11 March 2010
Thursday
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Enterprise Strategy Group explains the transformation of storage from a peripheral device to a strategic component of enterprise asset protection. This report concludes that business requirements and security threats demand storage security.
Over the next four years, while the digital universe grows by a factor of almost five, total IT budgets worldwide will only grow by a factor of 1.2, and IT staff by a factor of 1.1. This is a problem.
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Why are shared storage systems a better alternative to direct-attached storage? How can you lower your total cost of ownership while simplifying storage management.
This EMC white paper introduces the full architecture of and functionality of the EMC CLARiiON CX4 series with UltraFlex technology, including the CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480, and CX4-960. This paper lists the software capabilities of the series and also introduces the new features.
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This paper provides an overview of the current trends and challenges in delivering the necessary I/O throughput for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. It presents Sun’s offerings for addressing today’s HPC challenges in the form of flash technology, network attached storage, parallel storage, and archive solutions.
Nothing without money! That is what you get when you need help. As an old friend used to remind me: nothing’s free in this world! Well, we hoped to change the rules here at SearchStorageAsia. This is our 10th free eGuide and our topic for this issue is Network-attached Storage or NAS.
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Division of resources is important and must be taken carefully into consideration when setting up the server and the virtual machines it will host.
Typical data center management techniques may help you get by, but in the SAN environment a little more may be needed. Here are several challenges an IT manager can expect when monitoring and managing a SAN - and how to overcome them.
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In the eGuide, sponsored by Bakbone, industry experts share their views on the advantages and disadvantages of each, and discuss topics ranging from disk-based backup to outsourcing of this vital procedure.
When implementing a backup and recovery solution, IT organizations should carefully define their recovery objectives and align their technology strategy with their business requirements.
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There are several new business opportunities that require vast amounts of inexpensive storage — and these opportunities cannot be realized with today's traditional, closed storage architectures. Sun believes that open storage products and services will emerge to meet these new opportunities and will represent just under 12 percent of the total storage market by 2011.
VMware VirtualCenter is virtual infrastructure management software, which provides a central point of control for your data center's virtual computing resources. VirtualCenter creates a more responsive data center, enabling faster reconfiguration and reallocation of applications and services. It also allows instant provisioning of servers. User-downtime decreases and the data center becomes optimized. VirtualCenter is a powerful way to connect IT to business needs.
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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.
SA Eagle, like all insurance companies, is dependent on its data and customer records. The company must be able to back up and restore all its data for its daily functioning, as well as to help with insurance investigations, and to meet disaster recovery regulatory requirements. But SA Eagle was having issues reliably backing up its data. It was using several different systems for overnight backups, and those backups did not always complete by morning, sometimes leaving the company without backups.
Learn how Opus Interactive, a managed service provider in Portland, Oregon, saw a 10-fold boost in CPU utilization, a 75 percent reduction in customer cost per server, and can carry out 95 percent of server administration remotely. The solution came in the formof virtualized servers and storage using HP Proliant server blades, the HP LeftHand P4000 SAN and VMware.
Datacraft clinched the first Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) deal in Vietnam for TaxOnline, including security and storage solutions.
