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Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
Jan 2012
A new storage architecture, Hybrid Cloud Storage is emerging on the market. Its architecture combines the benefits of on-premise Scale-out NAS with public Cloud storage. In January 2012 Aberdeen...
Provided by Red Hat AU
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Whitepapers
Analyst Paper, Kusnetzky Group: Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
This analyst report by The Kusnetzky Group discusses how real-time compression may be one of the best storage efficiency approaches in the market, especially in virtualization environments.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Running Microsoft Enterprise Applications on VMware vSphere, NetApp Unified Storage, and Cisco Unified Fabric
Jun 2011
Technical Report – This document describes a solution that showcases virtualizing Microsoft applications on VMware vSphere 4.1 virtual infrastructure and NetApp unified storage, achieving...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
SAN Conceptual and Design Basics
Sep 2006
VMware ESX Server can be used in conjunction with a SAN (Storage Area Network), a specialized high-speed network that connects computer systems to high performance storage subsystems. Using ESX...
Provided by EMC
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eBooks
IBM Storwize V7000 Eguide: All-in-one Data Storage
Dec 2012
Your storage system is important to your business. That is why a storage virtualization solution based on IBM Storwize V7000 will deliver immediate benefits to your IT operations. This guide will...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN
Jun 2009
Every SAN is built from a combination of software, hardware, and services, and in this respect iSCSI SANs from HP are no different from any other SAN. But that's where the similarity ends. HP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks P4500 SAS SAN vs.Dell EqualLogic PS6000XV:Feature and Functionality Comparison
May 2010
Hewlett-Packard ("HP") commissioned VeriTest, the testing service of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., to compare features and functionality between the HP StorageWorks P4500 SAS SAN Solutions and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
What the cloud means for storage growth (and cost)
Apr 2013
This white paper is directed at IT managers and storage administrators who are looking to better understand the implications of the cloud on storage growth and management. It outlines a better...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Optimizing and Protecting Data with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Mar 2011
Many IT organizations today use inefficient storage management techniques underneath their Oracle Databases that are based on traditional practices that are no longer the industry's best operating...
Provided by Oracle
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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
SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
Feb 2008
The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) has unique SAN fabric configuration requirements that are different from what one may be used to for other storage devices. A quality SAN configuration can go a...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Apr 2013
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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Whitepapers
The HP 3PAR Architecture
Dec 2011
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...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Backup Strategy Guide
Oct 2005
This paper describes the development of a backup strategy. It reflects typical backup issues and supplies a backup questionnaire for the solution design. It is important to understand the customer...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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
Top 10 reasons why you should choose HP StoreOnce
Feb 2011
You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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eBooks
eBook Oracle Business Process Management
Oct 2012
The total volume of data being processed and stored by businesses is rising exponentially. Unfortunately, data storage capacity is not keeping pace with data growth, necessitating greater...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Aerospec and EMC VNXe
Sep 2011
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...
Provided by EMC
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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
HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System Data Sheet
Jan 2011
The new HP X5000 G2 Network Storage Systems is ideal for midsize companies. The solution, a two-node Network Attached Storage (NAS) cluster with shared storage built on HP BladeSystem technology....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
5 Must-Ask Questions for SAN Storage Consolidation Success
Mar 2012
Storage consolidation, when done right, helps your business keep costs in check and allows you to take full advantage of scale-out virtualization. Download this paper for a look at five questions...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Best Practices Guide
Mar 2013
Finding the right storage solution is a lengthy and difficult task. This guide is aimed at system and storage administrators of all levels. HP 3PAR StoreServ storage is one of the most advanced...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
Assessing Performance in HP LeftHand SANs: HP LeftHand Starter, Virtualization, and Multi-Site SANs Deliver Reliable, Scalable, and Predictable Performance
Apr 2009
The HP LeftHand Starter, Virtualization, and Multi-Site SANs deliver reliable, scalable, and predictable performance for virtualization as well as for enterprise production environments that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Understanding Boot-From-SAN Technology
Sep 2005
Booting servers from storage area networks (SANs) can provide significant benefits in today's complex data center environments. One of the driving forces behind SANs is the need to deliver...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Data Migration Best Practices and Considerations
Jun 2008
This white paper discusses the recommendations for building a SAN environment to achieve the most availability. This white paper is provided to discuss best practices and recommendations for...
