Data Storage Management, SAN and Windows NAS

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Bulk of drive capacity still underutilized
Gelsinger compares impact of storage federation to the effect of virtualization on servers
IBM shows enterprises how to take an old data center and make it more energy-efficient and give it more capacity while extending the life of existing assets

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Not only do you need to understand what deduplication is, but more importantly, know the various ways that it is implemented and what each of these means for your environment.
Virtualization is a key to eliminating “sprawl” by consolidating servers, storage and other IT resources. “Don’t go it alone” when trying to reap the business and operational gains that virtualization promises. Partnering with a provider with a proven track record in putting together solutions built for your line of business local expert who can make it work for your business.

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The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants was established in 1973 and is the only statutory licensing body of accountants in Hong Kong that is responsible for the regulation of the accountancy profession. This case study offers insight into th HKICPA's efforts to modernize its storage infrastructure with NAS.
Like many US banks, Huntington Bancshares faced strict regulatory requirements amidst strong competition and demanding customers. With retaining customer trust over the long term, the company needed to protect information and make it accessible continuously. This paper looks at the steps taken by the Bank to mitigate disaster with a business continuity strategy that included increasing speed of recovery and reducing the costs of managing its 160-TB EMC storage infrastructure.

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IT executives are constantly on the lookout on how best to manage their rapid data growth and, at the same time, keep expenses down. If storage hardware is the suggested alternative, it immediately conjures up an image of cost increases in areas of data management, protection process and even data center operations in the minds of most IT executives.
CIOs are frustrated in their inability to respond to business needs because the underlying IT infrastructure constrains choice, slows response, and limits their ability to manage change. To enable greater IT agility, organizations need to create dynamic IT infrastructures that can easily adapt to changing business requirements, by implementing Application Delivery Controllers that can unify application delivery and WAN delivery services.
RAID is not 100% foolproof because multiple hard disks can fail. I recently touched base with Bill Margeson, CEO, President and Co-Founder of CBL Data Recovery Technologies, on the subject of RAID, reliability and how companies in Asia plan their disaster recovery practices.

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Performance on arrays get a boost with Intel's Westmere processor
The Wipe feature in Toshiba's SED (Self-Encrypting Drives) will allow for deletion of secure data prior to disposing or repurposing hard drives.
It claims Pancetera Unite can reduce up to 80% of virtual server traffic for backups.

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The board of directors notified Dell that the HP offer met criteria as a "superior proposal" to Dell's $27 per share bid, as defined in 3PAR's previous merger agreement with Dell.
Solid-state disks may expand system memory as well as provide faster storage access, an IBM executive said Tuesday.
The breakthrough has been made in the research of bit-patterned media, a magnetic storage technology that is being developed for future hard disk drives.
As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced what they a certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for virtual environments.
The Silicon Valley startup makes deduplication technology, a hot commodity in storage.