Why Virtualize?
sponsored by AT&T Corp
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There are compelling reasons to virtualize computing infrastructure. Hardware resources can be more efficiently utilized to consolidate devices, boost business continuity, and serve high-priority applications and users. This paper explains the potential benefits and key decisions associated with virtualization projects and how to get started.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
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How to Virtualize
sponsored by AT&T Corp
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Many organizations are looking into virtualization as a means of decreasing capital expenses and launching energy conservation initiatives. This paper explains why one must consider how business processes, administrative rights, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and security strategies will need to change before jumping into a deployment.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009
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Advanced Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Syncsort
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Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009
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Cost-effective Strategies for Building the Next-generation Data Center
sponsored by ZT Systems
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This white paper will discuss the forces behind the rise of flexible, cloud-like data center architectures; describe the hardware needs created by those new architectures; and show why custom servers from ZT Systems powered by AMD Opteron™ processors are an exceptional fit for these demanding new data center environments.
Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009
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Four Critical Imperatives for Data Protection and Recovery: BEX Innovative Architecture Delivers Holistic Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
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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
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Virtualization, Deduplication, and the Data Protection Connection: Reinventing IT Infrastructure Consolidation with Efficient Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
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As data center resource consolidation gains traction, many organizations are missing the big picture. For reducing primary storage footprints, they're looking at virtualization in isolation; for reducing secondary backup storage, they're focusing on deduplication in isolation. To consolidate optimally, they must consider the full landscape.
Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009
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Server Virtualization - Windows Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Product & Technical Overviews
sponsored by SHI
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Server Virtualization means more than server consolidation. Microsoft Windows Server can help your organization improve network reliability, scalability and security.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009
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Desktop Virtualization Strategy – Choosing the Right Solution for Your Needs
sponsored by SHI
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This white paper describes how to create a virtualization strategy that improves mobility, flexibility, security, and compliance. It also introduces comprehensive desktop-virtualization solutions from Microsoft. Finally, it provides high-level guidance to help companies develop a desktop-virtualization strategy.
Posted: 16 Oct 2009 | Published: 16 Oct 2009
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How an SRM Tool can Improve and Centralize Storage Technologies
sponsored by Northern Parklife
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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
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HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualisation Services Platform: Simplifying Heterogeneous Storage Virtualisation
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009
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E-Guide: Storage Virtualization Best Practices
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009
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Reducing the Costs and Risks of Branch Office Data Protection
sponsored by Double-Take Software
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Read this whitepaper to learn about how Double-Take Backup reduces the window for data loss, is more efficient than tape, and less costly than tape or other replications solutions.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009
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Rethinking Virtualization Solutions with HP LeftHand P4000 SANs
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments.
Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009
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IDC Paper – Services for Virtualization
sponsored by IBM
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IDC's white paper reviews finds that virtualization can have significant benefits to an organization, like increased utilization, simplified management and reduced energy costs, but it can be a complex undertaking and if not planned correctly, it can hurt instead of help.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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Virtualization - aligning IT supply with business demand
sponsored by Arrow ECS HP Group and Intel
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Virtualization allows you to dynamically allocate and manage resources in a utility-like way. It helps you break down the rigid IT structures that inhibit business agility. Virtualization also helps you increase utilization of valuable computing resources.
Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009
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Using VMware Infrastructure 3 with 3PAR Utility Storage in Datacenter Deployments
sponsored by 3PAR
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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
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Virtualization for a Dynamic Infrastructure
sponsored by IBM
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This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.
Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009
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Workload Weighting for Mid-range Storage Array Administrators
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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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
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Business Value of Storage Virtualisation: Scaling the Storage Solution; Leveraging the Storage Investment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Storage Virtualisation and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Getting Virtualisation Right: Five Virtualisation Rules Every Organisation Must Know
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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HP has identified five common virtualisation rules employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.
Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009
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Storage Virtualization with the HP StorageWorks
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009
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E-Guide: An Overview of Scale-Out Network Attached Storage
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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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
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Virtualize Your End-to-End IT infrastructure and Reduce OpEx and CapEx
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009
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Improving IT Economics with Storage and Server Virtualization
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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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
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