Recommended Reading
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Today's IT departments need an agile infrastructure to provision hardware and software assets quickly and efficiently. Learn how to meet services levels on-time and on-budget, as IDC storage expert Benjamin Woo discusses roadmaps for transforming the datacenter into a responsive provider of resources.Read the IDC analyst connection
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Gain new efficiency and flexibility by transforming your data center into one that is cloud-ready, using virtualization and automation. This e-Guide provides an overview of how to increase responsiveness and utilization while reducing overall costs.Read the e-Guide
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Does your organization have a plan to achieve zero downtime? Learn why a Live Migration over Distance solution should be part of any organization's business continuity program.Read the solution brief -
How do you deliver cost-efficiency to the data center, while improving scalability, availability and overall performance? Learn how Virtual Storage Platform moves data dynamically through virtual tiered storage to simplify management, reduce power and cooling costs, and lower TCO.Read the white paper -
When this leading Swiss IT service provider needed to improve its tiered storage while cutting overall IT storage costs, it turned to Hitachi. Learn how the two companies worked together to identify opportunities to cut TCO, while optimizing efficiency and performance.Read the case study -
You're never too old to read a good comic book, especially this Marvel comic about a real-world terror that all-too-plausible. But, never fear, this time the data center geeks get their moment of glory!Read the comic book -
Reducing IT's carbon footprint is increasingly becoming a priority for data center administrators. This IDC report identifies the best opportunities to cut carbon emissionsRead the white paper
News From The Network
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Cloud Failures Aren't The Problem; IT Is
InformationWeek, May 18, 2011
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Clouds Change Storage Administrator's Role
Plug Into the Cloud, May 17, 2011
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Cloud Storage Spurned By Fortune 1000
InformationWeek, May 5, 2011
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Forget Tape Vs. Disk, Use Them Together
InformationWeek, Apr. 21, 2011
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Acer Launches SMB Storage Systems
InformationWeek, Apr. 13, 2011
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Hitachi Unveils Centralized Clinical Repository
InformationWeek, Apr. 12, 2011
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2011 State Of Storage Survey
InformationWeek, Feb. 5, 2011
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Why is storage critical to transforming the data center?
Data Center Transformation is all about evolving your IT infrastructure to become more cost-effective and agile. With today's exploding volumes of data to manage, data center administrators are looking to gain efficiency and flexibility while reducing the unit cost of IT resources.
To achieve these benefits, many companies are virtualizing and automating their storage environments. Virtualization enables IT groups to improve utilization rates of storage resources and automation stores data on the correct device-- based on price, responsiveness and security-- according to corporate policies.
Transforming storage enables IT organizations to cut operating costs while improving overall service levels. New storage technologies deliver simplicity and visibility across the IT infrastructure, enabling companies to optimize data access and delivery.
Because the capital costs of storage hardware account for less that 25 percent of the total cost of owning the asset, big savings can result from virtualizing and automating current storage platforms. These financial benefits include reduced data migration and backup costs, more efficient power and cooling, fewer management demands, and smaller footprints in the data center.
Perhaps the biggest benefit of transforming storage is the single-platform control it gives IT administrators to generate, share, retain and access valuable data. With its ability to scale dynamically with an enterprise's needs and automatically provision resources, a virtualized storage platform enables agility and competitiveness.