Software for SQL News

How to Protect Data During a Virtual Migration

November 3, 2008

Server virtualization has become a popular trend in enterprise IT. When migrating from a physical to a virtual environment, IT professionals need to ensure that their company’s data is protected, current and readily available. Knowledge Center contributor Brace Rennels explains the steps to take to protect your company’s data during a virtual migration.

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How Green IT Measures Up

October 22, 2008

There are many products and processes that make companies many shades of green; here's how and where to determine the real ROI of going green.

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HP Acquires LeftHand Networks for Next-Gen iSCSI Storage

October 1, 2008

For $360 million, HP purchases a pioneer in second-generation, virtualization-ready data storage area networks (SANs) for midmarket customers. Will IBM follow suit with a similar acquisition? Many experts in the industry seem to think so.

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Microsoft SQL Server Due in August

July 9, 2008

CEO Steve Ballmer lays out Microsoft's 2008 Software plus Services strategy at the Microsoft partner show.

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NetApp's 50% Virtualization Guarantee: The Real Story...

October 3, 2008

At a time of rising financial worries leave it to NetApp to lighten the mood of the industry and give us all a good hearty laugh by coming out with another of its "Trust us, we don't have a capacity utilization problem"

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Today's LeftHand Networks Announcement

October 1, 2008

As the dust settles on the announcement of the HP & Oracle Exadata machine, along comes another interesting announcement. HP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks (See press release). I'm sure a lot of press and analyst opinion will focus on the benefits to HP of beefing up our iSCSI portfolio or gaining access to some of the strong server and storage virtualization capabilities of the LeftHand Networks solution, or of the opportunity to sell to more mid-market customers with HP storage or even on the channel synergies and worldwide expansion opportunities of the acquisition.

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Storage Capacity Efficiency - Not Quite So Final

September 3, 2008

EMC's Chuck Hollis recently posted quite a blog stream on storage capacity efficiency. His latest post concluded "it's time to step back a bit from the fray." It is quite a fray. But, my step back to look at the big picture uncovered some different thoughts from Chuck's. He started this with a case where a chosen interpretation of best practices could make CX look better than EVA. Of course, if one levels the playing field by letting EMC configure the CX (like Chuck did) and HP configure the EVA they both come out around 70% efficiency. I appreciate that EMC recognized some of our points.

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Examples of Data Deduplication Ratios for File Serving, SQL and Exchange

July 28, 2008

If you remember back in my HP Deduplication - Part 1 post when we announced our new deduplication products back in June, I said that the deduplication ratio you can expect from a product can vary based on a number of factors. We now can share with you deduplication test results from our D2D4000 Backup System conducted by a 3rd party, Binary Testing Ltd.

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Software for SQL Resources

  • Consolidating Database Servers

    In this IT Link podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Ntirety CEO Michael Corey explains how the next generation of databases and virtualization technologies will combine to drive a new wave of database server consolidation and related infrastructure investments.

  • SQL Server Consolidation Delivers Data Center Power Savings

    Data center power usage has become a primary concern for IT managers as power consumption and energy costs continue to increase. When looking for solutions to lower data center footprints, IT managers often look at SQL Server consolidation. Read this white paper and learn how HP's consolidation technology can help customers reduce server and storage count by up to 75 percent. Discover how a consolidated environment not only decreases power consumption and general overhead costs, it also increases availability and utilization rates.

  • SQL Server Consolidation Demo

    Attend this demo and explore how SQL Server consolidation complements VMs and allows IT administrators to virtualize their databases without compromise. Learn how to streamline your database infrastructure and match capacity appropriately to need, provide high availability without introducing extra complexity and extra cost, and simplify management.

  • Consolidating Microsoft SQL Server with HP: Illuminata explores the user experience

    Microsoft SQL Sever's relatively low cost, steadily increasing capabilities and ease of deployment have all combined to accelerate its growth.

  • SQL Server Consolidation: A highly available, flexible and simple approach

    The success of SQL Server in recent years has produced a phenomenon of SQL Server sprawl the rampant proliferation of SQL Server databases.

  • The Shortcut Guide to SQL Server Infrastructure Optimization

    Leading IT author Don Jones explores the management burdens and hidden costs of sub-optimal data center infrastructures and lays out the paths that IT organizations can follow to find dramatic system-wide improvements in management, performance and security locked within their existing infrastructure.

  • British Energy Case Study: SQL Server Consolidation Decreases Costs and Improves Performance

    British Energy is the UK's largest producer of electricity and it trades its output. This case study explains how the company used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to migrate and consolidate its infrastructure, reduce costs, improve flexibility and agility, and assure a highly available environment.

  • Homeplans Case Study: Improve Performance and Reduce Costs with SQL Server Consolidation

    This case study explains how Homeplans used HP PolyServe Software for Microsoft SQL Server to improve availability, decrease risk, and simplify administration.