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WikitipThin provisioning negotiation strategiesEMC customers should develop a plan that aggressively leverages thin provisioning and storage virtualization where appropriate over the next six to twelve months. They should have that plan on the CXO's desk soon. This will serve to both heighten awareness of the imperative among executives and increase leverage with incumbent suppliers. The possible outcomes of this strategy are: 1) A guarantee from IBM for delivery of similar functionality; 2) Much better terms and conditions on array deals; or, 3) Acceptance of an alternative proposal from Hitachi, Sun or HP. |
Featured Case Study
Virtualization Energizes Cal State UniversityJohn 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 DeploymentA 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. | |||
