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A Study of Key Management Systems in Storage Area Network
Jul 2009
As secure storage becomes more pervasive throughout the enterprise, the focus quickly moves from implementing encrypting storage devices to establishing effective and secure key management...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
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Whitepapers
The Architectural Advantages of HP P4000 SANs
Dec 2009
HP P4000 SANs are clustered iSCSI SANs that support virtualized and non-virtualized environments alike. The product line has a comprehensive feature set that includes all of its sophisticated...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
How to Build a SAN: The Essential Guide for Turning Your Windows Server Into Shared Storage on Your IP Network
Dec 2009
The Essential Guide to How to Build a SAN provides a brief overview to building the own Storage Area Network (SAN) using the existing industry standard x86 or x64 server hardware as well as freely...
Provided by Starwind Software
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Whitepapers
Designing Routed Fibre Channel SANs Using the HP StorageWorks FC Multi-Protocol Routers and Blades, and HP StorageWorks 1606 SAN Extension Switch and Extension Blade
Oct 2009
Storage Area Networks (SANs) are networks primarily intended to provide connectivity between hosts and storage devices such as disks, RAID arrays, and tape libraries. SANs, unlike LANs, simply...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Best Practices for Enabling Microsoft SharePoint With HP LeftHand SAN
Apr 2009
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (collectively called SharePoint) are one of the fastest-growing infrastructure environments in the world. In...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Native Fabric Connectivity for Today's SANs Center Fabric Technology
Jun 2008
Brocade currently has three types of solutions to enable native connectivity: direct E_Port connect for both core and edge solutions, Fibre Channel Routing connectivity, and Access Gateway...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Configuring HP-UX 11i for the HP LeftHand SAN
Apr 2009
This paper explains how to configure the HP-UX 11i v1 native iSCSI initiator to take advantage of the HP LeftHand SAN. If one want to use HP LeftHand SANs with HP-UX 11i, he/should should read...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Virtualizing SAN Connectivity With VMware Infrastructure 3 and Brocade Data Center Fabric Services
Aug 2008
This paper looks at how the VMware Infrastructure platform leverages Fibre Channel (FC)-based shared storage to provide advanced virtualization services in the data center and how using ESX 3.5...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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Case Studies
Texas Association of School Boards Votes for HP LeftHand P4000 SAN to Drive Virtualization
Oct 2009
Texas Association of School Boards wanted to consolidate under-utilized storage and implement a disaster recovery/business continuity strategy. Texas Association of School Boards deployed 10 GbE...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
World's Largest Software Company Relies on HP Services for Flaw-Free Performance of Storage Utility
Dec 2009
As the largest software company in the world, Microsoft Corporation is ceaselessly developing new products while striving to provide its millions of current customers with superior value. HP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP Storage Essentials Software Reduces Risk of Service Outages, Improves Management Efficiencies
Feb 2009
For the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), technology enabled exciting new business opportunities. 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
HP LeftHand P4000 SAN, HP Servers and VMware Team Up to Consolidate the University of Paderborn's Diverse Technology Environment
Oct 2009
Although Paderborn has a long history as a university city, dating back to 1614, the modern institution was only established in 1972. University of Paderborn wanted to consolidate heterogeneous...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
University Relies on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN and Virtualization to Build Disaster-Resistant Technology Platform Following Devastating Fire
Nov 2009
Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) is a private, co-educational Catholic university with a heritage of helping the underserved. OLLU wanted to strengthen storage management capabilities and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Helps Bluecube Technology Solutions Respond Quickly to Changing Client Needs
Oct 2009
Founded in 2003, Bluecube Technology Solutions is a leading supplier of outsourced IT solutions in the United Kingdom. Clients ranging from small niche operators with just a few staff, all the way...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp's Data Centers
Nov 2009
This report looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
ESG: Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
Nov 2009
Today's IT organizations need to operate on slimmer budgets while managing the increased demands of the data center. This ESG paper outlines the considerations for architecting an efficient SAN...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
NetApp Storage Best Practices for Microsoft Virtualization
Dec 2009
This technical report (TR) provides guidelines and best practices for integrated architectures and implementations of Microsoft® Hyper-V with NetApp® storage solutions. The NetApp technologies...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
ESG Report: Storage Efficiency Strategies for Microsoft Application Environments
Dec 2009
This paper addresses the many Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint implementations running on inefficient storage infrastructures, limiting scalability and complicating what should be fairly...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
IDC: IDC Expert ROI Spotlight
Dec 2009
This research paper outlines how the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General realized a three year ROI if 202% by using NetApp solutions to reduce infrastructure costs, increase user productivity,...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Simplified IT With Virtualization
Oct 2007
The British Horseracing Authority has experienced rapid business growth in the past three years. With a resulting increase in its IT infrastructure, the organisation found it needed to re-think...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Breakthrough: Noridian Mutual Insurance Company Optimizes Storage Assets to Improve Business Security and Agility
Jul 2008
Noridian Mutual Insurance Company is a multi-faceted corporation, providing private health coverage, life insurance, administrative services, third-party administration and many other products and...
