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NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp provides industry-leading solutions in the areas of data protection; ease of provisioning; cost-saving...
LSI StoreAge SVM: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization by LSI Corporation
at the IP Address of either of the Storage Virtualization Managers installed in a customer‘s environment. Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based browsers are...
Storage Virtualisation Podcast: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. Storage virtualization continues to be an important topic because it addresses a number of significant...
eGuide: Storage Virtualization: Understanding the Where and How by Hewlett-Packard Company
advice about the where and how of storage virtualization and option of split-path storage virtualization. Over the past few years, we've seen a lot of interest in server...
Taming Storage Virtualization by Storage Magazine
to embed virtualization into your storage infrastructure. Here are the pros and cons of the various approaches. Virtualization is showing up in all layers of the...
Backing Up VMware Data for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
your DR plan with VMware server virtualization. You'll learn how to replicate and mirror VMware data, gain insight on special storage considerations for VMware DR, and...
Combining Storage and Server Virtualization by LSI Corporation
combination of StoreAge SVM storage virtualization product with VMware's server virtualization product. This white paper describes the powerful combination of...
Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments...
White Paper: Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why? SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a...
PODCAST: Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
Virtualization is a hot topic these days, and why wouldn't it be, the benefits are tremendous even for smaller environments...
Breaking the Connections: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Storage Virtualization by SearchStorage.com
many benefits to implementing more storage virtualization solutions. SNIA Definition: What and Why?

SNIA is the act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal...
LSI Extends Its Storage Virtualization Manager by LSI Corporation
brand by rearchitecting its Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) to more completely address the automation of holistic storage requirements. Addressing scalability,...
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 efficiencies...
Messaging Security Goes Virtual: Improve Email Security and Lower Costs with Virtual Appliances by Proofpoint, Inc.

One natural evolution of the virtualization trend is to combine the benefits of special-function appliances and mix them with the virtualization approach.

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Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore by Storage Magazine
is still higher on the food chain, but storage virtualization will have its day. A lot of storage types are put off by the overwhelming hoopla that's been generated by VMware and server...
The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend by Citrix
platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits. When getting started with virtualization, most IT managers fail to...
Storage Virtualization Tips by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
to follow when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. VMware, MS Virtual Server and VirtualIron make a lot of things easier:
- They don't make backup easier and can make...
Virtualization's Full Potential: Integrating Dell Equallogic Sans with Citrix XenServer by Citrix
platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits. Virtualization technologies paradoxically create new...
Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide by Oracle Corporation
The combination of server and storage virtualization enables this technology to become the key enabler for a dynamic IT. Read on to learn how this technique can add value to...
Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure by Datalink and Hitachi Data Systems
44; far fewer are actively pursuing storage virtualization with the same vigor, even though the benefits of doing so can be even greater. In fact, doing one type of...
Virtualized Storage from HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
users who would like to understand virtualization better in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide. This paper is designed to help users who would...
LEARNING GUIDES
supported): The NetApp V-Series storage virtualization systems are unified storage with multi-protocol support (NFS, CIFS, FCP, iSCSI)
Scalability: The V6000 Series can support...
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...