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whitepaper Dell Case Study: CareerBuilder2008-03-01 Dell
  CareerBuilder wanted to speed up the processing of business intelligence data to provide business managers and partners with more timely information on the status of their business. Older technology and third-party business intelligence software were not able to keep pace with the increasing amount of data and processing required to support the company's growth. Dell and Microsoft partnered to provide a new business intelligence solution based on Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft business intelligence software, Dell PowerEdge servers, and a Dell/EMC storage system.

Tags: Storage Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
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 Global Survey Consulting Firm Reduces Server Deployment Time to 45 Minutes With Server Virtualization2008-03-01 Dell
  Server downtime and maintenance at global consultancy Gallup interfered with sensitive projects and strained the limits of the ultra-lean IT administration team. Gallup deployed a virtual server farm using VMware Infrastructure 3 on Dell PowerEdge 2900 servers and an Internet SCSI (iSCSI) Storage Area Network (SAN) using Dell EqualLogic PS3900 and PS-84E devices was designed to eliminate downtime and simplify or eradicate many maintenance tasks.

Tags: Storage Management, 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 Dell-Microsoft Reference Configurations: Phase II 7 Terabyte Data Warehouse2008-03-01 Dell
  Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell PowerVault storage systems are ideal choices to deploy highly available and enterprise mission critical Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Warehouses for Business Intelligence solutions. Dell and Microsoft have worked together to run various tests and analyze performance results for a sample Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehouse (DW) solution. This BI testing was designed to validate the Dell PowerEdge server and PowerVault storage platforms for BI and DW, to demonstrate the stability and performance of the systems, and to create Reference Configurations that can assist customers in creating baseline systems for BI.

Tags: Storage Management, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing		   
whitepaper Strategies for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption2008-01-24 Dell EqualLogic
  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, Green IT		   
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 Managing the Benefits of Virtualization: The Symantec Virtualization Story2008-02-28 Symantec
  Virtualization is the #1 topic on the customers' minds. Virtualization enables many new benefits for IT organizations, but also brings with it a number of new challenges. This webcast illustrates Symantec solutions that enable the customers to manage the benefits of virtualization. The material covers the breadth of enterprise solutions that involve virtualization, including Desktop management, Server management, Storage management, and Security.

Tags: Storage Management, Virtualization		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks Virtualization2008-02-28 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Storage virtualization has been around for several decades. Virtualization is the aggregation of physical resources into a unified structure, and the presentation of those resources as capabilities that can be consumed by applications, desktop clients, or other types of storage clients. The term Virtualization has really become an umbrella that encompasses a vast array of encapsulation and management technologies and implementation methods.

This paper describes the business motivations for storage virtualization and the benefits it can deliver. Basic storage virtualization approaches are described and their benefits and limitations are compared. Finally, it wraps up with a description of the HP StorageWorks virtualization strategy.

Tags: Systems Integration, Storage Management, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Configuring the IBM Global Mirror Secondary Disk Subsystem2008-02-25 IBM
  The purpose of this paper is to provide technical guidelines concerning the configuration of the secondary DS8000 in a Global Mirror configuration. The configuration of the disk subsystem at the remote or secondary location is an important consideration to ensure the optimum performance of a Global Mirror environment. This paper will address several aspects of proper configuration planning of the Global Mirror secondary.

Tags: Storage Management		   


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