Provided by Unisys
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Case Studies
Italian Pharmaceutical Company Saves Approximately 30 Per Cent by Choosing Dell to Virtualize Its Infrastructure and Refresh Backup and Recovery
May 2009
Italian pharmaceuticals firm Teva Italia wanted to virtualize servers to obtain a more effective and efficient datacentre. At the same time, Teva Italia needed a safer and faster system for data...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
The Host With the Most
Sep 2009
Increase capacity to maintain Intermedia's commitment to reliability and performance while developing a lights-out data center to accommodate new business. Intermedia and Dell designed an IT...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Reliable Service
Feb 2009
ServiceU's challenge was to deploy reliable hardware to support the company's Microsoft SQL Server 2008 environment and virtualize other applications to enhance business flexibility. ServiceU...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Maximum Growth
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
Reliable Communication
Feb 2009
To improve e-mail availability and scale for growth, Texas A&M - Kingsville needed to replace its aging e-mail infrastructure. Texas A&M - Kingsville worked with Dell Global Infrastructure...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Informed Choice
Aug 2009
An important classroom technology initiative requires choosing the correct technology from an array of alternatives. In addition, IT efficiency suffers from a diverse mix of desktop PCs and a...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
A Model of Efficiency
Jun 2009
CPMBraxis challenge was to create a powerful, scalable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) infrastructure that can enhance business efficiency, simplify IT, and provide a model solution for...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Building for the Future
Jun 2008
As the outsourced IT services provider for a fast-growing real estate development and property management firm, iCorps needed to refresh outdated server and storage hardware to expand storage...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Accelerating the Pace of Change
Sep 2009
Mahoning County needed to cool off its data center which, with 48 end-of-life servers, reached 85-90 degrees in summer. Its 5 technical administrators were hard-pressed to keep services available...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Making Worker's Comp Work
Jun 2008
LWCC was facing server and storage sprawl in 2006, which was eating up costs. A private nonprofit company, LWCC is dedicated to providing workers' comp insurance at the lowest feasible cost, so it...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
A Cure for All Ills
May 2009
Ochsner Health System needed to implement a disaster recovery solution, support a rapidly growing user base, conserve energy to avoid a multi-million dollar power upgrade and meet high...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Automotive Engineering Company Virtualizes on Sun, Cuts Energy Costs by 70 Percent
Jan 2010
RLE International is one of the world's leading development service providers to the automotive industry throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. The company's challenge was to create a more...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Lulu.com
May 2009
Lulu.com (Lulu) is a digital marketplace that eliminates traditional entry barriers to publishing by enabling content creators to bring their work directly to their audience. The company has...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Hotelier Improves Data Backup With Sun Server and Storage Technology
Oct 2008
For Accor North America, maintaining hotel guests' personal and financial data is an important, if less obvious, part of the hospitality it provides. The financial systems in its Dallas datacenter...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
Sun Boosts Storage Infrastructure to Support Growth and Innovation for German Mobile Service Provider
Apr 2008
O2 wanted to streamline and simplify storage management and increase ability to respond to new requirements. The challenge was to minimize costs associated with managing storage. As lead...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
