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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
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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White Papers
IDC white paper: A New Era in Midrange storage
Jul 2011
The exponential growth of data is pushing the limits of midmarket storage capabilities. IBM® has developed new architectures that can scale up to this demand. This white paper elaborates on...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Oct 2011
Hear how a university has implemented IBM's social business and cloud solutions.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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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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
Reduce Data, Reduce Costs with Smarter Backup and Restore
Jun 2011
Data growth remains one of the top reasons for increased IT costs. Companies need scalable and affordable solutions to help reduce their overall data storage footprint and simplify overall storage...
Provided by IBM
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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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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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White Papers
HP 3PAR Storage Systems Designed for Mission Critical High Availability
May 2012
In this technical whitepaper, learn how HP 3PAR Storage Systems have been designed to deliver 99.999% and greater availability, bringing new possibilities to storage thinking outside the realms of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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White Papers
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
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
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC): "A Building-Block Approach With DS4000 Storage"
Oct 2007
The IBM SVC (SAN Volume Controller) scales far beyond any single large storage subsystem, so an overall storage methodology should be employed to manage the storage at the virtual layer. A virtual...
Provided by IBM
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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
HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array tested configuration for MEDITECH Health Care Information System - MAGIC, CS 5.x and CS 6.0
Oct 2011
This whitepaper describes the configuration used to verify that MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS) installed and executed successfully on the HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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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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
HP 3PAR Storage Systems Designed for Mission Critical High Availability
May 2012
In this technical whitepaper, learn how HP 3PAR Storage Systems have been designed to deliver 99.999% and greater availability, bringing new possibilities to storage thinking outside the realms of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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White Papers
The Best Way to Build a Cloud - HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Storage provide a solid, flexible foundation
May 2012
Learn how HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Storage provide a solid, flexible foundation for your cloud environment. Co-Sponsored by: Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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White Papers
The Total Economic Impact of HP 3PAR Storage
May 2012
Forrester Consulting provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR Storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over legacy storage platforms. On average, HP 3PAR...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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White Papers
CenterBeam: A Bigger Edge in Cloud Services
May 2012
Learn how CenterBeam boosts storage throughput 10-fold and reclaims 65 percent of chief architect's time by moving from EMC to HP 3PAR Storage and HP VirtualSystems. Co-Sponsored by: Intel...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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Case Studies
GeoEngineers: Riverbed Steelhead Appliances and Equallogic Enable Accelerated, Simplified Replication
Jan 2012
GeoEngineers offers an integrated suite of services for companies looking to build communities, harness and manage the earth's resources, etc. GeoEngineers needed to enable their employees to...
Provided by Riverbed Technology
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White Papers
North York General Hospital doubles storage performance: Cutting costs and simplifying management bystandardizing on IBM XIV
Apr 2012
Increasing data volume and the demands of faster servers drove North York General Hospital to upgrade its aging storage platform. They chose to deploy two IBM® XIV® Storage Systems. Read the...
Provided by IBM
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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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White Papers
Clipper 10 Reasons To Consider Tape for Storage
Mar 2012
"If there was any question that there is a data explosion across the business landscape, just take a closer look at an enterprise data center. Whether it's trying to manage the flow of...
Provided by Oracle
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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Reasoning About the Security Configuration of SAN Switch Fabrics
Oct 2011
Management of a switch fabric security configuration, a core component of Storage Area Networks, is complex and error prone. As a consequence, misconfiguration of and/or a poor understanding of a...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Tolly Test Report: HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System: System ease of use, high availability, performance, and interoperability evaluation
Jan 2011
Today's small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) have ever-growing needs with respect to storage. Not only do SMBs often need many terabytes of storage, they require a level of high-availability...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
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
The Power of Simple with the EMC VNX Family
Jan 2012
Simple...It is probably the last word any IT team would consider when it comes to dealing with data growth and the storage solutions that must be in place to deal with it. But simple is exactly...
Provided by Technologent
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White Papers
Simplicity, Efficiency, and Consolidation with EMC VNXe and EMC Data Domain DD160
Jan 2012
When it comes to your organizations traditional IT infrastructure, you have a problem...growth. That, coupled with the rapid adoption of virtualization solutions is quickly stressing storage and...
Provided by Technologent
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White Papers
Evaluator Group: HP's Information Supply Chain (Optimizing Information, Data & Storage for Business Value)
Aug 2011
In this paper sponsored by HP and Intel, we examine each of the major technologies in the Information Supply Chain that should be considered as part of an integrated strategy and then show how...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Real solutions. Real results. Customers speak on HP Storage Virtualization solutions.
Dec 2011
Data volume is rapidly increasing for IT organizations around the world. According to IDC, unstructured data is growing at 62% per year. This interactive document sponsored by HP + Intel outlines...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP) & Intel
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White Papers
DAS to SAN Migration Using a Storage Concentrator
Sep 2010
A common side effect of server consolidation projects or implementing a centralized Fibre Channel SAN is scores of unused disk arrays. Many organizations are reluctant to perform what they call...
