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Editor's Notes
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Written by Martin Slofstra
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 At SANNAS Times, we endeavor to point you in the direction of good sources of information. Two research firms I find particularly useful are The InfoPro and Info-Tech. (Please go to www.TheInfoPro.net and www.infotech.com.) Unlike most industry research, this information is end-user rather than vendor-driven, and that is why it is useful for storage professionals.
For example, I put our question of the day to Robert Stevenson, one of the analysts at TheInfoPro. Based on information provided by the firm indicating storage capacity increase 36 per cent a year while effective utilization remains at 40 per cent, why then do users tend to expand capacity first and worry about optimization and consolidation later? |
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Vendor Whitepapers & Case Studies
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Written by Info~Tech
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A storage area network (SAN) is a critical requirement for providing virtual servers with high availability and dynamic provisioning. However, the same technology that virtualizes servers can also be used to create a virtual SAN array. Smaller enterprises and branch office virtual machine deployment can reap significant savings from a virtual SAN.
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Vendor Whitepapers & Case Studies
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Written by Ryerson University
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Toronto-based Ryerson University is known for its career-focused approach to education. That means giving students and faculty the tools they need to pursue their varied fields of interest-including an ever-growing number of computer applications. "To keep up, we kept buying dozens of servers a year," explains Eran Frank, the manager of the university’s Technical Support Group. "Then in late 2006, we hit the wall at our two campus data centres. We just could not expand anymore." |
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MyBlog
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Written by LeRoy Budnik
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For many years we have been preaching about increasing utilization rates, yet few people actually do work to predictably manage storage consumption. These rates have been consistent for the many ye |
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MyBlog
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Written by Martin Slofstra
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My first reaction to hearing about the "storage-as-a-service" concept was: ‘Okay, sounds good, but exactly what is the big deal here.' But the more you think about it, sto |
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