Storage

Whether it's RAID, SSD or NAS, storage hardware and management affects IT from the data center to your smartphone.

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Optimized Storage E-Book: Staying Ahead of the Data Explosion

    Data storage challenges are getting much more complex. But choosing a solution just got much easier. Oracle's new e-book, Staying Ahead of the Storage Explosion, provides insight into the integration points between Oracle storage and software that help speed performance and increase efficiency; the industry-leading data protection and storage management...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Delivers One-Two Punch with New ZS3 Series

    Database and storage administrators face increasing challenges due to the complexities involved with maintaining performance while dealing with the explosion of data. IT organizations are forced to perform labour-intensive manual tweaking while IT staffing levels are virtually frozen.

    Find out how Oracle’s Application Engineered Storage, where the application and...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Transforming Business with Oracle's Optimized Storage for Oracle Database 11g

    Oracle's integrated hardware and software stack that includes Oracle’s optimized storage platforms have been engineered to work together with Oracle Database to optimize overall system and application performance. Competitive storage systems lack integration with the application software, so they do not have the capability to deliver the performance and cost...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZS3 Storage: The Value of Integration - ESG paper

    Although it's hard to imagine Oracle doing anything quietly, that's exactly what has happened with its ZFS-based storage appliance. Developed and improved for nearly a decade, it has become a formidable unified and enterprise-grade storage offering without a lot of fanfare. The latest version-ZS3-has a number of advantages which you...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Continuous Operations for Applications with Multiple Storage Array Access

    IDC research forecasts that external storage capacity will grow by a factor of nearly six from 2011 to 2016, fuelled by the expanding global economy, increased usage of mobile and social technologies and big data.

    This Technology Spotlight explores the trends and challenges related to continuous operations. The paper...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    IBM Edge2013: The Cutting Edge of Systems

    General Manager, IBM Systems Storage & Networking Ambuj Goyal discusses the Flash tipping point, the velocity of open, software defined storage systems, and how data and data loss are driving systems architecture.

    Ambuj also highlighted the evolution of IBM's Software-Defined Environment: In 2003, IBM introduced its the SAN Volume...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Storage innovation as a Catalyst for Systems Innovation: Ambuj Goyal

    General Manager, IBM Systems Storage & Networking Ambuj Goyal discusses the Flash tipping point, the velocity of open, software defined storage systems, and how data and data loss are driving systems architecture.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    IBM Edge2013: Storage Keynote: Infrastructure Supporting Your Business Initiatives

    Speakers:
    Ed Walsh, VP, Storage Systems Strategy, IBM STG
    Laura Guio, VP and Business Line Executive, Storage, IBM STG
    Bina J.Hallman, Director, Storage & Network Mgmt Software Portfolio Management, IBM SWG
    Mike Kuhn, VP and BLE, Flash Systems, IBM STG
    Vincent Hsu, IBM Fellow, CTO Storage System, IBM STG


    ...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Flash vs. Disk Video

    Ambuj Goyal and Larry Chiu discuss the importance of flash and how this technology outperforms disk in capacity, cost efficiency, energy consumption and speed to deployment.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Enabling an Open Cloud Network Through Brocade and OpenStack

    Brocade introduces a portfolio of products ready for OpenStack cloud orchestration, with an open technology and partner-agnostic approach that maximizes choice and flexibility for efficient and scalable enterprise cloud solutions. This paper discusses support for the OpenStack initiative across the Brocade portfolio.

    Sponsored By Brocade

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC VNX Series Software Suites

    Boost application performance, protect critical information and reduce storage costs with comprehensive software from EMC.

    This datasheet outlines EMC VNX series of storage platforms features and benefits.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC VNX Family

    Today, the storage imperative is not only to move information dynamically according to business activity, but also to make the process fully automated and self-managing.

    Find out how the EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for file, block and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution....

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    ACES - Customer Profile

    ACES, an Australian energy management company, works on behalf of its clients to buy, sell and manage energy more efficiently and with less risk. ACES storage requirements had been growing 30% annually thanks to the acquisition of new customers and its introduction of new analytical services.

