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Today's NAS: A Solution Beyond Old Limits

Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT Traditional NAS systems don't scale beyond fixed limits. Proliferation of NAS systems leads to management challenges. Many organizations also use traditional block-based SAN solutions for transactional systems like databases and email. Having separate block and file storage also adds to management challenges.

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Cloud Computing Owner's Manual

One of the significant benefits of cloud computing and one of its greatest drawbacks is the astonishing variety of configurations available. To name a few, there's SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS, not to mention the cloud CIOs fear most - IT as a service (ITaaS). Not bad for a technology that's been around a relatively short while, but has already upended every major product segment in the computer industry, and cut corporate IT departments loose from a 50-year tradition of responsibility for, and control over information, and the technology that manipulates it.

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Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Midrange and High-End Modular Disk Arrays

This Magic Quadrant represents vendors that sell into the end-user market with branded midrange and high-end modular disk array storage systems that support block-access protocols. Despite rather gloomy macroeconomic conditions worldwide and ongoing geopolitical unrest in the Middle East, the midrange and high-end modular disk array storage market grew 8.2% from 3Q10 through 2Q11, compared with the same period the year before. Propelled by technological innovation and enhanced scalability, this continued growth in vendor revenue supports the observation that IT executives are willing to invest in modern midrange and high-end modular disk storage systems to improve operational efficiency, to support deployments of virtualized IT infrastructures, and to address the impact of unabated terabyte growth.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage ~ A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture

Organizations need a strategy for rearchitecting storage so that it enables, rather than constricts, the delivery of IT services. According to HP, it's all about Converged Storage, which breaks through the barriers, reducing complexity so that IT can expand storage on a "pay as you grow" basis. It involves the creation a pool of storage based on modular building blocks that can be moved and reconfigured on the fly to support a range of needs. In fact, HP's approach to Converged Storage incorporates several core capabilities - read this tech dossier to learn more.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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ESG Lab Review: HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software

This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software's distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning.Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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