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whitepaper Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology2008-03-01 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		   
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 Dell Case Study: Ryerson University2008-02-01 Dell
  The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. As a solution Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC storage area networks.

Tags: SANs, Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Dunedin TV Streamlines End-to-End Workflow With PX-1 and FS-42008-02-01 Focus Enhancements
  One of the oldest towns on the West coast of Florida, Dunedin offers its residents a small-town feel, a relaxed life style, and four miles of picturesque waterfront. Over the past several years, the station had accumulated significant quantities of footage, and found themselves struggling to manage all their video, audio, and photo assets. In order to streamline acquisition, Dunedin TV selected the FS-4 HD Portable DTE Recorder from Focus Enhancements. Based on Focus Direct To Edit (DTE) Technology, the FS-4 records DV and HDV streams directly to disk via FireWire.

Tags: Hard Drives		   
whitepaper End to End Management of a Product Line Through an ODC for a Leader in Network Storage2008-01-26 MindTree Consulting
  MindTree Consulting, a leader in business-enabling solutions, undertook the complete engineering ownership of a high availability product for a leader in Network Storage. All processes and technologies required to manage the product line are transferred and deployed within MindTree. MindTree team is responsible for sustaining the product, QA, new feature development, customer support and product documentation. This enabled the client to focus on core development and have a trusted partner providing support to the sales cycle.

Tags: Storage Management, NAS		   
whitepaper IT PARTNERS Case Study: City of Phoenix2008-01-23 IT PARTNERS
  The City of Phoenix owns and operates the Phoenix Airport System. The existing data center was highly constrained, with power and air conditioning nearing capacity and very limited amounts of available rack space. Connectivity to the rest of the City of Phoenix, as well as to the Internet, was through a non-redundant network infrastructure. The Aviation Department's Technology Division selected Hewlett-Packard (HP) and VMware technologies to help address these challenges. IT Partners engaged with the city's staff to implement Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions within the Aviation Department data center and SAN replication at the City of Phoenix IT Operations Center.

Tags: Data Center, SANs		   
whitepaper Case Study: Clackamas County Oregon's Outdated Fibre Channel Infrastructure Runs Out of Capacity2008-01-18 Dell EqualLogic
  Learn how one county government in the state of Oregon solved the problem of an aging Fibre Channel SAN that could not scale to meet growing needs. This case study discusses how Clackamas County's IT Department replaced an old Fibre Channel SAN with a modular iSCSI SAN solution for central storage consolidation and data protection.

Tags: Data Center, SANs, Storage Consolidation		   
whitepaper Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and Downtime2008-01-01 Microsoft
  With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com utilized the Storage Area Network (SAN) storage solution and network load balancing of Internet Information Services 7.0 and Windows Server 2008 to centralize customer content. The new solution increased server stability, lowered infrastructure costs, and reduced time spent on administration and diagnostics.

Tags: SANs, Windows Server 2008		   
whitepaper How Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates With Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration2007-12-19 Cisco Systems
  Cisco Systems IT has long been a proponent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) over the less efficient and more complex Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)-based networks. The majority of early Cisco SAN efforts used the McDATA Enterprise Director 6064 switch at the core and McDATA Sphereon 3032 switches at the edge. This case study describes how Cisco IT replaced the McDATA switches with Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Director switches, which offer better scalability, higher performance, and Virtual SAN (VSAN) capabilities.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper How Cisco Migrated to a SAN Environment in Small European Data Center2007-12-17 Cisco Systems
  During 2001 and 2002, the hosting team faced some challenges because of the dramatic demand in data growth and the limitations of the early DAS model. Another problem is that DAS architecture is inflexible. Moreover, tools for storage inventory, capacity planning, and storage provisioning in such a large and fragmented DAS environment were lacking. To overcome this challenge, the hosting team started the migration toward a storage model based on SANs rather than DAS. In early 2003, the team started planning a migration from individual SAN islands based on smaller Fiber Channel switches to a single shared SAN service based on the larger Cisco MDS 9509 Multilayer Director Switch.

Tags: SANs		   


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