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Tape Success: The Digital Curator for the Information Age (Horison)
Sep 2010
Since the first successful drive first appeared in 1952, the magnetic tape industry continues to evolve. Markets are shifting as disk slowly encroaches on tape's traditional backup/recovery market...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics
Jul 2010
Responsible for churning out reliable data for both public and government decision making, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics considers data reliability a huge concern. By pooling together its...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Great Florida Bank
Oct 2009
To stay ahead of the steep government regulations curve, Great Florida Bank implemented a high availability Storage Area Network (SAN) solution to replicate and protect the bank's vital electronic...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Nielsen//NetRatings
Oct 2009
The Internet's regular business hours are always. For this reason, Nielsen//NetRatings must respond to a very high data availability standard in order to effectively manage its continuously...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Ontario Science Centre
Apr 2010
Ontario's most visited cultural attraction boasts over one million visitors per year and millions of dollars in exhibits, which are manufactured in house. To meet government privacy mandates and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Pacific Hydro
Mar 2008
Pacific Hydro has built a portfolio of hydro and wind farm projects, both across Australia and around the world. When Pacific Hydro, a fast-growing Australian renewable energy company, faced rapid...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University Hospital Center of Nancy, France
Mar 2008
Being able to connect to the right information at the right time is critical to saving lives. For the University Hospital Center of Nancy, France, it means sharing timely data such as patient...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University Hospitals of Strasbourg
Nov 2007
The University Hospitals of Strasbourg have 3,000 beds and more than 10,000 employees. Hospitals of Strasbourg faced with increasing capacity requirements, changes in user demands and...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: University of Texas: UT Medicine San Antonio
Jul 2009
To support a new electronic medical records system from Epic Systems Corporation and modernize the management of critical applications, UT Medicine San Antonio budgeted for a redesign of its...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Solutions for SAP Development and Test Environments With NetApp Storage
Apr 2009
This paper addresses the challenges of designing storage solutions based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. It describes the scenario in which the customer utilizes another vendor's storage...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Power Systems SAN Multipath Configuration Using NPIV
Jan 2010
Once the AIX LPAR is activated and the Virtual FC ports are showing as logged in, one can configure the SAN storage box to do the proper Zoning and Access Control by providing the WWNs shown in...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager With IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 5.1 and DS4800 Backup Solution for SQL
Dec 2009
Microsoft SQL Server is a core business application that many companies depend upon for their most critical data and processes. Unexpected downtime can have a serious impact on both productivity...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Exchange Server 2007 SP1 SAN Volume Controller VSS TSM 6.1 Backup Solution
Jul 2009
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 is a critical application for most, if not all businesses that have deployed it as their email application of choice. Even short periods of unexpected downtime can...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Disaster Recovery Using Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Metro Mirror & Global Mirror
Sep 2008
This paper describes how Symantec and IBM have installed, configured and validated High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) configurations for DB2 and Oracle with IBM System Storage SAN...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 5.1 Entry Edition and DS3400 36,000 Mailbox Resiliency Exchange 2010 Storage Solution
Nov 2009
The IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and DS3400 proved more than capable of handling the high IOPs generated by this ESRP configuration. Highly flexible, the SVC offers the options of...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
Feb 2010
This paper discusses some guidelines for administering space usage for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). The back-end storage...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Data Replication - No longer stuck on the wish list
Oct 2010
Until recently, enterprise standard replication has been an expensive 'wish list' commodity, but SunGard's Replication as a Service is about to change that. This free whitepaper explores a number...
Provided by SunGard Availability Services LP
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White Papers
Implementation Guide for Veritas Cluster Server and NetApp SnapMirror for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
Feb 2010
Today's business requirements, such as high availability, business continuity, and disaster recovery, are more extensive than ever before. Because Microsoft Exchange has become a mission-critical...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Storage Management with SharePoint
Nov 2009
More data not only means higher costs, but more data also means that the overall value of the content is starting to drop. It is important to keep the data in SharePoint relevant which means that...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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White Papers
Taming the Storage Dragon: The Adventures of HoTMaN
Apr 2009
HoTMaN (HoT-standby MaNager) is a joint research and development project between MySpace and USC Database Laboratory to design and develop a tool to ensure a 24x7 up-time and ease administration...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
Minuet: Rethinking Concurrency Control in Storage Area Networks
Jan 2009
Clustered applications in storage area networks (SANs), widely adopted in enterprise datacenters, have traditionally relied on distributed locking protocols to coordinate concurrent access to...
