Deduplication and virtualisation
top the agenda
Storage Networking World (SNW) German football club Borussia
Europe (www.snweurope.com), the Mönchengladbach, the Friedrich
region’s largest independent Miescher Institute from Switzerland,
conference dedicated to data and Devon and Cornwall Police, Message
storage management this year will Labs, BITKOM, Applications Security,
open its doors from 27th to 29th The Infopro, and Glasshouse
October at Congress Frankfurt, the Technologies.
same venue that hosted the event in
the past four years. Having received Aimed at value-added resellers,
highly positive feedback, once again system integrators and distributors,
the theme will be “Information in the brand new Channel Summit will single source of information on both
Motion”. take place on Monday 27th October at mature and new technologies and how
the conference venue and will feature these can allow them to meet business
This year, the conference will offer an a keynote presentation from a senior and technical challenges in their
attractive combination of ‘classic’ analyst from ESG and short organisations,” said Paul Trowbridge,
sessions such as server and storage presentations on business or SNW Europe marketing director. “The
virtualisation, data security and IP technology topics, by companies ongoing changes organisations are
storage tutorials, alongside new including Brocade, Emulex, Fujitsu facing at the business level are
elements such as the green datacentre Siemens Computers and Syncsort. reflected in how today’s data centres
and the Fibre Channel over Ethernet SNW Europe last year the event are constantly evolving to meet
(FCoE) tracks, the Channel Summit attracted over 300 members of the compliance, consolidation and
and workshops on datacentre products channel community from across the productivity requirements.
testing and evaluation by analyst region.
house ESG. SNW Europe 2008 will also SNW Europe will offer targeted
feature speakers from organisations “SNW Europe 2008 will be the place to educational sessions around each of
including the Barcelona City Hall, be for any IT professional looking for a these topics.”
Virtualisation is no laughing matter
UK charity, Comic Relief, has Comic Relief meet its environmental Comic Relief has also increased asset
implemented a Compellent storage IT commitments. utilisation by deploying Compellent’s
area network (SAN) and VMware thin provisioning technology, called
platform to create a virtual storage Previously, Comic Relief’s backup Dynamic Capacity, to eliminate
and server environment. data was held off-site on tapes and allocated but unused capacity across
could take several hours to recover. the network. The charity only uses
As a result of deploying Compellent Today, however, recovery has been physical disk space when data is
technologies such as thin reduced to minutes and just a few written. This has provided a fast,
provisioning, automated tiered mouse clicks, using Compellent’s affordable and environmentally
storage and continuous snapshots, Data Instant Replay snapshots. sensitive way to scale its storage
the charity has dramatically improved requirements in line with future data
its IT asset utilisation. It has also cut In addition, the charity has deployed growth – enabling the charity to
the number of physical servers Compellent’s Automated Tiered create virtual volumes of any size up
required by one fifth, while reducing Storage, called Data Progression, to front, and add new storage capacity
the costs of powering, cooling and automatically move less-frequently as needed without having to shut
housing their servers – helping accessed data to lower-cost disks. down data access.
12 | DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS | www.datacentresols.com September 2008
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