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Taneja Group: Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management | 2008-03-01 | Brocade Communications Systems |
| Today's server administrators are tasked with managing the ever-growing files stored within their data centers. This Taneja Group report, Brocade FME - Total Enterprise File Management, provides insights into how Brocade File Management Engine (FME) delivers policy-driven automation to simplify file management and enable transparent file movement within the data center.
Tags: Storage Management, Data Center, Data Recovery - Security |
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Dell Case Study: CareerBuilder | 2008-03-01 | Dell |
| CareerBuilder wanted to speed up the processing of business intelligence data to provide business managers and partners with more timely information on the status of their business. Older technology and third-party business intelligence software were not able to keep pace with the increasing amount of data and processing required to support the company's growth. Dell and Microsoft partnered to provide a new business intelligence solution based on Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft business intelligence software, Dell PowerEdge servers, and a Dell/EMC storage system.
Tags: Storage Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology | 2008-03-01 | NetApp |
| Established in 1966, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) spans 23 community colleges on 40 campuses across the state. To ensure the highest availability of services, VCCS recently initiated a system-wide technology refresh that included setting up a new Disaster Recovery (DR) site. They wanted to ensure (24x7) availability of critical tier 1 and 2 applications to more than 240,000 users. VCCS standardized on NetApp's solutions for all office and DR site applications, deploying a clustered NetApp FAS6000 series enterprise-class solution that serves as storage for the Richmond data center.
Tags: Storage Management, SANs |
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Global Survey Consulting Firm Reduces Server Deployment Time to 45 Minutes With Server Virtualization | 2008-03-01 | Dell |
| Server downtime and maintenance at global consultancy Gallup interfered with sensitive projects and strained the limits of the ultra-lean IT administration team. Gallup deployed a virtual server farm using VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers and an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Storage Area Network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogic PS3900 and PS-84E devices was designed to eliminate downtime and simplify or eradicate many maintenance tasks.
Tags: Storage Management, Virtualization |
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Microsoft Deploys EMC SAN for Data Centers and Reduces Costs by 50 Percent | 2008-03-01 | Microsoft |
| The Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) was experiencing a rapid increase in the time and cost required to maintain its data centers. The storage volume was doubling each year and disk utilization was low. In the first quarter of 2004, MSIT worked with EMC to deploy a storage service built on Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and the EMC CLARiiON storage area network. With this storage utility, MSIT has reduced administrative and storage costs while providing its customers with faster and more reliable service. MSIT has cut storage costs by 50 percent and increased disk utilization to 70 percent.
Tags: Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, SANs |
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Dell-Microsoft Reference Configurations: Phase II 7 Terabyte Data Warehouse | 2008-03-01 | Dell |
| Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage systems are ideal choices to deploy highly available and enterprise mission critical Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Warehouses for Business Intelligence solutions. Dell and Microsoft have worked together to run various tests and analyze performance results for a sample Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse (DW) solution. This BI testing was designed to validate the Dell PowerEdge server and PowerVault storage platforms for BI and DW, to demonstrate the stability and performance of the systems, and to create Reference Configurations that can assist customers in creating baseline systems for BI.
Tags: Storage Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing |
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VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures | 2008-03-01 | EMC |
| iSCSI is a flexible and powerful Storage Area Networking (SAN) protocol that delivers superior capabilities and benefits across all market segments. In addition to providing enterprise-class data availability and performance, the iSCSI protocol enables breakthrough virtual storage designs that parallel the advanced designs of server virtualization technologies such as VMware Infrastructure 3. Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies that let them allocate and shift SAN resources dynamically to respond to the demands of their virtualized server environments. This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high-performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.
Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization |
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Strategies for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption | 2008-01-24 | Dell EqualLogic |
| With concerns about power consumption and energy costs growing, efforts are underway to make data centers more "green" (energy efficient) and sustainable (reducing the use of non-renewable resources). In most data centers, servers draw more energy than storage devices; still, it has been estimated that all of the disk drives spinning around the world today generate emissions equivalent to 9 million cars annually.
Some analysts suggest that in 2008 half of all data centers won't have the power they need - and yet, many data centers waste as much as 60% of their energy on inefficient server and storage infrastructures. To encourage power reductions some utility companies and state energy auditors are offering rebate programs; consultants have developed new services to analyze power profiles and suggest improvement strategies. Tags: Data Center, Strategic Planning, Storage Consolidation, Green IT |
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HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance | 2008-03-10 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) product family offers midsize to enterprise size customers leading performance, high capacity, and high-availability storage solutions for reducing IT costs and complexity. The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration. Continuing to build on this success is the HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400). Engineering advancements have enabled substantial real-world performance improvements over the HP StorageWorks 4100 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4100). The EVA4400's increased levels of sequential performance provide customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Tags: Infrastructure Management, Systems Integration, Resources Mgmt., Virtualization |
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Managing the Benefits of Virtualization: The Symantec Virtualization Story | 2008-02-28 | Symantec |
| Virtualization is the #1 topic on the customers' minds. Virtualization enables many new benefits for IT organizations, but also brings with it a number of new challenges. This webcast illustrates Symantec solutions that enable the customers to manage the benefits of virtualization. The material covers the breadth of enterprise solutions that involve virtualization, including Desktop management, Server management, Storage management, and Security.
Tags: Storage Management, Virtualization |
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