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Halifax Bank of Scotland Uses Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Monitoring Tools to Help Manage its Ever-Expanding Storage Area Network (SAN) by Virtual Instruments
Bank of Scotland leveraged Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom SAN I/O performance and analysis solution to proactively isolate and resolve SAN issues as well as design optimal SAN storage to easily scale over time. The Halifax Bank of Scotland takes customer relationships very seriously; being the UK's largest mortgage and savings provider, it has a relationship with two out of every 5 UK households. Critical to providing exceptional customer service is a massive information...
7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Compellent

The Compellent Storage Center storage area network (SAN) is a perfect complement to the VMware environment because virtualized storage offers significant and complimentary benefits to virtualized applications. By creating a pool of virtual storage volumes, the Compellent SAN provides the flexibility to change or move storage attributes without affecting how storage is presented to the server. The Compellent SAN reduces the overall storage capacity needed to...
Virtual Instruments - NetWisdom SAN I/O Intelligence by Virtual Instruments
tool for SANs that helps organizations simplify SAN administration and ensure that SAN performance and availability are optimized. Read this Butler Group technology audit to discover the advantages of NetWisdom, explore core functionality, and learn about deployment. For many organizations, delivering business-critical applications and data requires the adoption, maintenance, and monitoring of complex Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures. Virtual...
Nexsan iSeries™: Simple, Affordable, Powerful Enterprise Class iSCSI SAN for Your Business by Nexsan Technologies
Gary Watson discusses how the iSeries addresses current SAN architecture limitations. Nexsan iSeries™ is the perfect solution for server virtualization, databases, file storage, data consolidation and multiple data storage requirements where performance and scalability are a must and simple IP deployment is desired.

Join Gary Watson, Chief Technology Officer for Nexsan Technologies, as he discusses the benefits of the Nexsan iSeries™ iSCSI SAN. In this podcast...
Why VirtualWisdom When You Have Other Monitoring Tools? by Virtual Instruments
VirtualWisdom solution designed to identify and correct SAN infrastructure issues. Most IT managers have employed enterprise data center monitoring tools such as application monitoring tools, switch monitoring tools, host monitoring tools etc... all of which have specific purposes, but fail to recognize and address early symptoms of storage infrastructure issues, thus having the potential to affect application performance and availability.

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Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom Family of Products by Virtual Instruments
your virtual IT infrastructure or large Fibre Channel SAN. The VirtualWisdom family of products are designed for IT managers to monitor their virtual IT infrastructures - providing a wealth of valuable real-time information to utilize in optimizing performance and availability. VirtualWisdom adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware™ deployments, enabling administrators to better balance deployment of virtual machines based on real-time measurements and feedback of I...
Swiss manufacturer installs out-of-the-box storage area network in less than half an hour by Dell, Inc.
The existing storage solution at Eternit (Schweiz) AG, was unable to meet the growing needs of the organization. The company wanted a solution that was scalable, cost efficient and easy to use. Read this case study to find out how Dell was able to assist with these goals. Challenge
The existing storage solution at Eternit (Schweiz) AG, was unable to meet the growing needs of the organization. The company wanted a solution that was scalable, cost efficient and easy to use.

Solution
Taking...
Going Beyond Certification by Compellent
Check out this fact sheet on Compellent's Storage Center SAN. It's HCL-certified with VMware to ensure seamless integration and support. Read on to learn just how your organization can easily achieve the real-world benefits of virtualization. Compellent's Storage Center SAN is HCL-certified with VMware to ensure seamless integration and support. Ongoing joint testing in VMware's Palo Alto lab helps to provide joint support, product collaboration and future compatibility. But...
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86% by Dell, Inc.
Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%. CHALLENGE

McAllen Independent School District (MISD) needed to consolidate two separate, legacy email systems and improve the reliability and manageability of its server, storage and backup infrastructure.

SOLUTION

Dell helped the district migrate to...
SMB data storage management by EMC Corporation
networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead.

