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HP StorageWorks Scalable NAS and HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software With CommVault Data Archiver for Tiered Storage

Tiered storage management allows users to perform host-based, file-level data migration to tiered storage using a variety of network protocols for file movement. Every Hierarchical Storage Management HSM product on the market has different levels of dependencies on backup software, file systems and network protocols to facilitate this migration of...

Tags: Software, NAS, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Tiered Storage, Tiered Storage Management, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-07-01

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Paranormal Meets Verizon's Cloud Computing Service

I was speaking yesterday with Verizon about its new hosted data center service, Computing as a Service CaaS, and flashed back to those spoon bending parties of the ‘70s. Back then stage psychic Uri Geller inspired normally sane...

Tags: Spoon, Verizon Communications Inc., Computing As A Service, Data Centers, Virtualization, Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-03

10 Steps to Deploying a High-Performance Fault-Tolerant SAN Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and Cisco Catalyst Network Infrastructure

The Dell EqualLogic family of iSCSI SANs is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Its all-inclusive, intelligent feature set streamlines purchasing and delivers rapid...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Dell EqualLogic, Hardware, High-performance, Network Infrastructure, SAN, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN)

White papers 2009-06-01

Advanced File Sharing and Management in the Dell NX4

The Dell NX4 Network Attached Storage NAS device goes beyond simple file servers to provide advanced features ranging from point-in-time snapshots and replication to deduplication, file-level retention, and tiered storage access. Combined with support for both Internet SCSI iSCSI and Fibre Channel, this system can help meet enterprise-class requirements, simplify...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., File-sharing, Dell NX4 Network Attached Storage Device, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Data Management, File Servers, Storage, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-06-01

Application Tiering and Tiered Storage: How an Administrator Controls Services Levels Across Applications in a Consolidated Environment

Storage consolidation allows you to bring many applications together in a single storage pool. It can improve storage utilization, dramatically simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation simplifies the management, provisioning, and backup of your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements? There...

Tags: Administrator, Environment, Tiered Storage, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-08

Stop Buying Storage - Part 2: Maximize Storage Assets With Thin Provisioning, Tiered Storage, and Cluster File Systems

Thin Provisioning represents an opportunity to immediately optimize the storage systems and make more capacity available to the applications. Although thin provisioning is a storage array feature, servers need to be 'Thin aware'. In order to migrate from "Thick" to "Thin," one need tools that makes the transition seamlessly and...

Tags: Provisioning, Tiered Storage, Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2009-04-16

Best Practices for Fast, Simple Capacity Allocation With EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning

EMC Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning, which marks a significant advancement over technologies commonly known in the Industry as "Thin provisioning," adds a new dimension to tiered storage in the array by improving capacity utilization and simplifying storage management. Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning integrates with existing device management, replication, and management tools, enabling...

Tags: EMC Symmetrix, Provisioning, Allocation, Best Practice, EMC Corp., Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-14

Advanced File Sharing and Management

Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access. To keep data safe and available, Dell NX4...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., File-sharing, Dell NX4, Storage, Disaster Recovery, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-03-06

New book offer practical guide to greening your data center

Looking for a prescriptive list of questions you should ask and issues you should consider when assessing the energy efficiency and overall "green-ness" of your data center? A how-to guide, if you will? You might find what you need in the form of a new book from...

Tags: Data Center, Blade, Technology, Data Centers, Data Center Virtualization, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Virtualization, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-26

New book offers practical guide to greening your data center

Looking for a prescriptive list of questions you should ask and issues you should consider when assessing the energy efficiency and overall "green-ness" of your data center? A how-to guide, if you will? You might find what you need in the form of a new book from...

Tags: Data Center, Blade, Technology, Data Centers, Data Center Virtualization, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Virtualization, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Citrix Synergy Announcements

Today is the first day of Citrix's Synergy Conference and the company has come out with a gaggle of announcements. (As an aside, do announcements come in gaggles, coveys, pods, or packs?) The centerpiece is Citrix's announcement that XenDesktop is now available. Another important announcement is that Citrix now is...

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-20

A Guide to Storing More Intelligently

With enterprise IT organizations battling year-over-year information growth rates of 50 to 60 percent, we need to start storing information more intelligently. This will improve energy efficiency, reduce system complexity and save costs.Read this white paper to for a step by step guide to simplfying your storage covering topics such...

Tags: Energy Efficiency, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2008-03-18

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center

Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-01-11

Oracle Secure Backup 10.2 Policy-Based Backup Management

Reliable data protection in the enterprise extends beyond simple tape backup to multi-tiered data protection strategies based on criticality of data, Recovery Time Objectives RTO and retention meeting business and regulatory requirements. Tape media remains the cornerstone of enterprise data protection providing the most affordable, reliable media for long-term backup...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Tape Backup, Backups

White papers 2007-12-01

Building an Infrastructure That Enables Log Management Best Practices: A Technology Strategy for Comprehensive Security Information and Event Management

Building an infrastructure to incorporate an ILM strategy for log data involves combining Security Information and Event Management SIEM technology with tiered storage. Although infrastructure requirements will vary depending on each organization's particular environment, there are many that are common across organizations. This paper is intended to help organizations determine...

Tags: Strategy, RSA Security Inc., Best Practice, Storage, Security, Hardware

White papers 2007-09-01

Improving Storage Utilization With a Storage Service Management Approach

As data volumes continue to increase, keeping pace with expanding business requirements, point tools fail to solve the critical requirements for an IT organization to effectively manage the storage infrastructure. The first step to solve this problem is to understand the current state of the environment, from application to spindle....

Tags: Storage, Hardware

Webcasts 2007-06-20

Storing More Intelligently: Tiered Storage Solutions for Security Data

Off late storage management has been the purview of IT staff, not compliance or security professionals. But as volumes of security information - such as logs and other operational data - continue to grow, security and compliance teams face growing challenges around storage management. Compliance and security organizations are beginning...

Tags: Storage, Tiered Storage, Security Information, Security

White papers 2007-05-01

A Sun Storage Technical Brief: Data Protection - The 8 Steps to Cutting IT Operating Costs Without Sacri?cing Data Protection

For the IT organization struggling to find ways to reduce costs, here's an essential starting point: data classification. By rethinking the company's approach to saving data over the long-term, one can make considerable cuts to the IT storage expenditures - without lowering the amount of data protection one has in...

Tags: Data Protection, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Information Lifecycle Management, Tiered Storage, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Disaster Recovery, Storage, Process Improvement, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Quality, Business Operations

White papers 2007-03-01

Data Center Storage Trends, Challenges, and Solutions

The data center has become the heart and soul of a company. It provides far more than just the technology aspect of a business. But the average data center has grown extremely complex. New technologies, fast growth, acquisitions, the online data explosion, and increased security concerns have driven complexity up...

Tags: Data Center, Tiered Storage, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2007-01-25

Solution Sheet: IBM tiered storage management helps reduce costs and complexity

One thing holds true in the modern storage environment--data fills all available space. And as organizations across all industries are adding daily to the mountains of customer data, financial records, e-mails, images and other electronic content, many are realizing that these heaps of data are actually driving every decision and...

Tags: Storage, Tiered Storage, IBM Corp.

White papers 2007-01-01