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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 unstructured...
Provided by Oracle
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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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Whitepapers
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 HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
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 HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
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, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Converged Storage - A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture
Jun 2012
Organizations need a strategy for rearchitecting storage so that it enables, rather than constricts, the delivery of IT services. According to HP, it's all about Converged Storage, which breaks...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Breaking Boundaries through Converged Storage
Jun 2012
IDG Enterprise offers insight into how HP and Intel are leading the industry with an innovative architectural approach to today's storage needs in the face of yesterday's strategies and the...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Podcasts
CIO Solutions Delivers Flexible, Secure Public and Private Clouds with NetApp
Jun 2012
CIO Solutions, provides IT management and design services to the Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with integrated solutions by NetApp.
Provided by NetApp
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Podcasts
Chesapeake Bay Foundation rescues the bay with NetApp's affordable and efficient solution for mission-enabling IT
Jun 2012
Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
ESG Lab Validation Report: Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease using NetApp FAS2240
Jun 2012
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Optimizes Data Center with CTI, VMware, and NetApp
Jun 2012
Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Wikibon ROI Study: Business Case for Unified Storage Consolidation for Microsoft Windows Installations
Jun 2012
Unified storage has been a hot topic of discussion in the storage business for the last 18-24 months. The discussion has largely focused on which vendors offer which products and functionality,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
UML2SAN: Toward a New Software Performance Engineering Approach
May 2012
Software Performance Engineering (SPE) has recently considered as an important issue in the software development process. It consists on evaluate the performance of a system during the design...
Provided by Lebanese University
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Whitepapers
Balen Municipality
Jun 2012
Balen Municipality Improves Public Services and Cuts Costs with A Modern Storage Platform The Belgian town of Balen has over 21,000 inhabitants and employs approximately 110 civil employees. Due...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy VMware on EMC VNX
Jun 2012
Checklist: Balancing Required Space with Various Applications One of the biggest challenges facing storage administrators today is balancing how much space will be required by the various...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
HP Converged Medical Infrastructure, with Meditech Software
Feb 2011
HP designed the HP Converged Medical Infrastructure for the Meditech 6.0. Find out how, through the experience gained during implementations at hundreds of hospitals, HP designs and delivers joint...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Use Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization as a Bridge to Cloud
Jun 2012
Data center operators who are interested in private cloud storage technologies struggle with moving existing storage infrastructure into a cloud storage paradigm. Heterogeneous storage...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Forrester: Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a Exchange Environment
Jun 2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provides a powerful environment for users to conduct business through scheduling their time (calendar), managing their relationships (contacts), and communicating...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
eGuide: Tomorrow's SAN Technology
Jun 2012
Many companies are reaching the limits of their current storage systems. Fortunately, innovations in storage area networks (SAN) technology can now more easily provide maximum capacity, peak...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
#1 in Storage Market Share
Jul 2012
Find out why EMC leads the market in worldwide network-attached storage (NAS) and unified storage. Recent Gartner analysis attributes increased 2011 revenues to EMC VNX, VNXe, and Data Domain...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
The Future of IP SAN Using SCVM
May 2012
The SCVM, which stands for Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine, creates IP SAN storage as virtual machine, providing the user with the ability to consolidate their virtual data center. The SCVM...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
ESG: HP 3PAR Storage: Optimizing I/O Service Models
Jun 2012
The idea of optimizing storage performance across enterprises is not only a self-evident desire, it is also a need. The growth of storage and the needs of the applications that the storage...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Consolidation Gives 'Green' Light to Greater Agility
Oct 2008
Staffordshire County Council (SCC) employs 30,000 staff who provides around 800,000 local people with vital services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As Staffordshire County Council was already...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Servers and Virtualization Help Stoneridge Reduce Its Server Infrastructure by More Than 50 Percent
Jul 2008
Stoneridge, a global manufacturer of automotive components, wanted to use state-of-the-art technologies to reduce complexity, reduce its IT footprint, and ultimately reduce the total cost of IT...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Compared to the Previous Solution, Dell Servers With Virtualization Help Bumrungrad International Save More Than 60 Percent in Total Cost of Ownership
Aug 2008
Bumrungrad International thrives on technology to drive its success. Following advancements in virtualization technology, the hospital was looking for a stable server platform on which to migrate...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
With the Dell PowerVault MD3000, Hosting Provider Rackspace Is Able to Offer Its Clients the Benefits of an Enterprise-Level Storage Area Network While Keeping Prices Down
Oct 2008
To stay competitive, Rackspace must offer fast, reliable storage in a variety of tiers. It needed to minimize the cost of hardware and support, as well as delays in getting parts or technical...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Maryland Government Agency Responds to User Needs Faster Thanks to a Server and Storage Virtualization Solution From Dell
Oct 2008
A Maryland government agency couldn't grow within its data center, which had reached capacity with 58 physical servers that were underutilized. The agency implemented a new model for data center...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Utah State University Provides 99% Uptime for Its SunGard Banner ERP System While Reducing the Associated IT Footprint by 50%
