Posted on September 29th, 2010
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There’s a lot of talk about how your company can benefit from storage virtualization. There are operational improvement opportunities, expense reductions and ways to mitigate IT risk. And, we all know intuitively that this can make life a lot better in the datacenter … but to what extent? Getting an IT investment approved is always a numbers game, and you’ll need some clear facts to help you win over your CFO.
So, to help you explain the potential impact of storage virtualization on your organization numerically, here are a few stats to keep in your back pocket:
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Tags: Tags: backup, bandwidth, datacenter, risk, risk management, storage, storage virtualization
Posted on August 18th, 2010
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Data deduplication solutions deliver benefits across your IT organization. Rather than just provide cost savings concentrated on one aspect of storage management, it impacts several, multiplying the TCO and ROI implications of implementing this solution. Here are five ways you can generate financial results for your company using data deduplication:
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Tags: Tags: business continuity, deduplication, disaster recovery, risk management, ROI, storage, storage virtualization
Posted on August 11th, 2010
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Few storage solutions have benefits as easy to quantify as data deduplication. Further, few are able to deliver such impressive returns, making the business case powerful and somewhat easier for the executive suite to approve.
The premise behind data deduplication is pretty straightforward. You have more data taking up space in your infrastructure than you need to store. Duplicates are all over the place. Find and remove the dupes, and you can defer additional equipment expenses and derive more value from your previous technology investments.
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Tags: Tags: archive, backup, CommVault, datacenter, deduplication, EMC, NetApp, storage, storage virtualization
Posted on July 5th, 2010
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IT directors and CIOs are always looking at the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise-wide technology. The goal, of course, is to keep TCO as low as possible while maximizing the services and capabilities delivered to the business areas. Virtualization provides a variety of cost-containment advantages, making it possible to manage IT expenses without degrading service to end users.
Here are five ways that virtualization can help you lower your infrastructure TCO:
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Tags: Tags: infrastructure, power, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization
Posted on June 14th, 2010
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The problem with “best of breed” platform selections is that you wind up with a heterogeneous infrastructure that can be difficult and costly to manage. When it’s time to add to a particular platform’s footprint, you need to write another check, even if there are under-utilized solutions elsewhere in your environment. Unless you have commensurate equipment available, there’s no choice but to invest more. With server and storage virtualization technologies, you can break out of this rut, and extract more value from investments you’ve already made.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, IT infrastructure, performance, ROI, Server Virtualization, storage virtualization
Posted on May 31st, 2010
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In this series, we’ll focus on the implications of specific technology solutions for CFOs. Though they are the keepers of a company’s financial health, they don’t always understand the advantages that come with certain technology solutions, and IT professionals sometimes take a suboptimal approach when explaining these concepts to the finance team. This series is intended to help make those conversations easier and more effective.
Your CFO is focused on keeping costs under control, and a request for new technology tends to be met with skepticism. Whether he thinks you’re chasing something new and exciting or believes that the status quo is just fine for now, the CFO isn’t likely to start writing checks just because you asked. Emphasizing the technological advantages of a particular solution won’t help much either, especially for virtualization technologies, which can be difficult for anyone working outside the infrastructure team to grasp fully. So, when you reach out to your CFO to talk about the need for a virtualization solution (e.g., storage, server or desktop), you need to make sure your pitch is tailored to a decidedly non-technical audience.
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Tags: Tags: Desktop Virtualization, IT operations, operations, ROI, Server Virtualization, storage virtualization, Virtualization
Posted on May 12th, 2010
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How much of your datacenter is dark? At any given time, you have systems that aren’t being used. Oddly, this is often intentional. Your capacity planning exercises are designed to show how much you need under a variety of circumstances, and the need to handle peak usage means there will be occasions when servers and storage are under-utilized. In fact, this will generally be the case – you’ll have dormant systems more often than you have heavily utilized systems. This translates to lost potential. Unlock the potential of under-utilized systems, and you can defer IT investments, gain more value from existing equipment and streamline your IT operation.
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Tags: Tags: capacity planning, datacenter, infrastructure, infrastructure management, IT operations, processor, Server Virtualization, storage, storage virtualization, utilization, workload
Posted on April 21st, 2010
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Whether you realize it or not, you’re betting your entire company on your disaster recovery and business continuity solution. If you are unable to recover quickly in the wake of a catastrophe, you could incur additional unexpected costs, lose planned and potential revenue and even fail to get the business back up and running.
Storage and server virtualization solutions can help you make your existing D/R plan more effective. Here are four ways you can use storage and server virtualization to improve your disaster recovery and business continuity environment:
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Tags: Tags: business continuity, disaster, disaster recovery, Server Virtualization, storage virtualization, Virtualization
Posted on March 15th, 2010
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Data is growing rapidly, and even as storage technology rises to the challenge, there are plenty of measures you can take to keep your storage costs and infrastructure under control. So, as you see the need to add equipment to address the archiving needs associated with mission-critical applications, compliance obligations and prudent business practices, take a moment to think about how much of that data you actually need to store. You may have duplicates all over your infrastructure, which is increasing your storage needs rapidly. De-duplication, rather than more equipment, may be the key to streamlining your data storage operation.
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Tags: Tags: Avamar, compliance, deduplication, EMC, ROI, storage, storage virtualization
