High Availability White Papers

WHITE PAPER: There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. This paper makes the case for choosing EMC for IP storage.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 | Published: 10 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: VM6 provides affordable software solutions to extend the benefits of enterprise-class virtualization to remote offices and branch locations (ROBO), small to medium businesses and web hosters.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper provides the 4 best practices that IT leaders of ROBO organizations need to consider when virtualizing their businesses, providing ROI tips and establishing a roadmap for reducing the Total Cost of Ownership for virtualizing the distributed ROBO environment.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper outlines the benefits derived and the costs associated with virtualization in the Remote Offices/Branch Offices, in the classic model versus the proposed model.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Convergence, consolidation, virtualization - today's IT trends have turned the network closet into a mission-critical environment. APC solutions give you the level of control, monitoring, and management that today’s more critical systems demand.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. When combined with Dell's world-class storage, management, and support offerings, the result is a total enterprise solution that can help you simplify and save on IT expenses.

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will review some key features and benefits of both Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will also explain why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises that are facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future, whether you are considering launching a new IT production environment or migrating a legacy environment...

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this technical white paper to learn about the evolution of mobile devices and the introduction of high availability in a mobile context. Also learn about the Blackberry as well as load balancing, failover thresholds, and limited downtime upgrades.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 06 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief paper to learn how using a Data Access Switch with multi-rule mapping feature to share the load among multiple parallel processing Gigabit tools, 10-Gig network can be monitored comprehensively and cost-effectively.

Posted: 06 Jul 2009 | Published: 06 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Antivirus products require too much time and effort for small and mid-sized companies. Security as a Service (SaaS) means delivering traditional security applications as an Internet-based service to customers. Now you can focus on your core business, switch from Antivirus to Security as a Service and start enjoying the benefits of SaaS.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document examines the capabilities of DocAve Deployment Manager and offers tips and guidance to help streamline the SharePoint deployment process while maintaining the integrity of all SharePoint staging instances.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.

Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. This paper examines four data protection strategies and compares their merits for the most common business continuance scenarios.

Posted: 01 May 2009 | Published: 29 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.

Posted: 18 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Because organizations are demanding 24x7 availability from their IMS, DB2®, and VSAM applications, it is imperative that those applications do not experience outages. Read this white paper to find out how BMC's Hybrid Copy techniques help for faster system recovery in the event of a local outage.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 17 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This solutions guide details the four available networking configurations, and the advantages and disadvantages of each with an emphasis on typical Dell system configuration and the hardware offerings.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) allows Oracle Database to run any packaged or custom application, unchanged across a set of clustered events.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The Solaris OS is the strategic platform for today's demanding enterprise and is the only open operating system that has delivered proven results, running everything from mission-critical enterprise databases to high performance Web farms.

Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008