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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
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Case Studies
UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management Consolidates Servers and Implements Reliable SAN With Unique, Affordable D-Link iSCSI-SAN Solution
Apr 2008
Like many mid-sized enterprises, the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was interested in consolidating servers to streamline operations, improve their...
Provided by D-Link
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Whitepapers
Next-generation data protection for mid-sized companies
Jul 2008
You feel the same pressures to secure your data as a massive corporation does, but without the massive budget. This white paper gives an overview of next-generation data protection and recovery...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Addressing the complexities of remote data protection
Jul 2008
This white paper reviews the factors that can make data protection and recovery in remote offices a complicated problem and describes the range of technology options available, explaining the...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Cut Virtualization Costs Using the Best Storage for Your Environment: iSCSI, NFS, or FC SAN
Aug 2008
IT storage administrators like infrastructure virtualization because it maximizes system scalability and flexibility while minimizing an organization's time, cost, and resource investments. Now...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
EMC Storage Insight for Availability: Improving NetApp and Hitachi Environments With Automated Root-Cause and Impact Analysis
Jan 2008
Looking for a way to automate real-time, root-cause and impact analysis of all critical network connectivity problems in the IP and SAN environments. As IT environments continue to grow and become...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
ZXTM Empowers e-Government in Newport
Jun 2008
With broadband take-up greater in the UK than anywhere else in Europe and growing by 10% in the last quarter of 2005 alone, it is clear that public demand for e-government services would continue...
Provided by Zeus Technology
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Case Studies
New Server Infrastructure Deployed in Two Hours Improves Performance of Social Networking Site
Mar 2009
Belgium-based social networking site, Netlog, has 40 million members and is growing rapidly. But its existing infrastructure was outdated. To support its expansion, store huge volumes of data and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Go Daddy Drives Innovation With High-Availability Infrastructure Powered by NetApp
Feb 2009
Founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, the Go Daddy Group has grown to include more than 32 million domains under management. Go Daddy Group wanted to support 100% annual growth, stay flexible, and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Builds 40,000-User E-mail Network on NetApp
Mar 2008
Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) is a leading international provider of IT solutions and services. Siemens IT Solutions and Services wanted to simplify management, reduce costs, and improve...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
High Value Remote Office Data Protection with EMC Avamar
May 2009
This Data Mobility Group report offers a brief overview of remote office1 data protection challenges and opportunities for 2008 along with an objective assessment of one solution, EMC Avamar,...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Application Tiering and Tiered Storage: How an Administrator Controls Services Levels Across Applications in a Consolidated Environment
May 2009
Storage consolidation allows you to bring many applications together in a single storage pool. It can improve storage utilization, dramatically simplifies management, and increases reliability in...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
CRN: The Value of Storage Consolidation
May 2009
When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga.,bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Growing Beyond the Limits: Maryland government agency responds to user needs faster thanks to a server and storage virtualization solution from Dell
May 2009
Growth is inherent to IT organizations, and this Maryland government agency is no exception. The agency is charged with providing IT resources to the Governor's office and other state agencies....
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Automatic Load Balancing Relieves Administrative Burden
May 2009
Storage consolidation is an accepted best practice because it enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. An obvious benefit of consolidation is...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
IT Consolidation with VMware and Dell Equallogic iSCSI SANs a Fully Virtualized IT Environment - Simple to Deploy, Manage and Grow
May 2009
Organizations trying to achieve higher levels of efficiency in their data center operations are broadly adopting server virtualization. To support 7x24 operations, enable advanced functionality,...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Simplify it: The Dell Path to Innovation and growth
May 2009
Enterprises of all sizes struggle with the ever increasing complexity of IT . By helping simplify and streamline the requirements for ongoing operations and systems maintenance, the Dell IT...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Five Reasons to Make Dell EqualLogic PS Series Your Storage Consolidation Solution
May 2009
Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead. The PS Series' unique peer storage architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i
May 2009
Dell offers key-enabled premium features to help enhance the functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i storage arrays. These optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Network Storage for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Home Media
Jul 2008
Network storage is a complex IT discipline that includes a multitude of concepts and technologies, like back-up, mirroring, replication, disaster recovery, RAID, NAS, and SAN. Companies of all...
