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whitepaper Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Storage Networking Evolution2008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency consolidated networks that enable data center scalability and improve manageability while controlling IT costs. Data centers typically run multiple separate networks, including an Ethernet network for client-to-server and server-to-server communications and a Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN). To support various types of networks, data centers use separate redundant interface modules for each network: Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and Fibre Channel interfaces in their servers, and redundant pairs of switches at each layer in the network architecture. Use of parallel infrastructures increases capital costs, makes data center management more difficult, and diminishes business flexibility.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection2008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As discussed in this paper the Cisco MDS 9000 Family provides the leading high-density, high-bandwidth storage networking solution along with Integrated Fabric Applications to support dynamic data center requirements. With the addition of the third-generation modules, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of storage networking products now supports 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel along with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). One major benefit of the Cisco MDS 9000 family architecture is investment protection: the capability of first-, second-. and third-generation modules to all coexist in both existing customer chassis and new switch configurations.

Tags: Storage Management, SANs		   
whitepaper Open Storage Adoption2008-05-01 Sun Microsystems
  Sun is leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent. As a general term, open storage refers to storage systems built with an open architecture using industry-standard hardware and open-source software. In an open architecture, customers can select the best hardware and software components to meet their requirements. For example, a customer who needs network file services can use an open storage filer built from a standard x86 server, disk drives, and OpenSolaris technology at a fraction of the cost of a proprietary NAS appliance, such as a NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) system.

Tags: Storage Management, Linux - Open Source		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage System: Solution Brief2008-05-01 Hewlett-Packard
  Digital content growth is starting to create real challenges for IT managers these days. Between increasingly complex software applications and increasingly powerful capture devices, the size of the average file at most companies is growing, and the need for more storage is becoming increasingly urgent. The Extreme Data Storage System is a single system that solves the storage-density, pricing, manageability, and performance challenges companies are facing today. HP Extreme Data Storage represents an extreme commitment to scalable capacity and performance. The base configuration provides three highly available storage blocks with 246 TB of raw capacity out of the box. But that is just the beginning.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Best Practices for Clustered NAS File Serving Using ProLiant Storage Servers and the EVA41002008-05-01 Hewlett-Packard
  Regardless of size, companies require file-serving solutions that are both manageable and highly available. HP ProLiant storage servers combined with HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA4100s) offer a single, centralized platform to manage and protect data and provide high availability using cluster and snapshot technology. The HP Customer Focused Testing (CFT) group tested three storage and cluster configurations to determine the best practices for configuring, managing, and enhancing the performance of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The goal of this paper is to help system administrators deploy and operate a clustered, 1,500-user, file/print server environment that uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service, which is also known as Volume Snapshot Service or VSS.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Massively Scalable NAS - Pre-Empting Tomorrow's Data Overload With Today's Technology2008-05-01 Enterprise Management Associates
  NAS has always been simple?unless IT managers wanted to grow their NAS storage significantly. Then the simplicity evaporated. With massive storage build-outs a necessity, a simply managed, highly scalable NAS environment is a must. For the first time, storage administrators are thinking in terms of managing petabytes of data. Fortunately, new technologies make such systems available even to IT shops with limited budgets. Smaller firms as well as large enterprises can scale their storage to meet demands, and can align their storage investment to accommodate a need for more storage, for faster storage, or both.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP210002008-05-01 Cisco Systems
  Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of reigning in the costs by consolidating applications on virtual servers. Increases in SAN attachment have gone hand in hand. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offers the framework for implementing a Unified Fabric as a way to get beyond today's cost and complexity challenges. Cisco and Emulex have worked collaboratively on both standards and products that will deliver on the promise of a Unified Fabric reducing the total cost of ownership; offering investment protection of existing severs, networks, storage, and facilities; enhancing business agility; and enabling higher levels of operational continuity; while offering alignment with existing operational domains.

Tags: SANs, Fibre		   
whitepaper Giving Schools Room to Grow2008-05-01 Dell
  Outdated, undersized storage unable to accommodate multimedia files hampered the educational mission of the Shanghai Community International Schools (SCIS), while time-consuming, failure-prone data backups required the schools to look for affordable, stable, and scalable storage that could be implemented during summer vacation. The SCIS IT staff worked with Dell to deploy high-capacity storage and backup platforms based on Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage arrays at each campus. As a result the high-capacity storage and backup doubles the available storage and provides an estimated 98 percent reduction in recovery time.

Tags: Back-up, Storage Management		   
whitepaper Online Firm Improves Performance, Customer Service With Mission-Critical Storage Solution2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft adCenter is the Microsoft division that serves the needs of customers who advertise through Microsoft online services. adCenter provides these customers with advertising interfaces and business intelligence data. To do this it must ensure system reliability and availability. As its data storage and replication needs grew, adCenter needed to find a better-performing mission-critical data storage solution. Several years ago, adCenter implemented such a solution, based on an EMC Symmetrix DMX enterprise storage array and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database software. Since then, adCenter has boosted storage system performance and lowered its overall data storage costs, while gaining scalability and availability.

Tags: Database Applications		   
whitepaper Storage Management Considerations in Virtual Environments2008-04-30 Symantec
  Virtualization solves the server sprawl problem allowing organizations to consolidate their physical environments to save money on power, cooling and space. However, server virtualization presents a new set of storage management complexities and challenges that may not have been anticipated. This webcast explains how Veritas CommandCentral solves storage management problems in virtualized environments by providing visibility across heterogeneous infrastructure from application to device; enabling capacity management best practices; and increasing storage utilization rates resulting in lower capital expenditures.

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   


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