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Backup & Disaster Recovery are Ripe for Cloud Disruption
sponsored by PHD Virtual
WHITE PAPER: This concise white paper addresses the prior storage success across clouds, and the focus on business continuity and service recovery within this new frontier. Read on to learn about the 2 separate business processes that will shape the future of cloud-based storage.
Posted: 30 Jan 2014 | Published: 30 Jan 2014

PHD Virtual

Solution Brief: Enabling Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Success: Dell EqualLogic Storage with Citrix XenDesktop
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how to ensure your VDI infrastructure is ready to deal with increased I/O demands.
Posted: 22 Oct 2013 | Published: 23 Oct 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

Taneja Group: Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 Hybrid Blade Arrays: The Storage Foundation for a converged VDI solution
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details a solution to virtualized desktop issues often caused by antiquated storage infrastructure and methods.
Posted: 22 Oct 2013 | Published: 23 Oct 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

MIDRANGE UNIFIED STORAGE ARRAY BUYER’S GUIDE
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This buyer's guide equips you in two key ways – helping you evaluate midrange unified storage arrays – and providing a set of scores and rankings across the multiple features on each product as well as data sheet for each midrange unified storage array.
Posted: 17 Oct 2013 | Published: 17 Oct 2013

NetApp

After a Thorough Search and Exhaustive Testing of Device Control Solutions, Greenwood Academies Trust Chooses Lumension®
sponsored by Lumension
WHITE PAPER: This case study focuses on one organization that implemented device control to better manage its sensitive data across all endpoints and removable devices without any worry.
Posted: 11 Oct 2013 | Published: 11 Oct 2013

Lumension

Maximize Operational Efficiency in a Tiered Storage Environment
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Check out this resource to explore how combining two storage tiering technologies can help you reduce costs through self-optimized use of storage tiers, eliminate manual data classification, achieve space efficiency through thin provisioning and much more. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 09 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 May 2012

Hitachi Vantara

HP Thin Technologies A Competitive Comparison
sponsored by AdvizeX Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This informative resource looks at thin provisioning technology from the major storage vendors in today's marketplace.
Posted: 23 Aug 2013 | Published: 23 Aug 2013

AdvizeX Technologies

DCIG Midrange Unified Storage Array Buyer's Guide
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This buyer's guide equips you in two key ways – helping you evaluate midrange unified storage arrays – and providing a set of scores and rankings across the multiple features on each product as well as data sheet for each midrange unified storage array.
Posted: 09 Jul 2013 | Published: 09 Jul 2013

NetApp

Virtual Fabrics Provide Administrative Flexibility in a Shared Storage Environment
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Learn about a technology that enables you to better manage your SAN assets by creating logical groups of separately managed devices, ports, and switches within your SAN - all without disrupting existing environments.
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

Brocade

Reference Architecture Guide
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: It can be difficult to design, deploy, manage and support Microsoft Exchange 2010 environments with hardware components from multiple vendors. This solution reduces the complexity of Exchange environments by using servers and storage. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 30 Sep 2011 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

Hitachi Vantara

Microsoft Bing Maps takes the fast route to image processing efficency with Dell Solutions
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and AMD
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the challenges encountered when an imagery technologies team decides to launch a new imagery-processing site.
Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

Dell, Inc. and AMD

Using Deduplication: 5 Steps to Backup Efficiencies
sponsored by Datalink
WHITE PAPER: Deduplication technologies are providing many benefits for organizations seeking to optimize their backup environments. Access this exclusive resource to discover five key factors in selecting and deploying a deduplication selection.
Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

Datalink

Top 10 Reasons Why Customers Deploy Virtualized Microsoft Applications on EMC VNX
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This guide provides an overview of the specific reasons customers choose to deploy Microsoft applications with VMware vSphere Essentials on EMC's VNXe storage solution.
Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EMC Corporation

EMC FAST VP for Unified Storage Systems: A Detailed Review
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) technology and describes its features and implementation.
Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EMC

EMC VNX Deduplication and Compression. Maximizing Effective Capacity Utilization
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the capacity efficiency technologies delivered in the EMC® VNX™ series of storage platforms.
Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 20 Jun 2011

EMC

EMC Unisphere for VNXe: Next-Generation Storage Management: A Detailed Review
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces EMC Unisphere  for VNXe, a web-based management environment for creating storage resources; configuring and scheduling protection for stored data; and managing and monitoring other storage operations on VNXe platforms.
Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EMC

IBM System x Hyper-V Private Cloud Solution
sponsored by IBM and Intel
WHITE PAPER: Read this solution brief to learn about IBM's reliable, high-performance and ready-to-use computing solution for data centers. Learn more here.
Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011

IBM and Intel

Top 5 Threat Protection Best Practices
sponsored by Sophos
WHITE PAPER: The following top five best practices offer advice to help you protect your endpoints and your network against an ever-growing body of threats.
Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

Sophos

ESG Lab Validation - IBM Storwize V7000
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

Boosting Performance with Enterprise Flash Drives In Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: Enterprise flash drives represent a huge leap forward over traditional mechanical drives. When deployed in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays, these drives can dramatically boost storage performance for targeted data center workloads while helping increase resource utilization, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce total cost of ownership.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

Dell | EMC

How to Select the Correct RAID for an EqualLogic SAN
sponsored by Dell India
WHITE PAPER: One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

Dell India

Configuring Deduplication for High Performance
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

10GbE, Servers, Storage and Virtualization – Interoperability Review and Highlights
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

DellEMC and Intel®

Why Use Cisco Network Storage Systems for Your Business
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: 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

Cisco Systems, Inc.