Technology Resources Company Uses NetApp Technology to Offer New Services
Jan 2009
Technology Resources Company provides IT outsourcing, data center services, managed services, and IT consulting services to clients in Iowa. The challenge was to grow revenues by offering...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
CONSOL Energy Reduces SAP Storage and Infrastructure Costs With NetApp SAN Solution
Jan 2009
CONSOL Energy, Inc. produces high-bituminous coal and coal-mine methane gas. The challenge was to reduce data storage costs, simplify storage management, and minimize time and costs associated...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
The Technion Institute of Technology Relies on NetApp to Serve a Dynamic Academic Community
Jan 2009
The Technion is Israel's longest-standing scientific and technological university and one of the leading centers of research in the world. The challenge was to meet rapidly increasing demand in...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Scheufelen GmbH Assures 24x7 Production With NetApp FC SAN
Sep 2008
Scheufelen GmbH produces more than 300,000 tons of premium coated paper each year with annual revenues of approximately ?236 million. The paper factory in Lenninger Valley is in family hands and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
NaviSite Increases Storage Reliability, Performance and Efficiency With IBM XIV Storage System
Feb 2009
NaviSite, a leading IT outsourcing service provides. From hosting, managed services and custom development to support for enterprise applications, NaviSite relies on back-end storage to deliver...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Gerber Scientific Selects IBM XIV Storage System for Its SAP Environment
Dec 2009
Gerber Scientific is a world leader in innovative end-to-end customer solutions for a wide range of industries, including sign-making and specialty graphics, ophthalmic lens processing, apparel...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Penn West Energy fuels Rapid Growth With IBM System Storage
Jun 2010
Penn West Energy is a large conventional oil and natural gas producer in North America. Meeting the expanding storage infra-structure demands of a company facing rapid growth - including...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IDC white paper: A New Era in Midrange storage
Jul 2011
The exponential growth of data is pushing the limits of midmarket storage capabilities. IBM® has developed new architectures that can scale up to this demand. This white paper elaborates on...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Scale out file services: Kantana client video
Jul 2011
Thai animation company Kantana found storage nirvana with IBM. This video explains how the business was able to improve collaboration and productivity with centralized file storage for all...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Process Excellence With ESP Demo
Jul 2011
Most IT managers struggle to provide consistent levels of storage and backup services that ensure the productivity of their organizations. This demo describes how IBM Novus Enterprise...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers - Video
Novus SERP Flash Demo
Jul 2011
Novus Storage Enterprise Resource Planner (SERP) brings business intelligence to the storage environment. It tells you what business units are using which storage assets, when they use it, where...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
MarketScope for Storage Services, North America, 2010
Jul 2011
Gartner evaluates storage service providers on their innovation, service offerings, execution and other factors. This edition of MarketScope analyzes 10 storage service providers, and it aims to...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Need to Standardize Storage Device Performance Metric
Jul 2011
In this IDC white paper, sponsored by Seagate, IDC lays the foundation and discusses the importance for storage device vendors to define and coalesce around a set of common performance metrics...
Provided by Seagate
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White Papers
Data Center Networking - Designing Today's Data Center
Jan 2011
Demand for application availability has changed how applications are hosted in today's data center. Evolutionary changes have occurred throughout the various components of the data center,...