Provided by Stonefly
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Case Studies
Intel ESAA/BGM Design Win Snapshot
Sep 2006
Validated server solutions backed by the Intel Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel ESAA) deliver the highest standards for quality and interoperability. Installation of a failover cluster...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
University of Pittsburgh Offers Unbeatable Levels of Availability to Users
Sep 2011
Metropolitan Community College (MCC) of Omaha is a comprehensive, full-service community college that offers affordable, quality education. Metropolitan Community College needs to meet booming...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
A Large European Telecommunications Company: Reducing Energy Costs by 25-50 Percent
Sep 2011
European telecommunications company, which maintains about 25 peta-bytes of data. Previously 90 percent of the company's SAN data was stored on Tier 1 storage devices. European telecommunications...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
ESG: HP Gives Exchange Customers Storage Flexibility
May 2011
This white paper sponsored by HP and Intel discusses Exchange business drivers, market dynamics, and storage trends -- and how HP + Intel storage solutions can enhance an Exchange environment....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The HP 3PAR Architecture - Returning Simplicity to IT Infrastructures
Nov 2011
Companies faced with growing capacity requirements, under utilization of existing storage assets, and administrative inefficiency are searching for ways to decrease both cost and complexity. As an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Evaluator Group: HP's Converged Storage (A Vision for Emerging Customer Requirements)
Jul 2011
HP and Intel are building a multifaceted storage product portfolio with a common foundation that will enable the integration of server and storage into Converged Systems. The most desirable...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array tested configuration for MEDITECH Health Care Information System - MAGIC, CS 5.x and CS 6.0
Oct 2011
This whitepaper describes the configuration used to verify that MEDITECH Health Care Information System (HCIS) installed and executed successfully on the HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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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Case Studies
How Cisco Deployed a High-Speed WAN
Dec 2007
The Cisco headquarters campus in San Jose, California, was served by four separate OC-3 links for Internet connectivity. When one of the link providers stopped delivering enterprise support to...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Sitco Diversifies With Powerful New Cloud Offerings Enabled by NetApp Storage
Oct 2010
Sitco Business Solutions has provided telecommunications services to thousands of customers in Indiana and Illinois. Sitco set out to establish a secure, fully redundant data center featuring the...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
World-Class Storage Team Solves Top Challenges in a Large-Scale SANscreen Deployment
Sep 2009
Angelica Brown led a world-class team of storage technologists supporting one of the largest online storage infrastructures. In enterprise-class switch upgrades, firmware updates pose less risk...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
Oct 2011
Hear how a university has implemented IBM's social business and cloud solutions.
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
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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White Papers
IBM BladeCenter vs. HP BladeSystem Energy Efficiency Comparison Study
Oct 2011
This Edison Group paper validates through a third party that IBM BladeCenter leads the HP BladeSystem in energy efficiency when utilizing real-world blade server configurations to drive a...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Best Practices for Storage Networks
Oct 2007
Storage networks often contain company proprietary information, trade secrets, and mission critical data. Ensuring the availability of the storage network and its components as well as the...
Provided by National Security Agency
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Case Studies
Property Agency Automates Data Storage With Unified Fabric
Mar 2011
The Landesbetrieb Liegenschafts-und Baubetreuung (LBB), the estate and construction management agency of Rheinland-Pfalz, offers construction and property management services to the federal state...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Coventry and Warwickshire IT Collaborative Meets Data and Security Needs for NHS Clients With NetApp
Jul 2011
The client is an IT Collaborative now supports over 4,000 users across the region. They need to replace a legacy SAN that was underperforming and failing to meet the needs of its users with an...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
ESG Lab Validation Report - Reducing Storage Capacity and Costs without Compromise
Sep 2011
ESG Lab Validation Report - Reducing Storage Capacity and Costs without Compromise Even with the plethora of storage efficiency technologies-such as deduplication and thin provisioning-available...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
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 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Michigan hospital improves patient care with healthy infrastructure powered by HP and VMware
Aug 2011
Effective medical care requires accurate and timely information, which is increasingly going online. At Metro Health, doctors and nurses use an electronic medical record (EMR) application from...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
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 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
HP 3PAR Utility Storage: Next-Generation Storage for Virtual and Cloud Data Centers
Aug 2011
While there is indeed no way to "future-proof" the data center, there are certainly actions that can be taken today to maximize infrastructure efficiency and to build in the agility necessary to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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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Whitepapers - Video
Novus SERP Flash Demo
Jul 2011
Novus Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP) brings business intelligence to the storage environment. It tells you what business units are using which storage assets, when they use it, where...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
IDC white paper: A New Era in Midrange storage
Jul 2011
The exponential growth of data is pushing the limits of midmarket storage capabilities. IBM® has developed new architectures that can scale up to this demand. This white paper elaborates on...
Provided by IBM
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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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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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
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