Provided by Enterprise Data Storage Consulting Now
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White Papers
The Important Role of Storage for Success in Server Virtualization
Oct 2010
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas—cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management—and illustrates how SANs provide...
Provided by PC Mall
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White Papers
Delivering It Services to the Enterprise Using Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Processes
May 2008
Information Technology (IT) Service providers enjoy working in the fast lane, bringing bleeding edge technology to end-users who change requirements seemingly on whim. This week's Storage Area...
Provided by University of Maryland
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Webcasts
Best Practices for Migrating Your First Generation SANs to Cisco MDS 9000
Jul 2007
With the ongoing quest to efficiently manage the many costs of the data growth, many organizations are considering their options to migrate from a first generation SAN platform to a SAN Director...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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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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Webcasts
TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage (Level 300)1
Jan 2008
This webcast covers the new cluster storage architecture and describes how the new quorum model works in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. The presenter explores the new way that how shared storage...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
HP StorageWorks MSA2000sa Configuration: Best Practices White Paper
Jul 2008
The MSA2000sa is a direct attach 3 Gb SAS connected 2U Storage Area Network (SAN) solution designed for small to medium size deployments or remote locations. It comes in two models - a basic...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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Whitepapers
Best Practices in SAN Migration
Mar 2007
With the exponential growth of data over the last five to seven years, the task has started to become overwhelming, to say the least. And with the additional stress of data retention due to...
Provided by QLogic
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Whitepapers
Dramatically improve storage efficiency with IBM Storwize V7000
Mar 2011
Your business depends on its data. And you're probably gathering more and more data every day. You need a midrange storage system that offers the efficiency and performance to meet these needs....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The total economic impact of HP 3PAR Storage
Nov 2012
In this report sponsored by HP + Intel®, Forrester Research provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR Storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Storwize V7000 capitalizes on Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
IBM Storwize V7000 adds a new leadership storage efficiency feature with IBM Real-time Compression to extend it's storage efficiency lead as the best mid-range platform for Exchange, VMware,...
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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White Papers
How to Build a SAN Guide: Convert Any Windows Server Into Shared Storage
Aug 2011
This How To Build A SAN guide provides simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Storage Area Network (SAN) or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86...
Provided by Starwind Software
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White Papers
Doing More With Less Money
Nov 2011
1TB of SAN-based storage is typically worth about $5,000. What if you could instantly find out that you had 500GB of free LUNs, or 300GB of old VMware snapshots and 200GB of old videos on your...
Provided by SolarWinds
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White Papers
The Power of Simple with the EMC VNX Family
Apr 2012
The storage you use can have a big impact on how your network operates, from top to bottom. When you think about it, nearly every operation on your network involves some sort of data, and that...
Provided by Computer Design & Integration
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Whitepapers
EMC STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUITE: How Storage Resource Management Suite Meets Today's Storage Management Challenges
May 2013
This white paper outlines the common use cases Storage Resource Management Suite addresses including comprehensive monitoring, reporting, and analysis for heterogeneous block, file, and...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
IDC Review - IT Informatik: Linux on IBM Power
May 2013
An IT consulting services provider in Germany accelerates new customer environment setups by 80 percent and reduces operational costs by 50 percent when it implements a completely virtual strategy...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
What the cloud means for storage growth (and cost)
Apr 2013
This white paper is directed at IT managers and storage administrators who are looking to better understand the implications of the cloud on storage growth and management. It outlines a better...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Contemporary Meaning of Midrange Storage
Apr 2013
This Enterprise Strategy Group paper examines the specific demands facing any midrange storage system offering with a focus on HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000’s ability to deliver. Sponsored by HP and...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
HP Thin Technologies: A Competitive Comparison
Apr 2013
As the drive to "do more with less" becomes a mantra for many organizations, optimizing space utilization is a key goal of many IT departments. Storage continues to be one of the major cost...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR StoreServ Double Density: Delivering twice the VM density versus traditional arrays
Apr 2013
Why does storage performance matter? There are few storage administrators who have not witnessed an unhappy moment where lack of storage performance brought an application to its knees. But...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000: Enterprise for the Mid-range
Apr 2013
Over the past couple of years the mid-range storage market has become a hotbed of ongoing innovation. The mid-market demands enterprise capability -- performance, resiliency, and features -- but...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments
Apr 2013
Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk
Apr 2013
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®...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
NetApp FAS6240 Clustered SAN Champion of Champions
Apr 2013
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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Whitepapers
MAZE Security Protocol for Self Securing S4 Storage Server
Nov 2012
Storage Area Network (SAN) is an emerging technology in the industry with the capability to handle ever growing requirement for data storage in any enterprise. The flexibility provided by Storage...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Running Microsoft Enterprise Applications on VMware vSphere, NetApp Unified Storage, and Cisco Unified Fabric
Jun 2011
Technical Report – This document describes a solution that showcases virtualizing Microsoft applications on VMware vSphere 4.1 virtual infrastructure and NetApp unified storage, achieving...
