Storage Infrastructure White Papers

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A converged platform solution that lives up to the hype
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Learn more about a converged platform that offloads systems integration responsibilities from your IT department.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

Hitachi Vantara

Coffee Break: Embracing Flash Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores the performance gap between CPUs and hard disk storage over the past 25 years and showcases comprehensive flash storage technology designed to bridge this widening gap by delivering immense performance and economic benefits
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 12 Nov 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Accelerating network convergence in virtualized and cloud data centers
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover an innovative unified storage switch that provides a comprehensive platform and modular design that supports leading edge networking protocols – enabling IT organizations to converge LAN and SAN throughput in high I/O, virtualized environments.
Posted: 11 Nov 2013 | Published: 11 Nov 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores one market-leading integrated compute platform that can help you minimize interaction in terms of testing and technology integration, reduce overall complexity, streamline IT operations and much more.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Aug 2013

Hitachi Vantara

Storage Infrastructure Performance Validation
sponsored by Load DynamiX
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a cost-efficient performance validation approach designed to deliver high performance, practical and accurate workloads, and increased decision-making speed.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 01 Nov 2013

Load DynamiX

FAS2240 - An Inside Look
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper details NetApp's ground breaking storage platform designed to provide resiliency, availability, serviceability, and manageability.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

NetApp

Linxdatacenter
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: In this brief resource, you will discover how an international carrier-neutral data center and LinxCloud solutions provider deployed a solution portfolio that combines NetApp storage systems, Cisco Unified Computing System servers, and Cisco Nexus fabric into a single, flexible architecture to create a reliable cloud platform.
Posted: 05 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

NetApp

Global Design Services
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: In this one page resource, you will discover how a brand-name global design services company deployed an innovative storage solution to replace inefficient backup and disaster recovery systems, which consumed 95 percent of system CPU and storage availability.
Posted: 04 Nov 2013 | Published: 04 Nov 2013

NetApp

Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Desktops with Dell EqualLogic Virtual Desktop Deployment Utility in a VMware Environment
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a storage solution that was built for VDI deployments. Discover the specific features this system possesses to adequately perform for VDI and learn about the benefits this technology can provide. Read on now to learn more.
Posted: 04 Nov 2013 | Published: 04 Nov 2013

Dell and VMware

VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for Virtualized Exchange 2013
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a proven infrastructure that consolidates and virtualizes your Exchange environment while addressing user SLAs, lowering costs and simplifying overall management. Read on now to learn more.
Posted: 31 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

EMC

Solution Impact Analysis: SMBs Leverage EMC VSPEX for Rapid ROI
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores how three different organizations transformed their environments with a simple, efficient and flexible virtualization platform.
Posted: 30 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

EMC

Reducing the costs and risks of data storage in the federal government
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource introduces a storage and data management approach that helps reduce storage costs and risks, increase data protection, and much more.
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

IBM

Day in the Life of a Storage Administrator: which scenario best describes your duties?
sponsored by APTARE
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to explore a day in the life of a storage administrator with and without a solid backup solution. Find out which scenario best describes your duties.
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

APTARE

Top reasons why customers virtualize with EMC VSPEX
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: Check out this short paper to learn how to transform your environment with this simple, efficient and flexible virtualization solution. Find out how this architecture can help you simplify your backup and recovery, reduce backup times and storage requirements, effortlessly scale depending on your needs and much more.
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

EMC

VDI with Dell EqualLogic Hybrid Arrays: A Comparative Study with the Industry-leading SAN solution
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover state-of-the-art hybrid arrays that combine SSDs and traditional HDDs in the same chassis to cost-effectively ensure maximum VDI performance. Find out how this innovative approach stacks up against other VDI deployments
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Optimizing VDI data management with unified virtualized storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores how optimizing VDI helps simplify user data management and enables device – and location – independent data access. Find out how a unified virtualized storage technology helps boost IT flexibility.
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Blog Post: Changing the Economics of the Data Center
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Learn about the new features and capabilities available on Dell's Storage Center 6.4, including Flash optimized solutions and a new SC280 dense enclosure.
Posted: 25 Oct 2013 | Published: 06 Aug 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Storage hypervisors: Virtual storage made simple
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper showcases an innovative technology that is both a storage virtualization platform and a storage management solution designed to enable IT storage managers to easily migrate to an agile, cloud-based storage environment – and then manage it effectively.
Posted: 25 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

IBM

Boosting storage performance for I/O-intensive enterprise applications
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Learn how to boost storage performance for I/O-intensive enterprise applications by optimizing workloads in virtual desktop, messaging and database environments.
Posted: 25 Oct 2013 | Published: 25 Oct 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying VMware View 5.1 on VMware vSphere 5.0 U1 with Dell EqualLogic Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper presents the results of a series of storage I/O performance tests and provides storage sizing guidance and best practices based on those results for a VMware View based VDI solution.
Posted: 25 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

DellEMC and Intel®

Meeting the new data needs of today’s changing financial institutions
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an approach to data storage and protection that addresses the growing storage management challenges in the banking industry – including those introduced by big data.
Posted: 23 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

IBM

Optimizing Virtual Desktops With Unified Storage and VMware
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief whitepaper explores an approach designed to deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Find out you can ensure your VDI infrastructure is ready to deal with increased I/O demands.
Posted: 23 Oct 2013 | Published: 16 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Astute ViSX Performance Storage Appliances Frequently Asked Questions
sponsored by Astute Networks, Inc
WHITE PAPER: This white paper showcases a new class of solutions to resolve existing and prevent future I/O performance problems associated with physical and virtual infrastructure. Discover complex questions about flash-based performance storage appliances and how they meet these challenges.
Posted: 23 Oct 2013 | Published: 23 Oct 2013

Astute Networks, Inc

Simplifying virtual desktop deployments with EqualLogic PS-M4110 blade storage arrays
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This short solution brief showcases innovative blade storage arrays that enable a fully virtualized architecture that integrates storage, servers and networking within one blade chassis.
Posted: 18 Oct 2013 | Published: 02 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

The Benefits of and Critical Buying Criteria for Clustered Storage Solutions
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the adoption and benefits of clustered storage across a variety of enterprises. Discover what these storage users consider to be the most important attributes for a clustered storage system.
Posted: 18 Oct 2013 | Published: 29 Mar 2013

NetApp