Oct 2008
Utah State University (USU) needed to consolidate servers and storage to save money, reduce power and cooling requirements, and provide a redundant, scalable infrastructure to support its SunGard...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Optimal Blue Anticipates 50% Improvement in Engine Response Time, Giving Mortgage Sellers an Edge With a High-Performance Pricing Solution Powered by Dell
Sep 2008
Optimal Blue sought to optimize its technology platform by adopting more power efficient servers and flexible storage. The company upgraded from stand-alone servers with direct attached storage to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualizing on Dell Servers Helps Xtralis Reduce Servers by Over 85 Percent, Improve System Performance, and Reduce Downtime
Nov 2008
Xtralis sought to align IT with the company's strategy of tripling its business in three years by quickly standardizing on a global technology infrastructure and reducing downtime. Virtual servers...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
By Simplifying Its Operations, the Rackspace Hosting IT Team Can Grow With No Additional Manpower
Oct 2008
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace quickly found its niche hosting Web, back-office and database applications for companies all over the world. To stay competitive, Rackspace must...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Blade and Rack Servers Provide the Foundation of a High-Density Virtualized Infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing - Supporting Simplified Management, High Performance, and Rapid Deployment
Nov 2008
With the IT infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing growing by more than 100 percent annually, the IT department needed to take action to avoid running out of rack space or spending...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware Over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation With Virtual Interface and InfiniBand
Jan 2008
This paper addresses the problem of using high performance SAN technologies to provide efficient communication support in client/server type of environments. The objective is to build a portable...
Provided by Ohio State University
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Case Studies
Ohio Healthcare Organization Upgrades SAN Fabric
Apr 2008
OhioHealth is a not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization that serves and supports the Ohio community. OhioHealth needed a more manageable and efficient disaster recovery solution and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Storage Consolidation Made Simple With FibreCAT SX
Dec 2008
A SAN is a specialized network that provides highly available storage subsystems to multiple hosts (servers). This storage network is primarily based on fibre optic technology and allows for very...
Provided by Fujitsu Siemens Computers
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White Papers
Evaluating Grid Storage for Backup & Archive
Sep 2008
This white paper by The Taneja Group explores requirements for secondary storage platforms, including massive scalability and performance; modular configurability; affordability; and high...
Provided by NEC Corporation of America
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Whitepapers
Ten Things DBAs Need to Know About Storage
Feb 2008
SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) and storage area network (SAN) administrators may not see eye to eye on everything, but they agree communication about storage needs is vital. In this...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
Jan 2009
Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. But while server...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Safeway Insurance Uses Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Arrays to Increase I/O Performance for a Critical SQL Server Application by 20 Percent
Sep 2008
A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's online application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage Area...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Workforce-Management Solution Provider Kronos Chooses Dell Servers, Dell/EMC Storage, and VMware Virtualization Software for a Projected 135% ROI Over Three Years
Jun 2008
Kronos needed to consolidate servers in order to minimize power and cooling requirements, as well as fit more servers in its data center to support an important acquisition. Kronos deployed a...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Building a Highly Reliable SAN
Jan 2008
System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
On-demand Webcast: Disk Based Data Protection: Achieving Faster Backups with iSCSI SAN and Intelligent Data
Sep 2008
Backup via disk can be significantly cheaper and less complex than equivalent tape drives or libraries. And with Dell Equallogic PS Series arrays, disk is now a viable alternative for...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Dell Storage Helps Navicure Reduce Disaster Recovery Site Deployment Time by 75 Percent
Jul 2008
Existing outsourced storage was too inflexible to keep up with Navicure's rapid growth and expanding Oracle database. The company also needed to automate disaster recovery to help ensure...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Coppell ISD Achieves 90 Percent Server Consolidation With a Dell Virtualization Solution
Dec 2007
A growing demand for IT services from students, teachers, administrators, and parents outpaced the school district's resources, impairing system availability. As a solution a Dell virtual...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
UK Council Simplifies Management and Saves Up to £15,000 Per Year in Electricity Costs With Virtualized Infrastructure
Mar 2008
Winchester City Council found that management of its fast-growing server infrastructure was time-consuming and expensive. In addition, the distributed storage environment could not scale to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell Furthers Tullow Oil's Mission-Critical Explorations and Supports Its 30 Percent Growth Rate
Jul 2008
Founded in 1985, Tullow Oil (Tullow) is one of the largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in Europe. Tullow Oil required a highly available and resilient storage...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Danish Construction Firm Achieves Maximum Business Continuity With Virtual Server Solution
Oct 2007
Customer-facing employees at the Danish firm Lind & Risor are dependant on the availability of its management system. But its existing IT environment was causing down-time becoming expensive and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell Case Study: MaximumASP
Mar 2008
MaximumASP needed reliable hardware to grow its Web hosting business and support innovative, first-to-market product offerings such as the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Beta. MaximumASP has been...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
DataCore Software Case Study: Alameda County Medical Center
Jul 2008
The IT environment at ACMC was fundamentally based upon products from Dell and EMC as well as virtual machines from VMware. ACMC has struggled to maintain a disaster recovery or business...
