Data Storage White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes challenges organizations face when using MapReduce, and the means by which Platform MapReduce can address them.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores the factors to consider and the evaluations needed to make informed decisions to minimize downtime, prevent technological mishaps, and compensate for natural or man-made disasters.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this overview brief to learn how Oracle Exadata Database Machine addresses the needs of today’s businesses with extreme performance for enterprise data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP), and mixed workloads.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: An Acronis white paper stating that integrating Disaster Recovery and Data Protection is a practical solution for reducing storage management TCO, improving IT administrator productivity, and increasing the reliability of backup and recovery plans.

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: HP Data Protector simplifies application protection through unified recovery and advanced automation and can help you meet any SLA for up to 70% less cost than competitive backup software solutions.

Posted: 22 Jul 2011 | Published: 22 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a cost-effective information management solution that optimizes storage infrastructures while also maintaining the performance and scalability that businesses require.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get the top ten data management trends that will be important in 2011 and beyond. Leveraging these trends will enable you to make more insightful business decisions, reduce your IT costs and make your environment more responsive, available and scalable.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will out line the 7 common challenges you might face while trying to implement Active Directory securely. You will also learn some helpful tips that will assist you with these difficulties.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Finding a log management solution that can manage risk, simplify regulatory compliance and provide security for you network can be very difficult. There are many systems that contain some of these tools but now there is a system that can do all of this.

Posted: 11 May 2011 | Published: 11 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: As medical imaging evolves in the digital era, images must be delivered through a single information network and be easily accessible. Current methods of managing images are proving increasingly inefficient and costly.  Read about a platform that addresses these concerns and provides simplified and accelerated access to medical files and images.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Dell DX Object Storage Platform provides configuration of cluster-wide parameters through the web-based management console on the DX Cluster Services Node (CSN). This white paper provides instructions on configuring advanced configurations through the node configuration files.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dell has developed a customer centric strategy designed to provide customers with the right archiving solutions for their IT infrastructure. Access this paper to learn more about Dell's strategy and archiving point of view.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how an active archive strategy requires planning and tools, but when done properly it can dramatically reduce the overall costs of managing a growing pool of data. By de-coupling production disk from other tiers of storage, single points of failure are virtually eliminated.

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | Published: 20 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Redaction is a word that many—if not most—IT organizations have never heard of. If they have, they would probably be hard-pressed to define it or explain its importance. But that situation is changing quickly as organizations realize they must have a solution.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data qualitty and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Information Archive helps you store, retrieve, manage, share and protect regulated and non-regulated data with a design that is both highly secure and extremely cost efficient.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how protecting cardholder data is a critical and mandatory requirement for all organizations that process, store or transmit information on credit or debit cards and the requirements and guidelines for securing cardholder data are specified in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Database Smart Flash Cache on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux has the potential to offer considerable benefit to users of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with disk-bound read-mostly or read-only workloads, through the simple addition of flash storage such as the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array or the Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Spectra Logic offers the only truly integrated encryption option for data backed up to tape and other removable media: BlueScale Encryption. Continue reading to learn how encryption and key management is easy to implement with Spectra T-Series libraries.

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 | Published: 02 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Microsoft SharePoint is the platform of choice for organizations to store enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 take the platform to the next level by improving the platform’s scalability and usability to further enhance collaboration among knowledge workers.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines each of these issues, why they are important for SMBs to address and how to resolve them while maximizing business continuity and minimizing IT resources necessary to accomplish the demands of backing up and recovering Windows desktops and laptops in your environment.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today, more companies than ever recognize the value and convenience of using cloud backup to protect their server data. However, enterprises considering cloud backup for protecting their vital data face these security concerns. Read this white paper to learn how to secure your cloud.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Not since the advent of the Internet has a technological concept achieved more attention than cloud computing. AMD’s server platform technology is uniquely tuned to address critical government requirements for reducing costs, simplifying operations and raising energy efficiency in server price/performance. 

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 | Published: 25 Jan 2011