12 March 2010
Friday
Data explosion is putting a lot of pressure on storage resources, and it has become imperative for CIOs to deal with it effectively.
The Gehring Group is a leading company for the planning and construction of precision honing machines. Just as it does with its own products, Gehring also places a high priority on superlative quality in the iT solutions it uses.
Storage tiering is about saving money by storing information appropriate to its value. Manish Bapat, VMware business manager for EMC South Asia, looks at the challenges faced by companies looking to better utilize their storage infrastructure.
While hierarchical storage management solutions have been available for many years, the advantages and efficiencies of storage tiering, particularly in increasingly large-scale systems, is made possible only now through advances in virtualization, automation and thin provisioning.
Storage admins use techniques ranging from tiered storage to energy efficiency to reclaim storage space.
Classifying data for tiered storage may sound simple, but it's not. Learn best practices for effective tiered storage, including capacity planning and data archiving technology.
Not all data is created equal, however, and deriving business value from information dispersed over many different sources means integrating, analyzing and optimizing heterogeneous types and sources of information throughout its lifecycle. This IBM paper discusses the potential this new type of Information On Demand strategy can offer to companies in terms of creating new business insight and managing risk -- key advantages for businesses faced with increased regulatory and global competitive pressures.
The cost of managing storage and the amount of storage enterprises have to manage continue to balloon. But the reality is that data decays in value over time. Yet, much of these data is retained -- often on expensive primary storage -- due to business and compliance policies or plain neglect.
TheInfoPro's latest Storage Study shows Fortune 1000 firms grappling with budget cuts are looking to manage storage better, and delaying new purchases.
MAID and spin-down storage systems play into recent green IT and consolidation trends, and analysts predict most storage systems will one day offer the power-saving features.
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Backup and archiving have changed over recent years partly riding on advances in technology. When do you perform backup and when to archive? What are the technical and operational considerations that need to be looked into for each. This paper looks at Simpana Software as a platform for achieving both.
This paper looks at Simpana as a platform for seamlessly extending local backup and archive to a new tier of cloud-based storage. Virtually unlimited storage capacity from our integrated cloud storage partners helps users dramatically reduce costs and operational complexity while improving long-term compliance.
The move to cloud computing is not easy, and its important to get it right the first time. Curtin University of Technology with the help of Optus Business, Alphawest, Cisco, EMC, and VMware, takes the first steps that will provide Curtin with an on-demand access to a fully virtualized private data center.
Asian sports associations looking to improve performance (winning gold medals) can take a leaf off the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA)'s book, when it comes to blending the best in both athletic and IT infrastructure.