Provided by University of California
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White Papers
Dell™ PowerEdge™ R515 offers savings over two legacy database servers
Nov 2010
The Dell PowerEdge R515 server can quickly recapture initial investment costs and deliver savings for small to medium businesses (SMBs) replacing multiple legacy servers. We compared two legacy...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Evaluating Storage Technologies for Virtual Server Environments
Jun 2010
To maximize the value of the new virtual infrastructures and minimize the impact on storage and networks, IT organizations must utilize I/O and storage systems that can address the need for new...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Energize Microsoft Virtualization with Industry-Leading Storage
Oct 2010
Virtualization is one of the most effective methods to save costs, increase the availability, and improve the agility of an organization's infrastructure. With Microsoft® Hyper-V, it's easier...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Simplify, Optimize & Save - HP StorageWorks & VMware
Oct 2010
With HP/Intel and VMware solutions, you can simplify, optimize, and save in your VMware environment with the right infrastructure to store, protect, and manage your virtual servers, desktops, and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Configuring HP LeftHand SANs With Microsoft Windows Server
Sep 2009
HP LeftHand and Microsoft have a global partnership to work towards the common goal of simplifying the use of storage area networks (SANs) in Microsoft Windows environments. One collaborate to...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Assessing Performance in HP LeftHand SANs
Apr 2009
Organizations today need to manage a staggering amount of data. In many businesses, data volumes are growing by more than 100 percent per year. Data is the lifeblood of business. Consequently,...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Designing Next-Generation SANs With Brocade 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel Solutions
May 2010
The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) has officially supported the 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel initiative and major switch, router, Host Bus Adapter (HBA), and storage vendors are now...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Integrating Dell Equallogic SANs With Citrix Xenserver
Oct 2008
Hypervisor-based virtualization offers enterprises opportunities for cost savings, increased security and greater operational flexibility, availability and efficiency. By creating an paper layer...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Running Title: Investigating SANS/CWE Top 25 Programming Errors
Apr 2009
On January 12, 2009, experts from more than 30 cyber security organizations jointly released a consensus list of the top 25 most dangerous programming errors (http://www.sans.org/top25errors/)....
Provided by East Carolina University
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White Papers
Understanding the Financial Benefits of iSCSI and SANS
Sep 2007
Storage Area Networks (SAN) and in particular iSCSI SANs offer a compelling argument for the reduction in the cost of data storage and the management of that storage. As an organization's data...
Provided by Axstor
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White Papers
Integrating EqualLogic PS6x10 Arrays With Existing SANs
May 2010
With the introduction of 10Gb Ethernet-based EqualLogic PS 6x10 series of iSCSI arrays, administrators need to determine what is the best way to take advantage of this high performing storage...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Will iSCSI Dominate SANs?
Jan 2010
The primary mode of data storage for computer servers has been direct-attached storage (DAS). In this mode, a computer issues commands to manage blocks of data on internal disk drives. This mode...
Provided by MIT
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White Papers
Real-Time Auditing for SANS Consensus Audit Guidelines
Jan 2010
Tenable Network Security, Inc. was founded on the belief that it is crucial to monitor for compliance in a manner as close to real-time as possible to ensure the organization does not drift out of...
Provided by Tenable Network Security
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White Papers
NAS or iSCSI Selecting a Storage System
Aug 2010
Worldwide, over 50 petabytes (5 x 1016 bytes) of data are generated every day that have to be safely stored, economically managed, and quickly and efficiently made available to applications and...
Provided by Open-E
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Deploying the Hitachi NAS Platform in VMware VSphere Environments Using the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
Dec 2009
Explosive growth in NAS filers that is required to meet user demand results in administrative headaches and increasing equipment costs. Deploying VMware vSphere 4 on the Hitachi NAS Platform 3080...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
Mar 2009
Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
How to Reclaim Your SAN With Cloud Storage
Dec 2010
IT managers today face enormous challenges because of massive file growth. Files are clogging up SANs and making backup difficult. The new cloud storage trend promises scalability, reliability,...
Provided by Nasuni
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Volvo IT
May 2010
Volvo IT wanted a very high level of availability throughout the system, almost 100 percent. This doesn't apply to just the actual storage equipment, but also, for example, to the rest of the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: iomart
May 2010
iomart is a rapidly growing company, formed in 1998 as an integrated telecommunications and internet services provider, and subsequently floated on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market of the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: United Bank and Trust
Oct 2009
Founded in 1860, United Bank and Trust (United) is an independent community bank offering personal banking, business banking and wealth management services to customers in southern Michigan....
