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 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 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
