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VIDEO - Welcome to Virtual View, a feature of Xiotech’s Icon Manager that dramatically improves storage management for VMware. Virtual View reduces storage provisioning from dozens of steps to three, enables management from one console instead of three, provisions storage in minutes instead of hours, and reduces time, required expertise, and risk.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology—a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | Hardware | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Resource Management

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Published: November 23, 2009


Topics:  NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: July 19, 2008


Topics:  SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Spending | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

DATA SHEET - Xiotech's Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions are virtual SAN systems that deliver maximum reliability, scalability, and value. Highlights include: high availability, modular scalability, and lowest TCO. Read this paper to learn more about the features and benefits of these solutions.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | TCO | Virtual Machine

EBOOK - A solid disaster recovery plan can overcome bandwidth and latency issues without any data loss. Techniques to restore data and prevent loss vary in the virtual data center. In Chapter 1 of this eBook, you'll learn about disaster recovery strategies for the virtual data center.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: November 19, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups

IT BRIEFING - This IT Briefing describes XenDesktop and XenApp, and how they work together. You'll also learn why storage matters in a virtual desktop environment and how HP LeftHand P4000 SAN solutions complement Citrix desktop virtualization solutions. Finally you'll learn how Intel vPro technologies enhance client virtualization.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Application Deployment | Applications Management | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs and provide greater IT and user flexibility compared to traditional application and desktop management models.
Posted: November 16, 2009 | Published: November 16, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Citrix XenServer | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | SAN | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | VMware

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.
Posted: November 13, 2009 | Published: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Data Acquisition Hardware | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Database Administration | High Availability | IT Management | IT Managers | LAN | SAN

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - At its most basic, file virtualization is about separating file data from restrictions in how it is accessed and manipulated. It can also ease things when it comes to migrating those storage systems. Read this presentation transcript to find out more about file virtualization.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2009


Topics:  File Server Software | NAS | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Structured Data

WHITE PAPER - Read this special report that reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.
Posted: November 5, 2009 | Published: October 22, 2009


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | High Availability | NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Virtualization | VMware

CASE STUDY - ServiceU Corporation was challenged to deploy reliable hardware to support its Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 environment and virtualize other applications to enhance business flexibility. Read this case study to learn about the benefits that ServiceU achieved through by implementing Dell hardware and Microsoft Hyper-V technology.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | Microsoft Hyper-V | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Software as a Service | SQL Server | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Downtime | High Availability | Network Management | ROBO | ROI | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SMBs | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Web Hosting

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Microsoft Hyper-V | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | SLA | SMBs | Systems Management | TCO | VM | WAN

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Grid Computing | High Availability | Network Management | Network Performance | SAN | Server Hardware | Server Management