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Industry association AFCOM finds that 40 percent of all data centers are still using at least one mainframe, and that about one-third of all data center managers with mainframes who plan hardware upgrades in 2010 will replace them with rack servers.
Maximizing ROI with Virtual Storage Solutions
It today’s tough economic times, most companies are looking for ways to reduce costs and cut operating expenses. Having seen the significant savings that can be had with server virtualization, many IT departments are eyeing storage virtualization as another way to rein in their budgets. Similar to server virtualization, storage virtualization relies on the consolidation of storage systems so that there are fewer physical devices to manage. Additionally, storage resources can be used more efficiently via storage virtualization, and less storage capacity needs to be purchased. With these potential savings in mind, this video will give you a few tips to help you drive your storage virtualization savings.
How to Assure Quality in Your Data Center
Some recent attention-grabbing headlines have included how Amazon's cloud computing service had some hiccups, Google's Web-based e-mail package, Gmail, suffered an outage and RIM's BlackBerry devices stopped getting their e-mail. There's a lesson here for IT professionals: Our data centers are more critical than ever. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rex Black explains how to assure the highest level of quality in your organization’s data center.
Intel, Numonyx Reveal Stacking Breakthrough in PCM Research
Phase change memory is a relatively new type of nonvolatile memory chip that combines many of the benefits of current memory types, such as NAND flash, NOR flash and hard disk drives. Research engineers say they have found a way to stack up 64MB single-layer PCM arrays within a single die into what Intel and Numonyx describe as a true cross-point array containing both memory and a switch.
New Data Center Infrastructure Approaches
Many organizations are doing all they can to reduce the number of small or remote data centers that need to be supported. However, in some cases these cannot be consolidated into larger data centers or centralized data centers. So how can you reduce the costs of these satellite facilities? One of the key ways to do this is to move from unique and proprietary data center physical infrastructure to standardized products. This approach provides key benefits that will save you money.
How to Better Protect Business Data Using Continuous Data Protection
Continuous data protection tools fill the data protection gap left by high availability and disaster recovery tools. Continuous data protection automatically captures transaction and object changes that occur between tape saves. Yet all three technologies are vital components in any data protection strategy. By combining continuous data protection, high availability and disaster recovery, Knowledge Center contributor Bill Hammond explains how you can best protect your company’s vital business data.
New Windows 7 Backup Support Mostly Just a Marketing Opportunity
Data backup companies are wasting no time touting their new, upgraded Windows 7-compatible backup systems for desktops, laptops, servers and online storage. But little or nothing has been upgraded in the actual backup apparatus—it's virtually all in the user interface.
EMC Profits Down 24% but Revenue Beats Street Predictions
Storage company EMC reports overall third-quarter revenue is down 5 percent from a year ago. Nonetheless, EMC, which predicted overall 2009 earnings of 87 cents per common stock share, posted a performance that surpassed most Wall Street expectations in the slow-moving world economy.
Samsung Investment in Fusion-io Brings New Attention to SSD Advances in Data Center
Korean IT device giant is investing a substantial -- yet undisclosed -- sum in NAND flash storage newcomer Fusion-io. The two companies also have agreed to jointly explore and develop new uses for SSD devices, founder and CTO David Flynn told eWEEK.
Micron Introduces 2 New High-Performance Flash Chips
Micron is manufacturing a multilevel cell enterprise NAND chip for added storage capacity and a single-level cell device for added performance. The company is sampling both new enterprise NAND devices with systems makers and controller manufacturers and is expected to be in full production by 2010.
3PAR Ships New-Gen Thin-Provisioning Storageware
The company announces four new storage software products: Thin Conversion, Thin Persistence, Thin Copy Reclamation and Thin Reclamation for Veritas Storage Foundation. All use the company's InServ Storage Server, its own ASICs and a new virtualization mapping engine for space reclamation.
New Iomega 'Green' Desktop NAS Device Aimed at SMBs, Home Users
Iomega's latest offering to storage-seekers, announced Oct. 7, is the double-drive StorCenter ix2-200 desktop machine, which is a bit smaller than a standard loaf of bread and almost as quiet, if one believes the product manager.
VMware Beefs Up vSphere Disaster Recovery Function
VMware said that its new and improved VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, which enables automated disaster recovery for applications running in virtual environments, is now shipping. It provides new support for NFS-based storage replication and features failover from as many sites as necessary.
Analysts Debate Whether NetApp Will Be Acquired
Because of its respected products, services and talent pool, NetApp has been rumored as an acquisition target for one of the large systems vendors for more than a decade. Nonetheless, it has managed to remain independent through a plethora of market and industry changes since its debut in 1992.
Compellent Ships Preconfigured, Virtualized Storage Bundles for SMBs
QuickStart SE bundles consist of storage software and hardware in starter configurations. They include a number of high-end storage features previously unavailable for smaller deployments, such as automated CDP, thin provisioning, continuous snapshots and storage resource monitoring, according to Compellent.
Toshiba Closes Deal to Take Over Fujitsu HDD Business
Financial details of the buyout, which has been in the works for months, were not disclosed. The two companies, who came to this agreement back in February, originally wanted to close the deal by July 1, but it took longer than expected to nail down the details.
HP Trickles Up Features from Home Server to SMB Storage Package
Hewlett-Packard introduced the StorageWorks X510 Data Vault Series desktop mini-tower, a near-duplicate of HP's MediaSmart Server that home users employ to view video and photos and listen to music. The X510 normally runs on Windows Server 2008 but it can be adapted for Mac OS X systems.
How to Deploy Higher-Level Building Blocks for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Data Centers
Today's Web 2.0 and cloud computing data centers have reached a critical juncture, as demand for their services has collided with existing architectures and technologies. Today's data centers are reeling from the high costs of power, capital equipment, network connectivity and space, and are hindered by serious performance, scalability and application complexity issues. Web 2.0 and cloud computing enterprises must focus all resources on their core business of providing leading-edge application services. Here, Knowledge Center contributor John Busch explains why higher-level building blocks are needed to effectively exploit these advanced Web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies.
Cisco Focusing More New Products on Multiprotocol Connectivity
Cisco has been focusing its attention on making switches, routers and servers in its UCS that can connect to enterprise data storage by virtually any means possible -- at the same time, if necessary. These protocols are standard Fibre Channel, FICON for mainframes, FCIP [long-distance replication for remote locations], NAS-iSCSI, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
Survey Indicates Half of SMBs Have No Disaster Recovery Plan
Symantec queried about 1,700 small and medium-sized businesses this summer before announcing the findings of its 2009 SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey. The research shows that most SMBs in the United States are greatly overestimating how prepared they are if a natural disaster, hacker attack or power failure were to scuttle their computer systems.