PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this transcript of a brief demo and video where Mike Laverick covers: Templates, thin virtual disks, how to create new virtual machines with vSphere, as well as how to make a virtual disk be thin-provisioned.
Posted: September 3, 2010 | Published: September 3, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Systems Management | Virtual Machine | VM

DATA SHEET - Oracle Solaris ZFS offers a dramatic advance in data management with an innovative approach to data integrity, near-zero administration, and a welcome integration of file system and volume management capabilities. Read this data sheet to learn more!
Posted: August 26, 2010 | Published: August 26, 2010


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Security | Operating Systems | Solaris | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - IT professionals are increasingly responsible for doing more than just provisioning servers and maintaining applications – they are core players in the risk management process. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Posted: August 19, 2010 | Published: August 19, 2010


Topics:  Backup Software | Business Continuity Planning | High Availability | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | RPO | RTO | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication

ANALYST REPORT - Users should evaluate network attached storage products based on their business needs, workload characteristics and infrastructure strategy. This document offers a point-in-time snapshot of vendors' positions in the market at the time of the evaluation and evaluates each vendors' strengths and cautions.
Posted: August 12, 2010 | Published: March 15, 2010


Topics:  NAS | NAS Software | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

DATA SHEET - This data sheet discusses SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) for managers of Dell EqualLogic storage. SAN HQ uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to collect performance, alarm and health status data from dozens of EqualLogic storage array groups that could be spread across multiple locations around the world.
Posted: August 10, 2010 | Published: November 24, 2009


Topics:  SAN | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - Because SSD storage is expensive, organizations want to be sure of its benefits before making an investment. Read this article to learn if SSD storage and automated tiering are right for you.
Posted: August 10, 2010 | Published: March 3, 2010


Topics:  Hard Disk Drives | Load Balancing | Solid State Disks | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

ESSENTIAL GUIDE - To realize the full benefits of vSphere, you need networked storage. And when it comes to virtualized servers, iSCSI is viewed as the top choice over Fibre Channel. In this month's cover story, Eric Siebert goes under the hood of VMware vSphere to show you how to make iSCSI work for virtual machines plus other essential and informative articles.
Posted: August 6, 2010 | Published: August 6, 2010


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Solid State Disks | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - SANs are frequently difficult to set up and configure, requiring a lot of effort to perform necessary tasks. This paper explains how a Fluid Data architecture can make life as a storage admin much easier.
Posted: August 2, 2010 | Published: February 24, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | RAID | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - 3PAR's next generation of thin technologies can save you up to 60% on the cost of a technology refresh, then help keep your storage costs low over time. Read this white paper now to learn more about 3PAR’s Thin Technologies, including: Thin Provisioning, Thin Conversion, Thin Persistence and Thin Copy Reclamation.
Posted: July 28, 2010 | Published: July 28, 2010


Topics:  Capital Expenditures | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Spending

ANALYST REPORT - CIOs need to control storage costs while staying competitive simultaneously. Read this Gartner research paper to learn best practices on ensuring that the storage team is effective and efficient - ultimately resulting in better storage management.
Posted: July 28, 2010 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Data Visualization | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Spending

RESOURCE CENTER - Join in this interactive classroom to hear from well-known IT blogger and instructor Mike Laverick, as he guides you through and demonstrates  virtual machine(VM) templates and thin provisioning, backup virtual appliances, and the consolidation of VMs.
Posted: July 21, 2010 | Published: July 21, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Provisioning | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.
Posted: July 13, 2010 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Fibre Channel SAN | iSCSI SAN | NAS | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.
Posted: July 7, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - By using VMware and the Compellent SAN together, enterprises can compound the benefits of virtualisation. This paper addresses seven technical advantages and describes how they allow the Compellent SAN to optimise VMware server virtualisation.
Posted: June 28, 2010 | Published: March 1, 2010


Topics:  SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | VMware

ANALYST REPORT - The essence of Fluid Data is to provide data storage that is as dynamic as the demands placed upon it by fickle applications and business needs. Not only can Compellent deliver strongly against this construct, the company is aiming to permanently change the way that data storage is discussed and described.
Posted: June 28, 2010 | Published: April 1, 2010


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization