Capacity Optimization

View this informative Videocast on how this economic tumble is affecting the IT industry, understand how you can proactively navigate your organization through this downturn, and learn more about the benefits of the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform. The implications of the current economic downturn are far reaching and multifaceted, affecting everything we do. The influence of economic pressures can certainly be felt in the IT industry, prompting IT professionals to...

increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application... Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. However, as IT and business managers are well aware, data replication can quickly increase your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce...

faster, energy efficient technologies to achieve optimization objectives.

This presentation session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth. After all, there is no such thing as a data recession!

Topics include:

• Energy efficiency (strategic) vs. energy avoidance (tactical)
• Optimization and the need for speed vs

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This podcast addresses virtual infrastructure optimization and provides critical insight and management for virtual server environments. Today, many increasingly sophisticated technologies promise to clear the fog from the IT administrator's storage environments. Interested in learning more about VIO tools that can holistically assess the entire virtual infrastructure? Learn how this technology provides administrators with the data necessary to make intelligent...

manage files based on corporate policy, optimize storage capacity, and eliminate .pst/.nsf headaches. Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed with what feels like a continuous barrage of information growth? You're not alone. According to IDC 54% of the storage capacity added by organizations in 2008 will be dedicated to the storage of file-based data and projected grow to 75% by 2011. Join us to discuss how archiving can enable you to regain control over your information and reduce costs...

With Apama, you can use the power of complex event processing to deliver true operational effectiveness by correlating business-relevant events from warehouse, transportation and vehicle management systems as well as environmental data from sensors, GIS/GPS devices and RFID systems. The first in the series of Complex Event Processing (CEP) in transport and logistics podcasts looks at the challenges that are facing the industry today, explains the concept of CEP and...

This paper provides six tools to help increase the value of a PPM solution which include: workflow scheduling, tracking, process improvement analysis, demand management and business intelligence. Every organization, regardless of size, is going to compete with greater probability of success if they choose the right initiatives and do them more efficiently. This document provides resources and ideas for companies who know they need tools to help them organize their...

article presents an overview of virtual infrastructure optimization, answering common questions and exploring core capabilities differentiating emerging solutions. Looking around us, we've seen a change happen in the enterprise that has overtaken many administrators with silent footsteps. While the IT practitioner's every day is a swim through waves of invisible bits, there has long been some comfort to be found in the "physicality" and accessibility of key devices. When problems...

Avocent needed to increase its distribution capacity and throughput without a costly physical expansion. Read this case study to see how Catalyst stood out as the clear choice to partner Avocent on this project plan of upgrading their SAP warehouse management system. Avocent needed to increase its distribution capacity and throughput without a costly physical expansion. IT was tasked with finding a way to double capacity and throughput while cutting cycle time using...

Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle. In today's economy it is imperative that application and database developers work smarter, not harder, to meet the demands put on them by line of business owners...

the tools and best practices that are key to managing disk capacity. Knowing how much disk capacity you have allocated, how much is actually being used and what's left and available are basics for disk system management. But the tools you get with your storage arrays are often inadequate or simply don't provide all the details you need to make smart and effective decisions.

In this presentation, you'll learn about the tools and best practices that are key to managing disk capacity. Topics...

the globe. Read this white paper to learn the latest WAN optimization technologies, market products available for optimizations and analyst recommended WAN best practices. WAN performance is critical to enterprise business around the globe. Employee productivity and efficient company operations depend on high data throughput across thousands of miles of copper and fiber optic cables. Transmission delays result in low throughput, which can affect time sensitive decisions...

may enable you to gain the most benefits. Infrastructure Optimization covers the three primary components of a company's IT infrastructure: core infrastructure, business-productivity infrastructure, and a company's application platform.

Read this paper to learn how optimizing your branch office infrastructure can enhance agility, improve customer service, and reduce costs. This paper is geared at IT directors responsible for a company's server infrastructure; it offers various...

highlights the business case for WEO (Web Experience Optimization), examining key benefits and comparing leading WEO solutions. Yphise independent research continuously monitors the strategies and solutions of all successful software vendors in order to select valuable and high-priority projects for improving the business performance. Each year, Yphise research draws up the portfolio of valuable projects that the executives should consider when making investment...

the server. The Compellent SAN reduces the overall storage capacity needed to support a VMware environment, speeds up storage provisioning, simplifies storage management, enhances disaster recovery and reduces the cost of acquisition, operation and management.

Like the VMware environment, the Compellent SAN abstracts storage attributes from physical hardware. Storage is presented to virtual servers as disk capacity, regardless of the mix of disk types, disk capacities and server...

new research on the topic of virtual Infrastructure optimization (VIO). VIO is a new storage solution that is designed to significantly improve the performance of virtualized applications and to help optimize the utilization of both storage and server resources. The presentation transcript will introduce new research on the topic of virtual Infrastructure optimization (VIO). VIO is a new storage solution that is designed to significantly improve the performance of virtualized...

traffic is minimized, and combined with protocol optimization, mitigates the impact of latency over the WAN. Additionally, the Blue Coat solution also provides the ability to employ bandwidth management/quality of service (QoS) techniques, allowing for any class of traffic to be prioritized, ensuring that Oracle Application traffic does not compete for WAN bandwidth with non-business critical usage...

professionals explain and demonstrate their dynamic capacity and thin provisioning techniqies, how they reduce TCO and energy costs, and dramatically eliminate unused storage space. In this demo, Compellent technology professionals explain and demonstrate their dynamic capacity and thin provisioning techniques, how they reduce TCO and energy costs, and dramatically eliminate unused storage space via three steps:

• Migrate Data from Legacy Storage to Compellent Storage
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be able to start small and scale very rapidly, often doubling capacity every three months even as they remain highly available. The supporting IT infrastructure must keep up with these enormous scalability demands, without generating additional administrative burden. Unfortunately, most datacenters are already severely constrained by both real estate and power - and energy costs are rising. There is also a new appreciation for the role that the datacenter plays in reducing energy...

In this expert podcast, learn how new capacity planning and performance management tools utilize automation and an intuitive interface to increase resource utilization and reduce capital expenditures for your virtualized data center. With limited resources and budgets, midmarket IT staffs are often handling multiple projects and not able to proactively anticipate and address problems in the data center. In part three of this podcast series on cost...

In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings. In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive...

In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings. In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive...

In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings. In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive...

companies that require MRP Planning, Capacity Planning, Forward and Backward Traceability, and Integrated Engineering Change Control. Product Type: Heavy and/or Discrete Manufacturing

Target User: CTO/CIO/CEO, VP of Operations, VP of IT, Chief Compliance Officer

IT Problem: MAX offers significant depth and breath of functionality for manufacturing companies that require MRP Planning, Capacity Planning, Forward and Backward Traceability, and Integrated...

backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to tape, Victaulic Company implemented a SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) with DeltaStor data deduplication software. Victaulic Company is the industry's leading manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining systems with locations and business operations around the world. To manage this global enterprise, Victaulic relies on a powerful IT...