Storage Consolidation Reports

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this presentation transcript for a storage refresher course on the topic of deduplicaiton and gain insight on how you can better leverage this technology to benefit the overall success of your businesses.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 22 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Access this expert paper to learn more about the worst file bloat offenders, the dire consequences of file bloat, file bloat work-arounds, and much more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 22 Jun 2010

ANALYST REPORT: This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how a major global media and entertainment company achieved significant benefits and efficiency gains by implementing a virtual tape library solution to streamline their nightly data backup process.

Posted: 21 May 2010 | Published: 15 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Dell Virtualization Solutions with VMware provide the most efficient virtual infrastructure foundation to power vSphere 4 cloud infrastructures. Read this paper to learn more about the features and business benefits of Dell and VMware solutions for your cloud computing infrastructure.

Posted: 14 May 2010 | Published: 13 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is more than a technology. It is a way of thinking about problems that allow us to go beyond the physical limitations nor­mally associated with entire classes of hardware, from servers to storage. Attaining the maximum benefits of virtualization, however, requires a plan and constant monitoring to ensure peak performance.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Gain insight from industry analyst Tony Asaro on how enterprises can efficiently maintain costs, reduce risk and optimize systems when implementing a data center move or migration.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Improving data backup and recovery can impact a company’s budget.  Do you want to gain tips to improve your backup systems without impacting your bottom line?  View this whitepaper to learn about improving reliability of backups and restores and reducing backup storage capacity requirements by up to 95%.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 15 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: 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

WEBCAST: Too many vendors (and, as a result, IT pros) consider cloud a technology in and of itself. This webcast explains the benefits of realising that the cloud is a way of providing IT services as a consolidated pool of server and storage resources that can be provisioned to support a wide range of applications and data types.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: Feb 2, 2010

WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Widely known as a thin storage pioneer, 3PAR® is not just a leader in thin provisioning but in overall storage efficiency—including minimizing power consumption, reducing administration time, and promoting environmental responsibility.

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2010

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

CASE STUDY: This case study provides IT professionals and technical decision makers working in large enterprises with the information they need to plan and deploy server virtualization by using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V.

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 | Published: 22 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. This paper makes the case for choosing EMC for IP storage.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

EZINE: The final 2009 issue of Storage Magazine Online features the 5 technologies that our editorial team and expert contributors predict will make the biggest impact in 2010. Plus, our annual Salary Survey shows how the economy is affecting the highly-specialized world of storage in IT.

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

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 document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.

Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn how disk backup with data deduplication technology can help solve data protection issues and directly impact your organization's bottom line.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 27 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The deduplication capabilities of CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software in the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault are designed to eliminate unnecessary copies of backup and archive data—providing an integrated, simplified way to streamline storage throughout the enterprise.

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009