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Whitepapers
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 HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
ESG: HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Lab Validation Report
Mar 2013
This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing and validation of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 storage array, with a focus on autonomic simplicity, efficient unified storage,...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Case Studies
BlueLock Builds Low-Cost, Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solutions With HP LeftHand SANs, VMware Combination
Apr 2009
One of the country's leading providers of infrastructure-as-a-service, BlueLock gives clients precisely the amount of computing capacity, storage, bandwidth and disaster recovery capability that...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP LeftHand SANs Put to the Test at Los Angeles Mission College; Earn High Marks
Apr 2009
Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC) is a Southern California-based community college with approximately 10,000 students and 550 full-time and part-time faculty/staff members. Like many educational...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Technology Nonprofit Cools Down, Speeds Up With HP Adaptive Infrastructure
Nov 2008
Founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, TechSoup Global (www.techsoupglobal.org) is a nonprofit technology assistance provider with 160 employees. TechSoup wanted to enable the creation of a...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP PolyServe Software Improves Performance, Reliability, and Stability of HP Revision and Configuration Management Tool
Jun 2008
Because of its importance to customers, HP is continually looking for ways to improve the service, and wanted to replace the existing infrastructure with one that would be even more effective. It...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Stonegate Lays the Bedrock for Success With HP BladeSystem
Feb 2008
Houston-based Stonegate Production Company began operations in April 2007, bringing together 250 years of combined oil and gas industry experience into a single entity. The company wanted to equip...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
LSAC Boosts Service With Technology
Feb 2009
LSAC is a nonprofit organization founded in 1947 to facilitate the law school admission process. LSAC wanted to enable business continuity and IT Service Management (ITSM) best practices for...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
SoftLayer Improves IT Staff Efficiency by 15% While Introducing More Flexible Services for Customers With Dell Storage
May 2009
SoftLayer needed a scalable storage solution that would allow it to provide SAN storage capacity to customers on demand. The company also wanted to unify three separate storage islands for better...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
10 Steps to Deploying a High-Performance Fault-Tolerant SAN Using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Storage and Cisco Catalyst Network Infrastructure
Jun 2009
The Dell EqualLogic family of iSCSI SANs is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage. Built on a virtualized peer storage architecture, the Dell...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.
Aug 2009
Data volumes continue to grow. More companies are consolidating and virtualizing their IT infrastructures and far more demand is placed on storage performance. But one aspect that often gets...
Provided by Condusiv Technologies
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White Papers
Evaluating Two-And Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms
Sep 2008
Intel IT and Intel's Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), End User Platform Integration (EPI), conducted Proof of Concept (PoC) testing and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis to compare two- and...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Competitive SAN Local Switching Solution: Limiting Scalability, Not Improving It
May 2009
Local switching is switching in which traffic does not traverse the backplane of a switch but rather stays on a line card. This concept is positioned as a method for increasing the available...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advantages in VMware Environment
May 2009
Virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, i.e. more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc. However, it...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Cisco SAN Fabric Switches Deliver Compelling Value for Small and Medium-Sized Business SAN Solutions
Mar 2009
For any business to be competitive in the current economic climate, its IT department must adapt to conserve Capital Expenditures (CapEx), while optimizing Operating Expenses (OpEx). As small...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Native Fabric Connectivity for Today's SANs Center Fabric Technology
Sep 2008
Brocade is committed to providing native fabric compatibility throughout its integrated family of Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms. This means that SAN users can expand their existing SANs and...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Integrating Blade Solutions With EqualLogic SANs
Jan 2009
There are many ways that blade enclosures can be attached to a Dell EqualLogic SAN. This paper has reviewed three ways, but depending on the blade enclosure design features there may be other...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries: Direct Attach a Dell PowerVault TL2000 / TL4000 to an iSCSI SAN
Nov 2008
To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries (Dell PowerVault TL2000 & TL4000). This offering allows a customer to...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Dell EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG
