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

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: In today’s competitive environment, you need to accelerate business growth, while keeping costs under control. A primary contributor to escalating IT costs is the over-provisioning of storage space to solve growing SAP database and application capacity requirements. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

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

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