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whitepaper Virtualization Helped the City of New Orleans Begin Recovery After Katrina2007-10-01 Dell
  After the storm, the city of New Orleans recognized an opportunity to expand its original IT upgrade plans. Because the majority of city agencies lost all computing capabilities, it was a chance for the IT department to create an innovative centralized infrastructure that could support the city and remain cost-effective. The team wanted to establish an easily managed environment that would deliver faster, more reliable functionality and include a solid disaster-recovery component. The city of New Orleans deployed Dell for its solution and implemented Dell EMC CX700 Storage Area Network with 10 to 15 terabytes of storage and a Dell PowerVault tape backup unit.

Tags: Blades, Virtualization		   
whitepaper A Virtualized Dell Server Environment and Dell Storage Help a California School System Safeguard Data With a 72x Improvement in Failover and Recovery Time2007-10-01 Dell
  California school wanted to protect vital school data and operations against potential natural disasters and human error, while working with limited data center space and tight budgets. The school deployed a Dell/EMC storage area network to consolidate the storage environment and replicate data at a disaster recovery site; virtualize the primary and secondary data centers using Dell PowerEdge blade servers with VMware virtualization software.

Tags: Blades, Virtualization		   
whitepaper StoreVault Helps Fugro Pelagos Fill Gaps in Data Management2007-10-01 NetApp
  Fugro Pelagos is a premier provider of offshore survey services ranging from project consultation to full project management including data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation as well as data integration. The company has about a hundred employees and uses 25 Dell Power Edge servers to store about 80 terabytes of data. At Fugro, scientists have to travel to remote survey locations by air or by sea, and carry all the hardware and software resources needed to collect data. An increasing number of research projects every year resulted in a huge accumulation of data. Fugro Pelagos switched from DAS to NetApp (FAS3050, FAS270 and FAS3020) for their enterprise storage. They wanted similar performance at a significantly lower price for field data.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Building a Healthy Storage Infrastructure While Reducing Administration Costs by 90 Percent With Symantec Solutions2007-09-27 Symantec
  Like all medical insurance organizations, Health Alliance Plan must protect its sensitive customer information and minimize the costs of administering its storage infrastructure. A comprehensive suite of Symantec products is meeting these needs, offering dramatic reductions in staff time and storage costs. Total cost of ownership of the company's storage infrastructure is down by 22 percent, while storage utilization is approaching 80 percent, well above the industry average.

Tags: Data Center, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Steering an Automotive Giant to Efficient Backup and Archiving2007-09-26 Symantec
  How do you tackle the problem of protecting data from 17 European automotive subsidiaries? That was the challenge facing Mazda - one of the world's leading and most innovative automotive manufacturers. By standardizing on an integrated portfolio of Symantec backup and archiving solutions, Mazda Motor Europe (the European operating company) is saving more than €70,000, while simultaneously delivering efficient and effective protection for its mixed infrastructure.

Tags: Back-up, Storage Management		   
whitepaper Research Institute at the University of Maryland Offloads Large Library of Files to RAID Storage0000-00-00 RADirect
  The National Foreign Language Center (NFLC) is a research institute at the University of Maryland that works to define current and future language needs of the United States and helps build capacity to meet those needs. The company wanted to find a cost effective RAID storage solution to offload a vastly increasing library of data, audio and video files currently over-burdening existing server storage space. As a solution the company deployed Nexsan's high density 4TB SATABlade SATA array.

Tags: Removable Storage, Storage Management		   
whitepaper SwimWays Shores Up Design Data With StoreVault0000-00-00 NetApp
  SwimWays Corporation is a privately owned worldwide manufacturer of leisure and recreational water products, headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA. Several groups within the company were making forceful storage demands on the IT staff, and all groups had different requirements. In order to meet these needs, SwimWays had 12 servers and 2TB of production data under management. SwimWays required both design and sales data to be retained for the entire three-year product life cycle, but there was no tape subsystem for backups. Dataline, a Norfolk, VA, reseller, suggested a StoreVault with 12 drives, the CIFS protocol, RAID-DP and a SCSI card.

Tags: RAID, Storage Management		   
whitepaper Manufacturing Firm Assembles Multiple Solutions Through Single StoreVault S5000000-00-00 NetApp
  National Cycle, Inc. is the world leader in motorcycle windshield manufacturing, and is the OEM supplier to BMW, Harley-Davidson, Honda, Kawasaki, Polaris, Suzuki, Triumph, and Yamaha. The difficulties faced by the company were diverse and varied. Management pains from older DAS deployments, simplifying user credential management, reducing licensing, reducing data duplication, improving backup frequency and allowing for future growth were all criteria on his list. National Cycle had been thoroughly researching and was excited to hear that NetApp had introduced a new line of products for small businesses. They concluded that a networked storage device and a Virtual Tape Library device with backup software that tied them all together would really make a difference.

Tags: Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries		   
whitepaper iQstor's iQ1250 IP SAN Provides the Storage Networking Foundation for School Sport Fundraisers0000-00-00 iQstor Networks
  When schools want to raise funds for their sports activities they turn to Varsity Gold due to their proven success at high school fund raisers, sports teams, bands, cheer groups, PTAs and community groups. Similarly, when Varsity Gold wanted to better protect their on-line data and improve their workflow, they turned to iQstor. In order to centralize the storage for Varsity Gold's financial, document imaging, email and web site management, the company reviewed a number of storage systems from different vendors and selected the iQ1250 from iQstor.

Tags: Storage Management, SANs		   
whitepaper Pennsylvania Turnpike Takes the Network Appliance Route for 8x Better Tb:admin Ratio0000-00-00 NetApp
  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission manages 531 miles of roadway engineered for driver safety and comfort. Expanding capacity and adding iSCSI capability to the incumbent vendor's solution would have required a forklift upgrade and additional administrative resources. The Turnpike needed more flexibility and scalability without increasing administrative costs. A clustered NetApp FAS series solution delivers multiprotocol support, high performance and availability, and 8x capacity with no increase in footprint or administrative costs. NetApp also enables high-speed D2D backup and cost savings.

Tags: Fibre		   


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