Storage Hardware

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for wellheeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

EBOOK: How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

PODCAST: Disk offers significant management and performance benefits over tape-based storage systems. Now, with advances in virtualization and deduplication, disk-only storage is also less expensive than tape. This podcast explores a real-world example of an organization going tapeless and outlines the processes required and the resulting benefits.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: This data sheet highlights the features and facts for the Sun Oracle Database Machine, the world's fastest for any type of database workload, and the only database machine that runs transaction processing applications.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchITChannel.com and Dell, you will discover how solution providers are finding significant revenue opportunities in the consulting, planning, deployment and management of server virtualization and networking projects.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: This webinar will explain Dell's virtualization approach and discuss Dell's virtualization optimized technologies; explaining the methodologies and approaches taken to help you work with customers to bundle more solutions and services when selling virtualization solutions.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 07 Oct 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: In recent years, server technology has taken an enormous leap forward, thanks to the incredible advances from Dell's engineering teams and Intel's introduction and evolution of Xeon® processors. No matter what IT challenges you are helping your customers to solve, you'll find the answer with Dell and Intel.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

CASE STUDY: Mosaic Technology sought to partner with a larger company to obtain sales, marketing and technical support, thereby extending its reach into the server and storage virtualization market.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This paper focuses on various points that should be considered when deploying 3PAR InServ Storage Servers with both VMware vSphere, VMware’s latest suite that includes VMware ESX™ 4, VMware vCenter, and Virtual SMP, and with previous versions of VMware ESX.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

VIDEO: Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: This comprehensive Webcast explores new methods for business continuity and walks you through how to approach and manage the various aspects of creating a continuity strategy with snapshot assisted backup and virtualisation tools. View this Webcast to learn more.

Posted: 31 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 31 Aug 2009

PRODUCT DEMO: View this step-by-step product demonstration to see how to implement a high performance, highly available, and easily scaled SAN without impacting applications or limiting performance as workloads change and grow.

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 24 Aug 2009

BROCHURE: Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 | Published: 24 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: This Webcast highlights a solution that helps disregard wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 18 Aug 2009

PODCAST: This Podcast highlights a solution that helps disregard wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 18 Aug 2009

VIDEO: When it comes to backups, Murphy's Law prevails. In this expert Videocast, you'll learn about the five most prevalent backup failures -- and what you can do about them.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 14 Aug 2009

ANALYST BRIEF: This Taneja Group technology brief assess the challenges before SSD arrays, and takes a look at one solution – the EqualLogic PS6000s – that promises to deliver a tradition breaking approach that will make SSD granularly scale-out total array performance like few other solutions on the market.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the different options available to expand the storage capacity in Oracle databases environments that are deployed on PS EqualLogic™ storage and Oracle ASM.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

PODCAST: There are more and better tools to protect data than ever, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. In this expert podcast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help you build a better backup system.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Premiered: 27 Jul 2009