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Lascon Storage was founded in 2000 and provides hints and tips on how to manage your data, strategic advice, news items and a discussion forum. A lot of this advice is about smarter, cheaper ways of working without compromising service.
The Lasconet forum was established in August 2008 as an experiment, and with over 300 members now, it can safely be called a success. Work is now underway to properly integrate it with the rest of the site.
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IBM Storage
Expect more from your storage: Introducing IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
New storage solutions rais expectations about performance, efficiency and ease of use. Store more – and more diverse – data with higher capacity drives, more remote mirroring options and integrated support for file storage.
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Flexibility, automation, scalability and optimized performance
IBM System Storage DS8800 - Improve storage efficiency, throughput, and capacity with Easy Tier three tier support, larger drives, and advanced IBM zEnterprise integration. Expect your storage to automatically analyze, adapt to, and improve application performance.
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IBM XIV, the industry’s most agile storage system
Improve efficiency for top tier workloads, combining unique XIV capabilities with high capacity 3TB drives maintains consistently high application performance and now stores 50% more data.
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More to Storage Efficiency than Capacity
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 In response to my last blog, Jon Toigo was kind enough to post a training piece that he wrote last year, reminding us that capacity is only one part of storage efficiency.
In addition to capacity allocation efficiency, which most of us are addressing with thin provisioning, Jon points out the need for capacity utilization efficiency, [...]
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Storage Efficiency: Switch It On III
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 The greatest tool for storage efficiency is storage virtualization, which enables the extension of other storage efficiency tools like tiering and thin provisioning to existing storage systems that do not have that capability. It also reduces operational costs by providing a common pool of dynamic shared resources under a common set of management tools.
In view [...]
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A Consensus on Storage Efficiencies
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 Since I posted my trends for 2012, I have been looking at what other bloggers have been predicting.
The most common theme is the explosion of data, and the need for storage efficiencies. Jon Toigo says that 70% of the capacity on every disk today doesn’t need to be there–40% should be archived and the other [...]
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Nexica Powers Its Cloud Computing Service
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Nexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services including cloud computing and critical application hosting, has selected EMC® VNX™ unified storage, together with Cisco UCS and VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies, to power its newly launched public cloud services for its exceptional performance, efficiency, simplicity and data protection.
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EMC Accelerates Journey To The Cloud At Cisco Live
Wed, 25 Jan 2012
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EMC® Corporation (NYSE:EMC) will provide customers with a unique opportunity to gain practical guidance from EMC Solution experts and their peers, and view real-time demonstrations to accelerate their journey to the cloud (private, public and, ultimately, hybrid clouds) at the Cisco Live London 2012 conference at ICC London ExCeL in London (Jan. 30 – Feb. 3). Cloud computing is transforming IT infrastructure, applications and end-user device layers, ushering in a wave of disruptive change unlike anything the industry has ever experienced.
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Latest IBM RedBooks
IBM System Storage DS8000 Easy Tier
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 Redpaper, published: Wed, 18 Jan 2012
- Smart monitoring three-tier support
- Intra-tier and cross-tier performance management
- Automated subvolume data relocation and rebalancing
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication describes the concepts and functions of IBM System Storage® Easy Tier® and explains its practical use with the IBM System Storage DS8700 and the IBM System Storage DS8800 systems.
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Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000 V6.3
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 Draft Redbook, last updated: Tue, 17 Jan 2012
- Discover the exciting latest addition to the IBM virtualization family
- Get familiar with the leading edge intuitive GUI
- See how simple IBM virtualization really is
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® introduces the IBM Storwize® V7000, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies and exceptional ease of use and performance, all integrated into a compact, modular design that is offered at a competitive, midrange price.
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