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Whitepapers
Optimizing Storage Performance, Provisioning, and Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server
Aug 2007
Microsoft SQL Server has become very popular as a database environment driving a broad range of mid-level business applications, ranging from CRM to eCommerce and from ERP to supply chain...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Mainline Provides a Green Solution, Leveraging Consolidation & Virtualization for the Bank of Stockton
Apr 2009
With the bank's infrastructure made up of 112 servers, the 400 square-foot data center space was tight. Response times were getting sluggish, and the costs of computing and power consumption were...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Brown Trucking Company Gets Up-to-Speed for New Growth With Virtualized Infrastructure Solution From Mainline
Oct 2009
The client wanted a technology that would allow them to expand rapidly and efficiently. He needed a system that would efficiently accommodate rapid growth. Their challenges were system and storage...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Consolidation, IT Optimization & Lower TCO for Bull Moose Tube Company Through Mainline's Virtualization Solution
Jan 2009
BMT manufactures a wide spectrum of carbon steel welded mechanical. Their challenges were backup failures that shut down operations, high-power consumption, sluggish performance which needed...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Consolidates and Upgrades IT System for Greater Efficiencies and Performance With Solution From Mainline
Jul 2009
Carnegie Museums is comprised of four major museums in and around Pittsburgh. Their challenges were aging and inefficient infrastructure which increased maintenance and computing costs....
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
The Centers for Dialysis Care Achieves Greater Efficiency and Higher Performance With Consolidation
Nov 2010
The Centers for Dialysis Care (CDC), operates 17 programs in Northeastern Ohio their challenge was to Increase system instability with insufficient, less accessible storage, underutilization of...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Mainline Helps the City of Gillette Accommodate Fast-Paced Growth With IT System and Storage Solution
Aug 2009
The City of Gillette, located in Campbell County in the northeast corner of Wyoming, the IT infrastructure is integral to supplying and billing services for customers. They recognized the many...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Mainline Helps Keystone R.V. Company Consolidate Data Storage, Back-Up and Recovery to Support Growth
Aug 2009
Keystone's demand for storage for manufacturing and distribution is enormous. They faced a number of challenges of data storage equipment was outdated and inefficient, storage space was limited,...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
St. Johns River Community College Provides Greater Educational Access With a Consolidation & Virtualization Solution From Mainline
Apr 2009
St. Johns River Community College (SJRCC), serving three counties faced a number of challenges with high power consumption, low performance & high response time, increased data requirements &...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Suncoast Center for Community Mental Health Enables Higher Quality of Care With Mainline's Consolidation and Storage Solution
Apr 2009
Florida's Suncoast Center for Community Mental Health services faced the challenges to provide the most efficient services to clients and to comply with government mandates, Suncoast needed to...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Trustmark National Bank Gets Better Performance, Lowers Costs With an IBM Z10BC Solution From Mainline
Jun 2010
Trustmark is a diversified financial services company they was considering the possibility of adding new software, and they would need higher capacity to accommodate any software changes. In...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Mainline Storage Solution Helps SurePayroll Optimize Data Management for Mission-Critical Website
Dec 2010
SurePayroll offers online solutions for small businesses. They needed to optimize SurePayroll's data management to keep up with the company's rapid growth. Needed more expertise in infrastructure...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Columbia County Government Deploys Virtual Desktops for Greater Security and Lower Costs
Oct 2011
Columbia County as one of the fastest-growing counties in the region, they faced a number of challenges, including slow server performance, high maintenance costs and users clamoring for a more...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Case Studies
Mainline's Storage Virtualization and Consolidation Solution Lowers IT Costs for a Florida County School District
Nov 2011
A large Florida county they need to overcome a number of challenges to provide a crucial services. The mainframe and storage equipment were aging, storage space was near capacity, and data storage...