Provided by DataCore Software
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Case Studies
IT PARTNERS Case Study: City of Phoenix
Jan 2008
The City of Phoenix owns and operates the Phoenix Airport System. The existing data center was highly constrained, with power and air conditioning nearing capacity and very limited amounts of...
Provided by IT PARTNERS
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Whitepapers
VIRTUALIZED iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
Mar 2008
iSCSI is a flexible and powerful Storage Area Networking (SAN) protocol that delivers superior capabilities and benefits across all market segments. In addition to providing enterprise-class data...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Secure SAN Zoning Best Practices
Sep 2007
This paper describes and clarifies Zoning, a security feature in Storage Area Network (SAN) fabrics. By understanding the terminology and implementing Zoning best practices, a Brocade SAN fabric...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Virtualizing Embedded Switches: The Next Generation in SAN Connectivity
Nov 2007
The Brocade Access Gateway feature is the most recent evolution in Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN) connectivity for blade server technology and it has now been extended to the...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
8Gb Delivers Enhanced Storage Area Network (SAN) Data Security
Dec 2007
The modern data center is faced with ever growing demands in the areas of virtualization; power consumption; Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS); security; and manageability....
Provided by QLogic
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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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White Papers
Using Sanbolic's LaScala Cluster Volume Manager to Centrally Manage SAN Storage Configuration and Assignment for Microsoft Windows Servers
Nov 2007
Microsoft System Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 have provided administrators with tools to centrally manage and monitor Windows Client and Server Infrastructure....
Provided by Sanbolic
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White Papers
Building for the Future: Deploying a SAN Solution That Protects Your Datacenter Investments
Feb 2008
The IT managers at midsize organizations face many of the same storage planning and management issues as managers at larger enterprises. They also must deal with several unique requirements,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
NetApp Space Reservation in SAN and iSCSI Environments White Paper
Aug 2007
All storage systems are not created equal. In the case of Network Appliance (NetApp), its operating system and file system were originally designed solely based on the requirements of Network...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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White Papers
Connecting Low-Cost Servers to SAN
Oct 2007
Storage Area Networks (SANs) provide high-availability storage to servers within the corporate infrastructure. Due to high connection costs, IT typically does not add 1U and blade servers to the...
Provided by QLogic
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White Papers
SmartWrite - Accelerating SAN-Over-WAN Performance
Oct 2007
At the core of providing data services is the ability to copy, move, and replicate data locally and over long distances. However, SANs have limited distance capabilities (~10 km) and IT managers...
Provided by QLogic
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White Papers
SAN Consolidation Lowers Storage Total Cost of Ownership Through QLogic's Economy of Scale
Oct 2007
Most IT organizations rely on Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions to provide business accessibility to their critical data. The complexity and scope of these solutions grow to meet...
Provided by QLogic
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White Papers
Scalable NAS and SAN Storage Systems Using Melio Cluster File System With Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2
Nov 2007
Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 has evolved into a very flexible solution for both file serving and block storage applications. It combines the familiarity of the Windows operating...