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
Fujitsu Teams With Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota With New e-Business Strategy
Jan 2010
Blue Cross and Blue Shield have served the United States for more than 70 years. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota depended on an older computer system that lacked the horsepower and became...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Principal Insurance Company (Hong Kong) Ltd: Making Data Access Unbreakable
Jan 2010
Principal Insurance Company (HK) Limited provides trustee, administration and investment management services for MPF products and retirement schemes in Hong Kong. HK wanted a highly reliable...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Bauerfeind Consolidates Business Processes With SAP Business Suite on a Dynamic IBM Infrastructure
Aug 2010
Bauerfeind AG is a specialist manufacturer of medical aids, such as supports, orthoses, compression stockings and foot orthoses. Bauerfeind set out objectives including: Standardized processes...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Australian Administration Services (AAS)
Jan 2008
AAS is one of the leading specialists in superannuation administration, delivering backend superannuation services to 280,000 employers and four million members in Australia. Australian...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Powerhouse Museum Exhibits Improved Performance With Virtualization Deployment
Aug 2009
Headquartered in the inner-Sydney suburb of Ultimo and with locations at the Sydney Observatory and Castle Hill in the city's northwest, the Powerhouse Museum holds 385,000 items of historical,...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: eXimius N.V., A Thomson Reuters Company
Jun 2010
Thomson Reuters provides businesses and professionals with intelligent information. The company combines its expertise and innovative technology to supply critical information for decision makers...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Denver Health
Mar 2010
Denver Health is Colorado's primary "Safety Net" institution, providing residents with access to the highest quality health care, regardless of ability to pay. As a healthcare organization, Denver...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Charlotte County
Dec 2007
Located in Southwestern Florida, Charlotte County has a population of nearly 150,000 people. The local government of Charlotte County is responsible for handling everything from planning & zoning,...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Bluelock, LLC
Jan 2008
Bluelock LLC (Bluelock) is a managed technology services provider that is redefining how companies provision and manage their technology infrastructures. Bluelock wanted to create a scalable,...
Provided by VMware
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Case Studies
VMware Case Study: Acme Truck Line, Inc.
Oct 2009
Since 1960, Acme Truck Line, Inc. (Acme) has been a leader in the transportation of equipment, materials, and supplies throughout the United States. Headquartered in Harvey, Louisiana, Acme has...
Provided by VMware
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Webcasts
Managing the Configuration of Your Virtual Infrastructure
Jun 2010
Does one know if their SAN (Storage Area Network) is configured to continually meet service levels in VMware environments? View this on-demand webcast to see how automating the validation of...
Provided by EMC
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Case Studies
FECAP Projects Increased Processing Capacity by 50%, Reduced Power Costs and Reduced Management Time by 50% With Total Dell Solution
Jul 2010
Built more than 12 years ago, the data center had equipment occupying many shelves and old servers from several different vendors. Systems were difficult to manage with manual updating and...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Unitary Authority in the UK Cuts Approximately £40,000 a Year in IT Energy Costs Thanks to Dell Virtualized Solution
May 2010
Bracknell Forest Council saw that its IT power consumption was rising. Personnel also found the infrastructure complex to manage, while the storage system was at the end of its lifecycle. The...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Maximizing Storage Efficiency With the NetApp V-Series at National Semiconductor
Jan 2010
Like most storage teams, the company at National Semiconductor over the last few years has worked to consolidate storage to maximize efficiency. This is a necessity when deployed storage is...
