WHITE PAPER - There are numerous exasperating problems and issues with today’s data protection solutions. Both restore/recovery and backup have serious problems that are not getting better. The answer is in the Cloud BUR.
Posted: August 24, 2010 | Published: August 24, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | Cloud Computing | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | IT Outsourcing Services | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - This advisory guide will discuss both strategic and tactical considerations, to assist in decision making to select and apply deduplication technologies in line with different organizational needs.
Posted: August 17, 2010 | Published: August 16, 2010


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines a new approach to improving application performance, which is capable of delivering millions of IOPS and tens of GB/s throughput and allows capacity and performance to scale independently. Read on to learn about this cost effective, easy to use approach to dramatically improving application performance.
Posted: August 10, 2010 | Published: August 10, 2010


Topics:  Application Infrastructure | Application Performance Management | Applications Management | Capacity Planning | NAS | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Backup makes up 30% of the IT expenditure, yet it is fraught with issues. This white paper addresses the areas a CIO needs to focus on to get a better handle of his or her backup environment.
Posted: August 3, 2010 | Published: June 23, 2010


Topics:  Backups | Capacity Planning | CIOs | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper details the compelling benefits created by improving the efficiency and performance of the “Technical Enterprise” with a Scale-out NAS storage infrastructure. Scale-out NAS enhances the traditional file server to provide an unlimited ability to scale capacity and performance across the organization.
Posted: July 20, 2010 | Published: July 20, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Capacity Planning | Collaboration | File Server Software | NAS | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization is becoming a no-brainer for any business that runs more than one application on servers. This white paper covers many of the best practices for implementing iSCSI storage in order to optimize the resiliency, flexibility and performance of your virtual server environment.
Posted: June 14, 2010 | Published: June 14, 2010


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Application Server Hardware | Capacity Planning | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Resource Management | Virtualization Security

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes a high-level cloud computing infrastructure services framework and the underlying technology enablers, such as virtualization, automation, self-service portal, monitoring and capacity planning. It also discusses examples of, and the value propositions for, certain data centers that have been built in this manner to date.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Published: February 24, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cloud Computing | Data Center Management | IT Infrastructure | IT Service Management | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
Posted: September 21, 2009 | Published: September 21, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Email Management | Email Server Software | Microsoft Exchange | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Virtual Machine | VM | VMware

WHITE PAPER - DBA's have always been faced with the difficult task of maintaining a successful database environment, but recently new trends have come along to further challenge them.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management Software | DB2 | High Availability | SQL | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Workload Automation

WHITE PAPER - Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | CIOs | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ROI | Server Virtualization | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Today’s web applications require more than simple load balancing. This white paper describes the 8 must-have features of a more comprehensive application delivery solution.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: June 7, 2010


Topics:  Bandwidth Management | Capacity Planning | eCommerce | High Availability | Load Balancing | Security | Systems Management | Web Applications Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper covers projects involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management Services | Infrastructure Management | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - To stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure (NCPI).
Posted: April 13, 2005 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Centers | Network Infrastructure | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | TCO