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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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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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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July 9, 2008
CEO Steve Ballmer lays out Microsoft's 2008 Software plus Services strategy at the Microsoft partner show.
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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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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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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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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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