Storage Virtualization White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource explores a storage virtualization solution that combines shared and direct-attached storage together without the complexity, cost, or siloed appraoches to typical SAN management.

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This useful comparative guide will help you understand the current entry-level enterprise unified storage landscape. Read on to compare the benefits of different offerings, and find a solution that meets your current and future storage requirements.

Posted: 13 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores 5 key customer problems that storage virtualization helps to solve, and how to leverage virtualization technologies for significant savings on capital and operating expenditures.

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

WHITE PAPER: This concise white paper dives deep into a case study that answers your need for a VM storage solution that provides the performance you need with a small footprint.

Posted: 23 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find out how one vendor has created a solution for common virtualization challenges.

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper showcases a comprehensive disk array technology that provides various functions to handle mission critical operations.

Posted: 02 Jan 2014 | Published: 30 Nov 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses a storage solution that can help eliminate dependence on complex, expensive external SAN storage and fabric by leveraging a robust, high-performance shared virtual SAN.

Posted: 26 Dec 2013 | Published: 26 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This short solution brief showcases pre-validated reference architectures for VDI, private cloud, and data protection designed to deliver the ideal platform for supporting your business critical applications on VMware.

Posted: 10 Dec 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper details a state-of-the –art approach designed for building and scaling virtualized environments.

Posted: 26 Nov 2013 | Published: 26 Nov 2013

WHITE PAPER: This ESG lab report delves into the relevance and value of a Storage Hypervisor, and focuses on what users need to get started when building and implementing this technology. Discover market dynamics driving more organization implementations toward a Storage Hypervisor strategy.

Posted: 22 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to gain insight on automated tiered storage solution, and Data Progression offered by Dell Compellent storage systems. Learn about recommended best practices to implement Oracle databases with Dell Compellent Data Progression and learn how users can leverage Data Progression to optimize Oracle database performance.

Posted: 15 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, explore an automated storage management tool that allows storage to migrate from traditional physical structures to simplified, flexible virtual platforms, creating a truly software-defined data center (SDDC) for today's evolving technology.

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark results of a leading server/storage configuration. Obtain detailed information on the unique configuration that was tested as well as the specific architectural components.

Posted: 14 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: In this informative paper, learn how advanced software defined storage capabilities that are easy to deploy help deliver a robust enterprise-grade virtualization platform that is efficient, cost effective and optimized. Read on now to learn more.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

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

WHITE PAPER: This brief resource examines the challenges of traditional backup and storage approaches in virtual environments, and introduces a unified platform that enables your organization to meet these challenges and effectively store, analyze, manage, and protect data.

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

WHITE PAPER: Small and medium-sized businesses everywhere are reporting symptoms of "server sprawl." This epidemic is characterized by an overabundance of underutilized servers and storage systems, often caused by running one application per server to protect against potential machine crashes. Read on to learn about a solution that can help.

Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 09 Oct 2013

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides a solution brief for Dell EqualLogic virtualized storage and VMware vSphere 5.X as an effective way to optimize virtualization deployments.

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 | Published: 06 Nov 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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