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<uPeer Incite>u: Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009.
WikitipData protection vendors must adopt SaaSStorage providers must get serious about on-line storage services in general and data protection services specifically. Suppliers must aggressively adopt software-as-a-service (SaaS) models and drive price/usage transparency, simplicity, and an always-on reliability. Marketing messages will become a key differentiator and source of customer value as free trials, bronze/silver/gold service granularity, and 'it's your data' messages will permeate the industry over the next 6-24 months. |
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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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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. | |||
