Storage Efficiency White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Inside, discover how a unified, integrated storage approach can help you manage all block, file and content data. Learn about its benefits, including significant cost savings, operational efficiencies and risk mitigation for legal discovery.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Although scale-out storage technologies were once viewed as specialized infrastructure solutions that really only made sense in a few environments, today these platforms are making their way into mainstream IT. Check out this ESG market forecast to discover current trends and future predictions regarding the development of these solutions.   

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn why consolidating your storage may be the answer to your content management and security challenges. In this paper, learn about the changing requirements of today's storage landscape and receive best practices to help you manage performance, capacity, reliability and cost of your organization's storage.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you find the right cloud solution for your organization, and will help you unlock the full potential that cloud has to offer in terms of the fast and secure delivery of information. Read on to learn about the latest developments in cloud technology, and gain insight as to how to answer today's top cloud questions.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The city of Eden Prairie needed to implement storage to complement VMware efficiencies and boost performance and availability for critical city services. This brief white paper details how the city successfully implemented  NetApp for cost-saving efficiencies plus 24x7 availability of police and fire applications. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read ESG’s report on the crucial role of storage management to simplify administration and advance virtualization adoption and benefits: efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper features today's best practices regarding efficient data management and provides you with the information you need to optimize your existing storage infrastructure and increase efficiency throughout your data center. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to the EMC Isilon OneFS operating system, the foundation of the Isilon scale-out storage platform. In this paper, you'll learn about the benefits of storage scaling and gain an overview of the architecture of this platform.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a brief introduction to several technologies that can help you reap the benefits of storage consolidation. Read on to learn the keys to creating a unified storage infrastructure, and how to lower costs throughout your storage infrastructure without compromising efficiency or performance.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for a technical introduction to storage tiering and its implementation. You'll learn exactly how tiered storage works, and how to determine if it's the right strategy for your organization. Finally, you'll receive recommendations on how to evaluate available tiered solutions and determine which will best meet your needs.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how implementing cloud storage metrics can help you choose the right technology for increasing IT productivity and capacity management in your enterprise.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper for an overview of scale-out storage and gain insights on cloud topology, hardware and software deployment, configuration steps and more.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Building your own cloud environment can be complex because it requires extensive customization and integration with your traditional IT infrastructure. This white paper offers a detailed guide of a private cloud set up using platforms that can significantly jump-start cloud computing operations in your enterprise.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 14 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: With the emergence of cloud computing, businesses are looking to increase their storage capacity to support the increase in digital content . Access this white paper to learn how about scale-out-storage initiatives that will benefit your business.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended for IT planners, storage architects, administrators, and others involved in evaluating, managing, operating, or designing VNX storage systems.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn about a storage metrics methodology that can expand to both the private cloud and traditional enterprise environments.

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper covers the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management.  Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion®, and vSphere DRS.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores the factors to consider and the evaluations needed to make informed decisions to minimize downtime, prevent technological mishaps, and compensate for natural or man-made disasters.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: As virtualization initiatives have gathered momentum and virtual environments are becoming the norm rather than the exception, the infrastructure necessary to support these environments has exploded, creating new opportunities for inefficiency. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 | Published: 08 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center's capabilities focus on storage configuration management and provide analysis of current storage utilization and best practice recommendations to provide the storage administrator with analytical input that will provide significant assistance.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores one of the pressing issues for storage administrators today: managing and securing a growing tidal wave of data. It discusses specific problems and describes IBM Tivoli, IBM System Storage, and IBM ProtecTIER solutions that can help address them. 

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

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

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