Storage Architectures

CASE STUDY: Pearson, the international media and education company, is looking for a single tool that can provide information vital to their storage management. Its infrastructure support team selected Northern Storage Suite.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

EGUIDE: This E-Guide will highlight the key considerations to be aware of when evaluating online backup solutions and will also highlight critical questions to ask vendors.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper informs readers about the time and cost savings, from a storage administrator's perspective, that can be realized from using StorageWorks EVA as compared to competing solutions from EMC and NetApp.

Posted: 30 Sep 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 29 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 | Published: 24 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

EGUIDE: This E-Guide will highlight the archiving options that prove to be beneficial to storage pros today, as well as the best practices to be put to use when implementing email and file archiving products.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

ANALYST REPORT: IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP). All customers reported high levels of satisfaction.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this study for a thorough review of the file-based storage market. It describes technology while establishing use cases, analyzing the opportunity, and putting forth assumptions about the future.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

CASE STUDY: Download this case study and read how Crest Animation eliminated storage bottlenecks, improved productivity, and gained more than $19 Million in benefits with HP StorageWorks Solution.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

CASE STUDY: Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Because network attached storage (NAS) is file-based (rather than block-based) storage, it is particularly suited for storing the types of unstructured, file-based data that is a challenge for many storage pros today. This FAQ Presentation Transcript answers key questions about NAS advantages and implementations.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

VIDEO: Learn how you can reduce your storage costs by 50% or more using intelligent file virtualization to optimize storage tiering. The basic idea of storage tiering is to match the business value of each chunk of data with the cost of storing that data. Watch Renny Shen of F5 Networks explain how virtualizing storage management can save up to 70%.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Published: 02 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, Founder and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, will explain the practical benefits of storage virtualization, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2009

EBOOK: Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 | Published: 11 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT: Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.

Posted: 02 Jul 2009 | Published: 02 Jul 2009

EBOOK: This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

EBOOK: This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009