Provided by NetApp
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Case Studies
Information Solutions Provider Upgrades to Cisco 4Gbps FICON Switching and Storage Infrastructure in Record Time
May 2008
Thomson Transaction Services (TTS) wanted to complete overhaul of FICON SAN infrastructure in less than two months without disrupting service or interfering with daily business and increase...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Construction Materials Provider Centralizes Branch-Office Servers With Cisco Data Center Solutions
Nov 2008
Lafarge North America is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the United States and Canada. Lafarge wanted to reduce branch-office server and storage costs and centralize...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Global Law Firm Selects Switch Solution and Storage Upgrade for Data Center
Dec 2008
Founded in 1934, McDermott Will & Emery (MWE) is a premier international law firm with a diversified business practice. McDermott Will & Emery wanted to implement scalable data center design for...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Improving Guest Relations With Advanced IT Infrastructure Based on Cisco SAN Architecture
Jul 2009
The Ibis hotel chain, a subsidiary of Accor hotels, established its first branch in Bordeaux, southwest of France. The Ibis hotel chain wanted to attain leading four-star hotel status by...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Engineering Firm Accelerates Application Delivery to Remote Users, Increases SAN Scalability
Apr 2008
Michael Baker Corporation wanted to have limited bandwidth at local offices and needed increased performance for Bentley ProjectWise Content Management System over WAN. The challenge was to have...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
University of Salerno Builds Next Generation Data Center to Improve Education Services
Mar 2009
The University of Salerno, in Southern Italy, wanted to maintain a reputation for providing high quality, high performance education support services and meet the demand for more and better...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
Naples University Set to Bring Scientific R&D to Market Faster With High Performance Computing
Jan 2009
Naples University wanted to maintain a reputation as a leading scientific research and development center and increase the potential to attract new funding and investment in innovation. The...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
University Selects Director-Class Switches to Create a New Scalable SAN
Apr 2009
East Carolina University wanted to establish a SAN with a high-performance, scalable director-class storage switching infrastructure to accommodate the technology demands of the university's data...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Case Studies
iland Saves Seven Figures While Providing Cloud-Based Replication, Disaster Recovery and Desktop Virtualization Solutions
Jun 2010
iland needed a fully redundant, cloud-ready solution that would provide customers with high availability, scalability, ease of management and financial efficiencies while enabling them to target...
Provided by Dell
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Webcasts
Storage Stategies for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Jul 2010
In order to get the most value our of Microsoft Exchange 2010, you will need a high quality reliable and cost-effective data storage infrastructure. In this Webcast, industry experts examine key...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Data Migration Best Practices and Considerations
Jun 2008
This white paper discusses the recommendations for building a SAN environment to achieve the most availability. This white paper is provided to discuss best practices and recommendations for...
Provided by Enterprise Data Storage Consulting Now
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White Papers
Configuring DELL PowerEdge 11G Servers Running Windows Server 2008 for iSCSI SAN Boot
Mar 2010
This paper provides instructions for configuring Dell PowerEdge 11G family of servers to boot the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 or the Windows Server 2008 R2 from iSCSI SAN-based boot images....
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Storage Management: Choosing efficiency over capacity
Jul 2010
Today, many companies face the challenge of how to accommodate growing storage needs. The easiest answer might be to simply purchase more storage, but at a time when IT dollars can be hard to come...
Provided by CDW
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Webcasts
WebDefend and the CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors 2010
Jan 2010
This webcast is mainly about Web Defend and the CWE/SANS Top 25 of the Most Dangerous Programming Errors that happened in the year 2010.the CWE & SANS is the leader in their domain has been asked...
Provided by Breach Security
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White Papers
Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel WDM networking
Jan 2010
This paper describes a SAN and LAN Extension Solution based on embedded WDM SFP transceivers from SmartOptics. An embedded WDM solution offers best price, reliability and simplicity compared to...
Provided by SmartOptics
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Case Studies
Preferred Credit: The Company Direct Sales Depend on Depends on Pillar
Dec 2008
Preferred Credit Inc. has been providing financing in direct sales sector since 1982. The finance company planned on consolidating its technology and position in the market. Hence, it decided to...
Provided by Pillar Data Systems
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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
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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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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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White Papers
Deploying the Hitachi NAS Platform in VMware VSphere Environments Using the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 Family
Dec 2009
Explosive growth in NAS filers that is required to meet user demand results in administrative headaches and increasing equipment costs. Deploying VMware vSphere 4 on the Hitachi NAS Platform 3080...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
Mar 2009
Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
How to Reclaim Your SAN With Cloud Storage
Dec 2010
IT managers today face enormous challenges because of massive file growth. Files are clogging up SANs and making backup difficult. The new cloud storage trend promises scalability, reliability,...