Jul 2009
Organizations of all sizes are struggling to meet the conflicting challenges associated with macro-level global financial uncertainty and micro-level information storage growth and complexity. A...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
PS Series Comprehensive Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange
Jan 2009
PS Series iSCSI SANs deliver high-performance, fully redundant, highly available storage platforms for Exchange deployments — supporting departmental to mission critical Windows® server...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V
Jan 2009
With Microsoft® WS 2008 Hyper-V, server virtualization becomes truly pervasive, reaching all segments of the IT market, heightening the need for innovative, cost-effective storage solutions that...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
SQL Advanced Protection Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager
Jan 2009
Microsoft® SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs provide the optimal storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Getting the Message Across
Jun 2009
The messaging infrastructure at Taylor's University College impeded resource sharing and staff mobility, offering little support to accommodate an expanding user base. Dell Global Infrastructure...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform
Jul 2009
U.S. Air Force wanted to meet business demands more flexibly; manage data more simply and efficiently; and mitigate the risk of lost data with a Storage Area Network (SAN) that pools, shares and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
ASOS Increases Its Virtual Shop Front With HP Blade Servers
Jun 2008
ASOS is the UK's largest online fashion and beauty store, attracting more than one million visitors a week. Due to a growing team of web developers and slowing servers, the team's progress was...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP SAN Powers the Storage Future Electronics Can Count on to Run Business 24x7x365
Apr 2009
Future Electronics wanted to create an easily managed, cost-effective Storage Area Network (SAN) that offers performance, reliability, availability and heterogeneous interoperability 24x7x365 for...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Getting Started With VMware vSphere and Emulex/Cisco SANs
Jun 2009
The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable,...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Business Continuance: Driving Data Availability Up and Costs Down
Apr 2009
Many potential reasons for failure can cause business critical applications to go offline and endanger a company's viability. While server virtualization has provided solutions that help with...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Integrity Blade Server + SAN Infrastructure for SAP: Transferring SAP Applications With Oracle Database From HP 9000 or AlphaServer to HP Integrity Server Blades and HP StorageWorks SAN Infrastructure
Jun 2008
HP9000 customers have several infrastructure options to consider when upgrading to SAP ERP 6.0 and Oracle Database 10g or 11g. The HP Integrity blade server, coupled with HP StorageWorks EVA4400...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Rapid Application Recovery With HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform: Using Point-in-Time Copies and Distance Replication to Meet Toda's Stringent Recovery Objectives
Jul 2009
The backup window for many organizations and applications has been reduced from hours to minutes and even down to seconds. How can an IT staff achieve the goals of the business without...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (HP SVSP)
May 2009
The HP StorageWorks SAN virtualization Services Platform or SVSP is a network-based storage virtualization solution that enables enterprises to manage, pool, and share storage resources to improve...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Matching Server Virtualization With Advanced Storage Virtualization: Using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure 3 for Improved Ease of Use, Reduced Cost and Complexity, Increased Availability, and Complete Compatibility
Apr 2009
In order to meet the challenges of running today's data centers, an increasing number of IT organizations like turning to VMware Infrastructure 3 software. The ability to virtualize the data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
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
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Case Studies
Virtualized Storage and Windows Server® 2008
Dec 2008
Storage virtualization is nothing new, but what is new and exciting with regard to storage virtualization and Windows Server® 2008? In this podcast, Computerworld Vice President Bill Laberis poses...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V
Sep 2008
Information Technology organizations are finding that combining today's industry standard servers based on multi-core processors with server virtualization can create highly efficient solutions. A...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell and Microsoft Solutions Help ServiceU Deliver Reliable System Performance and Create a Virtualized Environment That Reduces Power Consumption by 50 Percent
Feb 2009
ServiceU Corporation is a Memphis-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that enables organizations to run successful events by helping manage a wide range of event-related logistics,...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Printing Firm Accesses Data 80 Per Cent Faster With Fully Scalable Solution
Oct 2008
A complex IT infrastructure and insufficient capacity had placed a constraint on the business of this Frankfurt-based printer. The company needed a fast, highly available, cost-effective and...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
