Storage Architectures

WHITE PAPER: Explore the new storage features in VMware vSphere 5.0 that can help your organization reduce complexity while achieving greater scalability. Discover how Storage DRS simplifies provisioning of VMs and monitoring of the storage environment with smart virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your nightly backup process, enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the benefits they have noticed so far and the tradeoffs that they hadn't anticipated. Discover the top challenges these organizations face and the technologies they are considering to address them.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: To keep up with rising data center demands, many organizations are turning to scale-out-storage, an architecture that fosters a flexible environment to cost-effectively support data growth. Read this white paper to learn how this approach can provide energy-efficient performance, data protection and scalability for your advanced data center.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Scale-out storage is quickly becoming the modern architecture of choice, meeting the needs of today’s storage systems with greater ease, efficiency, and flexibility than traditional “scale-up” architectures – and at lower costs. Discover how the right underlying infrastructure can yield even more total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides insight into the rapidly changing business landscape and explains how it is making limitless collaboration and on-demand information sharing possible. Discover a framework that unifies technologies, improves agility, and simplifies operations in the data center.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: An independent study by ITG has found that the IBM XIV can save an organization 69% on TCO over a 3 year period. This white paper explains how the system’s unique architecture enable it to accomplish this feat.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical whitepaper provides performance and scalability metrics of the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage system as a file sharing solution in different operational scenarios.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will examine how to architect storage subsystems to provide efficient protection as part of the backup and recovery process. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Published: 23 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: An efficient storage solution is integral to a successful VDI implementation. With a Fluid Data architecture and integrated software features such as Automated Tiered Storage, Thin Provisioning, Continuous Snapshots and Remote Replication, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN proves to be a highly effective storage option for VMware View.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Simpana 9 provides its customers with greater flexibility by allowing them to extend their data protection tools beyond their physical environments, safeguarding virtual servers and clients as well. Also, Simpana 9 provides its customers source-side data deduplication that will significantly improve and boost storage asset utilization.

Posted: 12 Jul 2011 | Published: 12 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: With the convergence of data protection and disaster recovery, IT managers are increasingly relying on software to present a "single pane of glass" onto their storage networks in order to address challenges better and move their infrastructure forward into cloud and virtualization technologies while addressing costs and increasing security.

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper documents the file storage challenges users face and how the HP StorageWorks X9000 systems help organizations address and overcome storage performance, density, management, cost, and deployment issues.

Posted: 14 Jun 2011 | Published: 14 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the key components of a highly available architecture. Find out how one specific configuration performed and discover the essential steps required to implement it.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides step-by step instructions to help organizations set up highly available virtualized infrastructures. Find out why your configuration should be comprised of three servers, two switches, and one storage array.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses seven ways healthcare IT teams can use Dell Compellent Fluid Data storage to drive efficiency, ensure high availability and protection, and readily adapt to constant change.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 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: 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: A Fluid Data architecture automates data management at a more granular level to adapt to storage admin needs. Detailed information about each block is captured in action, providing system intelligence inside the volume. A sophisticated data movement engine uses this metadata, or data about the data, to intelligently store, recover and manage data.

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 white paper takes a look at how Dell EqualLogic XVS can be implemented to help solve some of the storage problems associated with the adoption of SQL Server.

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 | Published: 28 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper takes an in-depth look at Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage arrays and the ways in which an effective storage solutions can help your business.

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 | Published: 28 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: As more and more organizations turn away from tape to disk as their primary backup media, however, a significant portion of them will not only seek to eliminate tape for on-site retention, but for their off-site retention as well. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Disk eliminates all the problems of tape backup. Backing up to disk is faster than backing up to tape, and disk-based backups are more reliable and more secure than tape-based backups. Read on to learn more about the advantages of disk backup today!

Posted: 19 Apr 2011 | Published: 19 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides detailed reference architectures and best practices for deploying and configuring a Business Ready Configuration targeted at SMB.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011