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Transfer email archiving knowledge to other domains

Storage administrators in the midst of efforts to gain control over e-mail archiving applications will find themselves in an arms race with external legal groups who regard these archives as a potential gold mine for claims. The only way to gain control in this race is to work closely with operations and transfer knowledge gained in the e-mail domain to other unstructured data domains in ways that foster the emergence of overall integrated processes, controls and solutions for creating, administrating and managing active archives.

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Featured Case Study

Virtualization Energizes Cal State University

John Charles is the CIO of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and Rich Avila is Director, Server & Network Operations. In late 2007 they were both looking down the barrel of a gun. The total amount of power being used in the data center was 67KVA. The maximum power from the current plant was 75kVA. PG&E had informed them that no more power could be delivered. They would be out of power in less than six months. A new data center was planned, but would not be available for two years.

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Featured How-To Note

Storage Virtualization Design and Deployment

A main impediment to storage virtualization is the lack of multiple storage vendor (heterogeneous) support within available virtualization technologies. This inhibits deployment across a data center. The only practical approach is either to implement a single vendor solution across the whole of the data center (practical only for small and some medium size data centers) or to implement virtualization in one or more of the largest storage pools within a data center.

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