Riding the Virtualization Simplification Wave
sponsored by D-Link
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Server virtualization is now beginning to deliver functional and economic benefits to nearly all classes of enterprises willing to take the virtualization plunge, down to and including organizations with just a few hundred seats.
Posted: 07 May 2010 | Published: 07 May 2010
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Extending the Lifecycle and Lowering the TCO of your SAN
sponsored by D-Link
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If you are in charge of IT at a mid-size enterprise, you’re probably about to bite the bullet to add a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Why? The simple answer is that it’s a combination of challenges and opportunities. Read this paper to learn why any organization that runs more than one business server application should consider a SAN.
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | Published: 26 Apr 2010
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Designing Secure Multi-Tenancy into Virtualized Data Centers
sponsored by Continental Resources
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Today’s traditional IT model suffers from resources located in different, unrelated silos—leading to low utilization and gross inefficiency. Enterprise servers reside in one area of the data center and network switches and storage arrays in another. This document describes the design of - and the rationale behind - the Secure Cloud Architecture.
Posted: 02 Apr 2010 | Published: 02 Apr 2010
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Presentation Transcript: Benefits of 10 Gigabit Ethernet – an emerging storage technology
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This presentation transcript outlines how to converge storage traffic onto a common, unified data center with 10 gigabit ethernet (10GbE). The benefits of this conversion include lower costs, easier deployment and greater flexibility and performance within the storage network. Download this transcript to learn more.
Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010
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World-Class Storage Team Solves Top Challenges in a Large-Scale SANscreen Deployment
sponsored by NetApp
CASE STUDY:
Angelica Brown led a world-class team of storage technologists supporting one of the largest online storage infrastructures. She implemented best-of-breed storage resource management tools to help increase staff efficiency. This is where SANscreen® comes in.
Posted: 25 Mar 2010 | Published: 24 Mar 2010
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Presentation Transcript: Smart Tactics to Build Storage Solutions in Virtual Environments
sponsored by Connection
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Storage virtualization has become a prominent solution in the IT world by offering continued benefits and a lower cost infrastructure. This presentation transcript examines the benefits and top challenges with storage virtualization and approaches to build storage solutions for virtual environments.
Posted: 19 Mar 2010 | Published: 19 Mar 2010
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Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN Offer Robust, High Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
DATA SHEET:
Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network (SAN) arrays offer a solid shared storage foundation for a virtualized data center that can enable organizations to take full advantage of the high-availability features included with Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™.
Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010
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Storage Efficiency: Mixing Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet in a Dedicated SAN Infrastructure
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
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This paper shows how enterprises may make the transition to 10GbE for storage using Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series arrays and Dell PowerConnect™ switches.
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009
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10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
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The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009
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iSCSI: Superior Storage for Virtualization
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
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iSCSI technology provides superior manageability to Fibre Channel for virtualized environments. Specifically, iSCSI lets users in virtualized environments utilize all the functionality available to non-virtualized systems.
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2007
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Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Dell Servers
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
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This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Dec 2008
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Disaster Got You Down?
sponsored by CDW Corporation
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The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010
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Get More Virtual with Dell and VMware vSphere 4
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WEBCAST:
Together with VMware, Dell is making virtual infrastructures faster to implement and manage. In this online seminar you'll learn how you can get more virtual with virtualization optimized Dell hardware integrated with VMware vSphere.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Premiered: Jan 25, 2010
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University of Utah Health Sciences Center: Storage Economics Case Study
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
CASE STUDY:
See how a leading university improved storage service levels and saved money with storage virtualization.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 01 Nov 2004
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HP LeftHand SAN technology: enabling effective VMware deployments
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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This white paper describes how HP LeftHand SANs can help you deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) software more effectively through volume snapshots, SmartClone volumes, volume migration, and high-availability features.
Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010
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IDC White Paper: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Online PC Backup Solution
sponsored by Iron Mountain
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This paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!
Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2008
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Cisco Delivers Enterprise-Class Next-Generation Acceleration Solution for Disaster Recovery and SAN Extension
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) emerges as one of the critical areas of focus as these data centers virtualize, unify, centralize, and scale out their storage resources. This document discusses some of the critical challenges related to the BC/DR solutions and how the Cisco MDS 9000 I/O Accelerator (IOA) addresses each of them.
Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Virtual SANs Advantages
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Today's data centers are faced with many challenges such as consolidation, resources optimization, power, cooling, cost reduction and more. Cisco foresaw these requirements and developed Virtual Storage Area Networks (VSANs) in 2002 to address these issues in the data center.
Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
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Accelerating IBM z/OS Global Mirror with the Cisco MDS 9000 Family
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
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This document describes how users of IBM z/OS Global Mirror can reduce costs and improve performance with a tightly integrated Cisco® MDS 9000 Family solution.
Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
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Exchange 2010 on Dell: Two Architecture Models for Improving User Productivity on a More Cost-Efficient Infrastructure
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
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Dell's approach to Exchange 2010 offers many potential benefits for organizations running enterprise class messaging systems. Microsoft introduced new features in Exchange 2010 that can enhance productivity as well as take advantage of Dell's innovative hardware portfolio to provide a more cost-effective infrastructure for enterprise messaging.
Posted: 29 Dec 2009 | Published: 29 Dec 2009
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EMC CLARiiON AX4 Storage System
sponsored by EMC Corporation
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
The EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.
Posted: 15 Dec 2009 | Published: 14 Dec 2009
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Presentation Transcript: Protecting Data on the Edge
sponsored by Zenith Infotech
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
According to industry statistics, the majority of a typical company's data doesn't reside on data center storage -- it lives on the "edge." The edge may be desktop PCs, laptops or even smart phones and PDAs. In this transcript, W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Nov 2009
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Presentation Transcript: High-performance NAS
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This presentation transcript reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.
Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009
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Advanced Virtualization E-Book: Chapter 1 - Disaster Recovery Strategies for the Virtual Data Center
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
EBOOK:
A solid disaster recovery plan can overcome bandwidth and latency issues without any data loss. Techniques to restore data and prevent loss vary in the virtual data center. In Chapter 1 of this eBook, you'll learn about disaster recovery strategies for the virtual data center.
Posted: 19 Nov 2009 | Published: 19 Nov 2009
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Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Software
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD:
Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.
Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009
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