You are here: silicon.com > Resources > White Papers > Storage > Management > Storage Management

Storage Management White Papers

Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM: Cost Effective Tiered Storage Options

Tags:
storage management

Overview Designing storage systems to encompass multiple service levels and price points delivers superior storage service levels for less cost. This paper introduces and explains a design methodology for developing tiered storage architectures. It then discusses the options for configuring the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform system tiers using available software facilities, disk drive types and RAID group levels to meet performance, reliability and cost goals.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Hitachi Data Systems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Service Level Management, Methodology

Did you find this white paper useful? 0 out of 1 users found this white paper useful

Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are...

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Accelerating Microsoft Windows Vista Migrations with Citrix XenApp

For many organisations, migration to Microsoft Windows Vista is not a question of "if" but "when." This inevitability is causing companies to start asking the difficult questions. This white paper...

Publisher:
Citrix Systems

Fact Sheet : IBMXIV Storage System

The IBM XIV® Storage System is a ground-breaking, high-end disk system, designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Built from a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, it is...

Publisher:
IBM

IBM XIVÂ® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented

Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to...

Publisher:
IBM

IBM XIVÂ® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era

The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements,...

Publisher:
IBM

Ebusiness Despatches: Confusing CRM with great customer service

Yes - we're talking three tiers of ticket here. In other words, don't make a song and dance about segmented service levels until they are bedded down and points 1 to 5 can be checked off. It's a lesson many organisations must learn, says columnist...

Channel:
Comment & Analysis

IT chiefs split over dual vendor strategy

The survey of 100 UK IT chiefs, commissioned by Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), found that the 51 per cent who adhere to a dual vendor strategy do so because they believe it keeps prices competitive (83 per cent), avoids lock-in to one supplier's...

Channel:
IT Director

Storage gets more networked

Dell Computer, which posted the largest revenue increase of 37.5 percent, jumped to the No.spot, with 7.1 percent market share and sales of $341 million, passing Hitachi and Sun Microsystems. Sun and Hitachi each had revenue of $284 million, good...

Channel:
Storage
Tags:
data

Devil's Advocate: Who's to blame for IT failures?

Much the same thing has happened with the browser, where the idea of a universal standard has been transmuted into the actuality of dominance by a single proprietary product. There is little sign of software layering being applied widely and even...

Open source is a "red herring", says Newham CIO

We see it as quite critical to provide universal access. That universal access may be extended to Olympic visitors when the games launch in six years' time, depending on discussions with the event organising committees.

Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves

Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) networks, a euphemism for 'just glue together what you already invested in and make it work somehow', are now universal and dominant. Moving to IP architectures and away from MPLS will reduce equipment stacks...

Featured White Papers

The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry

Public Services are under pressure, the challenge is to do more with less. How do you improve citizen satisfaction, increase cost efficiencies and improve service delivery? The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities and government departments make more informed decisions and derive greater value from current location-based information and data. Read this whitepaper to see how you can take advantage of location intelligence.

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

Best Practices for Translating Customer Satisfaction into Revenue

Today's support organisations are focused on two top-level metrics: financial results and customer satisfaction. For most, it's easy to track financial performance, but customer satisfaction is akin to speaking a foreign language. How do you quantify customer satisfaction? Download the Best Practices for Benchmarking Customer Satisfaction to get industry research the Association of Support Professionals (ASP) on how to measure and leverage customer satisfaction.

Publisher:
Citrix Online

HP print solutions and 3M

the objective for 3M was to optimize office printing infrastructure at 3Mlocations worldwide Reduce total cost and environmental footprint. Some of the business benefits acheived by switching to HP print soultions, More than $3 million in savings in first two years and Per page costs reduced by up to 90 percent.