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ASM and Multipathing: Generic Best Practices and Information Matrix 2008-03-01 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

HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway Solution 2008-03-01 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.

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

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

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

Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach 2008-02-22 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

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multipathing 2008-02-21 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.

Improve patient care by improving the capabilities of your PACS 2008-01-01 IBM

As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. But if you can transform the overwhelming amount of data into usable information, you can access records faster and more reliably - and benefit from operational efficiencies and better patient care.

The IBM Healthcare Medical Imaging eKit includes three case studies on firms that resolved scalability and maintenance issues; a white paper by a global consulting firm on safeguarding data; an article from Medical Imaging and IT on storage challenges; and IBM white papers on business and clinical innovations and comprehensive financing packages.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Upgrades and Migration, HIPAA, Infrastructure Management, Document Management, Resources Mgmt.

SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines 2008-02-10 IBM

The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way towards a stable, reliable, and scalable SVC installation; conversely, a poor SAN environment can make the SVC experience considerably less pleasant. This paper captures some of the best practices based on field experience, and details the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller.

Tags: SANs

Specialist Recruiter and Staffer Simplifies IT With Virtual Solution and Reduces Administration by 30 Per Cent 2008-02-06 Dell

Expectra Group, a leading recruitment and staffing agency in Belgium, needed to ensure increased availability for its employees. This would help ensure that its clients and candidates received the best possible services. The IT team searched for a new server and storage environment that would simplify server administration and create minimum disruption for colleagues. Expectra Group Dell for its solution and implemented a new virtualized system. The Dell infrastructure consulting service team planned, designed and implemented the solution and trained IT employees so they could maintain the system in the long term.

Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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Title	Date Added	Company
ASM and Multipathing: Generic Best Practices and Information Matrix	2008-03-01	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
HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway Solution	2008-03-01	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.
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
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
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
Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach	2008-02-22	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
Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multipathing	2008-02-21	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.
Improve patient care by improving the capabilities of your PACS	2008-01-01	IBM
As your healthcare organization makes the transition to digital imaging and recordkeeping, you face a whole new set of technological challenges. But if you can transform the overwhelming amount of data into usable information, you can access records faster and more reliably - and benefit from operational efficiencies and better patient care. The IBM Healthcare Medical Imaging eKit includes three case studies on firms that resolved scalability and maintenance issues; a white paper by a global consulting firm on safeguarding data; an article from Medical Imaging and IT on storage challenges; and IBM white papers on business and clinical innovations and comprehensive financing packages. Tags: ROI - TCO, Upgrades and Migration, HIPAA, Infrastructure Management, Document Management, Resources Mgmt.
SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines	2008-02-10	IBM
The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a long way towards a stable, reliable, and scalable SVC installation; conversely, a poor SAN environment can make the SVC experience considerably less pleasant. This paper captures some of the best practices based on field experience, and details the performance gains that can be achieved by implementing the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. Tags: SANs
Specialist Recruiter and Staffer Simplifies IT With Virtual Solution and Reduces Administration by 30 Per Cent	2008-02-06	Dell
Expectra Group, a leading recruitment and staffing agency in Belgium, needed to ensure increased availability for its employees. This would help ensure that its clients and candidates received the best possible services. The IT team searched for a new server and storage environment that would simplify server administration and create minimum disruption for colleagues. Expectra Group Dell for its solution and implemented a new virtualized system. The Dell infrastructure consulting service team planned, designed and implemented the solution and trained IT employees so they could maintain the system in the long term. Tags: Server Consolidation, Virtualization