WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | USB

CASE STUDY - When engineers for the United States Airforce decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER.
Posted: September 29, 2008 | Published: September 27, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the ways that SEPATON technology enables customers to get the most value, efficiency, and performance from their TSM environments.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | LAN | Storage Management | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Fans of the CLARiiON midrange storage family will be pleased with the next-generation CX4 series, the release of which was recently announced by EMC.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | VMware | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores SAS -- a relatively new entry into the disk drive market -- as a very viable replacement for Fibre Channel based (FC) disk drives.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 9, 2008


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | IT Managers | RAID | SAN

WHITE PAPER - This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | Data Storage | Fibre Channel | Networking | RAID | SAN | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet is speeding along the certification path, and now is the time to determine what it can do for you.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Fibre Channel

WHITE PAPER - In this paper Greg Schulz and Jon Toor talks about the industry trends and perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center.
Posted: September 1, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Ethernet Networks | Fibre Channel | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 SP2 with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 x64 Enterprise or Standard Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Databases | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Software | SQL Server | Testing | Windows

CASE STUDY - Dell iSCSI solution simplifies storage management for MisterArt.com, supporting 80 percent business growth and nearly two times better performance.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Customer Satisfaction | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Productivity | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This overview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes three validated configurations for Dell | VMware and Dell | Citrix XenServer Dell™ edition virtual infrastructures.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Many companies realize the importance of reducing exchange server complexity by leveraging storage platform capabilities. Read this paper to discover the advantages of Storage Area Network (SAN).
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: July 10, 2008


Topics:  Collaborative Applications Software | DAS | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Storage Systems | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel Switches | SAN | Server Management | Storage Hardware | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains implementing a comprehensive storage strategy based on simple, cost-effective, and capable plug-and-play technologies which can help reduce costs, increase efficiency, and ensure business continuity.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Fibre Channel | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper focuses on how the Data Domain deduplication storage solution integrates with standard NBU architectural and operational environments in order to overcome the growing gap between what is being accomplished and needs to be accomplished.
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | Storage Best Practices | Systems Management | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

VIDEO - Watch this video for a brief overview of the future-ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning of this highly flexible storage platform.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Switches

VIDEO - Learn more about how the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays can scale capacity, performance and functionality to meet your changing storage needs today and tomorrow.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems

VIDEO - Check out this podcast and learn how virtualization can affect your company's security and the impact that this technology has on independent software vendors.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This guide reviews the factors driving virtual I/O adoption, how virtual machine technologies benefit from virtual I/O, and the specific solutions that are available now.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | LAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization

BROCHURE - The Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays build on the CX reputation of flexibility, ease-of-use, and innovation, and are designed to greatly improve levels of performance and expandability. Learn more about it in this brochure.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 8, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | High Availability | SAN | Scalability Testing | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the architecture and functionality of the Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays, including new design innovations such as UltraFlex modular I/O technology.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series helps organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Databases | Fibre Channel | Oracle (Product) | RAID | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | Storage Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Posted: August 7, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Fibre Channel | Load Balancing | Network Performance | RAID | SNMP