Sponsored By: Learning Guide Data storage management is a multifaceted process that is always changing. In this tutorial on SMB storage management, learn about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead...
Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines by Dell, Inc.
High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security. As organizations consolidate more virtual machines on fewer servers and IT computing infrastructure is expected to support 24 x 7 operations, data protection and recovery becomes a greater challenge for IT managers. With nightly backup windows shrinking and more application data sets sharing fewer...
Cisco MDS 9000 alleviate business and technical challenges of deploying SAN in Virtual Server environments by Cisco Systems, Inc.
This document addresses the relevant business and technical challenges that the Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) feature addresses and then describes the solution benefits that help meet these challenges. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Highlights series provides both business and technical value propositions for the various Cisco MDS 9000 family features to address the business and technical challenges of the IT customer. This document addresses the relevant...
IDC Research: Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management by Virtual Instruments
This document explores the role Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring and analysis technology plays in reducing the cost and complexity of managing the datacenter cloud - and the large heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure within it. This document explores the role Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring and analysis technology plays in reducing the cost and complexity of managing the datacenter cloud - and the large...
Nexsan iSeries™ - Enterprise Class iSCI SAN by Nexsan Technologies
Data is growing exponentially in size and complexity, challenging organizations to improve how they store, manage, access and protect all their data without increasing resources. Nexsan iSeries overcomes these challenges by extending enterprise services, performance and continuous access to all your digital assets. Data is growing exponentially in size and complexity, challenging organizations to improve how they store, manage, access and protect all their data without...
SAN For Dummies, Chapter 13: Using Data De-duplication To Lighten The Load by FalconStor Software
In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data. What is data de-duplication? In simplified terms, data de-duplication means comparing objects (usually, files or blocks) and removing all non-unique or duplicate objects (copies). It's a hot...
Gaston County Leads the Way with Lower Storage TCO by Compellent
storage vendors, Jackson selected the Compellent SAN because it integrated all of the functions the county needed...
A Strategic Blueprint to Increase Return on Assets: A Global Financial Institution Case Study by Hitachi Data Systems
limited involvement by client system administrators and SAN teams. Also, Hitachi Data Systems was able to reclaim stranded capacity through consolidation and thin provisioning.

Hitachi Data Systems was able to help the GFI save US$4 million through a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction of physical storage, 40 percent reduction of environmental requirements, 40 percent reduction of real estate needs, and significantly reduced maintenance and operational costs...
Presentation Transcript: Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
    storage systems on a per application basis
Learn how HP's SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) Delivers a Better Business Outcome
  • Simplify storage provisioning, capacity expansion, and data protection across heterogeneous storage systems
  • Enable seamless cross-system data movement so that IT managers can easily and intelligently migrate or replicate data between storage classes
An Adaptive Storage Infrastructure offers the flexibility to improve/provide...
Dell Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture by Dell and Microsoft
This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture. Customers are faced with many choices when planning a virtualization deployment. Server, storage, and software configurations can vary depending on workload and...
Reducing Storage Complexity with Sun Unified Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
IT organizations of all sizes are struggling to deal with the tremendous growth in data and the complexity of managing it all. The march of digital applications and the data they create continues at a rapid pace, even in today's difficult economic times. IDC forecasts that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010.

Unified storage has emerged as one way that IT managers are using to reduce the complexity of storage implementations while improving the business...
Case Study: Lime Pictures Implements its Vision with Quantum StorNext by Quantum Corporation
based material directly onto the Storage Area Network (SAN). Unfortunately, there are very few solutions available that can provide a guaranteed stable platform to provide this and in the early days Lime was challenged to implement their vision.

This case study highlights the challenges faced by Lime Pictures and the benefits achieved through the adoption of Quantum's StorNext digital workflow solution...
Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
  • storage systems on a per application basis

Learn how HP's SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) Delivers a Better Business Outcome

  • Simplify storage provisioning, capacity expansion, and data protection across heterogeneous storage systems
  • Enable seamless cross-system data movement so that IT managers can easily and intelligently migrate or replicate data between storage classes

An Adaptive Storage Infrastructure offers the flexibility to improve/provide...
Changing the Economics of Storage Infrastructure with Virtualization by LSI and presented by HP
  • storage systems on a per application basis

Learn how HP's SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) Delivers a Better Business Outcome

  • Simplify storage provisioning, capacity expansion, and data protection across heterogeneous storage systems
  • Enable seamless cross-system data movement so that IT managers can easily and intelligently migrate or replicate data between storage classes

An Adaptive Storage Infrastructure offers the flexibility to improve/provide...
Presentation Transcript: Virtual Infrastructure Optimization: What You can't See Can Hurt You by Virtual Instruments
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 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...
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