White Paper, Using IBM data reduction solutions to manage more data with less infrastructure (Tivoli storage software focused)
Nov 2012
One of the most pressing issues for storage administrators today is managing and securing an ever growing amount of data. This white paper discusses specific problems and describes IBM Tivoli...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Storage Switzerland: Smarter Primary Storage Through Real-time Compression
Nov 2012
This report discusses how IBM Real-time Compression reduces immediate storage growth and has a long-term impact on increasing storage efficiency and reducing costs.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IDC: Storwize V7000 with Real-time Compression expands IBM's IT Optimization lead and provides and easy upgrade path
Nov 2012
In this paper we examine how IBM Real-time Compression is changing the game by offering a robust, efficient, and cost-effective optimization solution. Moreover, IBM demonstrates that compression...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The total economic impact of HP 3PAR Storage
Nov 2012
In this report sponsored by HP + Intel®, Forrester Research provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR Storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
The Best Way to Build a Cloud / HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Utility Storage
Nov 2012
Learn how HP CloudSystem Matrix and HP 3PAR Storage powered by Intel® Xeon® processors provide a solid, flexible foundation for your cloud environment. Sponsored by HP and...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Converged Storage: Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing
Nov 2012
Server virtualization has transformed corporate IT -- companies have enjoyed major cost savings and have gained flexibility and efficiency. But this has also led to a proliferation of virtual...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Converged Storage: A Next Gen Virtualized Architecture (P4000)
Nov 2012
In this IDG Tech Dossier sponsored by HP + Intel®, learn how HP's Converged Storage will enable organizations to deploy storage faster, reduce the time it takes to deliver IT services, reduce...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Taking Advantage of Multicore/Multiprocessor Technologies to Meet Today's Storage Needs
Apr 2012
Data growth is not only driving up storage costs, but also transforming performance and efficiency requirements for storage systems. IT managers are looking for new storage solutions that can...
Provided by Oracle
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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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Podcasts
Jeff and Dave Discuss Virtual Infrastructure Optimization
Jul 2009
In this podcast, the speaker who discusses about the Virtual Infrastructure Optimization, an emerging technology category at the intersection of server virtualization and storage. Taking the best...
Provided by Tandy Leather Factory
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eBooks
eBook Oracle Business Process Management
Oct 2012
The total volume of data being processed and stored by businesses is rising exponentially. Unfortunately, data storage capacity is not keeping pace with data growth, necessitating greater...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Data Sanitization Solution Brief
Aug 2012
When you retire or upgrade your computers, servers, and storage arrays, it's critical to take steps to protect the confidential information contained on those systems. HP helps you address an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
ESG White Paper: EMC VNX Family - A Unifying Force in Storage
Oct 2012
Why unified storage? Convergence and consolidation is a rally-ing cry across IT to drive necessary efficiencies - and unified storage and make a substantial contribution to such efforts. Learn how...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Using EMC Fast Suite with SAP on EMC VNX unified Storage - Applied Technology
Oct 2012
This white paper examines the performance considerations of SAP applications using EMC FAST Suite technologies (FAST VP and FAST Cache) on EMC unified storage. It also discusses the best practices...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Microsoft Exchange Sever 2010 Performance Review using the EMC VNX5700 Unified Storage Platform - An Architectural Overview
Oct 2012
This white paper focuses on the performance of the EMC® VNX5700™ unified storage platform with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 virtualized with VMware vSphere™ 4.1. Building-block design...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Moving Towards SAN Storage: An Enterprise Perspective
Jul 2012
One of the major components of any enterprise IT infrastructure is data storage. There has been continuous effort to explore new storage technologies to improve performance with respect to...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Whitepapers
Prioritized Gossip in Vehicular Networks
Jul 2012
The authors propose using real world mobility traces to identify tractable theoretical models for the study of distributed algorithms in mobile networks. Specifically, they derive a vehicular ad...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Designing a Data Protection Strategy with HP Lefthand, StoreOnce and Tape
Apr 2012
Learn how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This paper will also put that solution into context with the rest of a...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome With Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis
Jan 2009
The authors present DIADS, an integrated DIAgnosis tool for Databases and Storage Area Networks (SANs). Existing diagnosis tools in this domain have a database-only or SAN-only focus. DIADS is a...
