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Ensuring Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Security Within U.S. Government Agencies
sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies.
Posted: 27 Mar 2009 | Published: 27 Mar 2009

Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.

Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

Remote Replication Best Practices for Oracle 10g Using XP Continuous Access White Paper
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: The test results and information presented in this paper explain how to properly plan for and successfully deploy a remote copy infrastructure for an Oracle 10g database using HP XP12000 Disk Arrays and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software.
Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

ESG Plasmon Archive File Manger Brief
sponsored by Plasmon
WHITE PAPER: Plasmon offers its Archive File Manager to facilitate the movement of static, or persistent, data off primary storage systems-in particular.
Posted: 14 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008

Plasmon

Time-addressable and Event-addressable Storage: Combining Snapshots and Data Journaling for True Continuous Data Protection
sponsored by American Megatrends Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Although there are many different ideas of what CDP is, it is clear that it must protect data in a manner that is both time-addressable and event-addressable. This white paper explains what this means and gives an overview of effective CDP ...
Posted: 04 Apr 2008 | Published: 14 Mar 2008

American Megatrends Inc.

Benefit Solution Case Study - Timmons Group
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Timmons Group is a leader in the civil engineering industry; however, their storage requirements were growing at an unprecedented pace. Read this case study to learn how this company was able to overcome their challenges with innovative SAN solutions.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

EMC Corporation

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

ENHANCING YOUR IT ENVIRONMENT USING SNAPSHOTS
sponsored by DellEMC and IntelĀ®
WHITE PAPER: Snapshots help you improve the productivity and reliability of your backups because they are fast, flexible and affordable. Read this white paper to learn more about snapshot technologies and the benefits they deliver.
Posted: 18 Mar 2008 | Published: 17 Mar 2008

DellEMC and IntelĀ®

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand.
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

InfiniBand for Storage Applications
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication.
Posted: 04 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Storage Solutions That Enable Semiconductor Design for Manufacturing (DFM)
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: EDA tools used for DFM are helping overcome the physical challenges associated with producing semiconductors based on complex designs using nanometer technologies.
Posted: 21 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007

DataDirect Networks

Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you.
Posted: 24 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

DataDirect Networks

The Benefits of Network Attached Storage in Small and Medium Sized Business Networks
sponsored by NETGEAR Inc.
WHITE PAPER: SMBs must choose the right solution for managing their data - because a wrong decision can be costly. Luckily, NAS solutions fit the requirements and budgets for SMBs. Read this white paper to learn how these solutions are impacting smaller organizations.
Posted: 03 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

NETGEAR Inc.

A Guide to Virtualizing Your Information Infrastructure
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is top priority for CIOs and data center managers. Download this guide on virtualization and discover an approach that distributes intelligence across all levels, while centralizing the control and management of your entire environment.
Posted: 12 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

EMC Corporation

Business Continuity Planning - The First Step to Business Resiliency
sponsored by Overland Storage
WHITE PAPER: Business Continuity(BC) is the ability to keep vital business operations running in the event of failure in the existing infrastructure. This white paper highlights the importance of (BC) planning and explores strategies and solutions to help achieve them
Posted: 12 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

Overland Storage

Virtualization Is Key to Storage Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have consolidated their storage infrastructures and a growing number see storage virtualization as an essential part of an effective consolidation strategy. Read this white paper to learn the benefits delivered from this strategy.
Posted: 01 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Special Report: Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is an approach to pooling and sharing IT resources so they can flexibly and automatically meet fluctuating business demand. This special report provides a complete outline on virtualization from how to get started technically and organiz...
Posted: 01 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Considerations for Designing, Implementing, and Managing an Email Archive Solution
sponsored by Datalink and Symantec
WHITE PAPER: Email archiving is critical to providing archive, search and retrieval options for compliance and discovery mandates. Download this white paper for tips on selecting and implementing an appropriate and effective archive system.
Posted: 27 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

Datalink and Symantec

Migrating to HP Integrity Servers and Microsoft SQL Server 2005
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: With the introduction of 64-bit hardware and software for Windows, organizations can deploy new applications or migrate existing ones to faster, more efficient technologies. Read this white paper to learn best practices for database migrati...
Posted: 18 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2005

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Deduplication Comes of Age
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: The capacity of storage systems is rising at a breathtaking pace and using storage as efficiently as possible is critical. Read this white paper to learn about a new deduplication technology that can help you improve efficiency and save space - up ...
Posted: 11 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

NetApp

New E-Guide: Securing and Consolidating Remote and Branch Offices
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: The remote office/branch office (ROBO) is now a main part of many organizations' storage initiatives. This eGuide, featuring articles from Storage magazine, outlines the issues of protecting ROBO data and provides insight and strategies for...
Posted: 04 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

Brocade

Best Practices in SAN Migration
sponsored by QLogic Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Overwhelming data growth has caused many storage administrators to move from older, legacy SANs to newer and more robust solutions. This white paper provides best practices and guidelines to follow when migrating to a new SAN technology.
Posted: 28 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

QLogic Corporation

Small Form Factor (SFF) SAS - Meeting the Demanding Requirements in Specific Markets
sponsored by Xtore
WHITE PAPER: SAS technology has been proven to be the most versatile storage solution in data transfer and high performance. Read this white paper to learn about a solution that renders the necessary performance needed for your client's expanding market requirements.
Posted: 22 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

Xtore

Dual Mode Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN - The Best of Both SAN Storage Worlds
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: Discover how you can get the best of both SAN storage worlds. Download this white paper to learn about a solution that brings together the high performance and reliability of Fibre Channel and the low cost and versatility of iSCSI.
Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 10 Aug 2007

Dell | EMC

A Practical Guide to Business Continuity
sponsored by Overland Storage
WHITE PAPER: Business continuity is a big issue for IT managers. Overland Storage provides the tools and solutions for Server Message Block (SMB) IT managers to implement a complete and cost effective Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery program.
Posted: 16 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

Overland Storage