    This case study...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    VCS Fabric Technology Creates “Plug and Play” Network for On-Demand Applications

    In this paper Brocade discusses how Brocade VCS Fabric technology used with the Brocade VDX 8770 Switch provides a plug and play architecture, simplifying the network to dramatically reduce the time to provision on-demand applications for both private and public clouds.

    Sponsored By Brocade

  • Videos // Sep 2013

    Breaking Down Unified Storage: A Closer Look

    In this whiteboard presentation, data storage expert and consultant Benjamin S. Woo defines and describes unified storage architectures in everyday terms, and discusses the advantages that can be realized through deployment of unified systems when compared to traditional storage systems.

    Check it out to learn about unified storage and...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering

    Storage optimization and flash technologies were not created with the other in mind, nor have they seen incredible interdependencies in any cases - until now. Though storage optimization aims to cut costs and flash exists to provide extreme performance, emerging technologies are making cases for the coexistence of these technologies....

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Assessment of Automated Tiered Storage for Midrange Arrays

    Automated tiered storage (ATS) isn't a new concept, but the latest generation that exists today is vastly more beneficial for organizations than its volume-based predecessor. Previous generations did not allow for the dynamic movement of data at any time that modern ATS enables. The basic business case for ATS is...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC Unified Storage Speeds VDI Rollout While Boosting Performance up to 30%

    Scentsy, Inc. is a rapidly growing party goods company. Explosive growth presented them with challenges in scaling their IT infrastructure quickly and efficiently.

    To address these challenges, Scentsy deployed EMC VNX unified storage to manage its virtualized infrastructure. Check out this 3-page case study to learn how Scentsy is...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • Videos // Sep 2013

    EMC VNXe: So Simple a 4th Grader Configured it for Vmware

    Setting up storage doesn't have to be complicated. Watch this short video to find out how simple setting up storage can be. Select the storage amount, exchange host and configure your host access and you'll be on your way to the storage you need in no time.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) experienced an unprecedented influx of genetic information with the introduction of a next-generation Illumina Genome Analyzer and server virtualization. To maximize infrastructure investments and the value of genetic data, OMRF needed a storage solution capable of keeping pace with tremendous data growth and supporting a...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Fabricating an Agile, Efficient IT Infrastructure

    Haggar Clothing Company was running virtual servers and desktops on storage networks that were approaching end of life. They chose to consolidate data onto a Dell™ Compellent™ array and replaced their data-protection with a Dell DR4000 backup. The result? $12,000 annual savings on disk purchases, as well as 40+ hours/month...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    IBM Lets You Have It Your Way - Enhanced Storwize V3700

    Today´s small and midsized data centers need to provide the same seamless delivery of IT services as the ones of major enterprises. With Storwize® V3700, IBM® has tailored one system specifically to address the block storage needs of the smaller data center, with functions derived from IBM’s high-end storage platforms....

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    The Economics of Software Based Storage

    There is no doubt that the shift to a software-defined datacenter has begun. This change is a one-way street and will have a profound impact on how IT is delivered. Storage will be the next area to morph to a software-defined model (computing was the first with server virtualization). The...

    Sponsored By Red Hat

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    KishHealth System speeds delivery of medical records with HP Converged Storage

    Learn how KishHealth System improved the response time of its electronic medical records system and provided scalability for its PACS with HP Converged Storage. "We have seen the I/O per second increase from 270 to 716 on the HP 3Par Storage. The response time has dropped from 4.09 seconds to...

    Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk

    IT organizations have limited resources but need to stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify and optimize their IT infrastructures. The new IBM® Storwize® V3700 system provides a smarter solution that is affordable, easy to use, self-optimizing, and cloud-agile, enabling organizations to overcome storage challenges. The...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments

    Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Realizing the full benefits associated with server virtualization also requires a complementary and robust shared storage foundation. The new IBM® Storwize® V3700...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM System Storage LTO Ultrium 6 Tape Drive Performance White Paper

    This white paper examines the performance benchmarks of the IBM® System Storage® LTO Ultrium 6 Tape Drive which uses technology specifically designed for the midrange open systems environment. It features hardware encryption of data, two interface options, and two form factors. The native data rate of up to 160 MB/s...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Delivering Worry-Free Storage

    For small and midsize businesses, the challenge of building an IT storage infrastructure that is both effective and affordable can be daunting: the amount of information these organizations need to store is constantly increasing, while IT budgets are staying the same, or possibly even shrinking. IT managers will most likely...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Addressing The Small and Midsized Business Storage Challenge

    As small and midsize businesses (SMBs) struggle with the challenge of managing more data with fewer resources and limited budgets, the industry has responded with storage solutions that are either too small (low functionality and hard to deploy and manage) or too big (high capacity and performance with a high...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • Podcasts // Feb 2013

    IBM's Approach to Advanced Persistent Threats

    In this video Brendan Hannigan, GM IBM Security Systems, talks about how the threat landscape is intensifying and what IBM is doing to address this challenge.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Dec 2012

    Denver Broncos Success Story

    Learn how efficient NetApp IT empowers the Denver Broncos to invest in the future by providing asychronous disaster recovery and data protection.

    Sponsored By NetApp

  • White Papers // Oct 2012

    Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy EMC VNX with EMC VPLEX

    What if you could build a cost effective, continuously available storage infrastructure? From the ability to access the same information (read or write access) at the exact same time in two separate locations, to extending local VMware functionality beyond a single array. Learn the top reasons users are deploying EMC...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Introduction to Red Hat Storage Server Architecture

    Over the past ten years, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility, and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized, and commoditized.

    Unfortunately, storage has not kept pace with computing. The proprietary, monolithic, shared- all, and scale-up solutions...

    Sponsored By Red Hat

  • White Papers // Dec 2011

    The HP 3PAR Architecture

    This white paper provides an overview of the HP 3PAR Utility Storage Architecture, including hardware and software. HP 3PAR Utility Storage is a new category of storage systems that enable organizations with multiple lines of business, departments, or customers to securely consolidate storage assets and centralize information for enterprise-scale applications....

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Nov 2011

    NetApp FAS2240 - An Inside Look

    This article takes an inside look at the unique design features of the NetApp FAS2240, including: Integration of controllers within NetApp SAS disk shelves; I/O and performance enhancements; New resiliency and availability features.

    Sponsored By NetApp

  • White Papers // Sep 2011

    Aerospec and EMC VNXe

    Aerospec, a system engineering and manufacturing company, leverages VNXe and VMware to cut operating costs, increase reliability. They have seen a 2x increase in data access and 75% increase in storage utilization.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Windows Storage Server 2012 on System x

    With the introduction of the Microsoft® Windows® Storage Server 2012 offering via the IBM® Reseller Option Kit (ROK) program, clients can now get customized unified storage solutions which precisely match their specific needs. Combined with the IBM System x® servers, powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and pre-installed by...

    Provided By IBM and Intel

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Top 5 Reasons why EMC for Archiving

    This 1-page handout summarises the fundamentals to selecting EMC for your archiving solution.

    Provided By EMC

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    Optimising storage for a highly efficient data

    The enormous volume, velocity and variety of data flooding the enterprise, along with the push for analytics and business intelligence, is creating a massive challenge that is overwhelming traditional storage approaches. As the demand for capacity continues to escalate, companies must be able to effectively and dynamically manage the storage...

    Provided By IBM

  • White Papers // Jun 2013

    Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering

    Designing a storage environment to scale for both capacity and performance used to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Armed with new discoveries on data life cycle, including a phenomenon known as "data decay", storage vendors such as EMC are tackling this problem head-on. At their disposal are newer generations of optimisation...

    Provided By EMC Australia (grey BG)

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    The Economics of Software Based Storage

    There is no doubt that the shift to a software-defined datacenter has begun. This change is a one-way street and will have a profound impact on how IT is delivered. Storage will be the next area to morph to a software-defined model (computing was the first with server virtualization). The...

    Sponsored By Red Hat

  • White Papers // Jan 2012

    Introduction to Red Hat Storage Server Architecture

    Over the past ten years, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility, and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized, and commoditized.