Provided by USENIX Association
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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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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
#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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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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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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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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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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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
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 HP and Intel®
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Case Studies
Virtualized Storage and Windows Server® 2008
Dec 2008
Storage virtualization is nothing new, but what is new and exciting with regard to storage virtualization and Windows Server® 2008? In this podcast, Computerworld Vice President Bill Laberis poses...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Performance Advantage of Dell PowerEdge R900 over HP DL585 Running Microsoft Hyper-V
Sep 2008
Information Technology organizations are finding that combining today's industry standard servers based on multi-core processors with server virtualization can create highly efficient solutions. A...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dell and Microsoft Solutions Help ServiceU Deliver Reliable System Performance and Create a Virtualized Environment That Reduces Power Consumption by 50 Percent
Feb 2009
ServiceU Corporation is a Memphis-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider that enables organizations to run successful events by helping manage a wide range of event-related logistics,...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Printing Firm Accesses Data 80 Per Cent Faster With Fully Scalable Solution
Oct 2008
A complex IT infrastructure and insufficient capacity had placed a constraint on the business of this Frankfurt-based printer. The company needed a fast, highly available, cost-effective and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Food Ingredients Giant Estimates That It Will Shed Two Thirds of Power Costs and Comes Out Greener With Large-Scale Virtualization Solution
Dec 2008
Food ingredients company Danisco found that running and cooling 250 servers at its main data centre was a drain on power and costs. The IT team wanted a simplified infrastructure that would be...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
German Hospital Improves Speed and Availability With Rapidly Deployed Dell EqualLogic Virtualized Storage Solution
Jan 2009
German hospital Zentrum fur Soziale Psychiatre Haina gGmbH wanted to maximise the benefits of its virtualized server infrastructure to improve its data protection and recovery capabilities. The IT...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Dutch IT Service Provider Can Launch New Servers and Storage Up to 75 Per Cent Faster Thanks to Virtualization
Jan 2009
Info Support wanted to respond faster to client requests by creating a development environment where new projects, complete with servers and storage, were up and running in a couple of hours. The...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Leading Medical Publisher Cuts Costs by 25% With Virtualized Datacentres
Mar 2009
Leading medical publisher Thieme wanted to optimise its datacentre to cope with continued business growth. But the company wanted to introduce an e-business platform to appeal to a greater number...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Insuring Online Sales
Sep 2008
A storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance's application for independent insurance agents, undermining sales efforts. A storage I/O bottleneck hampered performance...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Get the Motor Running
Sep 2009
Deeley Harley-Davidson wanted to introduce new services to meet business requirements and ensure service-level agreements (SLAs) with retail partners are met, while minimizing the maintenance load...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Pairs Dell Servers With Intel Processor Technology, and Dell EqualLogic Storage to Save Six Figures
Oct 2009
Cornell Lab of Ornithology needed a consistent backup and disaster recovery solution to protect terabytes of critical data amassed by researchers to further conservation and explore the...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Towards SLA-Based Optimal Workload Distribution in SANs
Feb 2008
Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage devices to servers over fast network interconnects. The paper considers the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of meeting Service Level...
Provided by University of Tubingen
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Nov 2009
The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Whitepaper: EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab
Nov 2009
This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
Nov 2009
An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN)...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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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
Power Solutions Article: Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs
Nov 2009
Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Whitepaper: Dell Proconsult Deduplication Services
Nov 2009
Expert guidance and a proven process for reducing storage requirements and improving.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Webcasts
Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
Dec 2009
Server virtualization is widely accepted as one of the fastest ways to lower costs. Choosing the right storage solution is essential to maximize cost savings and provide the most flexibility to...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Quantifying the value of investments in Application Performance Management
Dec 2009
As distributed software systems have become an integral part of business, the need to manage service delivery and quality in a cost-effective manner has grown in importance. HP provides an...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Mosaic Technology Trims Sales Cycle by Up to 50% and Converts 20% of Leads Into Sales With Dell PartnerDirect Program
May 2009
Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market. The...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Chung Shan Medical University Hospital Strengthens the Management of Medical Records
Aug 2009
Established in 1966, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital (Chung Shan Hospital) is one of the three major medical centers in Taichung City, Taiwan, with an employee force of over 2,000. Chung...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
UTAC Renews Its Storage Infrastructure and Implements a Business Continuity Plan With NetApp
Apr 2009
L'Union Technique de l'Automobile, du Motocycle et du Cycle (UTAC) conducts its official business in the automobile sector and offers a large range of services in several industrial sectors. UTAC...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
SMS Demag AG Achieves 40% Savings in Operating Costs With NetApp Unified Storage
Mar 2009
SMS Demag AG is a leading international supplier of plants and equipment for the metallurgy industry. The company is located in Düsseldorf, Hilchenbach, and Hilden, Germany, and has a presence in...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Barry University Leverages NetApp IP SAN to Deliver Fast, Reliable Exchange Mail Services to 10,000 Users
Feb 2009
Barry University is an international Catholic university offering more than 60 undergraduate and accelerated bachelor's programs for working adults and more than 50 graduate programs. Barry...
