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Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads
White Papers The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers. In a performance benchmark situation, the resources used are less relevant, but for sizing server and storage...
[January 12, 2008, 0:01]
Dell FlexAddress for PowerEdge M-Series Blades
White Papers Maintaining availability of network and storage resources is one of the biggest challenges faced by server administrators. Application availability is directly impacted by how the network and storage resources are configured, especially when...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Stop Buying Storage - Part 1: Reporting, Managing Change and Other Strategies to Increase the Utilization of Existing Storage Assets
White Papers Visibility into how storage resources are being utilized in the data center is a top priority. Before any analysis of the storage environment can be accomplished, IT professionals must be able to accurately assess the availability and usage of...
[April 25, 2009, 1:23]
Improving Storage Expansion for Servers and Applications
White Papers Call it growth, scaling, or expansion - whatever you call it, increasing your storage resources often strikes fear and loathing in the heart of the IT administrator. In addition, since capacity and performance are intimately connected, increasing...
[November 25, 2008, 12:55]
IBM System Storage N Series MultiStore Discovery, Monitoring, and Reporting in Operations Manager
White Papers IBM system storage networking and storage resources can be partitioned, with the help of Data ONTAP MultiStore technology, into virtual filers. More importantly, these virtual filers and the resources (storage and network) that they use are...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
IBM System Storage N Series With MultiStore and SnapMover
White Papers One can use System Storage N series with MultiStore software to effectively partition and dynamically assign a storage system's storage and networking resources to virtual storage systems to virtualize the physical resources and move them beyond...
[October 31, 2007, 0:00]
Best Practices for Storage Migrations and Consolidations
White Papers Complexity makes it challenging to complete projects on time, with little risk and without over allocation of storage resources. By incorporating a validated migration process using SANscreen Change Management software, Onaro customers have gained...
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
Pricing Comparisons Between Windows-Based and Non-Windows-Based NAS Solutions
White Papers For both Dedicated NAS (a NAS device with its own storage resources) and NAS Gateway (a NAS device utilizing the storage resources of a Storage Area Network [SAN]) solutions, systems from various vendors were categorized into Entry, Workgroup, and...
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
HP recycles old tech for new data centres
News Hewlett-Packard has launched a hardware and software package that lets IT managers (re)wire the data centre once in order to gather storage, processor and network resources in pools that can be switched between jobs on the fly, to provide constant...
[February 27, 2002, 16:21]
CA Unicenter now available on-demand
News At the NetWorld+Interop conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Computer Associates (CA) described enhancements to its Unicenter product line that allow companies to make better use of their existing computing resources, including servers and storage...
[April 30, 2003, 12:33]
Automatic Load Balancing Relieves Administrative Burden
White Papers To avoid performance utilization problems administrators should provision storage so that loads are balanced across resources evenly. A less commonly discussed topic is how to ensure that consolidation does not cause performance issues...
[July 15, 2009, 11:27]
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec
White Papers Most enterprises are finding that their IT footprint and storage resources continue to grow at a rate of 40 to 50 percent per year, which adds considerable complexity to their existing data protection strategies.
[June 4, 2009, 15:13]
Best Practice Operations Management for System Virtualization
White Papers Examples of virtualization include making a single physical resource (such as a server, an operating system, an application, or network or storage devices) appear to function as multiple logical resources; or it can include making multiple...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Optimization Pack
White Papers Reclaim Wasted Storage, Memory and CPU Resources. Typcial Users Free up 20 to 40% of Existing Resources Rightsize VM Storage, Memory and CPU Allocations and Still Assure Performance Virtualization success is all about balancing resource utilization...
[October 30, 2009, 13:35]
Top 10 Tips for Server and Storage Virtualisation
Blog More and more businesses are turning to virtualisation services to maximise the return from their investment in computing systems, improve performance and to introduce total flexibility as to when and where the business needs to have resources...
[July 27, 2009, 9:17]
Sun uncloaks 'virtualised' computing
News As previously reported, the N1 project is an attempt to "virtualise" computing equipment, making servers and storage look like giant pools of resources with computing processes swimming within. The next stage after storage will be to create a...
[February 8, 2002, 14:22]
HP StorageWorks Virtualization
White Papers Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure, and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients.
[August 1, 2008, 9:19]
Sun aims to improve storage efficiency
News Sun has launched its latest storage server, the StorageTek 9990 V, running on OpenSolaris and incorporating technology designed to reduce the amount of resources the system requires. When companies introduce new applications to a network, the...
[May 22, 2007, 13:32]
HP StorageWorks Virtualization White Paper
White Papers Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure ("Pool"), and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients.
[September 27, 2006, 1:00]
EMC unveils pay-per-use storage
News In two weeks, the storage specialist will introduce a service called OpenScale that precisely measures and captures how much storage resources are being used, said Tony Marzulli, EMC's vice president of open software marketing.
[July 16, 2003, 8:20]
