Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE workflow by speeding data access between processors and stored data through its Hybrid Storage Pool technology. This closes the performance gap between fast processors and slower storage by caching frequently used data on fast SSDs. It also provides shared access to all stored data across the cluster through a common file system. This allows real-time data sharing between computational nodes and easier collaboration.
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources— IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure.
Today’s data centers are being asked to do more with little additional financial support forthcoming. They are under a constant barrage to do things faster, more inexpensively and with no disruption to the revenue-‐generating part of the company. Frequently, they are experiencing 24 X 7 operations, numerous new application deployments and explosive data growth. Data storage often becomes a crucial limiting factor to meeting these stringent demands.
Faced with these seemingly insurmountable challenges, CIO’s are discovering that the old way of responding to application and data growth is unacceptable. That is, the outdated “rip and replace” method to improve capacity and IO performance, which often meant disruptive migration, doesn’t work anymore. Instead, a more nimble alternative is needed. In response to this need for storage agility, NetApp has recently released a new version of their storage operating environment called Data ONTAP® 8.1. This new software update successfully eliminates many problems of typical monolithic or legacy storage systems.
The era of smarter computing is here and is being driven by the need for more data with faster data access. Low-latency application performance in applications such as life sciences, real-time analytics, rich media, seismic processing, weather forecasting, telecommunications and financial markets require high-performance storage architectures.
In storage management today, breaking the cycle of increased complexity and explosive data growth can be a big challenge. The old ways of buying and managing storage have become less effective. Due to resource constraints—both physical storage resources and human resources— IT organizations must act quickly to optimize and simplify their infrastructure.
Today’s data centers are being asked to do more with little additional financial support forthcoming. They are under a constant barrage to do things faster, more inexpensively and with no disruption to the revenue-‐generating part of the company. Frequently, they are experiencing 24 X 7 operations, numerous new application deployments and explosive data growth. Data storage often becomes a crucial limiting factor to meeting these stringent demands.
Faced with these seemingly insurmountable challenges, CIO’s are discovering that the old way of responding to application and data growth is unacceptable. That is, the outdated “rip and replace” method to improve capacity and IO performance, which often meant disruptive migration, doesn’t work anymore. Instead, a more nimble alternative is needed. In response to this need for storage agility, NetApp has recently released a new version of their storage operating environment called Data ONTAP® 8.1. This new software update successfully eliminates many problems of typical monolithic or legacy storage systems.
The era of smarter computing is here and is being driven by the need for more data with faster data access. Low-latency application performance in applications such as life sciences, real-time analytics, rich media, seismic processing, weather forecasting, telecommunications and financial markets require high-performance storage architectures.
An overview of December 2009 enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server, Symantec’s storage management and high availability solutions.
This release enables organizations to capitalize on new storage technology – such as solid state drives (SSDs) and thin provisioning – and improving performance and scalability. In addition, near instantaneous recovery of applications is now possible with Veritas Cluster File System, allowing for fast failover of structured information and near linear scalability.
Power consumption in computing gets more and more attention.
How can we reduce it, save money on variable business cost and be \'Green\'?
This white paper will shed some new light on the matter.
Storage Management and High Availability 6.0 LaunchSymantec
Symantec announced version 6.0 of the company’s storage management and high availability products. With this release, Symantec enables IT organizations to build resilient private clouds by transforming their existing infrastructure. Organizations can manage entire business services end-to-end with built in resiliency, even if the business service is run across multiple virtualization technologies, operating systems, and storage platforms. This release spans multiple products in Symantec’s portfolio including its flagship Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0, and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1, all tightly integrated to help IT organizations move confidently to a private cloud architecture.
Deluxe Australia is a leading provider of services and technologies to the worldwide entertainment industry including top Hollywood studios. For nearly a century, Deluxe has provided content owners and creators with the tools and talent they need to bring the most compelling and exciting stories to life. Deluxe specializes in production,
post-production, distribution, and asset management.
The new Novell File Management Suite is drawing accolades from customers, analysts and industry watchers alike. This session will help you dive in and see exactly what the product can do for your organization. We'll focus on the product's capabilities and its many use cases. We'll also explore the way it can help you better understand your organization's storage usage and give you the tools to begin automating the management of storage resources.
In a mixed-application workload running in a cost-conscious environment, such as our chargeback scenario, IT organizations must be able to meet performance SLAs and consolidate applications. Database VMs need plenty of storage capacity and performance to handle the increased workload demands users place on them. Measures such as purchasing new arrays to meet these demands can be costly.