    Unfortunately, storage has not kept pace with computing. The proprietary, monolithic, shared- all, and scale-up solutions...

    Sponsored By Red Hat

  • White Papers // Dec 2011

    The HP 3PAR Architecture

    This white paper provides an overview of the HP 3PAR Utility Storage Architecture, including hardware and software. HP 3PAR Utility Storage is a new category of storage systems that enable organizations with multiple lines of business, departments, or customers to securely consolidate storage assets and centralize information for enterprise-scale applications....

    Sponsored By Global Knowledge

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    Fabricating an Agile, Efficient IT Infrastructure

    Haggar Clothing Company was running virtual servers and desktops on storage networks that were approaching end of life. They chose to consolidate data onto a Dell™ Compellent™ array and replaced their data-protection with a Dell DR4000 backup. The result? $12,000 annual savings on disk purchases, as well as 40+ hours/month...

    Sponsored By Dell

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    IBM Edge2013: The Cutting Edge of Systems

    General Manager, IBM Systems Storage & Networking Ambuj Goyal discusses the Flash tipping point, the velocity of open, software defined storage systems, and how data and data loss are driving systems architecture.

    Ambuj also highlighted the evolution of IBM's Software-Defined Environment: In 2003, IBM introduced its the SAN Volume...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Storage innovation as a Catalyst for Systems Innovation: Ambuj Goyal

    General Manager, IBM Systems Storage & Networking Ambuj Goyal discusses the Flash tipping point, the velocity of open, software defined storage systems, and how data and data loss are driving systems architecture.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    IBM Edge2013: Storage Keynote: Infrastructure Supporting Your Business Initiatives

    Speakers:
    Ed Walsh, VP, Storage Systems Strategy, IBM STG
    Laura Guio, VP and Business Line Executive, Storage, IBM STG
    Bina J.Hallman, Director, Storage & Network Mgmt Software Portfolio Management, IBM SWG
    Mike Kuhn, VP and BLE, Flash Systems, IBM STG
    Vincent Hsu, IBM Fellow, CTO Storage System, IBM STG


    ...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Flash vs. Disk Video

    Ambuj Goyal and Larry Chiu discuss the importance of flash and how this technology outperforms disk in capacity, cost efficiency, energy consumption and speed to deployment.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Sep 2011

    Aerospec and EMC VNXe

    Aerospec, a system engineering and manufacturing company, leverages VNXe and VMware to cut operating costs, increase reliability. They have seen a 2x increase in data access and 75% increase in storage utilization.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation

    Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) experienced an unprecedented influx of genetic information with the introduction of a next-generation Illumina Genome Analyzer and server virtualization. To maximize infrastructure investments and the value of genetic data, OMRF needed a storage solution capable of keeping pace with tremendous data growth and supporting a...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Jul 2013

    KishHealth System speeds delivery of medical records with HP Converged Storage

    Learn how KishHealth System improved the response time of its electronic medical records system and provided scalability for its PACS with HP Converged Storage. "We have seen the I/O per second increase from 270 to 716 on the HP 3Par Storage. The response time has dropped from 4.09 seconds to...

    Sponsored By HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

  • Podcasts // Feb 2013

    IBM's Approach to Advanced Persistent Threats

    In this video Brendan Hannigan, GM IBM Security Systems, talks about how the threat landscape is intensifying and what IBM is doing to address this challenge.

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Dec 2012

    Denver Broncos Success Story

    Learn how efficient NetApp IT empowers the Denver Broncos to invest in the future by providing asychronous disaster recovery and data protection.

    Sponsored By NetApp

  • White Papers // Nov 2011

    NetApp FAS2240 - An Inside Look

    This article takes an inside look at the unique design features of the NetApp FAS2240, including: Integration of controllers within NetApp SAS disk shelves; I/O and performance enhancements; New resiliency and availability features.

