Storage Hardware

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you understand the important factors to be considered when selecting drives for your storage infrastructure. In this paper you'll receive 6 key tips and considerations to examine before deciding on a storage solution, and discover which technologies are better-suited for various types of data and/or organizations.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover which Dell-supported systems and Dell storage arrays are compatible with VMware ESXi 5 in this comprehensive listing.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: As a Disk Backup Champion, ExaGrid received the highest rating from Info-Tech Research Group for its exceptional product architecture and overall vendor score highlighting the company’s ‘exemplary’ strategy and strong viability, reach and channel. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this 3-page case study to learn how GTE FCU avoided a costly “forklift” upgrade and instead benefited with Riverbed Steelhead appliances by reducing data traffic by fourfold, achieving RPO objectives, and enabling rich, granular reporting capabilities.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a new data migration solution designed specifically to ensure a smooth transition when bringing new storage online. In this paper, you'll learn today's best practices and key questions to consider before implementing new storage, and discover how this emerging migration solution can help your organization.

Posted: 24 Jan 2012 | Published: 24 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Scale-out storage is quickly becoming the modern architecture of choice, meeting the needs of today’s storage systems with greater ease, efficiency, and flexibility than traditional “scale-up” architectures – and at lower costs. Discover how the right underlying infrastructure can yield even more total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Now for the first time, IT departments can gain the performance and cost savings benefits of an engineered system on a flexible, general purpose platform that supports a diverse set of legacy, new, and custom applications. Download this Executive Brief to learn more.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a storage platform designed to bring simplicity and efficiency back into your storage infrastructure. This cluster-based solution features simplified management and availability, and is designed to replace the layers of software and hardware that many organization's have added to their IT infrastructures over the years.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a utility-based storage solution and a secure service architecture designed to provide the SAN performance, scalability and availability needed in today's dynamic data center. In this paper you'll learn about the authentication, authorization and audit logging features of this security platform.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 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: This white paper examines current challenges in the storage industry resulting from globalization of markets, exponential data growth, and new regulatory requirements, and how to meet the demands of this ever-changing storage market by adopting virtualization, serverization, and more.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a storage solution designed to meet today's data growth challenges - a unified architecture designed for IT managers with limited storage expertise, this technology facilitates complete storage consolidation and features a simple, application-driven approach to shared storage. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper from storage expert George Crump introduces a new category of Ethernet SAN solutions that can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management. Read on to learn more about this technology and its benefits.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG lab review explores the results from hands-on testing of an emerging SAN solution designed to meet today's growing storage challenges. In this paper, learn how this integrated technology can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper defines and explores the concept of SMB server bundles, which are essentially turnkey versions of specific operating systems preinstalled on server hardware. Often times these solutions are preconfigured in order to simplify management, and will include common core applications that a small business needs. Read on for more.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This case study follows the journey taken by BMC Software to find the solution to their expanding VMware storage needs in the data-center and remote offices. In this paper, you'll learn about the solutions considered, how they arrived at the final decision and the benefits realized by using cloud integrated enterprise storage. Read on to learn more

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is a lab test report of a solution that integrates the function of primary storage, de-duplication, cloud backup, automated cloud archiving & tiering and cloud based disaster recovery into a single appliance that radically simplifies the storage infrastructure and reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data storage 60-80%

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces three unique technologies that provide users with a truly modern storage experience capable of meeting today's data management and protection challenges. Read on to learn what each of these technologies are, how they function, and the benefits they can bring your organization today.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines a new, removable disk-based backup solution for SMBs. Combining disk's ease of use, shorter backup windows and high backup and recovery success rates with tape's durability, infinite capacity and portability, this new technology can give SMBs the confidence and tools they need to successfully complete backups/recovery.

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this ESG white paper on tiered storage to learn about the full array of benefits this technology can bring your organization, and discover how and where tiered storage functions most effectively. Finally, learn how to determine which data should be sent to which tier, and how to ensure a positive ROI after implementing tiered storage.

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report examines the tools, technologies and best practices forbuilding an effective virtualisation strategy, with a particular focuson the role of storage for success in server virtualisation to achievegreater efficiencies through optimising infrastructure.

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 | Published: 19 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents how a secured shared infrastructure can help simplify your journey to virtualization, gain integration with existing open source technology, address storage management issues, and achieve rapid results. Read on to learn more about how you can meet ongoing growth requirements as they arise.

Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Compellent has unveiled new software and hardware capabilities designed in bid to expand its addressable market. Here, new hardware improves its ability to scale up capacity and performance, and updated software is designed to expand its scale-out storage story.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011