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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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HDS Hu Yoshida Blog
Capacity Efficiencies: Allocation vs Utilization
Fri, 03 Feb 2012
As noted in previous posts, capacity efficiency has two dimensions: allocation efficiency and utilization efficiency.
Allocation Efficiency
Allocation efficiency is what most people think of first: eliminating the waste of over-allocation. In open systems this has been a major problem since we may not know ahead of time how much capacity an application requires, but we don’t want [...]
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Storage Efficiencies Redefined
Wed, 01 Feb 2012
If you Google storage efficiencies, eventually you will get a Wikipedia definition, which describes storage efficiency as “the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little or no impact on performance, resulting in a lower total operational cost.” Wikipedia also references the SNIA definition, which notes:
storage efficiency = [...]
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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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NetApp News
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Latest IBM RedBooks
Introduction to IBM Real-time Compression Appliances
Tue, 31 Jan 2012
Redbook, published: Tue, 31 Jan 2012
- See how seamless compression integrates into storage environments
- Get familiar with the leading edge real-time compression solution
- Learn how to set up and configure the appliance
Continuing its commitment to developing and delivering industry-leading storage technologies, IBM® is introducing the IBM Real-time Compression Appliances for NAS, an innovative new storage offering that delivers essential storage efficiency technologies, combined with exceptional ease of use and performance.
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XIV Storage System: Host Attachment and Interoperability
Mon, 30 Jan 2012
Draft Redbook, last updated: Mon, 30 Jan 2012
- Integrate with DB2, VMware ESX, Microsoft HyperV, SAP
- Get operating system specifics for host side tuning
- Use with IBM i, SONAS,N series and ProtecTIER
This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides information for attaching the XIV® Storage System to various host operating system platforms, or for using the XIV storage with databases and other storage oriented application software.
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