Provided by NetApp
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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
The Contemporary Meaning of -- and Demands upon -- Midrange Storage
Mar 2013
New technologies are enabling organizations to more confidently transform their data centers without compromising on performance, scalability or availability. This ESG paper will examine the...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
HP StoreEasy Storage: Remote Office - Branch Office (ROBO) Solutions
Mar 2013
Do you struggle with managing storage growth? Managing unstructured data is a huge problem for organizations right now and many are looking for solutions to help them manage. Read on to learn how...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Best Practices Guide
Mar 2013
Finding the right storage solution is a lengthy and difficult task. This guide is aimed at system and storage administrators of all levels. HP 3PAR StoreServ storage is one of the most advanced...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
ESG: HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Lab Validation Report
Mar 2013
This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing and validation of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 storage array, with a focus on autonomic simplicity, efficient unified storage,...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
Centralized Systems Management: Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Vs. HP Insight Control for vCenter Server
Mar 2013
Leveraging the power of the Lifecycle Controller 2 and Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter, Dell made server management simpler and faster in our test scenarios. In our tests, using Dell...
Provided by Principled Technologies
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Whitepapers
Aerospec and EMC VNXe
Sep 2011
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...
Provided by EMC
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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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Whitepapers
Clipper Group Whitepaper : Storage Efficiency - Achieve up to 40% reduction in cost per TB
Mar 2013
When you go into the supermarket do you ever wonder how many different products are on the shelves? Do you wonder how they determine what goes on each shelf? All of the shelves are shared among...
Provided by IBM Australia
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
Jan 2012
A new storage architecture, Hybrid Cloud Storage is emerging on the market. Its architecture combines the benefits of on-premise Scale-out NAS with public Cloud storage. In January 2012 Aberdeen...
Provided by Red Hat AU
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Whitepapers
Various Factor Comparison of DRAM-SSD and HDD Using TPC-H Benchmark
Oct 2012
Recently, Users needed storage for processing high-capacity data. Meanwhile, the HDD was used primarily as storage device, but SSD was developed as a fast access device. So, the use of SSD...
Provided by Hannam university
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Whitepapers
ESG Research Brief - Key Challenges in Data Storage
Dec 2012
ESG research recently investigated the top data storage challenges at midmarket and enterprise organizations. More than 400 IT and storage professionals ranked the importance of nineteen storage...
Provided by Quantum
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments
Jan 2013
Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk
Jan 2013
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®...
Provided by IBM
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eBooks
IBM Storwize V7000 Eguide: All-in-one Data Storage
Dec 2012
Your storage system is important to your business. That is why a storage virtualization solution based on IBM Storwize V7000 will deliver immediate benefits to your IT operations. This guide will...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Buyer's E-Guide to Next Generation NAS
Dec 2012
Organizations today are creating more and more data - and they need to store, access and analyze that data for a greater number of purposes than ever before. Existing NAS systems are now being...
