Optimal Storage Virtualization: The Key to Effective Information Management
sponsored by Xiotech Corporation
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The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic.
Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009
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Preparing for e-discovery - The litigator and the information professional responsibilities
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This paper reviews e-discovery scenarios where Legal and IT must be a united front; understanding both sets of requirements and responsibilities, managing the e-discovery process, and action steps for Legal and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and reduced costs and risk of e-discovery.
Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009
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Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009
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Rethinking Storage Virtualization with the HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009
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Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009
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Seven Ways To Lower Storage TCO
sponsored by Compellent
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Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this white paper for more details on how Compellant can save save your company millions of dollars.
Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009
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Solid State Storage - A New Standard for Enterprise-Class Reliability
sponsored by Fusion-IO
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With throughput and seek times faster than disk arrays, data centers are including NAND flash as part of their server infrastructure. Fusion-io offers solid state storage solutions with NAND flash that provides integrity for data exceeding today's solid state storage solutions and surpasses enterprise-class rotating magnetic storage devices.
Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009
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Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage Best Practices Guide: Data Domain Deduplication Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
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In this guide, OpenStorage best practices are examined and discussed to assist in eliminating the bottlenecks associated with deployment and functional testing of the solution.
Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009
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Taming The Power Hungry Data Center
sponsored by Fusion-IO
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The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009
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Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center
sponsored by Compellent
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To take full advantage of server virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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Three Steps to Improving Server Virtualization ROI with everRun
sponsored by Marathon Technologies
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Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009
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User Directed Storage Management: How To Make Users Accountable For Responsible Storage Usage
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009
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Using an SRM Tool to Ground In-the-Cloud Storage
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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This paper addresses the challenges and drawbacks of in-the-cloud storage, addressing such issues as control, security, compliance, data availability, and overall management. It also shows how storage can work within a private or internal cloud framework.
Posted: 31 Aug 2009 | Published: 31 Aug 2009
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Using Deduplication Storage to Backup Virtual Machines Deployed with (VI3)
sponsored by Data Domain
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This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: 14 Mar 2009 | Published: 14 Mar 2009
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Virtual Machines Are Not Free
sponsored by VKernel
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This paper explains the advantages that virtual machine provides to the IT department.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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Virtualize Your End-to-End IT infrastructure and Reduce OpEx and CapEx
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009
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Virtually Effortless Backup for VMware Environments
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) improves virtual server backup, but there are a number of limitations. FalconStor Software has a solution that works with VCB while overcoming these limitations. Using this solution, you can quickly and efficiently back up virtual machines and retain transactional consistency, without management complexity.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 2009
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VMware Data Backup and Recovery -- Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Data Domain
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VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 19 Jun 2008
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WAN-optimized Replication: Built into FalconStor Solutions
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application...
Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009
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Why Records Management is important
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important.
Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 2009
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Why Virtualization Matters to the Enterprise Today
sponsored by IBM
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This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible.
Posted: 08 May 2008 | Published: 08 May 2008
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XenApp and XenDesktop: Application Virtualization and Desktop Virtualization are Better Together
sponsored by Regan Technologies
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This document is designed to help Citrix XenApp customers understand how and when Citrix XenDesktop can be used with Citrix XenApp to deliver virtual desktops to further reduce application and desktop computing costs and provide greater IT and user flexibility compared to traditional application and desktop management models.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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