Provided by Sanbolic
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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
Configuring Storage-Area Networks for Mandatory Security
Jan 2008
Storage-Area Networks are a popular and efficient way of building large storage systems both in an enterprise environment and for multi-domain storage service providers. In both environments the...
Provided by University College Cork
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White Papers
Enhanced SAN Connectivity for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 and 2008
Jul 2008
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) provides a comprehensive management application for Microsoft virtualized environments. Emulex 4Gb/s and 8Gb/s Fibre Channel HBAs and FCoE...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
SAN Connectivity for Oracle VM
Nov 2007
Oracle has now entered the virtual server arena with the introduction of Oracle VM. Oracle VM is a powerful and easy to use solution that delivers the benefits of server virtualization and allows...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
NPIV: Emulex Virtual HBA and Brocade, Proven Interoperability and Proven Solution
Apr 2008
N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) is an extension to the Fibre Channel industry standard, which is available across the Emulex Host Bus Adapter (HBA) product line and the Brocade Storage Area...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Booting Servers Directly From a Storage Area Network: The Benefits of SAN Fibre Channel and FCoE Connectivity
Jul 2008
This paper discusses the capability of booting servers directly from OS images located on the SAN through a Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) or a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged...
Provided by Emulex
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White Papers
Dell PowerVault NX1950 Storage for the Small-to-Medium Business
Aug 2007
Combining the capabilities of SAN and NAS, the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated NAS Solution provides both block application data through iSCSI and file data through the CIFS and NFS standards....
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
SANBoost: Automated SAN-Level Caching in Storage Area Networks
Jan 2008
The storage traffic for different Logical Units (LUs) of a disk array converge at the array's cache. The cache is allocated among the LUs approximately according to their relative I/O rates. In...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Best Practices for a 4Gb/S Storage Area Network Infrastructure: Keep Application Data Flowing Error-Free
Oct 2007
Many data centers are in the process of moving from 2Gbit/s (2G) Fibre Channel (FC) infrastructures to the new 4Gbit/s (4G) FC standard. The increase in data transfer rates is instantly beneficial...
Provided by Finisar
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Case Studies
EonStor Boosts Low-Delay HD Streaming for Digistor Production Facilities
May 2008
Digistor focuses on supplying professionally supported solutions for the creation, management, storage, and delivery of digital media. Its extensive services and solutions also include the realms...
Provided by Infortrend Technology
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Case Studies
Case Study: Clackamas County Oregon's Outdated Fibre Channel Infrastructure Runs Out of Capacity
Jan 2008
Learn how one county government in the state of Oregon solved the problem of an aging Fibre Channel SAN that could not scale to meet growing needs. This case study discusses how Clackamas County's...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Deployment and Tests in an iSCSI SAN
Jun 2007
iSCSI SANs offer an alternative for building Storage Area Networks. Consolidating storage in a SAN offers storage management and scaling benefits for datacenters. iSCSI support in Windows Server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
SQL Server Advanced Protection and Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager
Mar 2008
Microsoft SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. This paper discusses how the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN provides...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
PS Series Groups: Deploying Microsoft SQL Server in an iSCSI SAN
Jan 2008
This Technical Report describes how to deploy SQL Server in an iSCSI SAN with Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays. It provides configuration and management recommendations for SQL Server and...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Improving Storage Expansion for Servers and Applications
Feb 2008
Call it growth, scaling, or expansion - whatever you call it, increasing your storage resources often strikes fear and loathing in the heart of the IT administrator. It conjures up visions of...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
Benefits and Best Practices for Migrating from VMware Server to iSCSI and VMware Infrastructure 3
Sep 2007
These days, companies of all sizes need to be conscious of choosing solutions that can achieve results without putting a strain on budgets and staff resources that are already overcommitted. Small...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Converged Storage - A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture
Jun 2012
Organizations need a strategy for rearchitecting storage so that it enables, rather than constricts, the delivery of IT services. According to HP, it's all about Converged Storage, which breaks...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
InfoWorld: Breaking Boundaries through Converged Storage
Jun 2012
IDG Enterprise offers insight into how HP and Intel are leading the industry with an innovative architectural approach to today's storage needs in the face of yesterday's strategies and the...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Podcasts
CIO Solutions Delivers Flexible, Secure Public and Private Clouds with NetApp
Jun 2012
CIO Solutions, provides IT management and design services to the Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with integrated solutions by NetApp.
