EZINE - In this month's issue, learn how to keep compliance a priority in a virtualized environment. Also in this issue, get advice on how to buy hardware for virtual systems, and take a closer look at your storage needs.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Security | Regulatory Compliance | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware ESX

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2006


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware

CASE STUDY - Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | TCO | Tiered Storage

CASE STUDY - Global expansion plans combined with organic growth and an increasing number of job seekers were posing a serious problem for the traditional storage infrastructure underpinning CareerBuilder’s operations. After evaluating several vendors, CareerBuilder identified 3PAR as the only one meeting its performance, scalability, and flexibility demands.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 2, 2009


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Spending | Storage Systems

CASE STUDY - Pearson, the international media and education company, is looking for a single tool that can provide information vital to their storage management. Its infrastructure support team selected Northern Storage Suite.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  RAID | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Devices | Storage Management | Storage Spending

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO | Tiered Storage

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - The VKernel VM Rightsizer is a simple tool for tuning your VMs with the right amount of resources (CPU, memory, and storage) to drive maximum VM densities without impacting performance.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware Server

WEBCAST - 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 webcast explores some deduplication tips and advice on how to streamline your storage costs.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Compression | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity

PODCAST - 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 podcast explores some deduplication tips and advice on how to streamline your storage costs.
Posted: September 25, 2009 | Premiered: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Compression | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW - Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Premiered: September 23, 2009


Topics:  Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Disk Backups | Economic Environment | High Performance Computing | Parallel Processing | Solid State Disks | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: July 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Published: September 21, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Email Management | Email Server Software | Microsoft Exchange | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Controlling storage growth has become one of the most important challenges for many companies. This White Paper explores six ways that others have used with great success.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Published: September 15, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Unstructured Data