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whitepaper New Deployment Methods for Desktops2008-01-24 Dell EqualLogic
  The benefits of storage consolidation and centralized management are well known - they include lower costs, better information protection, and improved IT efficiency. Server consolidation using virtualization software is aimed at generating these same results.

A recent trend in many large IT organizations goes beyond server virtualization to desktop virtualization. There are two primary methods of desktop virtualization, each with strengths and weaknesses. A basic understanding of remote desktops and desktop virtualization will help you decide if an implementation of this type is right for your organization.

Tags: Workstations, Storage Management, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Virtualizing Storage for VMware Success2008-01-23 NetApp
  Server virtualization has made day-to-day life a whole lot simpler for systems administrators; however, the benefits have not been shared by storage administrators and backup operators, who face new challenges as the result of data encapsulation. Storage infrastructure and operational practices that were designed for physical server architectures are not well suited to meet the demands of a virtual infrastructure.

Backup and disaster recovery practices have to change radically. New light needs to be shed on the importance of data protection and recovery time objectives (RTOs). Any consolidation effort also consolidates risk. With VMware the point of risk has shifted away from servers to shared storage. A RAID failure in a virtual infrastructure is catastrophic, as it potentially impacts dozens of virtual servers and applications. Any restore operation that requires data to be copied from another form of media can take days.

NetApp storage virtualization technologies solve these challenges and alleviate the burden on storage and backup teams. This article from NetApp's Tech OnTap newsletter describes how NetApp can:
  • Cut storage costs by half or more
  • Reduce VMware RTO to minutes
  • Increase efficiency to decrease soft costs
If you've virtualized your servers but not your storage, you've only done half the job. Virtualizing your storage infrastructure is critical to addressing the unique storage needs of VMware.

Tags: Storage Management, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Dell EqualLogic PS Series with VMware - Virtual servers meet virtual storage2008-01-23 Dell EqualLogic
  Consolidation of data center assets has become a trend in many IT environments, providing benefits such as improved hardware resource utilization, easier management,and lower costs.

For storage, consolidation is accomplished by moving data off of a direct attached storage (DAS)to inside the server onto a shared pool of storage in a storage area network (SAN).

Read this solution brief to see how server consolidation has become popular thanks to technologies like VMware ESX Server and GSX Server. These "virtual machine" products consolidate server data images onto fewer hardware platforms which improves IT efficiency.

Tags: Storage Management, SANs, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Microsoft SQL Server and Dell EqualLogic PS Series Solution Brief2008-01-23 Dell EqualLogic
  Managing business information is crucial to the success of any company or organization - and databases allow you to manage and use an incredible variety of information easily. Because of the importance of databases within a business environment and their impact on both commerce and productivity, databases require a robust server and storage infrastructure - highly reliable, high performing, easily scalable, and secure. This solution brief discusses how Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft SQL Server deliver record-breaking performance, availability, and scalability within your data center.

Tags: Storage Management, Database Marketing, Data Center, High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper Write Off-Loading: Practical Power Management for Enterprise Storage2008-01-18 Microsoft
  In enterprise data centers power usage is a problem impacting server density and the total cost of ownership. Storage uses a significant fraction of the power budget and there are no widely deployed power-saving solutions for enterprise storage systems. The traditional view is that enterprise workloads make spinning disks down ineffective because idle periods are too short. This paper analyzed block-level traces from 36 volumes in an enterprise data center for one week and concluded that significant idle periods exist, and that they can be further increased by modifying the read/write patterns using write off-loading. Write off-loading allows write requests on spun-down disks to be temporarily redirected to persistent storage elsewhere in the data center.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center		   
whitepaper Lustre Networking: High-Performance Features and Flexible Support for a Wide Array of Networks2008-01-01 Sun Microsystems
  This paper provides information about Lustre networking that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. The paper includes information on Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers, and routing in Lustre networks, and describes how these features can be used to improve cluster storage management. The final section of this paper describes new Lustre networking features that are currently under consideration or planned for future release.

Tags: High Performance Computing		   
whitepaper A Guide to Messaging Archiving - An Osterman Research White Paper2008-03-27 Google
  This Osterman Research white paper discusses the key issues to consider when evaluating email archiving systems and the Google approach to managed email archiving.

Tags: Data Center, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing, Email, Back-up, Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Virtualization of Tape Storage2008-01-01 CYBERNETICS
  Disk-based virtual tape backup devices, when combined with removable tape for archiving, are a particularly effective data protection strategy, delivering the very tangible benefits of both disk and tape for securing data efficiently and cost-effectively at all points in its lifecycle. This paper discusses the advantages of a D2D2T strategy in reference to Cybernetics' miSAN V Series, iSAN V Series, and HSTC models.

Tags: Tape Drives - Libraries, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Introducing the Brocade Data Center Fabric Architecture2008-01-01 Sun Microsystems
  Enterprise data centers are undergoing a transformation driven by the need to reduce costs and increase performance. The evolving data center fabric exploits developing virtualization technologies for a data- and application-driven solution that reduces complexity and enables end-to-end management on a common framework. Today, business organizations are challenged by conflicting requirements - to become more efficient and do more with less - while at the same time increasing their ability to adapt to rapid market changes. Many CIOs understand that they need to replace the application-centric infrastructure that relies on storage islands isolated by data type, file or block data, with a shared infrastructure that delivers application-defined levels of service using a common fabric that consolidates file and block access.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center		   
whitepaper HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade (AiO SB600c) 500 Mailbox Exchange 2007 Storage Solution2008-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper provides information on the HP StorageWorks All-in-One SB600c Storage Blade (AiO SB600c) solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 (Exchange), based on the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) - Storage program. The ESRP - Storage program was developed by Microsoft Corporation to provide a common storage testing framework for vendors to provide information on their storage solutions for Microsoft Exchange Server software.

Tags: Blades, Email		   


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