Data Storage White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Big Data holds out the promise of providing businesses with differentiated competitive insights. But those insights, protected by a healthy level of technical complexity, require large-scale data consumption and an innovative approach to the analysis of large public and private data sets.

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 | Published: 25 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: A growing trend in small businesses is to solve storage problems with a simpler, more elegant technology: network-attached storage (NAS). Continue reading to learn about NAS appliances such as Cisco® Small Business NSS 300 Series Smart Storage solution, as well as learn the reasons why it differs from other NAS storage method.

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: If you've heard of network-attached storage (NAS), you know that this technology can centralize data storage for high availability and security. But now NAS does much more, for about the same price. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 21 Jan 2011 | Published: 21 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses an approach to evaluating data at a business level, and implementing a data protection strategy that safeguards your organization based on the value of its data.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how you can take control of your content with an integrated, end-to-end archiving approach for email and files and Increase the business value of your data while driving down the costs and complexity of the infrastructure all while staying compliant with legal and business mandates.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will provide best practice configuration guidelines for using latest storage and server technology (Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology storage devices along with Oracle's Sun servers) to optimize such simulation management solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities available in Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this issue brief by Center for Digital Government to learn how the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the County of San Diego are improving service delivery by managing information electronically.  What benefits could ECM bring to your agency?

Posted: 10 Dec 2010 | Published: 10 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows the way to protect data and business, where hardware is only one factor. The other factor is the proof that in a worst case scenario the protection works well. The challenge is to test that protection in near real-life situations but without impact on business production.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: What does sustainability mean for business and particularly for IT? Sustainable IT refers to efforts that increase the useful life and reduce environmental impacts of IT systems, and concurrently offer cost benefits to the business. Read on to learn how your business could benefit from going green.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM is applying its expertise, global scope, and creativity to build the information backbone of twenty-first-century industries and public institutions. Continue reading to learn the benefits that a smart archive strategy can provide for your organization.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression enables the highest levels of data compression and provides enterprises with tremendous cost-savings and performance improvements due to reduced I/O. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's tiered storage strategy lets you effectively manage and store data across multiple types of storage media while reducing your total cost of ownership up to 54 percent. Oracle is the only technology leader to provide a scalable, end-to-end storage solution that aligns data value with the right combination of cost, performance, and capacity.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is no longer strictly an enterprise technology; it is increasingly being adopted by IT groups in small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). However, those organizations are quickly learning that virtualization can also increase complexity in certain areas of IT, particularly in data protection. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell’s enterprise solutions, including EqualLogic iSCSI SANs, PowerEdge Virtualization Servers and Global Infrastructure Consulting Services (GICS) can help organizations confidently deploy, manage and protect their Tier-1 Microsoft® applications within a VMware vSphere environment.

Posted: 15 Sep 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Used by more than 37,000 customers worldwide, HP Data Protector provides automated backup and recovery of physical and virtual servers from disk or tape. Read this paper to learn answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about HP Data Protector software and the Granular Recovery Extension for SharePoint 2007.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Column-based databases can be slow deleting and updating data. Vertica’s Analytic Database is designed specifically for storing and querying large datasets. Vertica’s differentiator is that it combines a columnar database engine with MPP and shared-nothing architecture, aggressive data-compression rates, and high availability.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how Pink OTC Market Inc., the third largest U.S. equity trading marketing place,  built a highly available and reliable (no downtime in a year of production use) data warehouse using Vertica's Analytic DBMS that cost-effectively stores billions of records and scales easily by simply adding CPUs without incurring additional licensing fees.

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 | Published: 16 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses that dollars and time currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication.

Posted: 09 Jul 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: With Dell Compellent, enterprise data is actively, intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. This paper discusses eight Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Planning a virtualization deployment can be a challenging task, particularly when it comes to the storage infrastructure. Read this white paper to develop a better understanding of storage’s role in virtual environments.

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 | Published: 02 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many remote offices have a relatively small staff, and often lack onsite technical expertise or corporate IT staff. Yet the data generated by the staff at remote offices is a corporate asset that should be backed up just like data at corporate headquarters.

Posted: 13 May 2010 | Published: 13 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010