Storage Virtualization - KnowledgeStorm

Serious About High Availability? Eliminate Storage-related Downtime, Not Just Hardware Failures

DataCore Software Corporation — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

The economic downturn is no time to compromise on data availability, especially when storage virtualization software has made it possible to eliminate costly, storage-related downtime without paying a premium.

Ten Things You Need to Know about Virtualization

DataCore Software Corporation — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Thinking of making the move to “total enterprise virtualization?" Here are some interesting points of view about virtualization you should know coming from the vantage point of a storage virtualization pioneer, DataCore Software.

Leveraging Virtualisation for a Competitive Edge Improve Application Availability and ...

Virtustream — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This paper will discuss the 5 areas of Virtualisation technology and introduce you to a virtualized framework solution from Virtustream that will not only provide the maximum ROI, but will address issues from a business perspective as well as an IT perspective, with a constant eye on the calculator for any business investment - your TCO.

Storage Virtualization Seminar Presentation Download

SearchStorage.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

This presentation highlights how virtualization has progressed from vaporware to an actual concept storage managers are using to minimize the amount of machines needed to manage, centralize data and change the economics of storage.

eGuide: The Green Data Center: Understanding Energy Regulations, Power Consumption and More

IBM — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Today’s businesses are being pushed to consolidate their data centers, address power consumption and implement virtualization in an effort to reduce operating costs and go green. But what are the best routes to achieving these objectives?

DR in the Cloud Checklist

i365, A Seagate Company — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Tune into this podcast for a cloud computing disaster recovery (DR) checklist. Learn about various DR approaches for your cloud computing environment. Find out how to secure your data and how to get your DR objectives met by your cloud provider.

Essential Guide to Storage Virtualisation

Double-Take Software UK — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST

Virtual server technology has made one key task a lot harder: backup. In this SearchStorageUK essential guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about protecting virtual servers.

Developing a mission-critical hardware strategy for your SAP environment

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.

Architecting Deduplication and Virtualization for Best of Breed Data Protection

Data Domain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Brad Blake, IT Director at Boston Medical Center, presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.

Improve Your Back Up: Getting the Most out of Data Deduplication

PC Connection in partnership with EMC — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Now more than ever, organizations are looking at re-architecting their backup strategy and are learning that deduplication is necessary to consider in ‘next generation’ backup architecture. This presentation transcript explores some deduplication tips and advice on how to streamline your storage costs.

E-Guide: Storage Virtualization Best Practices

Hewlett-Packard Company — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.

Data Center Virtualization and Efficiency: Server, Network and Storage Perspective

Cisco Systems, Inc. — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this webcast to gain insight into how data center virtualization technologies are contributing to dramatic increases in efficiency and reduced capital and operational expenses. Discover current trends driving the virtualized data center.

Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape across Distributed Sites: Unified Approach Provides Improved ...

Quantum Corporation and Symantec — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Every company with multiple locations has the challenge of managing backup data across different sites, media types, and retention periods for short term protection and long term retention. View this webcast to learn about a new consolidated approach to solving this problem by combining disk, deduplication, and tape storage systems.

High-speed, Power-efficient Deduplication: Saving Costs Without Sacrificing Performance

FalconStor Software — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Industry innovators Nexsan and FalconStor have formed a strategic venture to deliver the cost saving benefits of these technologies in an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI.

Taking the next step toward greater performance and cost efficiency in a dedupe solution? ...

FalconStor Software — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Join Brian Babineau, Senior Analyst with ESG, as he explores high-speed, power-efficient deduplication with industry innovators Nexsan and FalconStor who have formed a strategic venture to deliver the cost saving benefits of these technologies in an integrated system designed to optimize almost any backup environment and deliver immediate ROI.

Podcast: File Virtualization FAQ with Jeff Boles

F5 Networks UK — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this FAQ with Jeff Boles, Jeff discusses the ins and outs of file virtualization. He tells users the benefits and drawbacks of file virtualization, which file virtualization products are on the market and how they might work in specific IT shops, as well as how file virtualization affects replication or migration of files.

File Virtualization FAQ Podcast with Jeff Boles

F5 Networks, Inc. — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

IDC Best Practices: Protecting Sensitive Information in Failed and Decommissioned Storage Media

PeakData Services, Inc. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Stringent laws and regulations are forcing businesses to look at data in a new light. Added to compliance challenges is protecting disparate data, while reducing overhead costs associated with legal discovery. In this webcast IDC looks at high level trends in compliance, solutions that industry-leaders are employing and how to mitigate data risk.