Provided by NetApp
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Podcasts
Chesapeake Bay Foundation rescues the bay with NetApp's affordable and efficient solution for mission-enabling IT
Jun 2012
Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
ESG Lab Validation Report: Deploy and Manage Storage with Ease using NetApp FAS2240
Jun 2012
This ESG Lab Validation Report presents the hands-on evaluation and testing results of the FAS2240, NetApp's newly released entry-level storage system. ESG Lab focused on three key areas that make...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Optimizes Data Center with CTI, VMware, and NetApp
Jun 2012
Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Wikibon ROI Study: Business Case for Unified Storage Consolidation for Microsoft Windows Installations
Jun 2012
Unified storage has been a hot topic of discussion in the storage business for the last 18-24 months. The discussion has largely focused on which vendors offer which products and functionality,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
UML2SAN: Toward a New Software Performance Engineering Approach
May 2012
Software Performance Engineering (SPE) has recently considered as an important issue in the software development process. It consists on evaluate the performance of a system during the design...
Provided by Lebanese University
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Whitepapers
Balen Municipality
Jun 2012
Balen Municipality Improves Public Services and Cuts Costs with A Modern Storage Platform The Belgian town of Balen has over 21,000 inhabitants and employs approximately 110 civil employees. Due...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Top Three Reasons Why Customers Deploy VMware on EMC VNX
Jun 2012
Checklist: Balancing Required Space with Various Applications One of the biggest challenges facing storage administrators today is balancing how much space will be required by the various...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
HP Converged Medical Infrastructure, with Meditech Software
Feb 2011
HP designed the HP Converged Medical Infrastructure for the Meditech 6.0. Find out how, through the experience gained during implementations at hundreds of hospitals, HP designs and delivers joint...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The Total Economic Impact Of IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying System Storage SAN Volume...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Gartner: Use Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization as a Bridge to Cloud
Jun 2012
Data center operators who are interested in private cloud storage technologies struggle with moving existing storage infrastructure into a cloud storage paradigm. Heterogeneous storage...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
Forrester: Total Economic Impact Study of IBM Storwize V7000
Jun 2012
In June 2011, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Storwize V7000. The...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
The Tod Point Group: IBM Storwize V7000 Unified Provides Enterprise-Class Value in a Exchange Environment
Jun 2012
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 provides a powerful environment for users to conduct business through scheduling their time (calendar), managing their relationships (contacts), and communicating...
Provided by IBM Corp.
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Whitepapers
eGuide: Tomorrow's SAN Technology
Jun 2012
Many companies are reaching the limits of their current storage systems. Fortunately, innovations in storage area networks (SAN) technology can now more easily provide maximum capacity, peak...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
#1 in Storage Market Share
Jul 2012
Find out why EMC leads the market in worldwide network-attached storage (NAS) and unified storage. Recent Gartner analysis attributes increased 2011 revenues to EMC VNX, VNXe, and Data Domain...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
The Future of IP SAN Using SCVM
May 2012
The SCVM, which stands for Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine, creates IP SAN storage as virtual machine, providing the user with the ability to consolidate their virtual data center. The SCVM...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Whitepapers
ESG: HP 3PAR Storage: Optimizing I/O Service Models
Jun 2012
The idea of optimizing storage performance across enterprises is not only a self-evident desire, it is also a need. The growth of storage and the needs of the applications that the storage...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Consolidation Gives 'Green' Light to Greater Agility
Oct 2008
Staffordshire County Council (SCC) employs 30,000 staff who provides around 800,000 local people with vital services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As Staffordshire County Council was already...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Servers and Virtualization Help Stoneridge Reduce Its Server Infrastructure by More Than 50 Percent
Jul 2008
Stoneridge, a global manufacturer of automotive components, wanted to use state-of-the-art technologies to reduce complexity, reduce its IT footprint, and ultimately reduce the total cost of IT...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Compared to the Previous Solution, Dell Servers With Virtualization Help Bumrungrad International Save More Than 60 Percent in Total Cost of Ownership
Aug 2008
Bumrungrad International thrives on technology to drive its success. Following advancements in virtualization technology, the hospital was looking for a stable server platform on which to migrate...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
With the Dell PowerVault MD3000, Hosting Provider Rackspace Is Able to Offer Its Clients the Benefits of an Enterprise-Level Storage Area Network While Keeping Prices Down
Oct 2008
To stay competitive, Rackspace must offer fast, reliable storage in a variety of tiers. It needed to minimize the cost of hardware and support, as well as delays in getting parts or technical...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Maryland Government Agency Responds to User Needs Faster Thanks to a Server and Storage Virtualization Solution From Dell