    Sponsored By NetApp

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Enabling an Open Cloud Network Through Brocade and OpenStack

    Brocade introduces a portfolio of products ready for OpenStack cloud orchestration, with an open technology and partner-agnostic approach that maximizes choice and flexibility for efficient and scalable enterprise cloud solutions. This paper discusses support for the OpenStack initiative across the Brocade portfolio.

    Sponsored By Brocade

  • White Papers // Oct 2012

    Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy EMC VNX with EMC VPLEX

    What if you could build a cost effective, continuously available storage infrastructure? From the ability to access the same information (read or write access) at the exact same time in two separate locations, to extending local VMware functionality beyond a single array. Learn the top reasons users are deploying EMC...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • Videos // Sep 2013

    Breaking Down Unified Storage: A Closer Look

    In this whiteboard presentation, data storage expert and consultant Benjamin S. Woo defines and describes unified storage architectures in everyday terms, and discusses the advantages that can be realized through deployment of unified systems when compared to traditional storage systems.

    Check it out to learn about unified storage and...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering

    Storage optimization and flash technologies were not created with the other in mind, nor have they seen incredible interdependencies in any cases - until now. Though storage optimization aims to cut costs and flash exists to provide extreme performance, emerging technologies are making cases for the coexistence of these technologies....

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    Assessment of Automated Tiered Storage for Midrange Arrays

    Automated tiered storage (ATS) isn't a new concept, but the latest generation that exists today is vastly more beneficial for organizations than its volume-based predecessor. Previous generations did not allow for the dynamic movement of data at any time that modern ATS enables. The basic business case for ATS is...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC Unified Storage Speeds VDI Rollout While Boosting Performance up to 30%

    Scentsy, Inc. is a rapidly growing party goods company. Explosive growth presented them with challenges in scaling their IT infrastructure quickly and efficiently.

    To address these challenges, Scentsy deployed EMC VNX unified storage to manage its virtualized infrastructure. Check out this 3-page case study to learn how Scentsy is...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • Videos // Sep 2013

    EMC VNXe: So Simple a 4th Grader Configured it for Vmware

    Setting up storage doesn't have to be complicated. Watch this short video to find out how simple setting up storage can be. Select the storage amount, exchange host and configure your host access and you'll be on your way to the storage you need in no time.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC VNX Series Software Suites

    Boost application performance, protect critical information and reduce storage costs with comprehensive software from EMC.

    This datasheet outlines EMC VNX series of storage platforms features and benefits.

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    EMC VNX Family

    Today, the storage imperative is not only to move information dynamically according to business activity, but also to make the process fully automated and self-managing.

    Find out how the EMC VNX family delivers industry-leading innovation and enterprise capabilities for file, block and object storage in a scalable, easy-to-use solution....

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    ACES - Customer Profile

    ACES, an Australian energy management company, works on behalf of its clients to buy, sell and manage energy more efficiently and with less risk. ACES storage requirements had been growing 30% annually thanks to the acquisition of new customers and its introduction of new analytical services.

    This case study...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Sep 2013

    VCS Fabric Technology Creates “Plug and Play” Network for On-Demand Applications

    In this paper Brocade discusses how Brocade VCS Fabric technology used with the Brocade VDX 8770 Switch provides a plug and play architecture, simplifying the network to dramatically reduce the time to provision on-demand applications for both private and public clouds.

    Sponsored By Brocade

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Optimized Storage E-Book: Staying Ahead of the Data Explosion

    Data storage challenges are getting much more complex. But choosing a solution just got much easier. Oracle's new e-book, Staying Ahead of the Storage Explosion, provides insight into the integration points between Oracle storage and software that help speed performance and increase efficiency; the industry-leading data protection and storage management...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle Delivers One-Two Punch with New ZS3 Series

    Database and storage administrators face increasing challenges due to the complexities involved with maintaining performance while dealing with the explosion of data. IT organizations are forced to perform labour-intensive manual tweaking while IT staffing levels are virtually frozen.

