Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 5 No. 11 January 2007 issue of Comparing EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 vs. Hitachi Data Systems USP1100
If companies needed another reason to get going with storage virtualization, here it is: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) announced in November it's offering rebates to companies that implement virtualization in their IT departments. And while the announcement seemed to indicate the utility was concentrating on server projects, storage virtualization can be eligible for the rebate as well. "Any virtualization effort that results in energy savings is eligible [for the rebate], regardless of platform or software," says Mark Brantiff, supervisor of the high-tech segment of the customer energy-efficiency program at PG&E. The key, he says, is that companies must apply for the incentive before starting the work. That step is critical; the incentive can't be paid if the application is submitted after virtualization is up and running because the savings can't be assessed. Storage virtualization is one of the top recommendations made by vendors and analysts for reducing power and cooling costs, and keeping the storage footprint as small as possible. Putting ... Access >>>
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- Akorri advocates app analysis
- RapidIO steams into storage
- DC saves energy for storage
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Snapshot: Top storage priorities
What's your top storage priority for 2007?
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Quality Awards II: Leading libraries
Although they're the most mechanical part of a backup system, users are fairly satisfied with the reliability of their tape libraries. And despite high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors, the results of the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards largely reinforced last year's results.
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Face-Off: EMC DMX-3 vs. Hitachi USP1100
Only a handful of storage vendors produce truly top-of-the-line arrays, and EMC and Hitachi Data Systems dominate those ranks with their respective Symmetrix DMX-3 and TagmaStore USP1100 products. These vendors attain high capacity and high performance using two very different architectures. We examine the differences to see if one approach outstrips the other.
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Protect remote-office data
Centralizing remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) apps and their data in the primary data center has enormous economies of scale. These remote-data apps cut the amount of data sent over the wire, making it possible to economically back up remote data to a central site. We provide a sampling of the various ROBO data management products on the market, and describe how they can best be implemented.
- iSCSI for everybody
- Multiprotocol arrays attract attention
- The power of virtualization
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Face-Off: EMC DMX-3 vs. Hitachi USP1100
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New storage standards from The Trusted Computing Group
by Jon Oltsik
The Trusted Computing Group is a security standards body now venturing into the storage world. The group is about to release a spec that promises to provide a secure foundation that storage management vendors and users can leverage to improve the protection of stored data.
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Back to DR planning basics
by James Damoulakis
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable.
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Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years
Storage Bin: Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years. The rest of the IT infrastructure must try to catch up and, ultimately, the only thing not virtualized within the data center will be the last guy standing.
- Editorial: May the force be with you
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New storage standards from The Trusted Computing Group
by Jon Oltsik
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