Provided by Oracle
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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
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
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
Storwize V7000 capitalizes on Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
IBM Storwize V7000 adds a new leadership storage efficiency feature with IBM Real-time Compression to extend it's storage efficiency lead as the best mid-range platform for Exchange, VMware,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk
Nov 2012
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®...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Analyst Paper, Storage Switzerland: Don't Let Storage Eat Your Cloud ROI
Nov 2012
IBM Storwize V7000 Unified delivers the combined response needed from the storage system while keeping the system simple to manage. The ability of Storwize V7000 Unified to deliver simplified,...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Analyst Paper, Clipper Group: Storwize V7000 capitalizes on Real-time Compression and other extended features for IT Optimization as the best mid-range platform for key business applications
Nov 2012
Why should your data center deploy Storwize V7000 with Real-time Compression? Storwize V7000 provides the enterprise with the financial benefits it needs to meet the growing storage requirements...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Analyst Paper, Mesabi IBM Smarter Storage: What a Smart Idea
Nov 2012
From a storage perspective, IBM's Smarter Storage offers a perspective that not only manages the entire storage services infrastructure more efficiently and productively, but also could free up...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Analyst Paper, Kusnetzky Group: Maximizing the Benefits of Virtualization with Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
This analyst report by The Kusnetzky Group discusses how real-time compression may be one of the best storage efficiency approaches in the market, especially in virtualization environments.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
White Paper, Using IBM data reduction solutions to manage more data with less infrastructure (Tivoli storage software focused)
Nov 2012
One of the most pressing issues for storage administrators today is managing and securing an ever growing amount of data. This white paper discusses specific problems and describes IBM Tivoli...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Storage Switzerland: Smarter Primary Storage Through Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
This report discusses how IBM Real-time Compression reduces immediate storage growth and has a long-term impact on increasing storage efficiency and reducing costs.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Need to Standardize Storage Device Performance Metric
Jul 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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White Papers
How to Build a SAN Guide: Convert Any Windows Server Into Shared Storage
Aug 2011
This How To Build A SAN guide provides simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Storage Area Network (SAN) or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86...
Provided by Starwind Software
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Cloud Storage: Getting the Best of Both Worlds
Jan 2012
A new storage architecture, Hybrid Cloud Storage is emerging on the market. Its architecture combines the benefits of on-premise Scale-out NAS with public Cloud storage. In January 2012 Aberdeen...
Provided by Red Hat AU
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk
Apr 2013
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®...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
BlueLock Builds Low-Cost, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions With HP LeftHand SANs, VMware Combination
Apr 2009
One of the country's leading providers of infrastructure-as-a-service, BlueLock gives clients precisely the amount of computing capacity, storage, bandwidth and disaster recovery capability that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP LeftHand SANs Put to the Test at Los Angeles Mission College; Earn High Marks
Apr 2009
Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC) is a Southern California-based community college with approximately 10,000 students and 550 full-time and part-time faculty/staff members. Like many educational...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Technology Nonprofit Cools Down, Speeds Up With HP Adaptive Infrastructure
Nov 2008
Founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, TechSoup Global (www.techsoupglobal.org) is a nonprofit technology assistance provider with 160 employees. TechSoup wanted to enable the creation of a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP PolyServe Software Improves Performance, Reliability, and Stability of HP Revision and Configuration Management Tool
Jun 2008
Because of its importance to customers, HP is continually looking for ways to improve the service, and wanted to replace the existing infrastructure with one that would be even more effective. It...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Stonegate Lays the Bedrock for Success With HP BladeSystem
Feb 2008
Houston-based Stonegate Production Company began operations in April 2007, bringing together 250 years of combined oil and gas industry experience into a single entity. The company wanted to equip...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
LSAC Boosts Service With Technology
Feb 2009
LSAC is a nonprofit organization founded in 1947 to facilitate the law school admission process. LSAC wanted to enable business continuity and IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices for...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
SoftLayer Improves IT Staff Efficiency by 15% While Introducing More Flexible Services for Customers With Dell Storage
May 2009
SoftLayer needed a scalable storage solution that would allow it to provide SAN storage capacity to customers on demand. The company also wanted to unify three separate storage islands for better...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
10 Steps to Deploying a High-Performance Fault-Tolerant SAN Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and Cisco Catalyst Network Infrastructure
Jun 2009
The Dell EqualLogic family of iSCSI SANs is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the Dell...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.
