Storage Optimization

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is your key to unlocking the growing array of benefits achievable through WAN optimization. Read on to get started.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

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: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to discover how the U.S. Federal Government is consolidating and improving storage operations with emerging virtualization and cloud technologies, and discover how similar solutions can benefit your business.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of deduplication in VMware environments. Three detailed case studies from organizations in different industries are presented.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the current state of virtualization, challenges facing IT teams in expanding its use, and how Dell EqualLogic storage architecture can address these issues.

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The full range of AIX supplied utilities such as mirroring, backup, multiple file system types, multipath, boot from SAN and disaster recovery are used with Dell Compellent volumes. Read this comprehensive white paper to fully explore AIX best practices.

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 | Published: 07 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Arnold Worldwide is a Boston-based global advertising agency. They needed to replace its existing SAN with virtualized storage. Read this case study to learn how Arnold successfully addressed their DR and scalability needs, but also reduced its data center footprint and slashed its power and cooling costs.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 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: 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: This white paper highlights the rise of virtualization and explores what businesses today can do in terms of adjusting backup and recovery functions to maintain a functioning virtual data center. Learn what applications are most commonly virtualized today, discover the differences in backup between small and large organizations and more.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this IDG Tech Dossier, learn how utility storage makes for massive consolidation, flexibility and scalability, so IT departments can reduce storage infrastructure and lower costs while improving their ability to respond to fast-changing needs of business units.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Considering making the move to the cloud? First check out this white paper for an introduction to a converged infrastructure solution that provides the ideal platform for a private cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service. Uniting the tools and processes of your physical and virtual environments, this technology can help you cut costs today.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: IBM brings a tremendous amount of business, technology and research knowledge to every client partnership. IBM can help clients embrace new computing models, such as cloud computing, that can save money while still protecting important business information. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for best practices and requirements when establishing a private cloud. Learn about the importance of efficiency, scalability and real-time awareness of your cloud environment, and discover what tools and technologies are currently available to ensure your private cloud is running smoothly and effectively.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 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: In this datasheet you will find a in-depth look into the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage Systems. A view into the key features and benefits that set this unit apart from the rest of those in the market.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to help you navigate the increasingly-technical realm of virtualization. In this paper, learn today's best practices to help you start building a smarter storage infrastructure capable of meeting today's data growth and management challenges as well as preparing for future success

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 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 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

WHITE PAPER: Data protection is simple: take everything and copy it somewhere far enough away so that you’ll have it in an emergency. The challenge is how to do this in an efficient and reliable way. Learn Riverbed optimizes DR across the widest range of backup mechanisms, with no changes to your software or storage

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 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