31 July 2010
Saturday
Implementing storage virtualization is no easy task. There are things to consider and it helps to know what to expect and when to seek professional help.
Data warehousing continues to provide the essential cornerstone for enterprise decision-making. However, as intelligence needs become more sophisticated, competitive markets require faster answers to business questions.
The financial services industry relies heavily on information technology, especially storage. Here an investment company obtained astounding results from investing in a storage solution providing thin provisioning and other virtualization benefits.
Craig McKeena is a certified consulting IT storage specialist for IBM. He describes the state of storage provisioning and how thin provisioning is built around the principles of virtualization for storage. He believes that many vendors have a thin provisioning solution and suggests enterprise test the solution before buying it. (duration: 4min 11sec)
HDS now guarantees 50% storage capacity reduction or more for customers using Hitachi virtualization technologies.
With the proliferation of virtual servers and storage, companies need to understand the implication of virtualization on the backup and recovery processes that form part of a company's disaster recovery and business continuity strategy. Yeong Chee Wai, marketing director for Acronis Asia, explains in simple terms the difference between physical and virtual environments and how to re-deploy a reliable backup and recovery strategy.
Data explosion is putting a lot of pressure on storage resources, and it has become imperative for CIOs to deal with it effectively.
How do you deploy a disaster recovery system within a virtualized environment that encapsulates the latest in SAN technology and still manages to keep new investments down? Deane Hornsby, product marketing manager for HP StorageWorks APJ, provides a simple to understand walk-through on the technical requirements that goes into deploying a DR solution when your infrastructure uses virtual servers.
Organizations are experiencing a barrage of information being generated, which has impact on information infrastructure equipment and processes. Add to this the limitations on IT budgets and demand for better service levels, and legacy backup environments are starting to feel the weight.
For the past five to six years, EMC Corp has increased its data center efficiency and reduced costs without any extensive upgrade. Par Botes, CTO for the Asia Pacific and Japan, talks about the rewards and insights they have gained from these projects.
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Knowledge Central
This statement of direction describes the SAP vision, strategy, development, and commitment for enterprise performance management solutions and their future roles and positions within the overall SAP® solution portfolio by laying out a three-year road map.
Protecting corporate data requires much more than backing up data to secondary storage. Eliminating duplicate data and keeping data archives compact is key.
This case study features a top-ranked hospital for patient safety & clinical excellence, and how it ensures patient data security while lowering storage and administrative costs by up to 75 percent.
QLogic Fibre Channel stackable switches are providing the backbone for the International Broadcast Center's storage area network at the 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Johannesburg, South Africa.
