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Best Practices: High Hopes for Thin Provisioning by Storage Magazine
This allows customers to save big on storage purchases made for replica copies. The underlying premise is that change rates are never more than 20% to 30%. If you apply...
Hot Spots: Tap Virtual Servers, Storage for All They're Worth by Storage Magazine
many companies are now developing storage virtualization products that offer single pools of storage, thin provisioning and snapshot to create similar...
Automate Storage Management by Storage Magazine
complex, multistep services such as storage provisioning, data migration and performance optimization across heterogeneous storage devices. They're also unable to...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
ease data migrations and decrease storage provisioning times, but all of them increase the complexity of managing a storage environment. As the storage infrastructure...
The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. The discussion...
The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance by SearchStorage.com
the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis. This...
Storage Networking - The Path to Performance by SearchStorage.com
to the successful deployment of storage network technologies. When one looks at the main benefits of a SAN people often cite performance. But performance means...
Pulling the Thin Provisioning Lever to Improve Storage Management Efficiency by Symantec Corporation
is using it in important areas of the storage management market. The digital data explosion is creating more and more data, all of which has to be efficiently...
Storage Grid Pushes the Envelope by Storage Magazine
When a prominent storage vendor built a 1,000 node storage test grid, it learned plenty of lessons, and a lot of what it learned can be applied to...
Thin Provisioning the Cure for Wasted Space in Storage Infrastructures by LSI Corporation
This paper describes how Thin Provisioning works and what benefits it delivers as well as the facts that need to be taken into account for a successful...
Case Study: Hitachi Breathes New Life into Critical Applications at UHC by Hitachi Data Systems
After outgrowing its storage infrastructure, University HealthSystem Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
to an organization. Storage has been evolving throughout the history of computer systems. Storing both operating system state and data within the...
Tape Encryption FAQ by Sony Electronics Inc.
This Podcast, featuring storage expert Pierre Dorian, addresses the key concerns regarding tape encryption and the benefits it offers. Encryption for...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by SearchStorage.com
the benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage and offers solutions related to storage capacity, provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery...
Dell PowerVault MD 3000i Configuration Guide for VMware ESX Server Software by Dell, Inc.
The Dell PowerVault MD3000i storage solution consists of a standard or high availability configuration. This whitepaper provides instructions to setup...
Vendors Retool SRM Apps by Storage Magazine
Storage resource management tools come in a variety of flavors and offer features that take steps toward automating your...
SARCOM Simplifies Storage: Virtualization Makes Provisioning and Management Much Easier - and More Cost Effective by Hewlett-Packard Company
44; the SARCOM staff could allocate storage resources to meet demand in real time. Improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing...
The Clipper Group - EMC CLARiiON Delivers Less Wasted Capacity and Increased Performance by EMC Corporation
paper to learn about an option for storage consolation that delivers up to double the scale, performance and connectivity while offering greater power...
Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
general purpose Network Attached Storage (NAS). This leads to a number of challenges:

  • High costs. While not all data merits the same storage capability in terms of its
...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
on NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems. NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the...
VKernel Case Study: HOVENSA by VKernel
monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines. With VMware, it became...
Try XenServer Enterprise Edition Now with a Free 30-day Trial by Citrix
aggregated pool of compute and storage resources, for dynamic managed virtualization environments for the enterprise. Citrix XenServer Enterprise...
LEARNING GUIDES
set out to make a network-attached storage (NAS) system that would be easy to use and easy to manage.

Today's NAS products remain true to that guiding principle.

"The...

Local storage worked fine for the Sacramento, Calif. Superior Court until it decided to go paperless a few years ago. Bracing for the...
disk -- mostly direct attached storage -- with another separate library of tape backup totaling 2-3 TB," he says. But over the past five years, operations grew to...