Storage for Virtualized Servers

WHITE PAPER: Before an effective transition to cloud storage can be made, businesses need an effective strategy for addressing the inefficiency, underutilization, and lack of visibility in today's physical and virtual storage environments. Read this white paper to find strategies for controlling costs, managing virtualization, and preparing for the cloud.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization and cloud computing are driving the need to deliver enterprise IT as a service. Explore how the HP 3PAR Utility Storage addresses the key weaknesses of existing storage architectures, such as growing capacity requirements, underutilization of existing storage assets, and administrative inefficiency.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: While maintaining high availability is critical in every business to avoid downtime and keep systems running smoothly, it can be very costly. This white paper introduces a new, automated storage solution that offers a cost-effective alternative approach to ensuring high availability and business continuity.

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

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: The Dell Intelligent Data Management strategy is being delivered through Dell Fluid Data solutions to help you automate, optimize, scale, and protect your storage. Fluid Data solutions are designed to optimize your storage by putting the right data in the right place at the right time for the right cost. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this exclusive ESG report, examine how your organization can leverage cost-effective scale-out storage to combat the ever increasing demands of your virtual environment. Learn about the key storage challenges organizations face today, and the pros and cons of adopting scale-up versus scale-out storage in your data center.

Posted: 29 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: Check out this white paper to discover an integrated hardware/software solution designed to provide a complete data protection solution for your VMs. Included in this brief paper is an introduction to the features and benefits of this security solution.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn about the latest trends in virtualisation technology and discover what impact these improvements will have on backup and disaster recovery operations. Learn about the latest in off-site backups, data protection for virtual environments and more.

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 | Published: 05 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: The key to ensuring success in virtual server environments is to keep up with the latest best practices and recommendations for utilizing SANs in a virtual data center. Featuring 10 tips for SAN management in virtual environments, this white paper has the information you need to keep your storage and your virtual servers running smoothly.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for best practices regarding shared storage/SAN management in today's virtual environments. Discover what virtualization features demand shared storage, learn what tools and knowledge you'll need to keep your storage running smoothly and discover how to unlock the full array of benefits promised by virtualization.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn what you can do to achieve 100% uptime with your storage and avoid these pitfalls. Discover what you can do to protect against a failure of your entire storage, learn where virtualization's shortcomings are and learn how disaster recovery technologies can help you achieve 100% uptime. Read on for more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this reference architecture, discover how you can deploy virtual desktops using the Nutanix Complete Cluster for large or small VDI environments with a modular scale out design. Explore key performance figures and benefits of deploying this storage infrastructure.

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 21 Feb 2012

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: 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: This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you find the right cloud solution for your organization, and will help you unlock the full potential that cloud has to offer in terms of the fast and secure delivery of information. Read on to learn about the latest developments in cloud technology, and gain insight as to how to answer today's top cloud questions.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Though businesses have begun virtualizing their non-mission critical applications, major storage challenges have stood in the way of enterprises virtualizing their critical production applications. Find out how block storage solutions tailor-made for virtual infrastructures addresses these issues.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012