Storage Appliances

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you understand the important factors to be considered when selecting drives for your storage infrastructure. In this paper you'll receive 6 key tips and considerations to examine before deciding on a storage solution, and discover which technologies are better-suited for various types of data and/or organizations.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces two backup appliances designed to meet the challenges IT managers are facing today. In this paper, you'll learn about the features of these integrated solutions and read a brief case study outlining a real-world application of these technologies. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explores eight must-have technologies for IT organisations struggling with inefficient storage systems with dead-end growth paths.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technology validation report from Taneja Group explores the effectiveness of a newly-introduced virtual backup and security solution. In this paper you'll learn the 5 keys to virtualised data protection, and discover how well this technology handled each of these requirements.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief whitepaper from Dell to see how the EqualLogic PS Series, integrated with VMware, can provide your IT center with comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery tools without costly add-on licenses.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This brief whitepaper discusses how Dell and Symantec have teamed up to provide a comprehensive solution for your organization's archiving needs. Read on to see how Dell's DX Object Storage Platform and Symantec's Enterprise Vault can provide your organization with a centralized, integrated content archiving solution.

Posted: 04 May 2011 | Published: 04 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will compare the projected five-year cost of ownership of the Dell DX platform against tape and network attached storage alternatives, and will examine many of the other important considerations that must go into any smart archiving platform purchasing decision.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 01 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage solutions are becoming increasingly popular for its ability to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs.  Yet many organizations fail to maximize the potential of tiered storage.  Check out this white paper for some best practices to realize the ultimate potential of a tiered storage solution.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: At the core of the virtual data center is the automation of processes that align operations with current business policies. Being able to synthesize this operational information into knowledge of behavior is the crux of Fluid Data storage.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment. Download now to find out the results. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report looks at how IBM Real-time Compression can be used to reduce the cost of storing primary file data without impacting performance. The results of hands-on testing of IBM RTC Appliances is used to demonstrate the value of non-disruptive deployment, loss-less capacity savings, real-time performance, and non-stop high availability.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Oracle disaster recovery solution provides business continuity by replicating both the Oracle database and the entire Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure to a standby site. It protects the latest business data and maintains service availability during site maintenance events as well as system failures. Read on the learn more.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 21 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Sun Fire X2270 M2 server provides the most effective path to cloud and technical computing. They bring an enhanced next generation, small form-factor, high performance system to the datacenter. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how organizations can leverage cloud-based storage offerings as part of their data protection plans. The paper also takes a closer look at the solutions offered by Riverbed that allow organizations to integrate cloud-based storage within solutions that address a growing set of data protection demands.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of Coraid EtherDrive SAN storage with a focus on usability, scalability, and price-performance efficiency.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 10 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: With virtualization and its ability to install multiple operating systems (OSs) and run them independently on a single server, IT can effectively consolidate hundreds of servers while optimizing resources and simplifying the infrastructure. Read this paper to find out so much more.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a description of the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 12 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's revolutionary Sun Storage F5100 flash array is a simple, high-performance, ecoefficient solid-state storage solution designed to help accelerate database operations. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 | Published: 13 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 | Published: 03 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.

Posted: 09 Jun 2008 | Published: 09 Jun 2008

WHITE PAPER: Including disk in the backup strategy makes sense for many companies, but most can't afford to keep more than a few days of their backup data on fast recovery media- the cost of conventional RAID arrays is simply too high.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 13 Jun 2007

WHITE PAPER: When organizations consider adding disk to their backup process, one of the issues they need to address directly is the fact that conventional disk backup makes it difficult to protect data against site loss or other local threats.

Posted: 13 Jun 2007 | Published: 13 Jun 2007