Aug 2009
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Evaluating Two-And Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms
Sep 2008
Intel IT and Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), End User Platform Integration (EPI), conducted Proof of Concept (PoC) testing and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Competitive SAN Local Switching Solution: Limiting Scalability, Not Improving It
May 2009
Local switching is switching in which traffic does not traverse the backplane of a switch but rather stays on a line card. This concept is positioned as a method for increasing the available...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advantages in VMware Environment
May 2009
Virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, i.e. more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc. However, it...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco SAN Fabric Switches Deliver Compelling Value for Small and Medium-Sized Business SAN Solutions
Mar 2009
For any business to be competitive in the current economic climate, its IT department must adapt to conserve Capital Expenditures (CapEx), while optimizing Operating Expenses (OpEx). As small...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Native Fabric Connectivity for Today's SANs Center Fabric Technology
Sep 2008
Brocade is committed to providing native fabric compatibility throughout its integrated family of Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms. This means that SAN users can expand their existing SANs and...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Integrating Blade Solutions With EqualLogic SANs
Jan 2009
There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper has reviewed three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries: Direct Attach a Dell PowerVault TL2000 / TL4000 to an iSCSI SAN
Nov 2008
To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries (Dell PowerVault TL2000 & TL4000). This offering allows a customer to...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG
Jul 2009
Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V
Jan 2009
With Microsoft® WS 2008 Hyper-V, server virtualization becomes truly pervasive, reaching all segments of the IT market, heightening the need for innovative, cost-effective storage solutions that...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
SQL Advanced Protection Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager
Jan 2009
Microsoft® SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs provide the optimal storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Getting the Message Across
Jun 2009
The messaging infrastructure at Taylor's University College impeded resource sharing and staff mobility, offering little support to accommodate an expanding user base. Dell Global Infrastructure...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform
Jul 2009
U.S. Air Force wanted to meet business demands more flexibly; manage data more simply and efficiently; and mitigate the risk of lost data with a Storage Area Network (SAN) that pools, shares and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
ASOS Increases Its Virtual Shop Front With HP Blade Servers
Jun 2008
ASOS is the UK's largest online fashion and beauty store, attracting more than one million visitors a week. Due to a growing team of web developers and slowing servers, the team's progress was...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP SAN Powers the Storage Future Electronics Can Count on to Run Business 24x7x365
Apr 2009
Future Electronics wanted to create an easily managed, cost-effective Storage Area Network (SAN) that offers performance, reliability, availability and heterogeneous interoperability 24x7x365 for...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Getting Started With VMware vSphere and Emulex/Cisco SANs
Jun 2009
The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable,...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Business Continuance: Driving Data Availability Up and Costs Down
Apr 2009
Many potential reasons for failure can cause business critical applications to go offline and endanger a company's viability. While server virtualization has provided solutions that help with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Integrity Blade Server + SAN Infrastructure for SAP: Transferring SAP Applications With Oracle Database From HP 9000 or AlphaServer to HP Integrity Server Blades and HP StorageWorks SAN Infrastructure
Jun 2008
HP9000 customers have several infrastructure options to consider when upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 and Oracle Database 10g or 11g. The HP Integrity blade server, coupled with HP StorageWorks EVA4400...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Rapid Application Recovery With HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform: Using Point-in-Time Copies and Distance Replication to Meet Toda's Stringent Recovery Objectives
Jul 2009
The backup window for many organizations and applications has been reduced from hours to minutes and even down to seconds. How can an IT staff achieve the goals of the business without...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (HP SVSP)
May 2009
The HP StorageWorks SAN virtualization Services Platform or SVSP is a network-based storage virtualization solution that enables enterprises to manage, pool, and share storage resources to improve...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN
Jun 2009
Every SAN is built from a combination of software, hardware, and services, and in this respect iSCSI SANs from HP are no different from any other SAN. But that's where the similarity ends. HP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: Using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 for Improved Ease of Use, Reduced Cost and Complexity, Increased Availability, and Complete Compatibility
Apr 2009
In order to meet the challenges of running today's data centers, an increasing number of IT organizations like turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Assessing Performance in HP LeftHand SANs: HP LeftHand Starter, Virtualization, and Multi-Site SANs Deliver Reliable, Scalable, and Predictable Performance
Apr 2009
The HP LeftHand Starter, Virtualization, and Multi-Site SANs deliver reliable, scalable, and predictable performance for virtualization as well as for enterprise production environments that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Running VMware Infrastructure 3 on an HP SAN/iQ Software Version 8 SAN
Apr 2009
Before SAN connectivity via the iSCSI software adapter can be enabled, a specific network configuration is required. To correctly enable connectivity, a VMkernel network must be created with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Presentations
Dell Offers Microsoft Consulting Services
Sep 2009
Dell's Burk Buechler describes how Dell ProConsult provides best practice and in-depth expertise to ensure optimal integration of Microsoft's core technologies to address customer needs.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Managing a Vast Technology Infrastructure: Using Microsoft Windows 7, Dell reduces support costs by 25 percent and time to complete imaging work by 50 percent
Aug 2009
Dell is planning to upgrade its 100,000 desktop and portable computers to the Windows 7 operating system to reduce desktop management costs and enhance data security.
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Dell Talks Microsoft Consulting Services
Sep 2009
Dell's Burk Buechler describes Dell's Consulting Services for Microsoft.
Provided by Dell