Provided by Mainline Information Systems
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Whitepapers
Microsoft Exchange Sever 2010 Performance Review using the EMC VNX5700 Unified Storage Platform - An Architectural Overview
Oct 2012
This white paper focuses on the performance of the EMC® VNX5700™ unified storage platform with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 virtualized with VMware vSphere™ 4.1. Building-block design...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Using EMC Fast Suite with SAP on EMC VNX unified Storage - Applied Technology
Oct 2012
This white paper examines the performance considerations of SAP applications using EMC FAST Suite technologies (FAST VP and FAST Cache) on EMC unified storage. It also discusses the best practices...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops enabled by EMC VNX - Reference Architecture
Oct 2012
This document describes the reference architecture of the EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops Enabled by EMC VNX Series (NFS), VMware vSphere 4.1, VMware View 4.6 and VMware View Composer 2.6...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Top 5 Reasons Why Customers Deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage
Oct 2012
What if there was a complete storage solution that could help DBAs stop worrying about day-to-day disk performance and database protection? Learn how you can achieve the best results for your...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
ESG White Paper: EMC VNX Family - A Unifying Force in Storage
Oct 2012
Why unified storage? Convergence and consolidation is a rally-ing cry across IT to drive necessary efficiencies - and unified storage and make a substantial contribution to such efforts. Learn how...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified provides enterprise-class value in VMWare Environment
Nov 2012
This brief presents the customer benefits of using Storwize V7000 storage systems with an Oracle 11g database. It discusses key customer challenges and how they can easily be met with the combined...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Danish University Focuses on Being in the Top 100 Worldwide
Jul 2012
Aarhus University has become one of the largest higher education institutions in Denmark. Aarhus Universities challenges are to eradicate problems associated with a multi-technology legacy...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Developing an Enterprise flash strategy
Nov 2012
Starting from the definition, Storage Switzerland explains the challenges implicit in the development of an Enterprise Flash Strategy as a means to improve performance. With an emphasis on the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Bayllocator: A Proactive System to Predict Server Utilization and Dynamically Allocate Memory Resources Using Bayesian Networks and Ballooning
Nov 2012
With the advent of virtualization and cloud computing, virtualized systems can be found from small companies to service providers and big data centers. All of them use this technology because of...
Provided by University of Orleans
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Whitepapers
A Base Algorithm for Computing the Shortest Path of Spheres
Feb 2009
Computing the shortest path among a plural number of spherical balls is essential in 3D computer graphics. The problem of finding the shortest path of three spheres is fundamental to the more...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Case Studies
Empowering Education and Advanced Research
Jan 2013
The University of Siegen is a modern educational establishment with a strong international profile. Their challenges were to optimize IT services to increase educational and operational...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Information Loss in Static Nonlinearities
Sep 2011
In this paper, conditional entropy is used to quantify the information loss induced by passing a continuous random variable through a memoryless nonlinear input-output system. The authors derive...
Provided by Graz University of Technology
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Dynamic Priority Scheduling for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Apr 2012
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDIs) are gaining popularity in cloud computing by allowing companies to deploy their office environments in a virtualized setting instead of relying on physical...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
TechRepublic Resource Guide: Reliable Data Servers
Nov 2007
The backend components for handling massive amounts of data are not widely discussed or written about, but they are an absolutely critical part of running a healthy IT infrastructure. In order to...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Downloads
Enabling IT Consolidation with iSCSI SANs and Wide-area Data Services (Podcast)
Nov 2007
To set up and manage a consolidated IT infrastructure that shares server and storage resources among distributed branch offices, many companies are turning to a combination of intelligent,...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
Control Your Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure with VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Aug 2011
VMware vCenter™ Configuration Manager collects, stores, fixes and manages configuration settings from servers and workstations, across physical and virtual environments. Using vCenter...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Understanding the HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture
Aug 2011
HP CloudSystem is an integrated system for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid clouds. HP CloudSystem combines servers, storage, networking and security together with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Gwinnett Medical Center relies on HP to help meet care goals
Aug 2011
Gwinnett Medical Center uses the HP storage area network (SAN)-which features five EVA systems split between its two data centers-to support almost all of its critical clinical and enterprise...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Norman Regional Health System: ROI Case Study
Aug 2011
Norman Regional Health System improves reliability, reduces costs, improves patient care and gains $6.1M in benefits with an HP and Meditech solution. Norman Regional Health System, a...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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White Papers
Enabling Consolidation and Scaling Down to Provide Power Management for Cloud Computing
May 2011
Consolidation and scaling down can be used as enabling techniques to effectively manage power for distributed systems. To support power management for cloud computing with consolidation and...
Provided by Seoul National University
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White Papers
8 Phases of a Successful Consolidation Initiative
Aug 2007
As organizations look to reduce the physical and environmental footprint of their IT operations, consolidation is a logical first step. However, a poorly planned or executed consolidation effort...
