Storage Virtualization White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper shares proven strategies for storage infrastructure cost reduction. You will uncover four keys to minimizing storage costs and maximizing return on assets based on the tried and tested Storage Economics framework.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Intel IT planned, engineered, and has implemented a virtualized business-computing production environment. This multi-year initiative has confirmed virtualization benefits including server consolidation ratios between 10:1 and 16:1, faster deployment, and faster recovery. This white paper explains how they implemented virtualization.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: Microsoft's Hyper-V technology provides a full-featured server virtualization environment that is well suited for Windows and non-Windows environments. This article will help you understand Hyper-V with some guidelines for getting started using the technology in NetApp environments.

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 | Published: 09 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups.

Posted: 30 Jan 2009 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have you extended your virtual infrastructure to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization? This white paper serves as an in-depth, step-by-step guide to successful storage virtualization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document describes the innovative approach introduced by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, secure, scalable, and mobile.

Posted: 24 Oct 2008 | Published: 24 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to present the unique considerations that virtualization presents to regulatory and standards compliance, and then prescriptively describe how to mitigate risks.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Global file virtualization is changing network storage management. Learn about a solution that allows organizations to easily simplify management, increase utilization, resolve performance bottlenecks, leverage tiered storage and lower TCO.

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 03 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Since your backup is a copy of your most valuable digital assets, backup security is a critical consideration. This white paper details important considerations for ensuring security of backup data.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: The HP Virtualized Infrastructure Solutions for mySAP Business Suite provide the infrastructure components, management tools, and best practice methodologies to implement and operate SAP's Adaptive Computing infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2005