Provided by Nasuni
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Volvo IT
May 2010
Volvo IT wanted a very high level of availability throughout the system, almost 100 percent. This doesn't apply to just the actual storage equipment, but also, for example, to the rest of the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: iomart
May 2010
iomart is a rapidly growing company, formed in 1998 as an integrated telecommunications and internet services provider, and subsequently floated on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market of the...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Hjemmet Mortensen
May 2010
Owned by Orkla Media and Egmont, Hjemmet Mortensen publishes 31 weekly and specialised publications, as well as 10 webbased magazines. Hjemmet Mortensen decided to install a new storage system...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: NorgesGruppen
May 2010
NorgesGruppen is the largest food retailer in Norway. They operate more than 3,000 supermarkets, convenience stores, newsstands and restaurants. NorgesGruppen decided that a new storage solution...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hitachi Data Systems Case Study: Johannes Kepler University of Linz
May 2010
The impressive Johannes Kepler University of Linz is a descendent of the University of the Province of Upper Austria, which dates back to 1492. Supercomputing, in particular, has a continual...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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Case Studies
Hay Group Selects ETERNUS4000 for Company's First-Ever SAN
Sep 2007
Hay Group, a global human resources management consultancy, was founded in 1943 by visionary Edward Hay to help World War II veterans successfully transition back into the regular workforce. As...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Case Studies
Server Consolidation With Virtualization Technology Reduces TCO by Over 50%
Jan 2011
Based in Nishibiwajima-cho a suburb of Nagoya, Ichibanya launched its first specialty quick-service curry restaurant in 1978. Since then the company has steadily grown under its proven "Curry...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Virtualization Solutions With HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SANs: Optimized Storage Solutions for Virtual Infrastructures
Feb 2010
Server virtualization is the first step for many businesses. It consolidates resources to reduce costs and increase utilization. It facilitates implementation of better disaster-recovery and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Virtualisation Solutions With HP StorageWorks P4000 G2 SANs: Optimised Storage Solutions for Virtual Infrastructures
Mar 2010
Virtualisation encompasses more than simply server technology - it is the convergence of servers, storage and applications in a way that fundamentally changes how one utilise the resources in the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Skip the Disk
Jan 2011
The demand for data storage is exploding, which is driving up costs, increasing the risks of data loss or exposure, and complicating plans for disaster recovery. To cope, organizations are turning...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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White Papers
ESG White Paper: Deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server with NetApp Networked Storage
Jan 2009
This paper focuses generally on optimal storage and storage management for SharePoint and specifically evaluates NetApp's approach, detailing how the capabilities in NetApp's DataONTAP and...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Improve IT Efficiency Through Storage Consolidation and Centralized Server Management
Aug 2010
Data growth has exploded driving increasing demands and expectations on an organization's IT infrastructure. To compete in today's global marketplace, organizations are faced with new challenges...
Provided by Stonefly
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White Papers
Research of Network Mass Storage Mode Based on SAN
Jul 2010
In the face of new needs of the current network storage, the traditional DAS, NAS and advanced SAN network storage technology are analyzed, and the technical differences between the three...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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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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White Papers
Design Issues of 'Vulnerabilities and Suspicious Behavior Detection System' in Storage Area Network (SAN)
Nov 2009
Current accelerated demand of business continuity of operations in 24 × 7 work environment has increased the importance and amount of the data stored on computers and Storage Area Networks (SAN)....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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Whitepapers
AUTOMATE your data protection. HP StorageWorks D2D Backup Systems powered by Intel Xeon processor 5500 series & StoreOnce technology
Oct 2010
HP & Intel provide a comprehensive array of solutions across services, software, servers, storage, and networking. In addition, HP's services expertise can bring all your solutions together and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Affordable End-to-End Storage for Mid-Sized Organizations
Jun 2010
This report presents the results of hands-on testing and a cost of ownership analysis of an HP StorageWorks & Intel Xeon- enabled solution for medium-size organizations. It examines the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Top 10 reasons why you should choose HP StoreOnce
Feb 2011
You as an IT manager want simple, cost-effective solutions for your complex IT challenges. HP kept this in mind while designing StoreOnce. New technologies, such as deduplication can be difficult...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
The Important Role of Storage for Success in Server Virtualization
Oct 2010
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas—cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management—and illustrates how SANs provide...
Provided by PC Mall
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White Papers
Quantitative Study of Differentiated Service Model Using UltraSAN
Jan 2011
In today's Internet, only best-effort service is provided. With upcoming Quality of Service (QoS) requirements raised by a wide range of communication-intensive, real-time multimedia applications,...
Provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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White Papers
ESG White Paper: NetApp Optimizes SharePoint Implementations
Mar 2011
A few years ago, NetApp completed its first integration with Microsoft SharePoint to facilitate storage management and data protection functions for its then newly introduced collaboration...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Tiered Storage Takes Center Stage
Feb 2011
The selection of storage technologies has never been greater. Today's choices range from ultra-high capacity, low cost, low performance storage at one end to highly advanced data management...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
SLA-Based SAN Design
Jul 2008
Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect storage a device to servers over fast network interconnects. The authors consider the problem of optimal SAN configuration with the goal of retaining more...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Technology Decisions for the Next Generation Data Center
Feb 2011
What does a typical data center look like today? If your company is like most, infrastructure sprawl is rampant. Virtualization has helped break the one-application-one-server paradigm, but the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Analyst report: storage virtualization isn't about storage
Mar 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
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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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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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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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
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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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