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article Reduce Cost and Expand Capacity | New Virtualized Storage Services in Enterprise Services Blog http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Enterprise-Services-Blog/Reduce-Cost-and-Expand-Capacity-New-Virtualized-Storage-Services/ba-p/81955 Right now, your enterprise is probably drowning in data. By 2013, you’ll have twice as much. As you tackle the categorization and management of all that information, don’t overlook another big question—where are you going to put it?    “It’s a dilemma each of us deals with daily,” says Jeff Moyer, Director of Storage Services for HP Enterprise Services. “Do I need to save this email? Keep this file? Clean out my inbox to make room for more? But CIOs are facing it on an exponential scale, and the problem literally grows bigger every day.”   Adding to the challenge, says Moyer, are two opposing pressures: increased regulatory and legal issues require organizations to retain more and more records, but budget constraints mean fewer funds for storage costs. The growing complexity of IT environments intensifies the strain.   HP Can Help...   One emerging technology holds the promise of relief. Virtualized storage allows your enterprise to fully utilize your storage investment and to migrate data to optimal storage tiers without system downtime. This increases the flexibility and utilization of your storage environment while simultaneously driving down costs.   A virtualization option called thin provisioning takes this a step further by tapping into your well of excess capacity and inefficient allocations. Because of the virtualization layer between the server and storage infrastructure, sharing the pool of unused space across applications causes no service disruption and drives down your storage TCO.  This eliminates the need to initially over-purchase storage to minimize system down time.   Storage virtualization advantages   HP clients are starting to see some significant benefits emerge from virtualizing their storage. Enterprises that have implemented these services report that they’re able to: <ul> <li>Access information faster</li> <li>Back up data faster</li> <li>Reduce unused capacity</li> <li>Improve agile capacity management</li> <li>Increase utilization and data movement</li> <li>Better align—and quickly re-align—data to changing business requirements</li> </ul> To get additional information, <a href="http://bit.ly/9y6o7N" target="_blank">check out Storage Virtualization on the HP ES website.</a>   Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:34:24 GMT ArnieMcKinnis 2010-08-18T21:34:24Z Reduce Cost and Expand Capacity | New Virtualized Storage Services http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Enterprise-Services-Blog/Reduce-Cost-and-Expand-Capacity-New-Virtualized-Storage-Services/ba-p/81955 Does it as if you there's more data to manage then there was just a few years ago? You're not alone, it has been estimated that "data" has been doubling every 18 months and the pace is getting faster, not slower. HP understand the problem and has developed services just to help in this area. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:34:24 GMT http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Enterprise-Services-Blog/Reduce-Cost-and-Expand-Capacity-New-Virtualized-Storage-Services/ba-p/81955 ArnieMcKinnis 2010-08-18T21:34:24Z