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ISCSI SAN Boot - Simplifying Server Operations On SANS
sponsored by DellEMC and IntelĀ®
WHITE PAPER: Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. This paper explains the benefits of three different server boot operations provided by one advanced SAN configuration. It counsels that you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each before committing your organization's storage system to one.
Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

DellEMC and IntelĀ®

Benefit Solution Case Study - Timmons Group
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Timmons Group is a leader in the civil engineering industry; however, their storage requirements were growing at an unprecedented pace. Read this case study to learn how this company was able to overcome their challenges with innovative SAN solutions.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 02 Apr 2008

EMC Corporation

Virtualization Is Key to Storage Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have consolidated their storage infrastructures and a growing number see storage virtualization as an essential part of an effective consolidation strategy. Read this white paper to learn the benefits delivered from this strategy.
Posted: 01 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

User Directed Storage Management: How To Make Users Accountable For Responsible Storage Usage
sponsored by Northern Parklife
WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

Northern Parklife

Open Source and Virtualization: Twin Trends to Drive Customer Value
sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in IT. This white paper provides an introduction to virtualization and explores the relationship between virtualization and open source and its effect on user control and efficiency.
Posted: 18 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

Red Hat and JBoss

Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

Oracle Corporation

Importance of Unified I/O in VMware® ESX Servers
sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Unified I/O in VMware ESX servers deliver many cost and power savings advantages.
Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for VMware
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

NetApp

HP Servers in a Virtual Environment
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to provide examples of how HP server virtualization and HP storage virtualization technologies work together to improve data center operational efficiency.
Posted: 19 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2005

PC Connection and HP

Consolidation through Virtualization
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: A consolidated infrastructure based on virtualization capabilities can help lower costs by reducing complexity, improving utilization and easing management through a common management platform and efficient tooling.
Posted: 13 Mar 2008 | Published: 12 Mar 2008

IBM Software Group