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Storage Consolidation

ALSO CALLED: Data Consolidation, Consolidation, and Storage Centralization
DEFINITION: Storage consolidation, also called storage convergence is a method of centralizing data storage among multiple servers. The objective is to facilitate data backup and archiving for all subscribers in an enterprise, while minimizing the time required to access and store data. Other desirable features  … 
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Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning are critical to managing risks in a successful business. This paper covers how to make disaster recovery cost effective with virtual infrastructure.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Published: 24 Nov 2008
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Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation
sponsored by Incentra Solutions
WHITE PAPER: Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power and operating costs.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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HP Virtualization with Intel and VMware: End-to-end Virtualization of IT Resources
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The VMware partnership and technical collaboration with HP and Intel enables your organization to deploy a reliable and scalable platform for building a complete virtualized data center solution.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 18 Nov 2008
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The Right Way to Test Storage System Performance
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PRESENTATION: This presentation introduces the concepts needed to interpret storage system performance claims and the tools and processes required for hands-on performance analysis.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Storage Networking - The Path to Performance
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
WHITE PAPER: This document identifies aspects of performance that are or are not critical to the successful deployment of storage network technologies.
Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008
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Managing the Information That Drives the Enterprise STORAGE
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
EZINE: This magazine issue covers several topics, including industry salary trends, information about backups, storage consolidation tips, and data migration tips.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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Top 5 Data Migration Tools
sponsored by Channel Media Group
WHITE PAPER: Get a quick review of the top 5 data migration tools in the market.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 06 Nov 2008
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Data Deduplication Made Simple
sponsored by Data Domain
WEBCAST: Data deduplication is rapidly becoming a core fundamental of any storage system, and the implications go far beyond backup applications. Take this opportunity to learn the key differences between deduplication technologies available today.
Posted: 06 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Virtualization's Full Potential: Integrating Dell Equallogic Sans with Citrix XenServer
sponsored by Citrix
WHITE PAPER: Read this document to learn how integrating platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend
sponsored by Citrix
DATA SHEET: Read this paper to learn how integrating platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Published: 31 Oct 2008
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2008 Symposium: Green Enterprise Computing - Capitalizing on Current Oppurtunities and Exploring Future Trends in Energy Efficiency
sponsored by Cassatt Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper exposes five of the top myths that have emerged from static view and taken hold in the industry and digs into the truth underlying them to present you with the facts that can have a significant impact on your data center budget.
Posted: 30 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Oct 2008
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Running out of Room: As Companies Are Forced to Store More Data, They're Getting Squeezed by Both Space and Cost Constraints
sponsored by Ocarina Networks
TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This article from the Wall Street Journal examines the challenges organizations are facing with ever-increasing data explosion. It examines the many new technologies that have sprung up to address these issues.
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 | Published: 10 Oct 2008
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IBM Enterprise Content Management and System Storage Solutions: Working Together
sponsored by IBM
BOOK: This IBM Redbooks publication will provide the necessary information to IBMers, business partners, and customers on how to implement FileNet ECM with IBM Storage Solutions.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008
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Internet Protocol & Fibre Channel in SANs
sponsored by Storage Decisions
WHITE PAPER: This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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What every Exchange administrator should know about virtualization
sponsored by SearchExchange
PODCAST: Learn more about the benefits and pitfalls of deploying Microsoft Exchange 2007 to a properly architected and configured virtualized environment.
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 08 Sep 2008
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Is virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server a good idea?
sponsored by SearchExchange
WEBCAST: Learn more about Exchange Server virtualization, including available virtualization platforms, recommendations and best practices for virtualizing Exchange Server 2003 and 2007, and more.
Posted: 30 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Hot Storage Trends for 2008
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
VIDEOCAST: This expert Videocast, featuring Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst for the StorageIO Group, outlines the major storage topics and trends that VARs and other channel professionals should be aware of today. View this Videocast today.
Posted: 24 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 24 Sep 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
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eGuide: Storage Virtualization - Help Your Customers Manage Growing Storage Demands While Boosting Your Services Revenue This Year
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
WHITE PAPER: This eGuide serves as a technology introduction to storage virtualization, and explores the areas where growing storage demands require attention.
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 | Published: 24 Sep 2008
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Backup = Archive: Can You Tell the Difference?
sponsored by CommVault Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The way we think about backup and archiving has changed recently. This stems from advances in synthetic and incremental capabilities, as well as a breadth of support for archiving information across data management sources. Think you know the difference?
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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Virtualizing Exchange
sponsored by Azaleos Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Organizations encounter numerous challenges related to running Exchange Server as a mission-critical backbone of their communications infrastructure. This paper offers a best practices approach to running Exchange within a virtual environment.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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Cassatt 2008 Data Center Energy-Efficient Survey
sponsored by Cassatt Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Studies from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and others show that data center energy use has more than doubled since 2000.
Posted: 15 Sep 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 2008
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Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network
sponsored by Quest Software
WHITE PAPER: The growth of business-related data means IT must efficiently manage and control data-center storage. Analysis and storage consolidation helps recover wasted assets. Learn to identify and eliminate useless data. Read the white paper today.
Posted: 09 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: 08 Sep 2008 | Published: 08 Sep 2008
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Is SAN right for Windows file storage?
sponsored by SearchWindowsServer.com
WEBCAST: With the release of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has continued to increase its emphasis on Storage Area Networks (SAN) for enterprise storage. Learn more in this podcast.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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STORAGE CONSOLIDATION DEFINITION (continued): …  include simplification of the storage infrastructure, centralized and efficient management, optimized resource utilization, and low operating cost.

There are three storage consolidation architectures in common use: network-attached storage (NAS), redundant array of independent disks (RAID), and the storage area network (SAN). In NAS, the hard drive that stores the data has its own network address. Files can be stored and retrieved rapidly because they do … 
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