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Case Studies
SECAR Revs Up Performance and Scalability With IBM BladeCenter Solution
Sep 2009
SECAR BOHEMIA, a.s., was founded in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1992. The company needed to upgrade their server environment to gain improved memory capacity, performance, and energy savings as...
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Case Studies
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Technology Gives Nexans Optimum Storage Flexibility
Jul 2009
Nexans needed a smooth migration of storage to a new SAN infrastructure with minimum downtime and flexibility for the future in terms of expanding storage. Nexans deployed IBM System Storage SAN...
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Case Studies
Dancerace Moves to a Leading-Edge Infrastructure With IBM i on BladeCenter
May 2009
With growing demand for a hosted version of its asset-based lending solution, Dancerace wanted to find a more flexible and compact alternative to its existing infrastructure. Outstanding...
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Case Studies
IT-Informatik Client Reference Video
May 2009
IT-Informatik wanted to be able to offer SAP application hosting services to its mid-market clients. The company needed to find a hardware infrastructure that would maximise security, flexibility,...
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White Papers
Converged Enhanced Ethernet-Good for iSCSI SANs
Dec 2008
The introduction of new features to enhance the Ethernet protocol will improve the performance characteristics of storage applications. Although commonly associated with an emerging standard,...
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White Papers
NetApp and Cisco Data Protection for Fibre Channel (FC) SANs
Jun 2008
Businesses want fast, user-initiated recovery of lost or accidentally deleted files, minimized backup and recovery windows, and fast recovery from natural or human-made disasters. NetApp and Cisco...
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White Papers
Benefits of 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...
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Whitepapers
EMC Clariion Reserved LUN Pool Configuration Considerations
Apr 2009
Reserved LUNs support the copy-on-first-write activities of SnapView sessions, SAN Copy incremental sessions, and MirrorView/A mirrors, providing a consistent point-in-time copy of data Each...
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White Papers
The Virtual Machine Aware SAN
Sep 2008
Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and...
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White Papers
Cisco N-Port Virtualizer and FlexAttach: Simplify Large-Scale Blade Server Fibre Channel SAN Deployments
Aug 2008
Cisco recognizes that many customers are deploying blade servers. These customers often are looking for a simple and flexible SAN connectivity solution for large-scale blade server deployments....
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White Papers
Demystifying Deduplication
Jan 2010
This article explains how deduplication holds the promise of efficient storage and bandwidth utilization, accelerated backup and recovery, reduced costs, and more. Understanding how this...
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Webcasts
Accelerating Business Applications with Solid-State Storage
Jan 2010
Watch "Accelerating Business Applications with Solid-State Storage" with Joseph Unsworth, Research Director, at featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc., and learn the benefits that solid-state storage...
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Whitepapers
IBM SAN Volume Controller and Brocade Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware
Dec 2009
In this IBM Redpapers publication, one describes various scenarios for the recovery of virtual machines should a disaster befall the data center. The solutions described rely on the integration of...
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White Papers
Lowering Storage Management Costs with Automatic Storage Management
Jan 2010
These days, gold is soaring in value; but for companies, data is just as valuable as gold. IT decision-makers and DBAs now face greater challenges to implement a cost-effective storage management...
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Case Studies
Deeley Harley-Davidson Canada Finds Business Agility in IT Virtualization, Reducing Deployment Time for New Services and Eliminating 40 Percent of Its Physical Servers
Nov 2009
Harley-Davidson wanted to introduce new services to meet business requirements and ensure Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) with retail partners are met, while minimizing the maintenance load on a...
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