Provided by Enterasys Networks
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Whitepapers
Realizing the Value of Virtual Scale-Out NAS
Jul 2010
Enterprises are struggling with the burgeoning amount of file based data they need to store and manage. Traditional storage systems were designed with fixed capacity in mind; they break down at...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
The important role of storage for success in server virtualization: breaking performance & manageability barriers
Oct 2010
Server virtualization is an ever more important tool for reducing cost, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility. Many of virtualization's additional benefits require external...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
ENERGIZE - Microsoft Virtualization with Industry-Leading Storage
Jun 2010
Your storage infrastructure needs to deliver the ease of management, performance, scalability, availability, and efficiency required by virtualized environments. Whether it's your first...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
IDC Whitepaper: Scale-out storage in the content driven enterprise
Jun 2011
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the performance scalability of the HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems powered by Intel� Xeon� processors. The HP X9000...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
An M/G/1 Queue Model for Multiple Applications on Storage Area Networks
Jan 2008
Storage Area Networks (SAN) have become one of the most widely used solution for high performance enterprise storage applications. However, the infrastructures of SANs are very complex and varied...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
Trend Advisory: Converged Infrastructure
Dec 2010
While managing increasingly virtualized environments, IT managers have begun to see their projected efficiencies and utilization dwindle in the face of their overwhelmed storage and data assets,...
Provided by CDW
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White Papers
Business Continuity
Dec 2010
Whether your company does business exclusively or primarily in a web-based environment, or still operates primarily using a traditional batch approach, undoubtedly your most critical information...
Provided by CDW
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Whitepapers
Scripps Networks finds a fit Case Study
May 2011
In 2005, Scripps Networks undertook a five-year initiative to roll out media asset management across the enterprise. Scripps Networks needed�to store, manage, and process graphics, video, and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
ESG Report: Realizing the value of the Virtual Scale-out NAS: an analysis of the HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage System
May 2011
Enterprises are struggling with the burgeoning amount of file based data they need to store and manage. Traditional storage systems were designed with fixed capacity in mind; they break down at...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Walking the Dog animation studio manages creative assets with HP StorageWorks X9000 Case Study
May 2011
The success of Walking the Dog studio is a perfect example of how a small animation firm�run by the founders, shareholders, and owners Goossens and Roebben�can succeed in a fiercely competitive,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Power of HP Converged Infrastructure for Genomic Research
May 2011
Exploding data storage demands threatened to hinder the progress of biomedical research at PCPGM's academic medical centers of Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital. To...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Sportsbet.com.au improves its odds in online betting race Case Study
May 2011
Australia's Melbourne Cup is known as "the race that stops a nation." Held each year on the first Tuesday in November, the famous horse race draws a crowd of more than 100,000 to the Flemington...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Roomy: A System for Space Limited Computations
Jul 2010
There are numerous examples of problems in symbolic algebra in which the required storage grows far beyond the limitations even of the distributed RAM of a cluster. Often this limitation...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Parallel Disk-Based Computation for Large, Monolithic Binary Decision Diagrams
Jul 2010
Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are widely used in formal verification. They are also widely known for consuming large amounts of memory. For larger problems, a BDD computation will often start...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Consolidated Storage for Virtualized Server Environments
Apr 2011
This research brief is based on a recent Tech Target survey with more than 200 storage administrators and IT professionals in mid-sized and enterprise-class companies, and focuses on how these...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Accelerating ISCSI SAN Storage With Mellanox End-to-End Networking Solution
Apr 2011
Current data centers require frequent high speed access between server and storage infrastructures for timely response to customers. Web-based service providers, such as Infrastructure as a...