Provided by D-Link
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White Papers
DELL | EMC CX4 AND DELL POWEREDGE™ BLADES
May 2009
Next generation Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays bring new levels of performance, flexibility, and resource utilization to enterprise-class storage. Features such as virtual provisioning, enterprise...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Virtual Machine and Storage Integration With VMware and Dell
Mar 2009
This webcast take a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Benefits of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs
Mar 2009
As the volume and criticality of data continue to grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Dynamic IT: Leveraging Virtualization and Why iSCSI Boot Plays a Dramatic Role
May 2008
Dynamic IT serves one purpose, enabling the business. Whether it's through cost control, business continuance, seizing tactical opportunities, or enabling flexibility to try a new proposal with...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Deploying Oracle RAC 10g With ASM on AIX With the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Aug 2008
This paper details the step-by-step configuration of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 (RAC) and Oracle...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for Using QLogic iSCSI 6140 SANbox Routers With IBM Storage Subsystems
Nov 2007
Many organizations deploy only a small percentage of their servers to a Storage Area Network (SAN). Conversely, a large percentage of all servers connect to Direct-Attached Storage (DAS). DAS...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and System Storage DS8100 15,000 Mailbox Exchange Solution Review Program Storage Solution
May 2008
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a system that presents highly available virtualized storage to a host. Logically the SVC sits between the hosts and storage. Storage is...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services Helps HotSchedules Consolidate Its Data Center and Reduce Disaster Recovery Time From Hours to Minutes
Apr 2009
Rapid annual business growth was causing HotSchedules to run out of space and power in its data center; also, large new clients required greater data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR)...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
DNA Services Lab Orchid Cellmark Reduces Data Center by 70% and Improves Application Performance by 20% With Virtualization Solution From Dell
Apr 2009
Expanding data volumes led to space, power and cooling issues, which were pushing the company to consider building out data centers; while maintenance contracts for many of the servers in...
Provided by Dell
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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
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
Dedupe 2.0 - What HP has in Store(Once)
Oct 2012
Between increased use of server virtualization, the dynamic proliferation of private cloud, the ever-growing unstructured data pool, and the advent of “big data,” organizational data is going to...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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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
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
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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White Papers
Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
Feb 2008
This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high performance, dynamic IT...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Whitepapers
SAN Storage Provisioning With "External" Load Balancing Mechanism
Feb 2008
The Storage Load Balancing is just one part of the general load balancing problem in computer systems. The authors have storage controllers/processors, which act simultaneously and number of...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
Microsoft Deploys EMC SAN for Data Centers and Reduces Costs by 50 Percent
Mar 2008
The Microsoft Information Technology Group (MSIT) was experiencing a rapid increase in the time and cost required to maintain its data centers. The storage volume was doubling each year and disk...
Provided by Microsoft
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Case Studies
UK School Gains Flexibility and Resilience With Storage Network and Virtualized Servers
Dec 2007
To simplify and expand its storage system, St. Paul's School wanted to implement a storage area network. Their IT team also wanted to replace a number of ageing servers with virtualized machines...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
UK School Supports Innovation With Flexible Infrastructure to Simplify IT
Dec 2007
Greenford High School is a secondary school situated in Ealing, west London. Their existing IT infrastructure needed to be simplified. The school wanted to invest in a flexible solution that would...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Italian Online Services Provider Simplifies Management of Its Server Infrastructure
Jan 2008
Italy-based company 7Pixel provides a range of online services, including price comparison engines TrovaPrezzi and ShoppyDoo. Italian online services provider 7Pixel wanted to simplify the...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Austrian Construction Company Simplifies IT Management With Standardised Technology
Mar 2008
PORR AG was using a range of technologies from different manufacturers that lacked compatibility and made it difficult to manage the company's IT infrastructure. A standardised solution from one...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virginia Community College System Protects Services for 240,000 Users With NetApp's Technology
Mar 2008
Established in 1966, the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) spans 23 community colleges on 40 campuses across the state. To ensure the highest availability of services, VCCS recently...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
By Consolidating 90 Percent of Its Physical Servers, the Ryerson University IT Group Is Poised to React More Quickly to University Needs
Nov 2007
Ryerson University was founded in 1948 to train a growing workforce to meet the demands of a booming postwar economy. The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell iSCSI Solution Simplifies Storage Management for MisterArt.com, Supporting 80 Percent Business Growth and Nearly Two Times Better Performance
Dec 2007
Established in 1996, MisterArt.com was among the first companies to sell arts and crafts supplies online. MisterArt.com IT group needed to increase storage capacity to accommodate its 80 percent...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell Case Study: Ryerson University
Feb 2008
The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space,...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Cisco Systems Deploys the World's Largest Extended SAN Infrastructure
Dec 2007
Deploying a SAN based on the Cisco MDS 9000 Series has provided Cisco with tremendous benefits. The IT SANs are now consolidated, but have retained fabric isolation through the employment of...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family: Total Investment Protection
May 2008
Evolving business requirements underscore the need for high-density, high-speed, and low-latency networks that improve data center scalability and manageability while controlling IT costs. As...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Converging SAN and LAN Infrastructure With Fibre Channel Over Ethernet for Efficient, Cost-Effective Data Centers
Apr 2008
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is an emerging data transport technology that simplifies the network fabric by converging both Storage Area Network (SAN) and LAN connectivity onto a single 10...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP21000
May 2008
Data Center managers are challenged to keep pace with continuous growth while managing capital, operational and facilities costs. Organizations have turned to server virtualization as a means of...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Symantec Backup Exec
Dec 2007
Today's enterprises face a growing data protection challenge: how to optimize the backup and recovery of a volume of business-critical data that grows larger each and, in many cases, doubles each...
