WHITE PAPER: The goal of this study is to determine if a multi?node Oracle RAC cluster can be replaced with a cluster consisting of fewer Dell PowerEdge 11G nodes (powered by Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 Series), and still process the OLTP workload faster with less power consumption and lower Oracle RAC licensing fees. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: XenServer is the only free, enterprise-class virtualization platform. With powerful features such as live migration and centralized multi-node management, your datacenter is instantly smaller and smarter. For free. You can't afford not to download it now.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Optimizing the benefits of a data grid built with Oracle Coherence relies upon creating a modular, balanced architecture. Matching the number of application servers, memory capacity, and quantity of processing nodes to the target workload characteristics is important to achieving the best performance.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution.

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

DATA SHEET: Dell's Hyper-V Technology Introduction for Windows Server® 2008 is a rapid approach to the deployment and configuration of a Hyper-V and SystemCenter Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) based Proof of Concept (POC) into your pre-production test lab.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: The Hyper-V Technology Introduction with Advanced Management for Windows Server 2008 is an approximate 10 day service and consists of either a single-node implementation or dual-node highly available (HA) host-based cluster configuration and up to two servers for the System Center elements. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

BOOK: This article is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization.

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: For many, the world of communications is mystifying, shrouded in complexity and unknowns with equal parts science and magic, and 100% scary. This article demystifies what a network is, breaking it down into human terms.

Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 30 Apr 2008

PRODUCT DEMO: Choose the trial that works for you. Login to an online virtual environment where you can experience our award winning solution - or - download a virtual image of our solution to run in your network environment (up to 10 nodes) - or - schedule a one-on-one with an expert who can lead you through the entire deployment.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 18 May 2009

ASSESSMENT TOOL: This network-based scanning utility provides comprehensive visibility into the IT environment through in-depth scans and the automated discovery of all assets, both managed and unmanaged. Scan up to 25 nodes.

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 | Published: 11 Mar 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: SEPATON S2100-ES2 is architected to efficiently support backup and recovery for demanding enterprise-grade sites. Its DeltaScale scale-out architecture enables expansion in performance or capacity by simply adding a processing node or additional disk capacity.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This article discusses running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on servers configured with Sun™ Logical Domains (LDoms). Sun LDoms virtualization technology allows the creation of multiple virtual systems on a single physical system, and enables fine-grained assignment of CPU and memory resources to an Oracle RAC workload.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDataBackup.com, and W. Curtis Preston, Executive Editor of Storage Media Group, discuss global deduplication. They will explain what global dedupe is and reveal the benefits and drawbacks that have been expressed by industry professionals.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

CASE STUDY: Download this case study and read how Crest Animation eliminated storage bottlenecks, improved productivity, and gained more than $19 Million in benefits with HP StorageWorks Solution.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2007

WHITE PAPER: IPv6 satisfies the increasingly complex requirements of hierarchical addressing that IPv4 does not provide.

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: When multiple receivers are required to get the same data at approximately the same time, multicast is a more efficient way of delivering data than unicast.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008