Provided by Mellanox Technologies
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Case Studies
Counting on Virtualization
Aug 2009
Chelsea Building Society needs to protect business continuity and sensitive data, Chelsea Building Society needed to migrate legacy software onto a robust hardware platform. This infrastructure...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Case Study: FOX Audience Network Transition from NetApp to Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
Mar 2011
Today's enterprises and organizations are concerned with how the manageability of their storage systems is affecting application performance -- and want to know how to choose the right storage...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Edison Group White Paper: Gaining Storage Management Efficiency with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Mar 2011
Edison Group recently did an extensive study to compare the manageability of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance against NetApp. The result? The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance delivers superior management...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Confidence in a Downturn: Growing Revenue Fast on an HP BladeSystem and HP LeftHand P4000 SAN
Oct 2009
Gradewell needs to maximize uptime and minimize costs to bring customers an advantage in Internet telephony. They approach to Deploy a VMware environment on HP ProLiant BL490c G6 Servers with HP...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard
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Whitepapers
Storage Whitepaper
Apr 2011
In this product brief from Enterprise Storage Group, analyst Steve O'Donnell highlights the value of storage virtualization in general and IBM SAN Volume Controller specifically. With real storage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Leverage the IBM Tivoli advantages in storage management
Apr 2011
Despite economic uncertainty, unabated data growth continues. At the same time, organizations are struggling to reduce costs while meeting zero data loss requirements. Read how IBM® Tivoli®...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
DIADS: A Problem Diagnosis Tool for Databases and Storage Area Networks
Aug 2009
Many enterprise environments have databases running on network-attached storage infrastructure (referred to as Storage Area Networks or SANs). Both the database and the SAN are complex subsystems...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Why Did My Query Slow Down?
Oct 2008
Enterprise environments have isolated teams responsible separately for database management and the management of underlying network attached server-storage infrastructure (referred to as Storage...
Provided by Duke University
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White Papers
Flow International: Defining a New Global Standard
Jan 2010
Flow Technology excelled at innovation, integrating high-pressure water jet technology into powerful tools that cut automotive glass and airplane composites and clean ships' hulls and roadways....
Provided by VMware & Dell
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White Papers
Dell IT: A Model of Virtualization
Oct 2008
With projects constantly ramping up, the Dell IT team is under pressure to deliver more computing power and new applications for product development and other internal business units. As the...
Provided by VMware & Dell
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White Papers
Delivering It Services to the Enterprise Using Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Processes
May 2008
Information Technology (IT) Service providers enjoy working in the fast lane, bringing bleeding edge technology to end-users who change requirements seemingly on whim. This week's Storage Area...
Provided by University of Maryland
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White Papers
Clipper Notes™: In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution - Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk
Dec 2010
Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Dramatically improve storage efficiency with IBM Storwize V7000
Mar 2011
Your business depends on its data. And you're probably gathering more and more data every day. You need a midrange storage system that offers the efficiency and performance to meet these needs....
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Video: IBM Storwize V7000 offers unprecedented midrange disk features and efficiency
Mar 2011
The amount of data you need to store is growing. Your budget and staff probably aren't. If you could increase the capacity and performance of your storage system with less impact on budget and IT...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Sun Boosts Storage Infrastructure to Support Growth and Innovation for German Mobile Service Provider
Apr 2008
O2 wanted to streamline and simplify storage management and increase ability to respond to new requirements. The challenge was to minimize costs associated with managing storage. As lead...
Provided by Sun Microsystems
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Case Studies
Technology Resources Company Uses NetApp Technology to Offer New Services
Jan 2009
Technology Resources Company provides IT outsourcing, data center services, managed services, and IT consulting services to clients in Iowa. The challenge was to grow revenues by offering...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
CONSOL Energy Reduces SAP Storage and Infrastructure Costs With NetApp SAN Solution
Jan 2009
CONSOL Energy, Inc. produces high-bituminous coal and coal-mine methane gas. The challenge was to reduce data storage costs, simplify storage management, and minimize time and costs associated...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
The Technion Institute of Technology Relies on NetApp to Serve a Dynamic Academic Community
Jan 2009
The Technion is Israel's longest-standing scientific and technological university and one of the leading centers of research in the world. The challenge was to meet rapidly increasing demand in...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Scheufelen GmbH Assures 24x7 Production With NetApp FC SAN
Sep 2008
