Storage Virtualization Reports

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript for expert advice on reducing costs in your data center by reducing duplicate data. Brian Babineau, senior analyst for Enterprise Strategy Group, demonstrates how optimizing resources allows you to save more data for longer periods of time without increasing costs.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Published: 06 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Two sessions are included in this presentation download covering such subjects as why an organisation should archive their email and practical advice on how to get started. Download it now for more information on the benefits of e-mail archiving.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Email archiving is a burgeoning market at a time when many storage pros are faced with increasing ediscovery requests and compliance regulations. Listen to this podcast to find out the latest developments in email archiving.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

CASE STUDY: A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

EZINE: Data center managers face increasing challenges as virtual machines spread across the enterprise. Automation, monitoring and management tools can offer some much needed relief in the battle to keep control in a virtualized environment. In this month's issue of Virtual Data Center, learn how to choose the right virtual tools for the job.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

EBOOK: Space savings and reductions in energy costs are causing more organizations to move, or at least consider the move, to virtual environments. Download this eBook and discover how to mitigate the inherent security risks associated with the adoption of virtualization security.

Posted: 21 May 2009 | Published: 21 May 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast you'll hear from Falconstor Software's Product Marketing Manager , Peter Eichers, as he discusses Falconstor storage virtualization solutions.

Posted: 20 May 2009 | Premiered: May 20, 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This podcast transcript examines the pros and cons traditional Fibre Channel SAN and a slightly newer iSCSI SAN.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009

EZINE: Renewed interest in data centers is presenting a unique challenge to IT professionals who must do more with less. Read in this latest issue how to use server virtualization to boost utilization while saving money.

Posted: 06 May 2009 | Published: 06 May 2009

EZINE: In this month's Storage Magazine Online cover story, our resident backup expert, W. Curtis Preston, shows how to test various systems against your data so you can make the right decisions. Plus, check out features on recession-proof storage tips, four-tier storage design, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP).

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Feb 2008

IT BRIEFING: To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT planned, engineered, and has implemented a virtualized business-computing production environment. This multi-year initiative has confirmed virtualization benefits including server consolidation ratios between 10:1 and 16:1, faster deployment, and faster recovery. This white paper explains how they implemented virtualization.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

CASE STUDY: When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga., bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money behind an EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. This white paper gives the details.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2005

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WEBCAST: The webcast demonstrates Spectra's nTier with deduplication, a turnkey preconfigured storage solution supporting up to 674 TB of logical storage. With this appliance, an organization can dramatically reduce their storage consumption.

Posted: 24 Mar 2009 | Premiered: Mar 24, 2009