Storage Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Check out this ESG Report for a hands-on introduction to a hybrid solid-state storage solution designed to deliver fast performance for mixed-application workloads in both consolidated and virtual server environments. Read on to learn about the features of this technology, and to discover how it stacked up against ESG's lab testing.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn more about the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, a 3D scaling storage platform designed for all data types. Discover how you can improve virtualisation performance and flexibility while increasing capacity. Learn how you can create a more agile storage  infrastructure with 3D scaling and management capabilities.

Posted: 22 Mar 2012 | Published: 22 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to break down two of today's cloud offerings - Egnyte and Box. Read on for a full comparison of the features and benefits these two solutions offer, discover best practices to help you ensure a smooth transition to the cloud and more.

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 | Published: 19 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.

Posted: 11 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper may have the answer. Read on to explore the concept of storage economics, the idea that careful calculation and remapping of your existing storage infrastructure can allow you to both improve performance and lower TCO. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: An increasing number of organizations are looking at how choosing the right storage platforms contributes to data protection and high-availability and helps ensure minimal planned and unplanned downtime or even continuous operations. Read this white paper to learn all about data protection and how it applies to your business.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data growth has created a storage management gap that is exacerbated by increased availability requirements and the risks of downtime. Find out why purchasing more storage is not a viable long-term solution to this problem and get advice on how to significantly reduce your storage footprint.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Selecting the right storage system is crucial to the success of any virtualised server environment, especially as these environments evolve to hundreds of virtual machines and critical applications. Access this resource to learn how Hitachi Enterprise Storage solutions can improve the performance, management and efficiency of your storage systems.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to discover 10 steps toward developing a tape-based data retention plan for your business. Discover the importance of knowing and defining your regulatory requirements, receive three keys to maximize your backup tape investment and more.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: As larger and more powerful servers are virtualized, many I/O issues can arise such as throughput congestion and preserving latency. This white paper introduces new technologies that aim at mitigating these challenges by utilizing platform hardware capabilities and better managing the allocation of storage I/O resources.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Gain workload mobility and recovery management across physical and virtual machines in heterogeneous environments with Dell AIM. Explore how Dell AIM simplifies the disaster recovery process and helps organization reach RTO and RPO targets by automating and validating storage management tasks.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores the growth of distributed object stores (DOS) and examines the underlying mechanisms that guide their use and development.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

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: This resource explores how health care facilities can address today's multidepartmental digital imaging conundrum with enterprise-level data management.

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 introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

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: ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your nightly backup process, enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

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: The 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide rated the ExaGrid EX13000E “Best-in-Class” out of 37 different deduplication solutions for its functionality and capability. All ExaGrid appliances rated as “Recommended” scoring a 9.8 in technical support. ExaGrid rated as “Excellent” for hardware across all products. 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: ESG Lab believes that organizations struggling with the cost, complexity, and risk associated with tape backups would be wise to consider the bottom line savings that can be achieved with ExaGrid. Check out this lab validation report to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software’s distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012