Scheufelen GmbH produces more than 300,000 tons of premium coated paper each year with annual revenues of approximately ?236 million. The paper factory in Lenninger Valley is in family hands and...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Täby Municipality Streamlines Storage With SAN Solution From NetApp
Aug 2008
Täby Municipality, north of Stockholm, serves 60,000 residents and is in many ways a forerunner in the area of technology. The large number of users and the constantly increasing demand for...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Sky Research Pinpoints UXO
Aug 2008
Sky Research is in the business of environmental remediation, focusing on wide area assessment and detection of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) at active and formerly used military sites. During the...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
B. Braun Medical Opts for Unified SAN and NAS Storage
Aug 2008
For the past 160 years, B. Braun has specialized in the design, production, and marketing of products and services for the worldwide healthcare industry. The challenge was to provide accessible...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Immune Tolerance Network Accelerates Time-to-Results With Consolidation of NetApp SAN
Mar 2008
Headquartered at the University of California, San Francisco, the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) is an international collaboration of researchers conducting clinical research of new immune...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Southcentral Foundation Builds Exemplary Health Care Structure on NetApp IP SAN
Mar 2008
Southcentral Foundation is an Alaska native nonprofit health care organization that employs more than 1,200 people in some 65 programs. Southcentral Foundation wanted to upgrade to a storage...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Rock-Solid Disaster Recovery
Mar 2010
The challenge was to improve Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) ahead of hurricane season to mitigate risk of downtime. Dell partner compuquip recommended a...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
IDS Scheer AG Shows How Virtualization Dramatically Simplifies a Complex IT Infrastructure
Mar 2010
IDS Scheer had an unnecessarily complex server and storage infrastructure that resulted from addressing the growing requirements of its hosting services by adding servers and storage devices as...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
DIISR Innovates on Storage and Shrinks Power Costs With IBM XIV Storage System
Jan 2010
The Core Policy Department of DIISR, which employs approximately 1,800 people, was experiencing the same rapid rates of growth in data volumes as other federal departments, with around 60 percent...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Driving Storage Efficiency in SAN Environments
Sep 2009
Time and again, ESG research finds that data growth is cited as a top IT storage challenge. IT organizations large and small are being inundated with data that needs to be stored, managed, and...
Provided by Enterprise Strategy Group
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White Papers
Lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet: The Unifying Infrastructure for SAN and LAN Consolidation
Oct 2008
As organizations increasingly rely on IT to help enable, and even change, their business strategies, they need their IT infrastructure to be more powerful, agile, and cost effective than ever....
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
NetApp and VMware View Solution Guide. Best Practices for Design, Architecture, Deployment and Management
Apr 2010
This document provides architectural, deployment and management guidelines for customers planning to implement VMware View on NetApp virtualized storage. It provides a brief overview of the VMware...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Viacom cuts costs, saves energy with HP Managed Print Services
May 2010
"HP clearly offered a better solution in comparison with our existing solutions, alternatives from other vendors, and in terms of the previous relationships that existed in IT. It made a lot of...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Leverage the IBM Tivoli competitive advantages in storage management.
Sep 2009
IBM delivers unified storage management that is superior to legacy solutions, resulting in greater efficiency that reduces costs, improves performance, delivers unmatched scalability to better...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Storage ISM JAM: Reduce Your Data Storage Footprint: Manage More Data with Less Infrastructure
Jan 2010
One of the primary IT-related solutions that companies are investing in today is any technology that will help them survive the tidal was of data growth, especially those solutions that help...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Managing the Tidal Wave of Data Tivoli Storage Management
Jun 2009
IBM white paper. This white paper describes how IBM Tivoli storage management solutions can help organizations build dynamic storage infrastructures that scale to meet evolving business...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Softbank Virtualizes Its Storage Environment to Achieve Low Operating Cost
Aug 2009
Softbank Telecom wishes to lower the cost of its installed Storage Area Network (SAN) that consists of multivendor servers and storage facilities. Softbank installed an IBM System Storage SAN...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
ESG Report: Shared IT Infrastructure Considerations for Compute, Network, and Storage with NetApp, Cisco, and VMware
May 2010
Close collaboration between NetApp, Cisco, and VMware has resulted in the industry's first secure multi-tenancy solution to partition shared IT infrastructure that delivers performance,...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
VMware vSphere and NetApp Storage Best Practices
May 2010
NetApp® technology enables companies to extend their virtual infrastructures to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization. NetApp unified storage platforms provide industry-leading...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
VMware View and NetApp Storage: Best Practices for Design, Architecture, Deployment, and Management
May 2010
This document provides NetApp best practices for architecting, sizing, and deploying a VMware® VDI environment on NetApp® storage.