Thanks to its data reduction technologies, the EMC XtremIO storage array 4.0 saved storage space while supporting additional development-level database VMs in a VMware vSphere 6.0 environment. XtremIO substantially saved capacity by leveraging inline compression, inline deduplication, and virtual copies. The addressable capacity in our largest test run was 7,213 GB but took only 1,565 GB of physical space on the all-flash array. At our most I/O-intensive and largest-scale performance level, our 13 workloads generated 207,927 IOPS at an average latency of .9 milliseconds. Although we focused on increasing IOPS, latency remained under one millisecond in all of our mixed-application workload tests.
Based on our findings, scaling workloads, saving storage capacity, and delivering speedy all-flash performance can improve the value of the array. In the small capacity footprint at the 13-database level, the cost per addressable GB shrunk by 73 percent. Had our tests been larger and used more XtremIO capacity, we could have potentially found greater reduction in terms of price per GB. We also calculated the cost per IOPS and saw a 43 percent reduction at the 13-database level from baseline.
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colaboración y la racionalización de las operaciones.
Sistema de gestión documental, también conocido como
sistema de gestión de contenidos, comúnmente
proporcionan almacenamiento, control de versiones, los
metadatos, la seguridad, así como las capacidades de
indexación y de recuperación.
An overview of December 2009 enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server, Symantec’s storage management and high availability solutions.
This release enables organizations to capitalize on new storage technology – such as solid state drives (SSDs) and thin provisioning – and improving performance and scalability. In addition, near instantaneous recovery of applications is now possible with Veritas Cluster File System, allowing for fast failover of structured information and near linear scalability.
Power consumption in computing gets more and more attention.
How can we reduce it, save money on variable business cost and be \'Green\'?
This white paper will shed some new light on the matter.
Storage Management and High Availability 6.0 LaunchSymantec
Symantec announced version 6.0 of the company’s storage management and high availability products. With this release, Symantec enables IT organizations to build resilient private clouds by transforming their existing infrastructure. Organizations can manage entire business services end-to-end with built in resiliency, even if the business service is run across multiple virtualization technologies, operating systems, and storage platforms. This release spans multiple products in Symantec’s portfolio including its flagship Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, Veritas Cluster Server 6.0, and Veritas Operations Manager 4.1, all tightly integrated to help IT organizations move confidently to a private cloud architecture.
Deluxe Australia is a leading provider of services and technologies to the worldwide entertainment industry including top Hollywood studios. For nearly a century, Deluxe has provided content owners and creators with the tools and talent they need to bring the most compelling and exciting stories to life. Deluxe specializes in production,
post-production, distribution, and asset management.
The new Novell File Management Suite is drawing accolades from customers, analysts and industry watchers alike. This session will help you dive in and see exactly what the product can do for your organization. We'll focus on the product's capabilities and its many use cases. We'll also explore the way it can help you better understand your organization's storage usage and give you the tools to begin automating the management of storage resources.
In a mixed-application workload running in a cost-conscious environment, such as our chargeback scenario, IT organizations must be able to meet performance SLAs and consolidate applications. Database VMs need plenty of storage capacity and performance to handle the increased workload demands users place on them. Measures such as purchasing new arrays to meet these demands can be costly.
Thanks to its data reduction technologies, the EMC XtremIO storage array 4.0 saved storage space while supporting additional development-level database VMs in a VMware vSphere 6.0 environment. XtremIO substantially saved capacity by leveraging inline compression, inline deduplication, and virtual copies. The addressable capacity in our largest test run was 7,213 GB but took only 1,565 GB of physical space on the all-flash array. At our most I/O-intensive and largest-scale performance level, our 13 workloads generated 207,927 IOPS at an average latency of .9 milliseconds. Although we focused on increasing IOPS, latency remained under one millisecond in all of our mixed-application workload tests.
Based on our findings, scaling workloads, saving storage capacity, and delivering speedy all-flash performance can improve the value of the array. In the small capacity footprint at the 13-database level, the cost per addressable GB shrunk by 73 percent. Had our tests been larger and used more XtremIO capacity, we could have potentially found greater reduction in terms of price per GB. We also calculated the cost per IOPS and saw a 43 percent reduction at the 13-database level from baseline.
Fascinado por la idea de una ocina sin papeles?
Con la gestión de documentos LogicalDOC es posible
reemplazar los documentos de papel con su ejemplar en
forma electrónica, ganando una ventaja competitiva
derivada de una gestión más eficiente de su negocio, una
protección más eficaz de los datos, mejorada
colaboración y la racionalización de las operaciones.
Sistema de gestión documental, también conocido como
sistema de gestión de contenidos, comúnmente
proporcionan almacenamiento, control de versiones, los
metadatos, la seguridad, así como las capacidades de
indexación y de recuperación.
There has been a lot of interest and buzz recently around hyperconvergence. It's the biggest IT shift since the rise of server virtualization. As with any budding space there is some confusion. This paper looks at the top 10 benefits of hyperconvergence and and also answers some frequently asked questions.
