Storage Management Software Reports

WHITE PAPER: Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help administrators choose an appropriate storage technology based on their requirements.

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 2011

ANALYST NEWS: Scalability and availability are key factors of an effective DSS or DW solution. Adhering to the best practices outlined in this article for integrating Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays into the design can help IT administrators create a scalable high-performance infrastructure.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: To help you make the right data archiving decision, we've collected our top tips, tutorial and podcasts on long-term data archiving. Whether you are choosing data archiving software, considering cloud archiving, or are a small business, we have the answers for you here.

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 | Published: 04 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment. Download now to find out the results. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses storage technology trends and why IBM storage systems are the smart choice for Oracle customers. Read to learn more. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: James Cook University needed to replace ageing storage systems that held vital student, administration and business applications. In order to get enterprise-level performance and availability that could keep up with the exponential growth of the university's data needs, they turned to IBM.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, learn how HP Storage Essentials helps you optimize your storage for server virtualization by giving you greater visibility of your entire storage infrastructure- ensure savings!

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Microsoft SharePoint is the platform of choice for organizations to store enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 take the platform to the next level by improving the platform’s scalability and usability to further enhance collaboration among knowledge workers.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

ANALYST REPORT: This IDC report examines complementary technologies from Hitachi and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture.

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 | Published: 27 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript reviews the options and trends for controlling data growth by reducing your data storage footprint. Milan K. Patel, Sr. Marketing Manager for Tivoli Storage contributes thoughts on how IBM can help you achieve your data reduction goals.

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 | Published: 24 Jan 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This webcast and accompanying podcast explore the reasons to move to a utility-based cloud computing model and outline the requirements every CIO and IT manager should keep in mind when looking to build their own private cloud.

Posted: 11 Jan 2011 | Published: 07 Jan 2011

VIDEO: This video explains how the IBM Smart Archive Strategy meets these challenges head on. Watch this video to learn how the Smart Archive Strategy is a broad strategy that helps organizations leverage IBM’s capabilities to design specific strategic archiving solutions for their unique needs.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Premiered: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will provide best practice configuration guidelines for using latest storage and server technology (Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology storage devices along with Oracle's Sun servers) to optimize such simulation management solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Performance metrics can help data storage pros judge the effectiveness of their enterprise data storage resources. For example, data storage efficiency can be measured in terms of capacity utilization or productivity (such as performance). Read on to learn how performance metrics can help you evaluate your data storage efficiency.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: Bluewater Power implemented a set SAP and IBM solutions to help deal with new regulations and mandates in the energy sector. Read this case study to learn all the benefits Bluewater experienced by choosing this set of SAP and IBM solutions and learn how your organization can experience these same benefits as well.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This product overview examines IBM XIV® Storage System, a groundbreaking, high-end, open disk system designed to support business requirements for a highly available information infrastructure. Read this overview and learn about the features and benefits of IBM XIV® Storage System.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines trends and customer requirements in storage regarding data deduplication and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its StoreOnce deduplication technology.

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 | Published: 09 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for information on data-generating technologies now available, the emerging applications that are harnessing them, and the desire among business executives across a broad range of industries to mine these applications for competitive advantage in some cases, and for the well-being of humanity in others.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010