Storage Infrastructure

WHITE PAPER: "Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 | Published: 06 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this special report that reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data.

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Profiled in this whitepaper are two examples of ISVs that have turned to Iron Mountain's Archive Services Platform API solution to help their customers better manage their data. Read this Whitepaper from Iron Mountain to learn more.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: As Storage Switzerland writes, APIs such as Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform API allow ISVs greater control than do cloud NAS gateways over how and where data is stored. Read this Technology Brief from Storage Switzerland to learn more.

Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: For many enterprises, the backup and recovery process has not kept pace with the sheer growth of data or the increased requirements for higher data protection. As a result, many storage organizations are redesigning their existing backup architecture.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: As more companies are turning to server virtualization, NAS clusters are seeing increased popularity. In addition to giving an overview of the basics of network-attached storage, this E-Guide discusses the best practices to put to use today when managing Networked-attached storage in a virtual environment.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper proposes a spectrum of reference configurations using Sun servers based on Intel processors, the broad range of Sun storage systems and appliances, and the VMware suite of virtualization products to configure cost-effective information systems for these businesses.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.

Posted: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide provides an overview of the benefits of Scale-out storage and includes guidance on how to create an RFP when you are ready to invest in a NAS system.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Controlling storage growth has become one of the most important challenges for many companies. This White Paper explores six ways that others have used with great success.

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 | Published: 21 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Discover best practices for deploying a 250-user/250-GB three-tiered SAP ERP landscape in an HP BladeSystem c3000 blade enclosure with HP ProLiant BL460c blade servers running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 4400 disk array, and an Ultrium 448c tape blade with HP Data Protector software.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end—and not an end in itself. The reason is a matter of economics. Read this paper and find out why.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) should be major components of any risk-management strategy. After all, no business wants to be caught unprepared for unforeseen events such as floods, fires, terrorist attacks, power outages or other disturbances. That's why planning and regularly testing BC and DR programs is essential.

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Published: 08 Sep 2009