Provided by Symantec
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Whitepapers
SAN Volume Controller Global Mirror Statistics Using TPC for Disk V3.1.3
Jun 2007
The purpose of this paper is to provide users of the SVC Global Mirror function with test scenarios that illustrate the usage of the new available SVC statistics. An important objective of this...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Improving Performance and Reducing Costs to Supply Growing Demand
Dec 2007
Sabah Electricity Sendirian Berhad (SESB) is the only power utility company in Sabah (formerly North Borneo) supplying electricity to over 350,000 customers distributed over a wide area of 74,000...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Whitepapers
Implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 Boot From IBM DS4000 SAN With Blade Servers
Jun 2007
This paper illustrates the detailed configuration procedure necessary to implementing Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and Windows 2000/2003 operating systems with IBM blade servers attached to the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
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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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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Case Studies
Web Hosting Company Increases Server Capacity Six-Fold, Reduces Costs and Downtime
Jan 2008
With increased demands on its Web hosting infrastructure, HostMySite.com needed a solution that would minimize downtime while maximizing the number of sites on a single Web farm. HostMySite.com...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for SAP ERP Using HP Integrity Servers, HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA8000), Windows, and Oracle
Dec 2007
A significant change is taking place in the installed base of SAP systems. While many customers continue to run versions of SAP R/3 software, others have begun to migrate to the new SAP NetWeaver...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Wasabi Storage Builder for IP-SAN V2.0
Oct 2007
Network Attached Storage (NAS) provides a simple solution to expand storage in many Small and Medium Business (SMB) environments. Wasabi Storage Builder for NAS 2.0 delivers a secure, scalable and...
Provided by Wasabi Systems
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Case Studies
Brookfield Homes Saves with Equallogic SAN and Thin Provisioning
Jan 2008
Brookfield Homes is a home builder and land developer with operations on the West and East coasts. In addition to land purchases and home building, the company transforms unused urban shopping...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
How Cisco IT Deployed a SAN for ERP Data Storage
Nov 2007
Until recently, Fibre Channel switches were characterized by low port density and low-availability designs. Director-class switches promised to change the landscape, but failed to deliver all the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
How Cisco Multilayer Director Switch Operates With Other SAN Switches During SAN Migration
Dec 2007
Cisco Systems IT has long been a proponent of Storage Area Networks (SANs) over the less efficient and more complex Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)-based networks. The majority of early Cisco SAN...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
How Cisco Migrated to a SAN Environment in Small European Data Center
Dec 2007
During 2001 and 2002, the hosting team faced some challenges because of the dramatic demand in data growth and the limitations of the early DAS model. Another problem is that DAS architecture is...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
How Cisco IT Uses SAN to Automate the Legal Discovery Process
Dec 2007
The biggest challenge facing the Cisco litigation team is the need to store, organize, and process huge volumes of data. A related challenge, once data is assembled, is to retrieve specific...
