Storage Best Practices White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses storage technology trends and why IBM storage systems are the smart choice for Oracle customers. Read to learn more. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn how IBM appears to have the deployment issue down pat and how they have a variety of delivery vehicles to satisfy the tape needs of your enterprise. Keep reading to learn more about IBM’s LTO-5 offerings. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM Information Archive helps you store, retrieve, manage, share and protect regulated and non-regulated data with a design that is both highly secure and extremely cost efficient.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability. It illustrates how Hitachi technologies, services and solutions facilitate the agility required to achieve it. Read on to learn more today.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO). Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, looks at the advantages of implementing an efficient storage system through virtualization. Read on to learn more!

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines complementary technologies from Hitachi and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn more about EMC backup and recovery solutions for VMware, which combine industry-leading deduplication storage and software to help you fully realize the benefits of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 18 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides general information for using EMC Data Domain deduplication storage to back up VMs using VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) with VMware Infrastructure 3(VI3).

Posted: 08 Sep 2010 | Published: 25 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to easily configure document retention and disposition policies in the background to mitigate risk and meet compliance goals.

Posted: 04 Aug 2010 | Published: 04 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Access this expert paper to learn more about the worst file bloat offenders, the dire consequences of file bloat, file bloat work-arounds, and much more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 | Published: 22 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are ten key actions that your company and CIO can take as this hurricane season approaches to help your business achieve communications continuity and business continuity to protect against the unpredictability and devastation that is a hurricane. Read this white paper to learn more!

Posted: 17 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about 12 best practices for data backup and recovery such as Reliability, Breadth of Offering, Security, Accessibility, Scalability, Cost-effectiveness and more!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to overcome the challenges of traditional data backup for your small to mid-size organization and discover the benefits of implementing a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) backup solution.

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 | Published: 11 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.

Posted: 12 Aug 2009 | Published: 12 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the current downturn in today's economy, organizations are reluctant to spend any more money than absolutely necessary. Read this paper to learn how Symantec is uniquely able to deliver products and solutions with the immediate ROI that the current financial situation demands.

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009