Are your storage requirements growing too fast? Are the costs of managing this growth taking more and more of your IT budget? Would you like to make a better use of existing storage without adding more complexity to the infrastructure? IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller can help solve these problems and get you on the road...
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One of the biggest events of its kind in Eastern Europe, eLiberatica brings community leaders from around the world to discuss about the hottest topics in FLOSS movement, demonstrating the advantages of adopting, using and developing Open Source and Free Software solutions.
The eLiberatica organizational committee together with our speakers and guests, have graciously allowed media representatives and all attendees to photograph, videotape and otherwise record their sessions, on the condition that the photos, videos and recordings are licensed under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License.
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With the football season in full swing, the baseball season heading into the playoffs, and the hockey season just starting, it is time to raid the refrigerator for snacks, head for the most comfortable chair in the family room, and settle in for a full day of viewing sports. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to turn on the myriad number of devices required to watch a game broadcast over cable, on that wide-screen hi-def TV, with the wrap-around sound from the latest audio system available. There is the re-mote for the cable system; there is a remote for the TV; there is one for the satellite dish; there is anoth-er for the sound system. There are so many remote controls on the coffee table that there is hardly room for the snacks! What you need is a universal remote; a single, simplified command center that can control all of the hi-tech equipment in the family room. Unfortunately, even that universal remote will not do the job for any device released after the remote was manufactured. What is required is a universal remote with a learning capability to take the complexity out of turning on the TV, one than can reprogram itself from the remote that comes with every new device.
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Fortissimo Foundation is a clustered, pervasive, global direct-remote I/O access system that linearly scales I/O bandwidth, memory, Flash and hard disk storage capacity and server performance to provide an “in-memory” scale-out solution that intelligently aggregates all resources of a data center cluster into a massive global name space, bridging all remote compute and storage resources to look and act as if they were local. By providing a complete set of hardware and software building blocks through Fortissimo, A3Cube enables organizations to broadly deploy the power of high-end HPC clusters using low-cost, commodity servers and storage and without the high complexity, cost and fundamental limitations of traditional scale out systems."
Learn more: http://www.a3cube-inc.com/fortissimo-foundation-1.html
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Mcae brief
1. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems:
The Core of an Accelerated
MCAE Workflow
A family of appliances that radically simplifies
storage with breakthrough price/performance.
The challenge model updates. Completed simulation
Mechanical Computer Aided Engineering datasets are available immediately for
(MCAE), Analysis and Simulation in subsequent post processing and visuali-
product development is facing ever more zation by all entities in the workflow,
complexity With data-sets doubling every facilitating collaboration amongst
year, growing model sizes and fidelity, design teams and shortening design
and complex coupled physics techniques, time. Parallel Cluster Computing and
engineering organizations around the high performance access to shared
world are under increasing pressure to filesystems greatly enhance this solution.
deliver innovation cost effectively and on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage also
schedule—often with no more resources. simplifies storage management and
Today’s modern HPC clusters consisting protects vital data with elegant Snapshot
of hundreds of multi-core processors data protection, providing quick and easy
provide ever more computational power, recovery of deleted or corrupted files,
but conventional disk-based storage and shortening back-up windows.
architectures have fallen far behind in
Highlights providing access to the data these data
• Superior performance and
lower energy consumption at Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems accelerate MCAE
up to 75% less the cost of
competitive solutions
workflow by speeding data to processors and then providing
• Active-active architecture option shared data access to all.
enables high performance and
high availability
hungry processors require. In addition, Closing the critical processor-storage
• Optimized storage hierarchy with competitive pressures driving time to latency gap on demanding MCAE data
Hybrid Storage Pools containing market make accelerating workflow access patterns
DRAM, SSD, and HDD drives productivity an imperative—driving Today’s high performance multi core
• Scalability in multiple dimensions shared access to model data, simulation processors are capable of accessing and
to adapt to your changing business and results files among all constituents consuming data far in excess of what
needs by increasing compute in the MCAE workflow. conventional disk-based storage architec-
power, storage capacity, or tures can provide. Modern CPUs are
Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage
performance independently capable of processing nearly one million
Solutions accelerate MCAE workflow
Input/Output Operations Per Second
• Eco-efficiency due to reduced by first; accelerating I/O between
(IOPS), far outstripping today’s fastest
power consumption of SSD and processors in the cluster and stored data,
disk drives which are only capable of 300-
HDD disk drives rather than high and second; providing shared access to
400 IOPS—creating a gaping latency gap.
RPM drives all stored data. All cluster nodes see the
A latency gap that starve these blazingly
same file system allowing real time data
fast multi core microprocessors for data.
Sun Microsystems: Solution Brief