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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Downloads
Enabling IT Consolidation with iSCSI SANs and Wide-area Data Services (Podcast)
Nov 2007
To set up and manage a consolidated IT infrastructure that shares server and storage resources among distributed branch offices, many companies are turning to a combination of intelligent,...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage N Series: An iSCSI Performance Overview
Apr 2007
The iSCSI protocol has enabled information technology organizations to lower the cost of their Storage Area Network (SAN) deployments. Cost is of little concern if the solution does not perform to...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Optimizing Storage Performance, Provisioning, and Manageability for Microsoft SQL Server
Aug 2007
Microsoft SQL Server has become very popular as a database environment driving a broad range of mid-level business applications, ranging from CRM to eCommerce and from ERP to supply chain...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Modeling and Performance Evaluation of iSCSI Storage Area Networks Over TCP/IP-Based MAN and WAN Networks
Aug 2007
This paper provides a concise modeling and performance evaluation of the iSCSI Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture and protocol. SANs play a key role in business continuity, enterprise-wide...
Provided by University of Stuttgart
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White Papers
Secure Group Services for Storage Area Networks
Aug 2007
Storage Area Networks, with their ability to offer high data availability, reliability and scalability, are a promising solution for the large scale storage needs of many enterprises. As with any...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
DAS, NAS or SAN: Choosing the Right Storage Technology for Your Organization
Apr 2004
Businesses are subject to a new wave of regulatory compliance legislation that directly affects the process of storing, managing and archiving data. Although the need for storage is evident, it is...
Provided by Xtore Extreme Storage
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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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Case Studies
First American Bank Replaces EMC Clariion With NetApp iSCSI Solution
Jul 2007
First American is an Illinois-chartered, full-service bank with over 43 Chicago-area locations and more than $2 billion in assets. The bank wanted to improve data replication capabilities and...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Virtual server SAN connectivity: Why blade server virtualistaion and Fibre Channel SAN connectivity are rapidly becoming adopted
Jun 2007
Server virtualisation is rapidly gaining market acceptance for server provisioning. The introduction of virtual HBA technology will allow users to combine and leverage virtual servers and storage...
Provided by Emulex
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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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Case Studies
UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management Consolidates Servers and Implements Reliable SAN With Unique, Affordable D-Link iSCSI-SAN Solution
Apr 2008
Like many mid-sized enterprises, the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was interested in consolidating servers to streamline operations, improve their...
Provided by D-Link
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Whitepapers
Next-generation data protection for mid-sized companies
Jul 2008
You feel the same pressures to secure your data as a massive corporation does, but without the massive budget. This white paper gives an overview of next-generation data protection and recovery...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Addressing the complexities of remote data protection
Jul 2008
This white paper reviews the factors that can make data protection and recovery in remote offices a complicated problem and describes the range of technology options available, explaining the...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Cut Virtualization Costs Using the Best Storage for Your Environment: iSCSI, NFS, or FC SAN
Aug 2008
IT storage administrators like infrastructure virtualization because it maximizes system scalability and flexibility while minimizing an organization's time, cost, and resource investments. Now...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
EMC Storage Insight for Availability: Improving NetApp and Hitachi Environments With Automated Root-Cause and Impact Analysis
Jan 2008
Looking for a way to automate real-time, root-cause and impact analysis of all critical network connectivity problems in the IP and SAN environments. As IT environments continue to grow and become...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
ZXTM Empowers e-Government in Newport
Jun 2008
With broadband take-up greater in the UK than anywhere else in Europe and growing by 10% in the last quarter of 2005 alone, it is clear that public demand for e-government services would continue...
Provided by Zeus Technology
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Case Studies
New Server Infrastructure Deployed in Two Hours Improves Performance of Social Networking Site
Mar 2009
Belgium-based social networking site, Netlog, has 40 million members and is growing rapidly. But its existing infrastructure was outdated. To support its expansion, store huge volumes of data and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Go Daddy Drives Innovation With High-Availability Infrastructure Powered by NetApp
Feb 2009
Founded by Bob Parsons in 1997, the Go Daddy Group has grown to include more than 32 million domains under management. Go Daddy Group wanted to support 100% annual growth, stay flexible, and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Builds 40,000-User E-mail Network on NetApp
Mar 2008
Siemens IT Solutions and Services (SIS) is a leading international provider of IT solutions and services. Siemens IT Solutions and Services wanted to simplify management, reduce costs, and improve...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
High Value Remote Office Data Protection with EMC Avamar
May 2009
This Data Mobility Group report offers a brief overview of remote office1 data protection challenges and opportunities for 2008 along with an objective assessment of one solution, EMC Avamar,...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Application Tiering and Tiered Storage: How an Administrator Controls Services Levels Across Applications in a Consolidated Environment
May 2009
Storage consolidation allows you to bring many applications together in a single storage pool. It can improve storage utilization, dramatically simplifies management, and increases reliability in...
