Storage Optimization Reports

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, discover strategies for optimizing storage for your VMware environment by leveraging VMware capabilities and other techniques such as thin provisioning, data deduplication, compression and more. Plus, explore storage options for virtual machines such as raw device mappings and VMFS.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide to learn about a viable and now cost-effective storage solution – NAS and what you should consider when evaluating this product for purchase. Also discover what Dell’s VP has to say about scale-out NAS and more.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper may have the answer. Read on to explore the concept of storage economics, the idea that careful calculation and remapping of your existing storage infrastructure can allow you to both improve performance and lower TCO. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data growth has created a storage management gap that is exacerbated by increased availability requirements and the risks of downtime. Find out why purchasing more storage is not a viable long-term solution to this problem and get advice on how to significantly reduce your storage footprint.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide for a full understanding of hybrid cloud storage - discover features unique to hybrid cloud products, learn what vendors are in this market space today, and explore three key challenges that can be overcome with a hybrid cloud solution.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this SearchServerVirtualization.com E-Guide to discover today's best practices for storage management of virtual environments. Discover how to estimate storage capacity requirements using four key factors, learn how to select optimal memory and CPU for virtualization and more.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this tip guide for 5 best practices to better manage your virtual servers. In this guide you'll learn how to better balance your storage workload, understand the differences between storage for virtualized servers and desktops, learn how to utilize thin provisioning, improve storage utilization and more.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn why consolidating your storage may be the answer to your content management and security challenges. In this paper, learn about the changing requirements of today's storage landscape and receive best practices to help you manage performance, capacity, reliability and cost of your organization's storage.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this datasheet you will find a in-depth look into the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage Systems. A view into the key features and benefits that set this unit apart from the rest of those in the market.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide to learn about emerging storage solutions like solid state (SSD), virtualization-optimized storage and automated tiering. You'll also learn about the latest trends in enterprise storage today, discover the ins and outs of virtual NAS and learn four ways to virtualize file access. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software’s distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com E-Guide, Rich Castagna discusses the current landscape of the tape market and its role in the data center today. Read on to learn the latest trends in tape systems, advanced drives life the T10000C and where the future of tape lies.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide from SearchCloudStorage.com is here to help you decide if cloud storage services are a good fit for your organization. In this guide you'll learn about the pros and cons of various cloud deployments, explore advantages specific to SMBs regarding cloud infrastructures, and discover 5 of today's best practices for moving to the cloud.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Published: 25 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide features a side-by-side comparison of two emerging storage solutions - Netapp FlexPod and EMC's Vblock - and will help you determine which can better meet your organization's needs. In this guide you'll learn the pros and cons of each of these platforms, and learn which provides better long-term benefits. Read on for more.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: In this expert e-guide, you will learn about the different available EHR storage options, as well pros and cons of each, allowing you to better decide which storage system is right for you and your healthcare organization.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Data protection is simple: take everything and copy it somewhere far enough away so that you’ll have it in an emergency. The challenge is how to do this in an efficient and reliable way. Learn Riverbed optimizes DR across the widest range of backup mechanisms, with no changes to your software or storage

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: VDI storage presents a slew of new challenges to data storage professionals. Read this expert E-Guide to explore how to address VDI storage challenges with data dedupe and NAS systems.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper introduces three solutions capable of working together to bring your business a complete and shared virtualized infrastructure, designed to help you simplify management and enhance resource efficiency. In this paper, you'll learn about each of these three technologies and the benefits they can bring your organization.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study explores the journey that Suncorp took to eliminate IT inefficiencies, consolidate their seven existing data center locations into two and boost the production and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Read on to learn about the technologies they implemented in order to meet these goals.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: NetApp and VMware have teamed up to create a joint solution to help you consolidate and virtualize your existing Microsoft applications environment, thereby helping reduce your infrastructure costs by up to 50% and protecting all your applications with best-in-class availability.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012