Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage
sponsored by Dell and VMware
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This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 05 May 2009
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Northern Storage Suite: Return On Investment
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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Northern Storage Suite delivers financial returns in three ways: by improving utilization of existing resources, by reducing the pace of hardware investment and by reducing the need for administrative intervention in data management. This paper provides details on these three benefits and how this storage solution can benefit your organization.
Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 10 Apr 2009
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ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code
sponsored by Fusion-IO
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With read/write speeds that are very close to most expensive models in the industry, the ioDrive's price/performance ratio will leave you saying, "WOW!" Read this white paper for more information on this paradigm-shifting data storage appliance.
Posted: 20 Mar 2009 | Published: 20 Mar 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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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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7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization
sponsored by Compellent
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As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization.
Posted: 09 Mar 2009 | Published: 09 Mar 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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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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ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.
Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 06 Mar 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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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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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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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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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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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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Northern Storage Suite V8
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009
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Demystifying Data De-Duplication: Choosing the Best Solution
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 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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Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers
sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
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This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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How Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition Helps Protect Virtual Environments
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, and increase application performance.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 02 Dec 2008
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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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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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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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