Provided by NetApp
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Webcasts
Gartner Webcast on Demand: Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business-Critical Apps
May 2010
Join the experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders from NetApp, as they discuss the benefits your organization can realize when you consider storage as part of your...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Architecting an Oracle Relational Database on SAN/iQ: HP P4000 SAN Solutions
Mar 2010
Data is the single most critical aspect of many businesses, from email to file shares to corporate databases. With an ever-growing focus on e-business, uninterrupted and efficient access to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Automated Disaster Recovery With VMWare SRM and Dell Equallogic ISCSI SANs
Aug 2008
Virtualized IT infrastructures can simplify management and facilitate business continuity while helping minimize power consumption and procurement costs. Virtualization also helps organizations...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
HP Recommended Configuration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN
Nov 2009
The recommended configurations described in this paper provide server and storage sizing details to assist one in planning and budgeting for the Exchange 2010 hardware deployments. Details in this...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family SANs Increase Cisco Unified Computing System Benefits
Feb 2010
The Cisco Unified Computing System offers outstanding scalability, performance, network integration, and cost effectiveness in a compute server environment. However, its integrated, heavily...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Impact of FCoE and Unified Fabric on Enterprise Storage Environments: Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges Associated With Migration Toward Common SAN and LAN Infrastructure
Feb 2010
Off late, Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the current state of storage networking. The focus of this study is on the perceptions and adoption intentions of user firms regarding...
Provided by Forrester Research
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Whitepapers
Storage Thin Provisioning Explained
Jun 2010
Business and IT decision makers are in a constant battle to address a rising number of storage problems associated with the volumes of data that is now created by organizations of all types and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
ESG Lab Review: HP P4000 SAN: Affordable, Scalable, Reliable Storage
Jun 2010
IT professionals in organizations of all types and sizes face a rising challenge to better protect and manage all of the shared information in a virtualized environment. Of course, most are now...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Business Value of Reservationless Storage
Jun 2010
The cost and complexity of the ever-growing stores of digital assets are a major challenge for IT administrators who are strapped by increasingly-scarce budgets and resources. What they need now...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Storage in the virtual era - Revisiting the requirements on data storage
Jun 2010
The growth in use of server virtualization technology is having a knock-on effect on other infrastructure capabilities including storage. As it becomes a core technology, virtualization can both...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with VMware
Jun 2010
Virtualization is well recognized for its ability to reduce costs, improve application availability, and simplify IT management but getting started can be a challenge. Without a doubt, you need...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Running VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions
Jun 2010
IT administrators who are implementing VMWare on a virtual storage area network (SAN) require the most current information available for proper setup and configuration. Issues such as initial...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Optimizing and Protecting Data with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
Mar 2011
Many IT organizations today use inefficient storage management techniques underneath their Oracle Databases that are based on traditional practices that are no longer the industry's best operating...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Backup Consolidation Solutions
Jan 2010
SA Eagle is the fourth-largest short-term insurer in South Africa. It is a member of the Zurich Financial Services Group. Like all insurance companies, SA Eagle too banks on its data and customer...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Ethernet Alliance: Storage Traffic in a Converged 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network
May 2009
The next phase in the modernization of data centers is the Converging networking. Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Converged Ethernet are the key technologies that will make this convergence...
Provided by Ethernet Alliance
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Case Studies
HostMySite.com: Pillar Is the Life of the Party for HostMySite.com's Thousands of Servers
Oct 2008
This case study provides an insight on how the SAN application from Pillar helped its client HostMySite.com to overcome the operational barriers it was facing due to excessive load and storage...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
