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Storage Virtualization refers to the process of completely abstracting logical storage from physical storage. The physical storage resources are agregated into storage pools, from which the logical storage is created. With storage virtualization, multiple independent storage devices, that may be scattered over a network, appear to be a single monolithic storage device, which can be managed centrally. Storage Virtualization is commonly used in SANs.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Feb 22, 2008 |
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Virtualization has multiple definitions and many different implementations in a storage area network and virtualization technology allows companies to respond quickly to ever-changing storage capacity requirements. Read this white paper for an overview of storage virtualization at the controller level of a storage system.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Nov 15, 2007 |
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Many factors contribute to the ownership cost for enterprise storage. These include (but are not limited to): physical capacity relative to physical space requirements, performance capacity for data transfer and system reaction time, software maintenance and updates, expandability and flexibility, hardware purchase price, software licensing costs, hardware expansion or upgrade costs, administrator training, and more.
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Companies of all sizes are rapidly embracing server virtualization to reduce management of server sprawl, cut administrative chores, and save money. Used in conjunction with new high-performance servers, particularly those based on multi-core processors, virtualization allows dozens of applications to run as virtual machines on a single physical server, thus making much more efficient use of computing resources.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Mar 05, 2008 |
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The HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array offers an easily deployed enterprise-class virtual storage array at an affordable price for the midsized customer. EVA virtualization is designed to improve capacity and reduce management complexities, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership compared to traditional arrays.
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When using Data Domain storage with well-understood best practices for backup and taking snapshots in VMware, a deployment can simplify management of consistent images. Once stored, the images are ready to restore, locally or, with optimized deduplicated replication, at a remote DR site. This paper describes best practices for managing these synergistic technologies together.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Sep 18, 2007 |
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Smaller businesses represent the entrepreneurial engine of the U.S. economy - that's why IBM has extended the BladeCenter value proposition to smaller businesses and organizations in a compact, affordable package. Read more about how BladeCenter can benefit your business in this report by Pund-IT.
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Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. Combining traditional backup with other methods such as clustering, replication and continuous data protection provide for a robust Exchange protection strategy. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Exchange along with solutions from Data Domain.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Feb 28, 2008 |
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Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. While technologies have advanced and capabilities have become more sophisticated over time, the motivations for virtualizing resources and the anticipated benefits have remained relatively stable. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant challenges.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Mar 10, 2008 |
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The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise size customers leading performance, high capacity, and high-availability storage solutions for reducing IT costs and complexity. The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Jun 02, 2008 |
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VMware describes their partnership with HP storage and how the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 is a great fit for many small and medium businesses that want the advantages of virtualization.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Jun 02, 2008 |
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The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 & Microsoft applications have been tested together for real performance & reliability gains & Dynamic Capacity Manager takes advantage of more Windows features.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Jun 02, 2008 |
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Hear from Oracle how the new the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 has been fully tested to be ready for full production loads, and how it is tuned to take particular advantage of Oracle VM.
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| By : IBM |
Published Date: Mar 20, 2007 |
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It has become clear that storage virtualization has become a core element of the storage strategy of forward-thinking end users and that the technology is finally delivering the value that it had promised earlier this decade. In this paper by Taneja Group, you'll learn about IBM SAN Volume Controller, its architecture and features, and about 5 tangible benefits of storage virtualization.
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Most data storage devices can be broadly characterized as either fixed media or removable media. This paper briefly examines and compares magnetic tape, magneto-optical disk, and removable magnetic disks, and identifies their positioning, future trends, and market applications.
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Blades are one of the fastest-growing segments in the IT industry. This white paper examines the requirements for servers, storage, and blade systems in the midmarket; describes the features and capabilities of the HP c3000; and outlines some of the challenges and opportunities HP will face as it seeks to extend its innovative HP BladeSystem c-Class product line to serve the needs of the midmarket.
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Imagine a world where storage management is simplified; everything works together; there are no configuration issues when upgrading, and vendors all cooperate to allow information to be easily stored and retrieved seamlessly. This was a reality in the mainframe world, but the deployment of open systems shattered these concepts.
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| By : Opsware |
Published Date: Nov 16, 2006 |
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Virtualization is delivering significant benefits to IT organizations that employ virtualized server, storage, and file system solutions. Download this free whitepaper and learn how Opsware’s significant experience and success with data center automation makes them the leading choice for an enterprise’s virtualization management framework.
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| By : SWsoft |
Published Date: Aug 30, 2006 |
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This joint Intel white paper explores how to address virtualization in an environment with high I/O. The paper includes a technology overview, network concerns and explains how Virtuozzo and Intel are well suited for the high I/O environment.
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Learn how SARCOM, a leading IT services provider, used a virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked to server blades, with point-in-time replication (full data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries to improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data.
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| By : HP |
Published Date: Nov 17, 2005 |
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Download this paper to learn how the HP VLS6000 can offer the best cost per MB/sec in its class. With the advent of lower cost Serial ATA (SATA)-based disk arrays, disk-assisted backup has been making inroads into areas where physical tape drives were once the primary means of data protection.
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| By : Opalis |
Published Date: Jun 14, 2006 |
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Virtualization adds additional layers of overhead and complexity, so cost savings on hardware are often offset by the increase in time and staff that are required to manage these environments. Learn more in this descriptive white paper.
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| By : SEPATON |
Published Date: Jan 31, 2008 |
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Forrester evaluates 12 virtual tape library (VTL) vendors across 58 criteria to determine a relative ranking that centers on strength of current offering as well as market strategy. This report is a must-read for companies considering revising their data protection strategies to include VTL.
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| By : VMware |
Published Date: Nov 14, 2007 |
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Faced with an aging set of servers within its IT infrastructure, United Bank and Trust decided to embrace virtualization as way to move forward. United deployed the VMware Infrastructure 3 solution together with an EqualLogic PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN, which established an enterprise storage platform to achieve the high availability, data protection and performance required for United’s new generation, virtualized IT environment.
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Disk in the form of - that is, disk presented as tape - can be added without requiring huge changes to existing backup strategies. This is more straightforward than adding disk into an existing environment, because adding disk without the VTL interface requires complex and unavoidable changes to existing strategies.
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