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Do more with what you have: Virtualization transforms storage management

Overview "Taking a comprehensive approach to simplifying IT can reduce complexity and lower costs, transforming IT infrastructures into more agile operations that can bring strategic advantages to the enterprise. Storage virtualization is a proven way to improve flexibility, resiliency and system performanceÂ—all while also boosting storage utilization."

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Systems Integration, Mainframes, Storage Management, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization

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Do more with what you have: Virtualization transforms storage management

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Publisher:
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Publisher:
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Tags:
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Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware

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Publisher:
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Tags:
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Virtualization and the New Economics of IT

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Executive Update: IBM WebSphere Portal enhancements

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Publisher:
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Tags:
monitoring systems

The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft takes the tablet, vertical platforms and ecommerce stats

At the lowest level you have servers and operating systems providing a platform for other infrastructures. Now, there are suggestions the suppliers of ebusiness infrastructures will be creating vertical templates for web servers, app servers and so...

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The Ovum View: The reality of end-user IT circa 2002

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Devil's Advocate: Overwhelmed by data

This does lead to growing technical complexity, though. The complexity of data storage is pushed away to the storage system, via the portal. More proactive management of data to achieve the best economy and flexibility is frequently impractical.

BT and Xansa in Indian BPO call centre systems deal

This will give us greater flexibility for our clients as they need to grow. Xansa currently uses a number of solutions in this area, including other offerings from BT, but Phillips said the pay as you go model offers more flexibility to add or...

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Devil's Advocate: It's simple innit?

So the first issue is to define the problem in terms that have as much flexibility as can be accommodated in a way that avoids undue complexity. It is easy to expose complexity to the user but the best designs seem intuitive in use and people like...

East 17 to big up the wi-fi massive

Carter said: "One of the key things is that it gives us the flexibility to pursue our objectives. It gives us a lot more flexibility from where staff can operate from. Carter said the aim is to give local business people "affordable and agile...

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