Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER: All data is not created equal. This IDC buyer's guide, sponsored by Dell Compellent, explains how enterprises can benefit from automated tiered storage. Fill out the included checklist to organize priorities when evaluating solutions.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines technology advancements in storage and explores how using these technologies in conjunction with virtualization can solve your storage challenges.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data Progression and Data Instant Replay can hold their own, but together the automated tiered storage and continuous snapshot technologies bring storage efficiency and performance to a new level. Check out this brief presentation transcript to learn more.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Storage infrastructures grow as the demand for information grows, but strategic storage solutions, from tape libraries to flash and disk arrays to unified storage solutions, can simplify the essential tasks of storing and managing enterprise data.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces three unique technologies that provide users with a truly modern storage experience capable of meeting today's data management and protection challenges. Read on to learn what each of these technologies are, how they function, and the benefits they can bring your organization today.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper focuses on storage as an essential cornerstone to a private cloud environment and proposes the key elements to successful implementation. It describes the IBM XIV Storage System as a highly strategic general purpose storage solution for private cloud environments.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: An independent study by ITG has found that the IBM XIV can save an organization 69% on TCO over a 3 year period. This white paper explains how the system’s unique architecture enable it to accomplish this feat.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Gartner Note: Improve agility, lower costs with intelligent storage technologies

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this ESG white paper on tiered storage to learn about the full array of benefits this technology can bring your organization, and discover how and where tiered storage functions most effectively. Finally, learn how to determine which data should be sent to which tier, and how to ensure a positive ROI after implementing tiered storage.

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 | Published: 18 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses eight must have Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In the summer of 2011, HP revealed its Converged Storage strategy - rivaling their 2010 acquisition of 3PAR in significance. HP Converged Storage encompasses several product portfolio and market direction statements that establish HP’s unique approach to storage. This comprehensive white paper gives the details.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: The integration of Oracle's x86 blade systems, Oracle VM, and Oracle Unified Storage appliances, connected with either Ethernet or InfiniBand fabric services, forms a dynamic and elastic infrastructure-as-a-service solution for private cloud deployments. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores how the IBM XIV system's unique architecture and approach to storage enable it to accomplish a better bottom line for you and your business.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses 7 ways that using VMware and the Dell Compellent SAN together can compound the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 | Published: 19 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM XIV Storage System was designed to create a different enterprise storage reality. By listening carefully to customers—including Oracle users—IBM has designed a storage system that tackles real storage issues head-on. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: When seeking modern data protection, many have turned to native array-based snapshot technologies, which combine frequent recovery points and minimum operational disruption. However, snapshot management varies significantly by storage platform and often results in more complexity and risk than most organizations bargained for.

Posted: 18 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: The essence of Fluid Data—both as a construct and as a branded capability of Compellent’s storage solution—is to provide data storage that is as dynamic as the demands placed upon it by fickle applications and business needs. Read this white paper to learn how to harness fluid data in your organization.

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft virtualization and the Compellent Storage Center SAN solution.

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 | Published: 28 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise organizations must allocate increasingly-scarce budget resources to products and services that help them address key barriers to true data center efficiency—such as unabated data growth, rising storage system costs, infrastructure complexity, and increasing power and cooling requirements.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: More and more enterprises are realizing the benefits of server virtualization. By abstracting applications and operating systems from physical hardware, organizations can increase their IT flexibility and reduce costs. Check out this brief white paper to learn more,.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Thousands of IT organizations have adopted clustering to improve the availability of mission critical software services. Today, with the rapid growth of cloud computing environments, clustering is even more crucial. Dell Compellent Fluid Data storage is ideally suited to clustered environments. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud storage offers tremendous opportunities for simplicity, flexibility, scalability and reducing costs.  How can enterprise take advantage of these capabilities while maintaining datacenter storage for mission-critical applications?  A Cloud-as-a-Tier Architecture integrates cloud storage seamlessly into the enterprise. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Dell EqualLogic hybrid arrays are designed to support fast access to high demand “hot” data in a multi-tiered dataset. In this technical report, we provide a proof point for performance improvements in OLTP applications when using EqualLogic PS6010XVS arrays based on testing performed at Dell Labs in February 2011.

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In recent years, we have witnessed great technology leaps from all of the leading VDI software vendors. In this part of our series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell’s innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI.

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | Published: 26 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper you will learn some of the critical ways in which tiered storage solutions enable organizations to cut their total cost of storage and improve their long-term total cost of ownership.

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011