Provided by Dell
-
Case Studies
CRN: The Value of Storage Consolidation
May 2009
When storage solution provider VeriStor Systems, Duluth, Ga.,bid on consolidating the storage environment at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., it put its reputation and its money...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Growing Beyond the Limits: Maryland government agency responds to user needs faster thanks to a server and storage virtualization solution from Dell
May 2009
Growth is inherent to IT organizations, and this Maryland government agency is no exception. The agency is charged with providing IT resources to the Governor's office and other state agencies....
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Automatic Load Balancing Relieves Administrative Burden
May 2009
Storage consolidation is an accepted best practice because it enables organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and simplify management. An obvious benefit of consolidation is...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
IT Consolidation with VMware and Dell Equallogic iSCSI SANs a Fully Virtualized IT Environment - Simple to Deploy, Manage and Grow
May 2009
Organizations trying to achieve higher levels of efficiency in their data center operations are broadly adopting server virtualization. To support 7x24 operations, enable advanced functionality,...
Provided by Dell
-
White Papers
Simplify it: The Dell Path to Innovation and growth
May 2009
Enterprises of all sizes struggle with the ever increasing complexity of IT . By helping simplify and streamline the requirements for ongoing operations and systems maintenance, the Dell IT...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Five Reasons to Make Dell EqualLogic PS Series Your Storage Consolidation Solution
May 2009
Centralize storage and reduce administrative overhead. The PS Series' unique peer storage architecture consolidates all storage resources into an easy-to-manage tiered pool of storage, securely...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i
May 2009
Dell offers key-enabled premium features to help enhance the functionality of the PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i storage arrays. These optional premium features include Virtual Disk Snapshot and...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Network Storage for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Home Media
Jul 2008
Network storage is a complex IT discipline that includes a multitude of concepts and technologies, like back-up, mirroring, replication, disaster recovery, RAID, NAS, and SAN. Companies of all...
Provided by D-Link
-
White Papers
DELL | EMC CX4 AND DELL POWEREDGE™ BLADES
May 2009
Next generation Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays bring new levels of performance, flexibility, and resource utilization to enterprise-class storage. Features such as virtual provisioning, enterprise...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Virtual Machine and Storage Integration With VMware and Dell
Mar 2009
This webcast take a deeper dive into storage and networking in VMware Infrastructure. Storage topics included the details on how VMware ESX and ESXi use Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and NAS storage; the...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Benefits of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs
Mar 2009
As the volume and criticality of data continue to grow, companies need efficient, scalable solutions for making data available to servers, applications, and users across the enterprise. By...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Dynamic IT: Leveraging Virtualization and Why iSCSI Boot Plays a Dramatic Role
May 2008
Dynamic IT serves one purpose, enabling the business. Whether it's through cost control, business continuance, seizing tactical opportunities, or enabling flexibility to try a new proposal with...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Deploying Oracle RAC 10g With ASM on AIX With the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
Aug 2008
This paper details the step-by-step configuration of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 (RAC) and Oracle...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for Using QLogic iSCSI 6140 SANbox Routers With IBM Storage Subsystems
Nov 2007
Many organizations deploy only a small percentage of their servers to a Storage Area Network (SAN). Conversely, a large percentage of all servers connect to Direct-Attached Storage (DAS). DAS...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and System Storage DS8100 15,000 Mailbox Exchange Solution Review Program Storage Solution
May 2008
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a system that presents highly available virtualized storage to a host. Logically the SVC sits between the hosts and storage. Storage is...
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Case Studies
Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services Helps HotSchedules Consolidate Its Data Center and Reduce Disaster Recovery Time From Hours to Minutes
Apr 2009
Rapid annual business growth was causing HotSchedules to run out of space and power in its data center; also, large new clients required greater data protection and Disaster Recovery (DR)...
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Case Studies
DNA Services Lab Orchid Cellmark Reduces Data Center by 70% and Improves Application Performance by 20% With Virtualization Solution From Dell
Apr 2009
Expanding data volumes led to space, power and cooling issues, which were pushing the company to consider building out data centers; while maintenance contracts for many of the servers in...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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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Dedupe 2.0 - What HP has in Store(Once)
Oct 2012
Between increased use of server virtualization, the dynamic proliferation of private cloud, the ever-growing unstructured data pool, and the advent of “big data,” organizational data is going to...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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