SAN White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Some iSCSI vendors bring complex multi-node failover mechanisms and more to the table, complicating head-to-head comparisons. In this report Taneja Group sets out to examine Dell’s differentiation in the midst of a crowded and rapidly growing field.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: 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: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to learn how Nexans Euromold expired (HP msa1000), André Fouquart, Information Systems Manager at Nexans, went looking for a new storage platform. It soon became clear that an IBM SVC solution combined with IBM System Storage™ DS3400 arrays was the best solution, read more now.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to demonstrate that by using the deduplication and compression engine within the Veeam Backup and Replication product, it is possible to make a positive impact in the storage environment of any organisation.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 16 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The reference architecture illustrated in this article shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 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

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.

Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 07 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: If you are in charge of IT at a mid-size enterprise, you’re probably about to bite the bullet to add a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Why? The simple answer is that it’s a combination of challenges and opportunities. Read this paper to learn why any organization that runs more than one business server application should consider a SAN.

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | Published: 26 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: iSCSI technology provides superior manageability to Fibre Channel for virtualized environments. Specifically, iSCSI lets users in virtualized environments utilize all the functionality available to non-virtualized systems.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: 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: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.

Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how HP LeftHand SANs can help you deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) software more effectively through volume snapshots, SmartClone volumes, volume migration, and high-availability features.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.

Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009