Storage Optimization Reports

WHITE PAPER: Using a combination of VMware and NetApp you can create a unified and comprehensive solution that simplifies your entire Windows environment— applications, data, and infrastructure— enabling you to easily achieve your IT goals. Read this white paper now to learn more.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: The city of Eden Prairie needed to implement storage to complement VMware efficiencies and boost performance and availability for critical city services. This brief white paper details how the city successfully implemented  NetApp for cost-saving efficiencies plus 24x7 availability of police and fire applications. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Holtsville, New York-based CARCO Group Inc. and its three divisions provide investigative, fraud detection, and risk mitigation services to large corporations, producing more than two million reports each year. This case study explores how CARCO deployed NetApp unified storage to support their virtualized infrastructure and file workloads.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Check out this expert E-Guide to learn more about unified storage including why the adoption rate is rising among users, how it works and the top advantages of this type of storage.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automated storage tiering has become the must-have feature for all new storage arrays over the last two years. This presentation transcript discusses the ins and outs of automated storage tiering, and the 4 key ways it can boost your data center efficiency.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and discusses the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution, which include simplified management, enhanced availability and cost-effectiveness.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read ESG’s report on the crucial role of storage management to simplify administration and advance virtualization adoption and benefits: efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Bring efficiency and lasting value to your high-end computing environment with the Dell PowerEdge C6105. This AMD processor-based server offers exceptional work-per-watt performance for scale-out Web 2.0 environments, hosters and cloud builders.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Get fast answers to tough problems with the PowerEdge C6145; the only server in its class with two four-socket AMD Opteron 6100 processor-based servers in 2U. Featuring up to 96 cores, up to 1TB memory and up to 40Gbps I/O per card, it helps satisfy your need for speed and efficiency.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

VIDEO: In this video, Dell and Terascala introduce and install high-perfomance storage in Dell's Public Solutions Center.

Posted: 14 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: What are the most common approaches for deduplication and compression on primary storage? Learn the answer to this and more by checking out this FAQ guide featuring insight from Dave Russell, research VP at Gartner Research.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Fortunately for you, there are a growing number of tools and techniques on the market to help IT improve their data storage utilization rates. In this E-Guide, Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group, details the storage optimization and capacity reduction products available from a range of enterprise data storage vendors.

Posted: 13 Dec 2011 | Published: 13 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide explores the 6 best practices for data footprint reduction, the overlooked constraints often found in storage infrastructures, which storage tools you need to be using and the future of unified data storage.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn how you can reduce primary storage capacity requirements, and how you can decrease backup data within your overall storage environment.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: It's easy to overlook the importance of storage in virtual data centers. However, virtualization storage requirements have only increased, driving up costs and performance concerns. Learn how you can get the most out of your storage with thin provisioning and understanding application demands.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The evolution of the network creates a number of new opportunities, especially for the convergence of storage and real-time traffic.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide can help by outlining things that you can do to reduce your backup window without spending any money. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is a smart storage solution that directs application workloads to a specific storage location (or "tier") based on performance and cost characteristics. This white paper provides an introduction to tiered storage; learn exactly how tiered storage functions, and how to determine which data should be sent to which tier.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for a technical introduction to storage tiering and its implementation. You'll learn exactly how tiered storage works, and how to determine if it's the right strategy for your organization. Finally, you'll receive recommendations on how to evaluate available tiered solutions and determine which will best meet your needs.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: An independent study by ITG has found that the IBM XIV can save an organization 69% on TCO over a 3 year period. This white paper explains how the system’s unique architecture enable it to accomplish this feat.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This expert presentation transcript with Deborah Sheedy, Storage Solutions Marketing Manager with Dell, explores changing your fundamental cost structure around infrastructure to pursue innovation and drive business value.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data growth and regulatory requirements have made backup, recovery, and archiving critical aspects of enterprise operations. Dell Services experts can assess how effectively an information infrastructure is getting the job done and deploy integrated, best-of-breed storage solutions to help ensure the safety and recoverability of critical data.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Intelligent Data Management is Dell’s overall approach to help enable IT organizations to evolve from managing the storage of their data, to managing and delivering the data as strategic information.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

EZINE: In just a few short years, we’ve gone from struggling to apply effective data protection to virtualized environments with outdated tools to a variety of solid alternatives. Your job now is to find the best solution for your company’s environment.  This Storage magazine Essential Guide should help make it just a little bit easier.

Posted: 07 Nov 2011 | Published: 03 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide featuring Jeff Boles, senior analyst at Taneja Group, discusses the importance of auto tiering in storage today.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011