Oct 2008
A Maryland government agency couldn't grow within its data center, which had reached capacity with 58 physical servers that were underutilized. The agency implemented a new model for data center...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Utah State University Provides 99% Uptime for Its SunGard Banner ERP System While Reducing the Associated IT Footprint by 50%
Oct 2008
Utah State University (USU) needed to consolidate servers and storage to save money, reduce power and cooling requirements, and provide a redundant, scalable infrastructure to support its SunGard...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Optimal Blue Anticipates 50% Improvement in Engine Response Time, Giving Mortgage Sellers an Edge With a High-Performance Pricing Solution Powered by Dell
Sep 2008
Optimal Blue sought to optimize its technology platform by adopting more power efficient servers and flexible storage. The company upgraded from stand-alone servers with direct attached storage to...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualizing on Dell Servers Helps Xtralis Reduce Servers by Over 85 Percent, Improve System Performance, and Reduce Downtime
Nov 2008
Xtralis sought to align IT with the company's strategy of tripling its business in three years by quickly standardizing on a global technology infrastructure and reducing downtime. Virtual servers...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
By Simplifying Its Operations, the Rackspace Hosting IT Team Can Grow With No Additional Manpower
Oct 2008
Founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas, Rackspace quickly found its niche hosting Web, back-office and database applications for companies all over the world. To stay competitive, Rackspace must...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell PowerEdge Blade and Rack Servers Provide the Foundation of a High-Density Virtualized Infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing - Supporting Simplified Management, High Performance, and Rapid Deployment
Nov 2008
With the IT infrastructure at ALERT Life Sciences Computing growing by more than 100 percent annually, the IT department needed to take action to avoid running out of rack space or spending...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
A Portable Client/Server Communication Middleware Over SANs: Design and Performance Evaluation With Virtual Interface and InfiniBand
Jan 2008
This paper addresses the problem of using high performance SAN technologies to provide efficient communication support in client/server type of environments. The objective is to build a portable...
Provided by Ohio State University
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Case Studies
Ohio Healthcare Organization Upgrades SAN Fabric
Apr 2008
OhioHealth is a not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization that serves and supports the Ohio community. OhioHealth needed a more manageable and efficient disaster recovery solution and...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Storage Consolidation Made Simple With FibreCAT SX
Dec 2008
A SAN is a specialized network that provides highly available storage subsystems to multiple hosts (servers). This storage network is primarily based on fibre optic technology and allows for very...
Provided by Fujitsu Siemens Computers
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White Papers
Evaluating Grid Storage for Backup & Archive
Sep 2008
This white paper by The Taneja Group explores requirements for secondary storage platforms, including massive scalability and performance; modular configurability; affordability; and high...
Provided by NEC Corporation of America
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Whitepapers
Ten Things DBAs Need to Know About Storage
Feb 2008
SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) and storage area network (SAN) administrators may not see eye to eye on everything, but they agree communication about storage needs is vital. In this...
Provided by Quest Software, now a part of Dell
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White Papers
Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments
Jan 2009
Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. But while server...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Why EMC for IP Storage and Simple Unified Storage
Jun 2008
This paper showcases a 2008 Aberdeen report based on a survey of more than 4,500 companies worldwide. It found that 47% of companies have a Green strategy. Stressed along with these results is the...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
HighJump Data Collection Advantage Helps Leading Technology Supplier Reposition Its Business
May 2008
Historically, Hitachi competed with IBM in the server hardware marketplace - a low-volume, big-ticket business. But changes in this market prompted Hitachi to focus its efforts on Storage Area...
Provided by HighJump Software
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White Papers
Converged Enhanced Ethernet - Good for iSCSI SANs
Oct 2008
Off late, Ethernet is a predominant network choice for interconnecting resources in the data center. It is ubiquitous and well understood by network engineers and developers worldwide, and it has...
Provided by NetApp
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Webcasts
Cut Costs by Upgrading Your EMC Connectrix MDS SAN to 8 G Fibre Channel and FCoE
Mar 2009
Is the existing SAN ready for greater performance while lowering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by using 8 Gbps Fibre Channel or Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) By upgrading the EMC Connectrix...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
D-Link Helps the Covenant Group Accommodate Growth
Apr 2008
As The Covenant Group embarked on a successful expansion of their full-service development and construction company, it was becoming apparent that their aging network servers were unable to keep...
Provided by D-Link
