Storage Capacity White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for an introduction to a scalable, modular, flexible storage system focused on a single pool of storage that was designed to handle the strenuous work flow requirements of the sophisticated ISR realm of data.

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This short white paper explores how you can make sure your organization has a worry-free archiving strategy, and includes a case study of how a major television production company successfully modernized its storage to make content available immediately and simultaneously to the company’s editing suites as filming proceeds.

Posted: 28 Jun 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: You need a virtualization solution that’s simple to buy, deploy and manage, and that actually delivers the promised lower costs and increase efficiency benefits.  Check out this short white paper to learn more.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 18 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Whether you are consolidating your storage, trying to improve application performance, or looking to get the most out of your databases, it’s important to ask the right questions. This quick guide will arm you with the questions you need to consider when reviewing your storage strategy.

Posted: 10 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: You need to have the right metrics in place to measure storage efficiency in your cloud infrastructure. This white paper focuses on three aspects of cloud storage and discusses tools that can help you improve utilization, optimize capacity, and effectively manage costs.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 05 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Arnold Worldwide is a Boston-based global advertising agency. They needed to replace its existing SAN with virtualized storage. Read this case study to learn how Arnold successfully addressed their DR and scalability needs, but also reduced its data center footprint and slashed its power and cooling costs.

Posted: 05 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle offers the broadest and most integrated portfolio of products to help you acquire and organize these diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data to find new insights and capitalize on hidden relationships. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper may have the answer. Read on to explore the concept of storage economics, the idea that careful calculation and remapping of your existing storage infrastructure can allow you to both improve performance and lower TCO. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data growth has created a storage management gap that is exacerbated by increased availability requirements and the risks of downtime. Find out why purchasing more storage is not a viable long-term solution to this problem and get advice on how to significantly reduce your storage footprint.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you find the right cloud solution for your organization, and will help you unlock the full potential that cloud has to offer in terms of the fast and secure delivery of information. Read on to learn about the latest developments in cloud technology, and gain insight as to how to answer today's top cloud questions.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 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: 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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: Storing and managing ever-increasing amount of data presents a formidable business challenge. Midsized companies are particularly challenged, because they typically lack the resources to handle the deluge. You can’t stop the massivegrowth in data, but you can doa better job of managing it.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how implementing cloud storage metrics can help you choose the right technology for increasing IT productivity and capacity management in your enterprise.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 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