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Wikibon Case Study: Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

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Overview Learn how Cal State University CIO John Charles averted a datacenter power crisis, reducing power consumption by 26%--from 67 kVA to 50 kVA--even after having adding more than twenty new applications. With a virtualized IT infrastructure built on VMware? and 3PAR? Utility Storage, this savvy CIO gave his datacenter a second lease on life, reducing energy costs and dramatically increasing storage capacity utilization.

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Publisher	3Par	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	SANs, Storage Management, Virtualization, Infrastructure Management, Data Center, Resources Mgmt.

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Power Solutions Article: Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs

Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays can...

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Dell EqualLogic

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removable storage

Whitepaper: Dell Proconsult Deduplication Services

Expert guidance and a proven process for reducing storage requirements and improving.

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Dell EqualLogic

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back-up

Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs

An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with...

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Dell EqualLogic

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storage management

Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V

The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network...

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Dell EqualLogic

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infrastructure management

Whitepaper:Â EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab

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Dell EqualLogic

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raid

John Lamb's week: How will the UK government solve the IT skills crisis?

E-minister Patricia Hewitt, will be announcing her plans to tackle the IT skills crisis on Tuesday. The old time relational database company has rebranded itself as an enterprise portals business and recorded record revenues on the strength of it.

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BA CIO: Avert UK skills crisis now

The UK faces an IT skills crisis and will find it tougher to compete on a global level unless the government and businesses take action, British Airways' CIO has warned. We will have a crisis if we don't move this forward but we have a lot of...

Power-hungry IT industry is "unsustainable"

This will put pressure on the CIO to act, and is placing power consumption high up the IT agenda. With 'green IT' high on the agenda for both CIOs and tech vendors, Gartner claims electrical power consumption is just "the tip of a melting iceberg...

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Servers
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CIO Essentials: Digital bubbles, IM security and tech skills crisis

Recruitment crisis looms for UK tech industry Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. â™¦ The top 10 CIOs â™¦ CIO50 analysis: How to be a top CIO â™¦ CIO50: The full report If you are a UK-based IT director or CIO and would like to...

The Naked CIO: Identity crisis

Like most IT directors, the Naked CIO is extremely careful with other people's data. The Naked CIO So why as a consumer does he blithely share his own personal details at the drop of a hat? Today is a normal day.

Retail leaders will open up in tough times

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