1.      Take advantage of Dynamic Provisioning to allocate your storage wisely. With traditional storage provisioning methods, application and system administrators request and receive as much storage as they want. But if they only end up using 1/3 of this space, … Read More »
1.      Pool your resources with storage virtualization. Leveraging the same principles as server virtualization, storage virtualization lets you avoid information silos by aggregating all your storage resources in a centralized pool.â This makes your storage volumes easier to share across … Read More »
Concluding our storage virtualization implementation conversation from Part 1 and Part 2. As you continue to prepare for your storage virtualization project, you’ll hear some technical jargon on how you should be implementing your hardware and software. While a skilled consultant … Read More »
Continuing our storage virtualization implementation from Part 1, an important part of the planning process is selecting which products you’ll use. Most IT professionals view server virtualization as an approach allowing them to purchase less, but the fact is that … Read More »
When it comes to implementing new IT solutions, planning is critical. Let’s face it â there are costs involved, and the fewer surprises, the better. This is certainly true when it comes to virtualization. The better you plan for it, … Read More »
Just when you thought you were prepared to store all the data you needed, in came a flood of videos, sound files, and images. Known as unstructured data, these types of files can take up massive amounts of space. And … Read More »
Today’s data centers contain many different products from many different vendors: servers, storage, networking and many types of software. Before you know it, you have incompatible islands of technology driving up IT OPEX â requiring multiple experts and multiple management … Read More »
There’s a tradeoff when selecting storage systems. You often have to choose between the functionality of an enterprise system and the value of a mid-range system. Kiss those days goodbye. The new Hitachi Unified Storage VM (Virtual Midrange) offers the … Read More »
Has there ever been a successful IT project that didn’t begin with a thorough plan? Probably not. Storage virtualization projects are no exception. Before you begin, you and your team need to plot out which storage volumes you want to … Read More »
Virtualization has become the IT buzzword du jour. Today, it’s increasingly rare to find a large or midsized company that hasn’t at least dabbled in server virtualization. But even IT professionals who have worked directly with server virtualization technology may … Read More »