PODCAST: IDC Best Practices: Protecting Sensitive Information in Failed and Decommissioned ...

PeakData Services, Inc. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Stringent laws and regulations are forcing businesses to look at data in a new light. Added to compliance challenges is protecting disparate data, while reducing overhead costs associated with legal discovery. In this podcast, IDC looks at high level trends in compliance, solutions that industry-leaders are employing and how to mitigate data risk.

Virtual server backup options today

Quantum Corporation — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the various options available today for backing up virtual machines including VMware's VCB, third-party products, and the ways that backup software products are evolving to ease virtual machine backups.

Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.

Essential Guide to Storage Virtualization

Hewlett-Packard Company — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Read this guide for expert advice on updating your storage system with virtualization. Covered here are the pros and cons of three architectures, a buying guide and vendor comparisons, a breakdown on how storage virtualization relates to disaster recovery, and a list of vendor resources.

Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.

Virtualization and Your Storage Infrastructure

Forsythe Technology Solution — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Storage virtualization can bring many benefits to an organization including reduced costs, higher capacity, and greater data protection. This SearchStorage E-Guide was developed to give storage managers practical guidelines and best practices to consider when evaluating how to best leverage virtualization in their storage infrastructure.

Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.

Windows Server and Storage eBook, Ch 3 - Assess Your Data Center Storage Needs

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.

Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: The Truth about Virtualizing Storage

3PAR — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, Founder and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, will explain the practical benefits of storage virtualization, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization.

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

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them 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.

Podcast on Green Storage with Nik Simpson, storage analyst for The Burton Group

3PAR — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this expert Podcast, Nik Simpson, analyst with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world.

Virtualization as a Disaster Recovery Strategy

Compellent — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this podcast, industry expert Mike Karp addresses how virtualization is increasingly being used within midmarket organizations and discusses the major pros and cons of relying on a virtual environment for backup.

SiliconFS & trade;: The BlueArc & reg; Filesystem

BlueArc Corp. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.

Green Special Report Podcast Transcript

3PAR — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT

In this presentation transcript, Peter Bachner, Site Editor for SearchStorage.com, discusses green storage with Nick Simpson, an analyst with Burton Group, an enterprise IT research firm focused on infrastructure technologies. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers, and system software.

Priceline.com Capitalizes on Lean Economic Times

3PAR — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Watch this videocast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.

Presentation Transcript: Leveraging Virtualization to Constrain Costs

3PAR — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.

Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization

Hewlett-Packard Company — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.

Mosaic Technology trims sales cycle by up to 50% and converts 20% of leads into sales with ...

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

Data Center Virtualization

Compellent — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Many organizations are adopting server virtualization technologies to reduce capital costs, create a flexible pool of resources and shrink the data center footprint. But to take full advantage of the benefits of server virtualization, organizations need the support of an advanced storage platform. This data sheet gives more details.

Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the ...

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.

The Great Virtualization Dilemma of the Next Decade: What You Need to Know

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

Despite progress in Virtualization, much development still remains. With predications that virtualization will become pervasive, this research highlights forthcoming challenges and strategic issues facing IT planners.

HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage ...

Hewlett-Packard Company — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.

Virtualize at the Speed of Your Business - The Dell Guide to Virtualization

Dell, Inc. and Intel — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Virtualization is changing everything, from how you manage resources to the way you support your business, it addresses many of today's IT challenges - cost, responsiveness, availability, disaster recovery - and is a key element for achieving a more automated, agile infrustructure. Dell helps you virtualize at the speed of your business...

Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate & #44; Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure

Datalink. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise.

Intelligent Tiered Storage: Focus on Hitachi Data Systems

Hitachi Data Systems — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Implementing different tiers of storage is very common. But mplementing an Intelligent Tiered Storage environment is still the exception than the rule. Hitachi Data Systems provides best-in-class Intelligent Tiered Storage through its storage management software, storage virtualization solutions, digital archiving, NAS, and VTL offerings.

Common Pitfalls in Server Virtualization

CDW Corporation — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

For all its benefits, server virtualization can be difficult to implement and could actually increase your costs and complicate network management. Here are some common pitfalls to look out for and avoid.

Optimal Storage Virtualization: The Key to Effective Information Management

Xiotech Corporation — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic.

Inside the Dell Equallogic & trade; PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays

Dell, Inc. — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.

Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array

Hewlett-Packard Company — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST

This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.

Using Deduplication Storage to Backup Virtual Machines Deployed with (VI3)

Data Domain — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.

VMware Data Backup and Recovery & #45; & #45; Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide

Data Domain — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST

VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.