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whitepaper German Hospital Group Deploys New Storage Area Network (SAN) to Gain 14 Times More Space for Clinical Images2008-03-05 Dell
  Klinikum Nordfriesland GmbH is a non-profit clinical centre based in Husum, Nordfriesland, Germany. Klinikum Nordfriesland wanted to obtain a stable and reliable IT system, supporting consistent and high quality treatment for all patients at all times. The hospital group also needed additional storage for clinical images and increased flexibility with scalable servers. Dell installed the storage system and virtualized servers. They also deployed the systems and provided training for the customer to ensure optimal use of the solution. With Gold Enterprise Support, the hospital has the added reassurance of prompt, expert assistance at any time of the day or night for the solution deployed.

Tags: Virtualization		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Product Demo2008-03-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Before now, midsize customers settled for either an expensive and complex storage array or a low cost storage solution that lacked functionality. Now experience virtual storage with enterprise class functionality at an affordable price.

View this product demo from HP on the StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 4400 (EVA4400), and see how it can help you respond to business opportunities faster!

Tags: Storage Consolidation, Virtualization, Infrastructure Management, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Resources Mgmt.		   
whitepaper Strategies for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption2008-01-24 Dell
  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		   
whitepaper Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning2008-01-18 Dell
  Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping areas into new communities. Brookfield Homes Southland Division, covering southern California north of San Diego County, employs about people and generates annual revenues between $300 million and $500 million.

Tags: SANs, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400) Performance2008-03-10 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		   
whitepaper Microsoft Deploys EMC SAN for Data Centers and Reduces Costs by 50 Percent2008-03-01 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		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway Solution2008-03-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Today, most organizations are focused on their business operations and ask the question "Is business well-protected from a disaster?" There needs to be a well-researched response to this question. In addition to the business operation requirements, there are a number of regulatory bodies that have mandatory requirements regarding protecting and retrieving data that organizations need to comply with. Disaster planning and recovery are important subjects that every CIO/CTO needs to seriously examine and execute, as it is imperative that data is protected in any organization. This paper attempts to explain disaster recovery basics and detail several remote replication solutions that are available from Hewlett-Packard using the HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway and HP StorageWorks Continuous Access software.   
whitepaper ASM and Multipathing: Generic Best Practices and Information Matrix2008-03-01 Oracle
  In this competitive business climate, well-planned business continuity strategies must include redundancy to ensure server resources are able to access storage devices even in the event of a failure. Disks and controllers can fail, and data paths can become congested resulting in bottlenecks or can fail entirely cutting off access to key information. Storage RAID technologies are great solutions for providing high availability for storage devices (disks), however, they do not address the physical path between the server and storage. If there is only a single path from the server to storage and one component fails, no amount of disk redundancy can keep the data available.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach2008-02-22 Symantec
  Increasing energy consumption in the data center is causing problems for data center operators. Many are either running out of power or are unable to expand the data center to match their business needs. Often the solutions recommended tend to be expensive and require downtime. The presenter of this webcast will discuss a new software based approach that will help to increase efficiency of servers and storage to reduce energy consumption. The attendee will learn how to increase server and storage efficiencies by using latest software from Symantec.

Tags: Data Center		   
whitepaper Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multipathing2008-02-21 Symantec
  This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4.1 MP2, the AIX 4.0 code base in AxRT 4.0 MP4 and the Linux 4.1 code base in LxRT 4.1 MP4. These three releases and up are collectively referred to as DMP Backport releases throughout these documents. The paper provides a guide to understanding Dynamic Multipathing.