Provided by PlateSpin
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Whitepapers
Technical Report: Exchange Server 2003 on IBM System Storage N Series
Oct 2007
This paper establishes best-practices guidelines for testing and validating IBM System Storage N series with Microsoft Exchange Server workloads. It provides detailed and easy to follow steps on...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic
Jan 2008
Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy,...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Strategies for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption
Jan 2008
With concerns about power consumption and energy costs growing, efforts are underway to make data centers more "green" (energy efficient) and sustainable (reducing the use of non-renewable...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning
Jan 2008
Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Presentations
HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Product Demo
Mar 2008
Before now, midsize customers settled for either an expensive and complex storage array or a low cost storage solution that lacked functionality. Now experience virtual storage with enterprise...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Design Guide for Cisco Unity Virtualization
Apr 2009
Virtualization has emerged as a leading trend in the data center. Organizations are embracing the virtualized data center for a variety of reasons, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO),...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Southwestern/Great American Virtualizes on IBM BladeCenter for Full Disaster Recovery
Apr 2009
Southwestern/Great American relied on multiple systems to manage its business for many years. But there was little application integration between the environments. Read this case study to see how...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Norsk Hydro Improves IT Service Levels and Lowers Costs With NetApp Storage Solution
Feb 2009
Norsk Hydro, Norway's largest company, is one of the world's leading energy and materials providers. Hydro IS Partner, an individual business fully owned by Norsk Hydro, provides information...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sirius Helps Cascade Lighten the Load of Storage Migration
Jan 2009
Headquartered just outside Portland, Oregon, Cascade Corporation is a global leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of materials-handling equipment and related technologies. Oregon,...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Boston University's College of Engineering Achieves 90% Storage Consolidation
Mar 2009
Founded in 1839, Boston University is an internationally recognized institution of higher education and research. With more than 30,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students, BU is...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
UNC Hospitals Teams With Agfa to Improve Access to Patient Information With NetApp Storage
Mar 2009
University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals treats patients from all 100 North Carolina counties and from throughout the southeast. In addition to comprehensive medical, surgical, and psychiatric...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Salamander Industrie-Produkte Enjoys 40% Decrease in Storage Maintenance Costs
Mar 2009
Salamander Industrie-Produkte (SIP) stands for high-quality and versatile plastic profile technology for windows and doors by Salamander and Brugmann. Salamander Industrie-Produkte (SIP) wanted to...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Trading.Point Unifies Compliance for Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server
Mar 2009
Trading.Point is a national, well-established consulting and software company headquartered in Bielefeld, Germany. The company develops individual, organizational, business, and logistical system...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Centaline Property Enhances Overall Business Competitiveness With NetApp
May 2009
Centaline Property, the flagship of Centaline Group, was established in Hong Kong in 1978. Centaline Property has established branches in 30 cities nationwide, with over 800 offices and local...
Provided by NetApp
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Webcasts
Increase Productivity and Information Availability with ESB Messaging & Enrichment and Industry Connectivity
Dec 2009
Learn how Mayo Clinic improved information availability and improved productivity Mayo Clinic, an internationally renowned group medical practice has embarked on a project to integrate...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Optimize Your Storage: A Blueprint for Deduplication in VMware Environments
Oct 2009
As companies continue to investigate ways of cutting IT spending, virtualization and data deduplication are two technologies that are on the minds of all IT managers. Next-generation datacenters...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network
Feb 2008
Many companies face a common problem - they need to reduce storage management costs while providing additional capacity. To overcome this challenge, companies are reducing the physical number of...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
Nov 2009
An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN)...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Resource Center
Better together: Engineering Collaboration at the Heart of Breakthrough Capability with VMware software and Intel hardware
Oct 2009
Intel has a well established rhythm of technology innovation - and a lot of really smart architects who know a thing or two about cpu design - but we get innovative ideas from the outside, too....
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
Origin Energy Enhances and Streamlines Financial Reporting
Dec 2008
Origin Energy is Australasia's leading integrated energy company focused on gas and oil exploration and production, power generation, renewables, and energy retailing. Based in Sydney, the company...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Thin Provisioning Reinvented
Oct 2009
Managing IT storage infrastructure is an endless balancing act of providing enterprise-class functionality and services while controlling costs. "Thin provisioning" is the practice of allocating...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Snapshots Reinvented
Oct 2009
The ability to create and manage snapshots of existing volumes is among the most fundamental features commonly offered by enterprise-class storage systems today. In this white paper, we describe...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Performance Reinvented
Oct 2009
One of the major requirements of any SAN administration team is to provide users and applications with adequate performance levels. This task becomes increasingly difficult with demands for high...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Enterprise Storage Total Cost of Ownership with IBM XIV
Oct 2009
A high-end storage system's total cost of ownership (TCO) is like an iceberg: the vast majority of costs are hidden from view. Comparing systems by looking at obvious factors, like capacity and...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Power Consumption Reinvented
Oct 2009
Reducing power consumption is one of the most significant challenges of IT centers today. With storage needs on a steep rise, it is increasingly clear that new approaches must be explored....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Ideal Storage for the New Media Era
Oct 2009
The last decade has seen a revolution in the way in which digital information is generated and organized. The IBM XIV® Storage System provides a revolutionary solution for these requirements, in...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented
Oct 2009
Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Technical Description: IBMXIV Storage System
Oct 2009
The IBMXIV® Storage System offers a new level of high-end disk system performance and reliability. It is a core component of theIBMInformation Infrastructure which helps clients address their...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Product Overview: IBMXIV Storage System
Oct 2009
The IBMXIV® Storage System is a revolutionary high-end open disk system designed to support key current and future business require-ments for a highly available information infrastructure. Its...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Fact Sheet : IBMXIV Storage System
Oct 2009
The IBM XIV® Storage System is a ground-breaking, high-end disk system, designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Built from a grid of standard...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Success Story: NaviSite
Oct 2009
"In a sense, our IT infrastructure is our product, says Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services for NaviSite. "By building a best-in-class delivery platform—storage, service,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Success Story: Bezeq International
Oct 2009
Bezeq International launched its XIV® storage solution by deploying a single system for peripheral enterprise storage needs. Within a year and a half, it had expanded the solution to four...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Making the case for migration
Oct 2009
This brief describes how Gerber Scientific, working with an IBM storage implementation team, migrated its production SAP applications and Oracle database from an existing proprietary storage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Success Story: VCUHS
Oct 2009
VCUHS IT management felt it imperative to standardize on a single vendor. "By then, IBM XIV was available," Johnson recalls. "We realized that it was either the best stuff since sliced bread or...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Success Story: Bank Leumi
Oct 2009
Today, Bank Leumi leverages the IBM XIV system's single-tier architecture to consolidate storage tiers, achieve excellent performance and dramatically reduce management overhead.
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Transport Organisation Achieves 99 Per Cent Availability With Refreshed Datacentre From Dell
Aug 2009
Nexus wanted to deliver higher application availability to improve business continuity. In addition, it wanted to simplify system management, freeing up staff for more strategic work. Nexus worked...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Sodexo Do Brasil Comercial Ltda. Consolidates All Company Data Onto a Single, Shared System
Aug 2009
Sodexo do Brasil Comercial Ltda., a world leader in workers' benefits and services, was founded in 1966 in Marseilles, France. Sodexo employs 342,000 workers worldwide, distributed among 29,000...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Sistema Estatal De Informatica Gobierno Del Estado De Mexico Improves Online Service to Citizens
Jul 2009
Sistema Estatal de Informatica Gobierno del Estado de Mexico is located in Toluca, Mexico and serves as the IT organization for all agencies in the state government. Its mission is to coordinate...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
OLTP Best Practices for HP MSA2000 With Microsoft SQL Server 2008
May 2009
This paper shows how to best implement the consolidation of an existing multi-server database environment into a single, easy-to-manage, and scalable instance of SQL Server 2008 based server. The...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for Implementing Citrix XenServer, HP Edition v5.5 on HP ProLiant Servers
Jul 2009
More and more, businesses are looking to virtualize for a multitude of reasons. It may be to consolidate old hardware running old applications and operating systems on to newer more efficient...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP StorageWorks Systems Manage the Growing Flood of Data for Netherlands Telecom Leader KPN
Aug 2009
KPN is the largest telephone company in the Netherlands - and a leading supplier of Internet services to businesses and consumers - supporting more than 2 million Internet subscribers and more...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Consolidated IT Event Management: Five Requirements for Greater Efficiency
Jun 2009
During a downturn, it's hard to see the upside. Today, revenues are down and budgets have fallen along with them. Companies have frozen capital expenditures and the push is on to cut the costs of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Serving Up Higher Performance at Quiznos
Feb 2009
Quiznos was experiencing rapid growth of its business. And it needed its planning and financial systems and process to keep pace. It needed to Standardize, integrate, consolidate, and simplify the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
HP Insight Capacity Advisor: A Look Under the Hood
Jan 2009
This paper provides a detailed look at how one can put HP Capacity Advisor to work in environment. The discussion encompasses an overview of the software's key capabilities and a look at how it is...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
IBM Case Study: Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Oct 2008
Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) is the fourth-largest school district in the U.S. With an annual budget of $6.1 billion, the school system has approximately 350,000 students, 50,000...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Danish University Focuses on Being in the Top 100 Worldwide
Jul 2012
Aarhus University has become one of the largest higher education institutions in Denmark. Aarhus Universities challenges are to eradicate problems associated with a multi-technology legacy...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Developing an Enterprise flash strategy
Nov 2012
Starting from the definition, Storage Switzerland explains the challenges implicit in the development of an Enterprise Flash Strategy as a means to improve performance. With an emphasis on the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
CMOD - Buyer's Guide
Dec 2012
Going beyond the traditional enterprise report management (ERM) solution, IBM Content Manager OnDemand software provides high-volume information capture and flexible search and retrieval options....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Buyer's E-Guide to Tomorrow's SAN Technology
Dec 2012
Changing business needs are creating challenging new data-storage demands. Many companies are reaching the limits of their current storage systems. Fortunately, innovations in storage area...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Bayllocator: A Proactive System to Predict Server Utilization and Dynamically Allocate Memory Resources Using Bayesian Networks and Ballooning
Nov 2012
With the advent of virtualization and cloud computing, virtualized systems can be found from small companies to service providers and big data centers. All of them use this technology because of...
Provided by University of Orleans
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Whitepapers
A Base Algorithm for Computing the Shortest Path of Spheres
Feb 2009
Computing the shortest path among a plural number of spherical balls is essential in 3D computer graphics. The problem of finding the shortest path of three spheres is fundamental to the more...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Dec 2012
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,...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Empowering Education and Advanced Research
Jan 2013
The University of Siegen is a modern educational establishment with a strong international profile. Their challenges were to optimize IT services to increase educational and operational...
Provided by Cisco
-
Whitepapers
Information Loss in Static Nonlinearities
Sep 2011
In this paper, conditional entropy is used to quantify the information loss induced by passing a continuous random variable through a memoryless nonlinear input-output system. The authors derive...
Provided by Graz University of Technology
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Whitepapers
Integrating NetApp Storage with SAP NetWeaver Landscape Virtualization
Apr 2012
Technical Report - This document describes a solution on a NetApp shared storage infrastructure that provides system administrators with the ability to quickly copy, clone, and manage SAP systems....
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Dynamic Priority Scheduling for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Apr 2012
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDIs) are gaining popularity in cloud computing by allowing companies to deploy their office environments in a virtualized setting instead of relying on physical...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
TechRepublic Resource Guide: Reliable Data Servers
Nov 2007
The backend components for handling massive amounts of data are not widely discussed or written about, but they are an absolutely critical part of running a healthy IT infrastructure. In order to...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Downloads
Enabling IT Consolidation with iSCSI SANs and Wide-area Data Services (Podcast)
Nov 2007
To set up and manage a consolidated IT infrastructure that shares server and storage resources among distributed branch offices, many companies are turning to a combination of intelligent,...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
Control Your Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure with VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
Aug 2011
VMware vCenter™ Configuration Manager collects, stores, fixes and manages configuration settings from servers and workstations, across physical and virtual environments. Using vCenter...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Ensuring a Secure and Compliant Virtual Environment with VMWare
Aug 2011
This three-page brief outlines the challenges of securing and managing compliance across a virtual environment, while highlighting VMware solution key benefits and capabilities.
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
The Need to Standardize Storage Device Performance Metrics
Aug 2011
In this IDC white paper, sponsored by Seagate, IDC lays the foundation and discusses the importance for storage device vendors to define and coalesce around a set of common performance metrics...
Provided by Seagate
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Whitepapers
Understanding the HP CloudSystem Reference Architecture
Aug 2011
HP CloudSystem is an integrated system for building and managing services across private, public and hybrid clouds. HP CloudSystem combines servers, storage, networking and security together with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Gwinnett Medical Center relies on HP to help meet care goals
Aug 2011
Gwinnett Medical Center uses the HP storage area network (SAN)-which features five EVA systems split between its two data centers-to support almost all of its critical clinical and enterprise...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Norman Regional Health System: ROI Case Study
Aug 2011
Norman Regional Health System improves reliability, reduces costs, improves patient care and gains $6.1M in benefits with an HP and Meditech solution. Norman Regional Health System, a...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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White Papers
Enabling Consolidation and Scaling Down to Provide Power Management for Cloud Computing
May 2011
Consolidation and scaling down can be used as enabling techniques to effectively manage power for distributed systems. To support power management for cloud computing with consolidation and...
