Storage Management
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Five ways to greener storage
News Companies can make their data centers more energy-efficient or lower power consumption, and it doesn't have to cost an arm or leg, say industry watchers in Asia.
Tags: Storage management, Data centers, Storage software, Data Management, Hardware, Hitachi Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific
Downturn to dull flash, Ethernet storage
News Cost-conscious storage environment will see firms pass over solid-state drives and delay switch to Fiber Channel over Ethernet, says HDS CTO.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Storage software, Virtualization, IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Industry Veteran, Fiber, Storage, enterprise storage environment
Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing
Techguide Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and Hewlett-Packard so much so you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.
Tags: Data Management, Data centers, Databases, Medicare, Wells Fargo & Co., data mining, entertainment, data warehouse, Teradata, Data centers
Infortrend moves into enterprise storage
News The company is hoping that its five new SAN systems for scale-out storage will pull in medium-sized business customers.
Tags: Storage management, Data Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Enterprise Storage, SAN, storage virtualization, IBM Corp., Data Management, Storage management, Infortrend
IBM deduplicates Tivoli
News Big Blue offers deduplication technology in Tivoli Storage Manager 6, which it claims to have enhanced scalability and able to handle a billion objects.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage software, IBM Corp., Backup, International Data Corp., De-duplication, Storage Management, Tivoli Storage Manager
Using the Share and Storage Management Console
Techguide Microsoft has made a number of improvements to the venerable File Services role. Find out what to do with the enhanced capabilities.
Tags: Microsoft Server 2003, Role, Volume, Storage Management, File Server, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Permission, NTFS Permission, Resource
Stop buying storage
Techguide The current economic downturn means storage managers no longer have the luxury of cutting management corners. However, this presents an opportunity to improve the storage cost profile.
Tags: Data centers, Data Management, Databases, Organization, De-duplication, Storage Management, provisioning, Storage Allocation, Data Deduplication, Storage
Oracle sends out update to Database 11g
News Oracle Database 11g Release 2 focuses on consolidating hardware and virtualization, and arrives two years after the database software was originally launched.
Tags: Databases, Database management, Storage Management, Tool, Storage, Server, data warehouse, Oracle Corp., Databases, Database management
Seven things to mull when choosing data deduplication tools
Techguide Deduplication technology is just what is needed as IT budgets are tightened while mission critical data continues to grow. Find out how you can pick the right solution.
Tags: Data Management, Storage management, Storage software, Data, Asia, Solution, Backup, De-duplication, Tool, Storage
Yahoo drops its Briefcase
News The online storage Briefcase service is shutting down, and Yahoo is warning users to download or delete stored files before the cut-off.
Tags: Data centers, Storage management, Storage software, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Google Picasa, Microsoft Windows Live, Yahoo! Inc., Storage, Storage software
Symantec backup gets client dedupe
News Next update of NetBackup will add deduplication at the client, which should allow users to cut both storage and network bandwidth needs, according to Symantec.
Tags: Storage management, Data backup, disaster recovery, Hardware, Backup, De-duplication, Storage, Storage management, Server, Symantec Corp., Symantec Backup Exec
Microsoft and EMC renew their vows
News The first three years of formal partnership between the companies went so well, they've signed up for another stint focused more on storage and virtualized environments.
Tags: Storage, Data centers, Personal storage, Storage management, Storage software, Virtualization, Content Management, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, EMC Corp.
EMC, Microsoft team for share of IT budgets
News In a joint interview with CNET News, Microsoft's Steve Ballmer and EMC's Joe Tucci talk about the pressures on tech spending and about partnering to woo customers.
Tags: Storage software, Data backup, disaster recovery, Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, IT Budget, EMC Corp., VMware Inc.
Clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 improve migration time
Techguide An enhancement to Windows Server 2008 R2 is clustered shared volumes. Rick Vanover provides an overview of this important change.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Migration, Virtualization, Virtual Machine, Storage, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, clustering, Rick Vanover, Server
HP targets efficiency with virtual storage
News With new hardware and software, the company aims to get more efficiency out of resources.
Tags: Storage, Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., LeftHand Networks, Storage, storage environment, NetApp, HP StorageWorks, HP EVA6400, Environment
