IBM turns virtual storage into a reality
News The SAN Integration Server is a broader package that includes the SAN Volume Controller, switches and storage disks. Big Blue will announce a shipping date of 25 July for its TotalStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) Volume Controller and its SAN...
[June 3, 2003, 11:56]
Storage Virtualisation
News It works by gathering together disparate storage devices and presenting them to a server as a single logical entity: one point of management, plus greater ease of attaching and detaching extra storage.
[April 3, 2003, 20:25]
Veritas steps into utility arena
News Moving beyond its roots as a storage software company into the utility-computing arena, Veritas Software on Monday introduced a product to manage server computers. Veritas' new product is part of the company's evolution from focusing on data...
[June 23, 2003, 8:59]
QLogic Switches Give CNBC an Edge With Improved Production Time
White Papers Each production staff member used a Mac Pro workstation with local storage and a 4TB Apple Xsan file server for shared files. CNBC deployed primary and backup Storage Area Network (SAN), each with a QLogic SANbox 9000 Fibre Channel Switch, two...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
server virtualisation growth
Talkback Adoption of virtual server environments is somewhat inhibited by the limited flexibility with respect to storage access. All virtual machines on a physical server currently share the same external storage resources and a single set of FC addresses...
[June 7, 2007, 15:00]
Implementation of SAP Applications Using Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Best Practices: With Oracle RAC, Oracle Data Guard, Oracle Recovery Manager & Oracle GRID Control
White Papers The cluster storage is configured using OCFS2 and Oracle Data Guard is being implemented to provide disaster recovery capabilities. Storage is provisioned from an EMC Storage Array. This paper contains the suggested Oracle 10g Release 2 EE Database...
[August 7, 2009, 1:20]
Veritas Storage Foundation in a VMware Environment: Linux and Solaris x64 Platforms
White Papers Deploying Storage Foundation in a VMware environment makes storage easier to manage and use by creating a functional storage management layer that the storage administrator or system administrator can access and use as it is not hidden inside the...
[November 14, 2007, 0:01]
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages a Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Infrastructure (Level 300)
White Papers Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server provides efficient, secure, and reliable storage for crucial assets like source code files, business requirements, and artwork. The attendee of this webcast will learn how Microsoft IT partnered with the...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech
News The company then used it to develop functionality for Windows Server 2003, which competes with Veritas' Storage Foundation for Windows, Schallop said. Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its trade secrets and...
[May 19, 2006, 9:10]
Running SAP on Linux With High Availability Storage Infrastructure
White Papers This is exactly the solution one gets when it runs SAP NetWeaver technology on High Availability Storage Infrastructure included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10. That's why SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell has cluster software already...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
IBM enlarges storage-software sandpit
News IBM's software for handling various data storage devices runs on separate server computers. Seeking to grab a larger share of the growing data-storage software pie, IBM on Friday unveiled an upgrade to management software designed to work with...
[April 26, 2004, 14:45]
Dell Case Study: Selection.com
White Papers Selection.com wanted to accommodate business growth, simplify IT management, and ensure customers consistent access to information by deploying a scalable, cost-effective, and unified storage environment integrated with a virtualized server...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Linksys EFG120 review
Reviews The EFG120 unit can act as an FTP server, and it supports Internet-attached storage and Internet-printing protocols, making it easy to access your office data and printer when you're on the road. The CD automatically launches the Ethernet network...
[May 4, 2004, 15:30]
Best Practices for SAP ERP Using HP Integrity Servers, HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000), Windows, and Oracle
White Papers This paper provides users of medium-scale, enterprise-class systems running Windows Server and Oracle with best practices for effectively configuring and productively deploying SAP NetWeaver with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), using a...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
First thoughts
Talkback Woe betide EMC though if Cisco decides to start selling storage hardware. Then Cisco came for the storage vendors. First Cisco came for the server vendors, and I didn't speak up because I was not a server vendor.
[September 4, 2009, 17:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They run a mixture of Windows and Linux on various multiboot and VMWare ways, and having a proper standalone storage server is a very welcome addition. As this is a four-disk terabyte network attached storage device, this was jolly decent of them...
[September 22, 2006, 19:25]
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec
White Papers This challenge becomes yet more difficult as companies migrate from stand-alone Windows server backups to enterprise site-wide backups that are performed across the local area network and storage area network environments.
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
Rackspace challenges Amazon with cloud services
News Pricing for Cloud Server is calculated by the hour and according to the amount of storage and system memory that is required. A mid-size server with system memory of 8GB and storage of 320GB would cost 48 cents per hour.
[March 16, 2009, 14:59]
Sun makes its first NAS alliance
News Until now, Sun's focus in networked storage has been on storage area networks, or SANs, which link storage devices to server computers. The server specialist, which has been struggling financially, is working to increase its server customer...
[April 7, 2004, 9:40]
HP: Everything will be on blades
News The c-Class with StorageWorks Storage Area Networks (SANs) also integrates the server-to-storage interface, and the blade system now has four gigabits per second (4Gbps) Fibre Channel SAN switches. The architecture includes virtualization support...
[June 15, 2006, 12:00]



