Storage Virtualization Research
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Virtualization eGuide
Sponsored by: Hitachi Vantara76 of the Fortune 100 trust their data to Hitachi Data Systems, shouldn’t you? The following e-guide showcases how easy it can be to implement virtualization, tiered storage and software to deliver significant economic benefits to the organization.
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Calculate Your Savings with the Dynamic Provisioning Savings Calculator
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraProvisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.
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The Multiple Facets of Data Center Transformation
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraTo solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.
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The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThe latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.
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Economic Impact of Virtualization at Overstock.com
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraTo adeptly meet new business conditions and reduce total cost of ownership, Overstock.com recently implemented a virtualized, multitiered storage solution. Read this case study to learn about the dramatic cost reductions and operational efficiencies Overstock.com has realized.
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Agile Storage Infrastructure for Mainframe Environments
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraThe new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform delivers the best performance and capacity combined with lowest power consumption and lower cooling requirements, consuming up to 40% less power than its predecessor. Learn more.
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Unified Networking on 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Sponsored by: IntelUnified networking over 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) in the data center offers compelling benefits, including a simplified infrastructure, lower equipment and power costs, and the flexibility to meet the needs of the evolving, virtualized data center.
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E-Guide: Dynamic and Effective Storage Tiering
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentWith the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more!
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E-Guide: Special Report: 2010 Data Storage Spending Plans Among European IT Professionals
Sponsored by: EMC Backup and Recovery SolutionsIn an effort to gauge where storage professionals in Europe are planning to spend their budgets in the coming months, we recently conducted a Purchasing Intentions survey among our European readers, similar to the Purchasing Intentions survey conducted twice a year by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com. Read on to learn more.
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Virtualization for Hospitals
Sponsored by: CDW HealthcareThis paper examines how health care CIOs are burdened by small data centers that are difficult to expand, yet they need to accommodate growing amounts of data. Virtualization may be the answer.
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E-Guide: Using Data Deduplication Tools in Disk Backup
Sponsored by: IBMThis e-guide explains how data deduping can save organizations time and money by enabling more data recovery from disk and reducing the footprint and power and cooling requirements of secondary storage. Continue reading to learn more about using data deduplication tool in disk backup.
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E-Guide: Data Deduplication and Backup Approaches in Enterprise Storage Today
Sponsored by: IBMThere has been a flood of data deduplication and backup approaches. It can seem confusing choosing just one out of the many choices. This e-guide will wade through the pros and cons of these approaches for you. Continue reading to learn which data deduplication and backup approach is right for your organization.
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Bluewater Power Prepares for Smart Metering with SAP and IBM Solutions
Sponsored by: IBMBluewater Power implemented a set SAP and IBM solutions to help deal with new regulations and mandates in the energy sector. Read this case study to learn all the benefits Bluewater experienced by choosing this set of SAP and IBM solutions and learn how your organization can experience these same benefits as well.
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Product Overview: IBM XIV Storage System
Sponsored by: IBMThis product overview examines IBM XIV® Storage System, a groundbreaking, high-end, open disk system designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Read this overview and learn about the features and benefits of IBM XIV® Storage System.
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Storage Virtualization with IBM SAN Volume Controller: Lowering Total Cost of Ownership
Sponsored by: IBMThis paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.
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Implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) V5.1
Sponsored by: IBMThis IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage™ SVC, a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Continue reading to learn how to implement the SVC at a 5.1.0 release level with a minimum of effort.
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Less is more: The real value of data deduplication and virtualization for your business
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard EnterpriseThis E-Guide will discuss how to build a business case for deduplication, so that your organization can begin to reap the benefits of this technology which include cost reduction, reducing your network bandwidth requirements, better data reduction, and more.
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Evolving and implementing new storage strategies that support virtualization
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard EnterpriseThe data center is rapidly evolving. As a result, most data protection and disaster recovery (DR) plans were developed for an IT environment that bears little resemblance to today's dynamic, highly distributed and increasingly virtualized data centers. Download this guide to learn 4 tips on how to better serve your storage needs.
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Managing data in a virtualized server environment
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard EnterpriseCheckout this SearchStorage.co.UK eguide to read founder and senior analyst at the StorageIO Group, Greg Schulz's, discussion on how to manage data with virtual servers including what to consider when looking at data management tools for virtual servers, what storage vendors are doing to support virtual server environments and more.
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Virtualisation and your storage infrastructure
Sponsored by: Hewlett-Packard EnterpriseThis eguide covers virtualization and the affects it has on storage infrastructures. This guide covers best practices for site recovery and how to execute recovery and virtualization plans to create a more streamlined and efficient storage process. Read on to discover file virtualization strategies to help you manage unstructured data.
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The Architectural Advantages of Compellent Automated Tiered Storage
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentWith the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.
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E-Guide: Transform the Data Center
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraFor IT organizations in large businesses seeking a greater return on their enterprise storage investments, a transformed data center is a virtual one with a large virtual pool of resources. The net result is superior data center efficiency, manageability and cost savings. Read on to learn more.
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Building A Network Foundation for Virtualization
Sponsored by: NETGEAR Inc.The deployment of virtualization technology has allowed businesses of all sizes to reduce costs and optimize resources. The impact has been particularly dramatic with server virtualization. By virtualizing their servers, many organizations have dramatically reduced their IT investment in hardware procurement. Read this white paper to learn more.
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Evaluator Group: Analysis of HP D2D Product Line
Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®This paper details an analysis of the HP D2D Product Line, which provides both disk to disk and VTL backup. In June 2010, the product line was updated to include StoreOnce, HP Labs developed inline data deduplication, along with a number of other enhancements.
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Virtualization Gets Down to Business as a Wellspring of Agility
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and AMDThis e-book, sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD, contains a variety of virtualization resources as well as product overviews and videos detailing the features and business benefits of AMD processors and Dell virtualization solutions.