    Find out how Oracle’s Application Engineered Storage, where the application and...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Transforming Business with Oracle's Optimized Storage for Oracle Database 11g

    Oracle's integrated hardware and software stack that includes Oracle’s optimized storage platforms have been engineered to work together with Oracle Database to optimize overall system and application performance. Competitive storage systems lack integration with the application software, so they do not have the capability to deliver the performance and cost...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Oracle ZS3 Storage: The Value of Integration - ESG paper

    Although it's hard to imagine Oracle doing anything quietly, that's exactly what has happened with its ZFS-based storage appliance. Developed and improved for nearly a decade, it has become a formidable unified and enterprise-grade storage offering without a lot of fanfare. The latest version-ZS3-has a number of advantages which you...

    Sponsored By Oracle

  • White Papers // Oct 2013

    Continuous Operations for Applications with Multiple Storage Array Access

    IDC research forecasts that external storage capacity will grow by a factor of nearly six from 2011 to 2016, fuelled by the expanding global economy, increased usage of mobile and social technologies and big data.

    This Technology Spotlight explores the trends and challenges related to continuous operations. The paper...

    Sponsored By EMC

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk

    IT organizations have limited resources but need to stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify and optimize their IT infrastructures. The new IBM® Storwize® V3700 system provides a smarter solution that is affordable, easy to use, self-optimizing, and cloud-agile, enabling organizations to overcome storage challenges. The...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Aug 2013

    IBM Lets You Have It Your Way - Enhanced Storwize V3700

    Today´s small and midsized data centers need to provide the same seamless delivery of IT services as the ones of major enterprises. With Storwize® V3700, IBM® has tailored one system specifically to address the block storage needs of the smaller data center, with functions derived from IBM’s high-end storage platforms....

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments

    Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility of their IT infrastructure. Realizing the full benefits associated with server virtualization also requires a complementary and robust shared storage foundation. The new IBM® Storwize® V3700...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    IBM System Storage LTO Ultrium 6 Tape Drive Performance White Paper

    This white paper examines the performance benchmarks of the IBM® System Storage® LTO Ultrium 6 Tape Drive which uses technology specifically designed for the midrange open systems environment. It features hardware encryption of data, two interface options, and two form factors. The native data rate of up to 160 MB/s...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Delivering Worry-Free Storage

    For small and midsize businesses, the challenge of building an IT storage infrastructure that is both effective and affordable can be daunting: the amount of information these organizations need to store is constantly increasing, while IT budgets are staying the same, or possibly even shrinking. IT managers will most likely...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Addressing The Small and Midsized Business Storage Challenge

    As small and midsize businesses (SMBs) struggle with the challenge of managing more data with fewer resources and limited budgets, the industry has responded with storage solutions that are either too small (low functionality and hard to deploy and manage) or too big (high capacity and performance with a high...

    Sponsored By IBM

  • White Papers // Apr 2013

    Silverton Whitepaper: NetApp SAN performance and Clustered ONTAP

    Storage systems today must match agility with diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. In their review, Silverton Consulting ranks the NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN, as an Enterprise OLTP “Champion of Champions.” Read the results of their benchmark testing and the features that impressed them the most.

    Provided By NetApp

  • White Papers // Dec 2007

    Total Cost Comparison: NetApp vs. EMC Solutions for Windows File Services Consolidation

    Once companies have made the decision to consolidate their Windows file services environments, a key consideration for many is which storage platform will provide the lowest total cost. This independent research by Mercer Management Consulting reviews the cost of acquiring, deploying, operating, and managing EMC Celerra and NetApp FAS environments....

    Provided By NetApp

  • Webcasts // May 2013

    On-demand Webcast - Next Generation Backup and Archive in a Cloud-Centric World

    Companies are generating more data than ever before, keeping it for longer periods of time, and using new ways to transform it into business value. This is putting more pressure on IT managers to rethink their data management approaches, especially Backup and Archive.

    CBS Interactive is proud to present...

    Provided By Quantum

  • Webcasts // Apr 2013

    Video: Predicting the future of enterprise software

    Enterprise software remains the glue that ties together teams and business processes, especially in global organizations. It's important to look at how enterprise software is simplifying, webifying, mobilizing, and getting a lot more social.

    These are some of the main topics in this episode of "The Editors" (formerly known...

    Provided By ZDNet