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whitepaper UK School Gains Flexibility and Resilience With Storage Network and Virtualized Servers2007-12-17 Dell
  To simplify and expand its storage system, St. Paul's School wanted to implement a storage area network. Their IT team also wanted to replace a number of ageing servers with virtualized machines that would improve the resilience and flexibility of the infrastructure. St. Paul's IT team deployed Dell for its solution and implemented Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware virtualization technology and the dual Dell EMC CX3-10C Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper UK School Improves Delivery of Education 24 Hours a Day, Seven Days a Week With Virtualized Infrastructure2007-12-17 Dell
  Multi-media technology in the UK is presenting students with new ways to learn. To help its students and teachers benefit from a range of education tools, including new multimedia solutions, Camden School for Girls in the UK had to renew its ageing servers. The IT team needed improved server performance and increased storage capacity, supporting maximum uptime and faster access to shared resources. The IT team worked with Dell to design a resilient and flexible infrastructure based on Dell PowerEdge servers running VMware software and a Dell EMC CX300 Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: Application Servers, SANs		   
whitepaper How Cisco IT Uses SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process2007-12-13 Cisco Systems
  The biggest challenge facing the Cisco litigation team is the need to store, organize, and process huge volumes of data. A related challenge, once data is assembled, is to retrieve specific information quickly. Cisco's approach to the challenge posed by discovery revolved around finding a way to build a large storage system that was easy to install, configure, and manage. The litigation group also wanted a system that could expand to accommodate an escalating workload and meet performance expectations well into the future. The group used a model it called DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) to develop a solution.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper Coppell ISD Achieves 90 Percent Server Consolidation With a Dell Virtualization Solution2007-12-01 Dell
  A growing demand for IT services from students, teachers, administrators, and parents outpaced the school district's resources, impairing system availability. As a solution a Dell virtual infrastructure, composed of Dell PowerEdge servers, VMware Infrastructure 3 software, and a Dell Storage Area Network (SAN), provides students and staff with fast, reliable access to information was deployed.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Thought Equity Management, Inc. is the worldwide leader in motion imagery licensing and management for the entertainment, creative and corporate production industries. The company wanted to provide customers with rapid online access to large film and video files to scale petabyte-level storage environment in cost-effective increments to keep pace with customer requirements and support demanding, high duty-cycle storage environment. Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive to its existing tape library to dramatically improve the storage density, speed and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system. Sun software provides centralized management of a storage area network that includes the Sun StorageTek tape drive and library, as well as other tape and disk systems.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand2007-12-01 Sun Microsystems
  Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000 sq. km. The company wanted to improve performance and resiliency to increase computational speed, throughput and storage capacity. The company's challenge was to reduce data center footprint, power consumption and heat and improve disaster rollover and customer response times. SESB migrated its SAP application and system to Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire V240 servers running the Solaris 10 OS, and increased its storage expansion capability for its Oracle 9i database system and Veritas backup software with a Sun StorageTek 3510 Storage Area Network (SAN).

Tags: Data Center, SANs		   
whitepaper Dell iSCSI Solution Simplifies Storage Management for MisterArt.com, Supporting 80 Percent Business Growth and Nearly Two Times Better Performance2007-12-01 Dell
  Established in 1996, MisterArt.com was among the first companies to sell arts and crafts supplies online. MisterArt.com IT group needed to increase storage capacity to accommodate its 80 percent year-over-year business growth. The team also wanted to simplify storage management with a reliable system that could deliver outstanding performance. After testing the performance of several storage systems, MisterArt.com IT team selected a Dell PowerVault MD3000i Internet SCSI (iSCSI) - based Storage Area Network (SAN) array with a PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosure.

Tags: SANs		   
whitepaper Protecting Customer Information and Improving Data Consistency2007-12-01 Brocade Communications Systems
  A major national bank faced critical data accessibility challenges. Its existing IT architecture was not originally designed to handle the volume of data it was being tasked with storing, serving, and protecting. As a result, bank employees faced longer-than-usual data access times, and even then could not always verify that the information was up to date. This led to longer customer service calls, longer lines in branch offices, and customer frustration with the bank's Web site. After auditing the IT environment, Brocade recommended that the bank deploy a series of Brocade Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solutions in its six data centers.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper By Consolidating 90 Percent of Its Physical Servers, the Ryerson University IT Group Is Poised to React More Quickly to University Needs2007-11-07 Dell
  Ryerson University was founded in 1948 to train a growing workforce to meet the demands of a booming postwar economy. The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson wanted to speed server provisioning and reduce space, power, and cooling needs and also implement rapid disaster recovery. Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services (ICS) 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 (SANs).

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Danish Construction Firm Achieves Maximum Business Continuity With Virtual Server Solution2007-10-29 Dell
  Customer-facing employees at the Danish firm Lind & Risor are dependant on the availability of its management system. But its existing IT environment was causing down-time becoming expensive and difficult to manage. The IT team wanted to simplify its IT infrastructure to ensure maximum stability and reliability. The company implemented a consolidated Dell server solution consisting of three high-end Dell PowerEdge servers running on a virtualized VMware environment. A Storage Area Network (SAN) now manages the company's data security and storage requirements. As a result Virtualization has helped achieve maximum business continuity and simplified IT management.

Tags: SANs, Virtualization		   


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