ESG White Paper: Intelligent Tiered Storage: BlueArc's Implementation
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
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This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Seven Requirements for Balancing Control and Agility in the Virtual Environment
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Unparalleled agility is the promise of virtualization. But managing change, staying compliant, and preventing virtual sprawl are just a few of the challenges you could face before you reap the rewards. VMware joined us recently to co-author 7 must-read tips for striking the perfect balance in your virtual environment.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process - from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
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Using the five step process outlined in this white paper, we were able to eliminate more than 2,000 servers from our own IT infrastructure, saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs.
Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009
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Integrating Virtualized Servers with VMware vStorage-Enabled Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SANs
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
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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
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Sun and Infobright - Delivering high-performance data warehouse solutions that cost less to run
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership.
Posted: 11 May 2009 | Published: 11 May 2009
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Why Use Cisco Network Storage Systems for Your Business
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009
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NAND Flash Storage in Enterprise Applications
sponsored by Fusion-IO
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Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage.
Posted: 18 Mar 2009 | Published: 18 Mar 2009
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Enabling Enterprise Tape Library Support for Microsoft DPM 2007 Using FalconStor VTL
sponsored by FalconStor Software
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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server and SharePoint.
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | Published: 10 Feb 2009
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Data Center Projects: Growth Model
sponsored by APC
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Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Published: 21 Nov 2008
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Hot Aisle Vs. Cold Aisle Containment
sponsored by APC
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This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Nov 2008
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Virtual Machines Are Not Free
sponsored by VKernel
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This paper explains the advantages that virtual machine provides to the IT department.
Posted: 14 Nov 2008 | Published: 14 Nov 2008
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3PAR Thin Copy Desktop: A VDI-Optimized Storage Solution
sponsored by 3PAR
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables end users or their hosting providers to provision and manage hundreds of individual, virtual desktops from a set of centrally administered, consolidated servers.
Posted: 01 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Major Considerations for Deploying a Thinly Provisioned Storage Solution
sponsored by 3PAR
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IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage administrators looking for higher levels of storage efficiency.
Posted: 07 May 2008 | Published: 07 May 2008
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Eliminating Tape and Trucks from the Disaster Recovery Process
sponsored by Data Domain
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This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
Posted: 30 Aug 2007 | Published: 30 Aug 2007
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