in AIX 6You should have a good look at IBM AIX 6. Storage and network virtualization already exists with Virtual IO servers in the P5 series servers.Application level virtualization occurs in Workload Partitions WPARs. This...

Tags: Storage management, ROI/TCO, Utility computing, virtualization, storage, storage virtualization, SV product, ROI

Discussion threads 2008-02-25

Storage virtualization: Why aren't the big guys talking more about it?

One of the fastest growing segments of the virtualization software market between 2006 and 2007 was storage virtualization software. As organizations adopt a more virtualized approach to their IT infrastructure, it makes sense that they would also separate the storage function from other parts of the infrastructure. Why, then, do...

Tags: Software, Storage Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Storage, Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-02-25