Author: Open Bench Labs
In this report, Open Bench describes how
today's real-time enterprise depends on getting the right information, to the right people, in time to act and create value or mitigate risk.
Open Bench's review of Onaro's Application Insight elaborates on how it uniquely empowers IT to align a SAN for maximum application performance at the lowest possible cost, by providing an automated solution for discovery, service monitoring and capacity management analysis.
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Author:
Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC
In
this report, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC describes a shift in enterprise storage thinking. As SAN environments become more complex and as more business applications and services interact with these environments, the more necessary, indeed, the more vital it becomes to have service-oriented, process-enabled management tools specifically for the storage environment. Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC further discuss how the growing adoption of virtualized server environments will only increase the need for such tools, and elaborates on Onaro’s role in facilitating this change.
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Speaker: Dr. Raphael Yahalom
Event: Article from NetworkWorld.com
IT professionals responsible for managing storage-area networks face a daunting challenge. Storage today is an integral element in the interconnected IT-service delivery chain, and applications are spread across multiple arrays, switches and servers, often from different vendors. In such heterogeneous environments, the old device-centric approach to SAN management is limited. More comprehensive, vendor-neutral tools are needed that complement traditional storage resource management (SRM) tools.
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Leaders in Storage: Analyst Webinar Replays
Featured speaker: Mike Karp, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Management Associates
During this July 24th session, Mike emphasizes the important role of storage virtualization in eliminating many of the complexities of SAN and NAS storage, while enabling storage teams to migrate, consolidate, and tier storage quickly and easily. He discusses the difference between server and storage virtualization, and brings examples of different cases for storage virtualization use. Watch the archive of this event to understand what the hype is really all about.
Featured speaker: Steve Norall, Senior Analyst, Taneja Group
During this March 20th session, Steve discusses NPIV and other virtualization initiatives in the storage industry that you should consider. Server virtualization promises to simplify server management complexity, reduce operating costs, and improve server utilization. However, for storage administrators, server virtualization poses many challenges. Watch this informative overview of the impact of server virtualization on storage.
Featured Speaker: Steve Duplessie, Founder, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
During this Nov. 14th session, Steve offers his insights on the newly announced merger plans between Brocade Communications and McData Corporation. This announcement has rocked the SAN supplier world, leaving many questions unanswered and the competitive landscape of SAN fabric vendors extremely uncertain. View the archive to hear Steve’s thoughts on issues such as what you should expect for a merged product line, what Brocade and McData customers can expect in the future, will Cisco respond, what are the potential business and technical risks, and much more.
Featured speaker: Steve Duplessie, Founder, Sr Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
During this Sept. 19th session, Steve discussed ITIL/ITSM fundamentals and their importance. He gave a breakdown of the differences between ITIL/ITSM concepts and realities and described the real-life IT issues, including lack of communication and over-provisioning. Watch the archive of this event and you will understand why ITSM can't work unless key "foundation" issues are addressed such as backup/disaster recovery reporting, infrastructure change management systems, and even storage resource management (SRM). You’ll also get recommendations for making ITSM not only useful, but reliable and necessary for your processes and structure.
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