WHITE PAPER - Companies use storage tiering to optimize storage availability. This has resulted in storage arrays that don’t meet the performance demands of business applications. This paper outlines how to improve application performance by bringing business awareness to storage tiering decisions allowing for high performance at the lowest possible cost.
Posted: March 18, 2010 | Published: March 18, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Management | Data Migration | Database Administration | Flash Memory | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Services | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - To an application owner, storage can be a black box. Achieving high performance at low cost is difficult and knowing which data to allocate to which tier requires deep knowledge about the value of the data. Precise for Storage Tiering gives customers the information they need to map their enterprise application data to the “right” storage solution.
Posted: March 18, 2010 | Published: March 18, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Management | Data Migration | Database Administration | Flash Memory | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Tiered Storage

EBOOK - Your backup application looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. In the March edition of Storage Magazine, see what new capabilities are being built in by backup vendors plus other storage related articles.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: March 12, 2010


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Virtualization

EBOOK - Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators. This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room.
Posted: March 12, 2010 | Published: April 15, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Cooling Capacity | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Service Creation | Service Creation Tools | Storage Architectures | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure

ANALYST REPORT - Virtualization goes beyond consolidation by maximizing IT cost savings and enabling timely delivery of highly scalable business services. Download this tech report to learn about storage enhancements that provide better performance, improved usability and easier administration.
Posted: March 5, 2010 | Published: March 5, 2010


Topics:  Data Storage | iSCSI SAN | Server Virtualization | Software Selection | Software Upgrades | Storage Architectures | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware

DATA SHEET - Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network (SAN) arrays offer a solid shared storage foundation for a virtualized data center that can enable organizations to take full advantage of the high-availability features included with Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™.
Posted: March 2, 2010 | Published: March 2, 2010


Topics:  High Availability | Microsoft Hyper-V | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Virtual Machine Migration | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - With exploding amounts of data, CalTech needed to store critical digital information for NASA on a storage system that could deliver enterprise class reliability with power efficient technology to drive down cost. With over 2 petabytes of data on Nexsan Storage, CalTech has experienced 99.9% hardware reliability over the last 7 years.
Posted: February 25, 2010 | Published: February 25, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Power Consumption Monitoring | Storage Appliances | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Systems

WEBCAST - This webcast discusses how using two different back up methods for active and inactive data can simplify management, reduce capital cost structure and operational costs.
Posted: February 19, 2010 | Premiered: February 19, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Data Deduplication | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Tiered Storage

ANALYST REPORT - IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP).
Posted: February 18, 2010 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Efficient use of available storage is the main goal of every storage architect. Providing tiered storage in its arrays allows EMC customers to match business requirements with the right level of storage performance. By introducing Enterprise Flash Drives, EMC has added another tier of storage to handle the most performance-sensitive business data.
Posted: February 15, 2010 | Published: February 15, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Data Management | Data Migration | Database Administration | Flash Memory | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Tiered Storage

CASE STUDY - Stadsarchief Amsterdam is the biggest city archive in the world, storing millions of important and historic documents. To prevent these documents from getting lost, Stadsarchief Amsterdaturned turned to Hitachi Data Systems for a solution to digitize its archives, and ensure longevity and scalability.
Posted: February 2, 2010 | Published: February 2, 2010


Topics:  Data Management | Data Visualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an overview of Hybrid Storage Pools and how they can help businesses meet growing demands for storage I/O throughput in today's data-intensive applications.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Storage | Open Source | Solid State Disks | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: December 1, 2009


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | SCSI Controllers | Serial ATA | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER - For most businesses, the legacy IT strategy is not only costly, it’s unsustainable. Clearly, a new approach is needed. That new approach is storage virtualization.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Controllers | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Following are the Top Five Business Reasons organizations tell us they are deploying the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family in their virtualized environments.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: January 25, 2010


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - See how a leading university improved storage service levels and saved money with storage virtualization.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: November 1, 2004


Topics:  Backups | RPO | RTO | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Many CIOs are happy to spend money in the short term if it helps them reduce costs in the long term. Virtualization, tiered storage and Dynamic Provisioning can lessen the cost of acquisition delivering lasting savings that can constitute a real business and competitive advantage. Learn how.
Posted: January 25, 2010 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  RAID | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper to learn about 12 best practices for data backup and recovery such as Reliability, Breadth of Offering, Security, Accessibility, Scalability, Cost-effectiveness and more!
Posted: January 11, 2010 | Published: January 11, 2010


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Standards | Storage Systems

EBOOK - This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.
Posted: December 28, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - EMC’s storage expertise, innovative products, and service capabilities have allowed it to become the market leader in IP storage. According to the IDC research, EMC, along with its wide network of Velocity Partners, is the revenue leader in IP-based storage solutions. Read this paper to find out why.
Posted: December 18, 2009 | Published: December 18, 2009


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | IP SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Organizations concerned about IT budgets, need to be prepared to discuss cloud storage in the near future. The reality is that there are already enterprises using cloud storage effectively. Is it the answer for your organization? It might be--and the intent of this paper is to provide definitions, considerations and insights.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Data Centers | High Availability | Private cloud computing | Public cloud computing | Scalability Testing | Security | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations.
Posted: November 17, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Construction | Data Center Design | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Migration | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2006


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware