Storage Best Practices

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Organizations concerned about IT budgets, need to be prepared to discuss cloud storage in the near future. The reality is that there are already enterprises using cloud storage effectively. Is it the answer for your organization? It might be--and the intent of this paper is to provide definitions, considerations and insights.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines several factors that limit the capacity of your data storage system and how they contribute to the true cost of storage.

Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper is intended to help simplify the process of starting a disaster recovery plan so as not to be so overwhelming. Through some basic steps, businesses can better protect themselves against data loss while working toward a more complete business continuity plan.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how to create a virtualization strategy that improves mobility, flexibility, security, and compliance. It also introduces comprehensive desktop-virtualization solutions from Microsoft. Finally, it provides high-level guidance to help companies develop a desktop-virtualization strategy.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: With disk-to-disk technology, your backup data resides on disk drives, proven to be far more reliable than tapes. When your backup completes, you know the data is secure and accessible on the disk drive. Read this paper to learn other best practices on disk-to-disk technology and more.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores how an archiving solution supports the management and protection of SharePoint content across an enterprise by providing: Back-Up & Recovery, Storage Optimisation, Retention Management, eDiscovery, and Seamless End User Access.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: 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

WHITE PAPER: In this research paper you'll learn about the top challenges facing storage professionals in Europe and information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems.

Posted: 30 May 2009 | Published: 30 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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