Storage Provisioning Reports

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: 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: Though businesses have begun virtualizing their non-mission critical applications, major storage challenges have stood in the way of enterprises virtualizing their critical production applications. Find out how block storage solutions tailor-made for virtual infrastructures addresses these issues.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 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

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

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 SearchStorage.com E-Guide can get your company up to speed by outlining six requirements for deploying primary storage optimization solutions.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 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

EGUIDE: The cost of provisioning storage is one of the biggest barriers to desktop virtualization. Discover what procedures and technologies are available for managing the number of images that can be stored on disk, as well as how you can increase storage utilization with virtualized storage in this expert resource.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Published: 06 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: Storage is the cornerstone of any virtualization deployment. In this expert e-guide, discover the benefits and disadvantages of virtualizing storage systems for server administrators. Plus, find out about a tool that can help ease storage management in virtual environments.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: A virtualized storage environment can greatly simplify storage management. Access this expert e-guide to find out more about the benefits of storage virtualization and the different technologies that you can utilize to increase storage utilization.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 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

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

EGUIDE: As health care IT seeks to find ways to cut costs everywhere, it will be forced to aggressively adopt primary storage optimization technologies such as thin provisioning. Learn more inside this exclusive e-guide.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: BioWare, a leading developer of console, PC and online role-playing games, is keenly aware of how critical data can be to the bottom line. The company implemented a data center virtualization solution based on the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN with Dell Fluid Data technology and VMware server virtualization software. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 | Published: 27 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In October 2010, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment enterprises may realise by deploying IBM’s Real-time Compression solution. Read this case study to learn the results.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide can help you achieve your efficiency goals by outlining different storage tools to use, how they work and how you can save by using them. Also discover the pros and cons of storage management tools today.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript Greg Shulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group, discusses how storage managers can reduce their data footprint.

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 | Published: 10 Oct 2011