Provided by Seoul National University
-
White Papers
8 Phases of a Successful Consolidation Initiative
Aug 2007
As organizations look to reduce the physical and environmental footprint of their IT operations, consolidation is a logical first step. However, a poorly planned or executed consolidation effort...
Provided by PlateSpin
-
Whitepapers
Technical Report: Exchange Server 2003 on IBM System Storage N Series
Oct 2007
This paper establishes best-practices guidelines for testing and validating IBM System Storage N series with Microsoft Exchange Server workloads. It provides detailed and easy to follow steps on...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
One of Oregon's Largest Counties Deploys Equallogic
Jan 2008
Clackamas County, Oregon, is home to more than 338,000 people. Heavily timbered, the county's geographical features include Mt. Hood and numerous rivers - the Willamette, Clackamas, Sandy,...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
White Papers
Strategies for Reducing Data Center Power Consumption
Jan 2008
With concerns about power consumption and energy costs growing, efforts are underway to make data centers more "green" (energy efficient) and sustainable (reducing the use of non-renewable...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
-
Case Studies
Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning
Jan 2008
Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Whitepapers
Edison Group TCO White Paper: EMC, NetApp, and HP Midrange Storage Arrays
Nov 2007
Edison Group analysts put the management software of an HP Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) system through a series of typical day-to-day storage management tasks. The same tasks were also evaluated...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Presentations
HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Product Demo
Mar 2008
Before now, midsize customers settled for either an expensive and complex storage array or a low cost storage solution that lacked functionality. Now experience virtual storage with enterprise...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
A Guide to Storing More Intelligently
Mar 2008
With enterprise IT organizations battling year-over-year information growth rates of 50 to 60 percent, we need to start storing information more intelligently. This will improve energy efficiency,...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
A Guide to Virtualising Your Information Infrastructure
Mar 2008
Today, Virtualisation is at the top of every IT shop's "must-have" lists as CIOs and data center managers look to tackle challenges such as system growth, complex servers and storage, power...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Tape Consolidation With the Sun Storagetek L1400 Tape Library - Achieving Midrange Storage Efficiencies: An Overview and Comparison With the Quantum Scalar i2000
Sep 2007
This paper introduces general tape consolidation concepts and describes the Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library features that support consolidation. Consolidation benefits fall into three key areas:...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Whitepapers
HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management Software Suite Version 6.0 Host Cluster Functionality White Paper
Jan 2008
Given the complexity of customer environments that Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management (SRM) software manages, version 6.0 supports automatic discovery of popular cluster servers and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks IP Distance Gateway Solution
Mar 2008
Today, most organizations are focused on their business operations and ask the question "Is business well-protected from a disaster?" There needs to be a well-researched response to this question....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
The Drive for Green IT: Consolidation in the Federal Data Center
Sep 2007
"Green IT" has gained some significant exposure in the market place recently. In both public and private sectors IT products are increasingly trying to adhere to this new scenario. But the...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
The New Foundation of Storage: Xiotech's Intelligent Storage Element
May 2008
For the last several decades the underlying elements of data storage--disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers--have remained more or less the same, and have been unable to keep pace with...
Provided by Xiotech
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Whitepapers
IT Optimisation: the low fat approach to IT
May 2008
A typical business spends 80% of its IT budget - managing and operating its IT infrastructure, rather than investing in it.This paper looks at ways you can optimise your IT and save money.
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Transforming the Data Center with Unified Fabric
May 2008
Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) really the long-awaited breakthrough that will transparently integrate your network servers and storage, or is it simply the latest industry hype? Get the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
Data Center Design for Cloud Computing: Technology for Tomorrow's Cloud
Sep 2011
A practical guide about preparing virtualized data centers to support cloud computing, including 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking, trusted server pools, scale-out storage, and power management.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
Intel IT: Cloud Storage for Efficiency and Capacity Management
Oct 2011
Moving to a highly-virtualized, shared SAN environment has forced us to develop new storage metrics and management approaches to boost efficiency and reduce costs.
Provided by Intel Corporation
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Whitepapers
ITG Executive Summary: Value Proposition for IBM System Storage
Mar 2008
How will you meet the challenges of managing growth and keeping costs down? Read this executive summary to find out about the future of SAP in large organizations. You'll learn why storage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Reducing Data Centre Costs and Simultaneously Implementing Environmental Policy
Jun 2008
What are UK companies doing about energy efficiency? In Q1 this year, analyst IDL to profiled decision makers with responsibility for environmental policy and Data Centre operations to better...
Provided by IBM
