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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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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High Performance NAS
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
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Read this special report that reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009
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Extending the Benefits of Virtualization to Remote Office and Branch Locations, Small to Medium Businesses and Web Hosters
sponsored by VM6 Software
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VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Distributed IT Infrastructures: Alternative Approaches
sponsored by VM6 Software
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This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 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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How to Select the Correct RAID for an EqualLogic SAN
sponsored by Dell India
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One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 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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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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Case Study: U.S. Air Force Manages Aircraft Site Using Powerful Storage Virtualization Platform
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 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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Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 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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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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Building High-performance, Highly Available IP Storage Networks with HP SAN/iQ Software
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 27 Aug 2009
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Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009
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Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009
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Dell EqualLogic PS Series and Microsoft WS2008 Hyper-V: Enabling the Next Generation Virtualized Data Center
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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This solution brief discusses how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.
Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Published: 09 Jul 2009
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Enabling the Virtual Data Center: Simple, Affordable Virtualized ISCSI Storage for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Environments
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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In this solution brief learn how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
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Dell Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 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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Integrating Virtualized Servers with VMware vStorage-Enabled Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009
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