Storage Infrastructure White Papers

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: Gain workload mobility and recovery management across physical and virtual machines in heterogeneous environments with Dell AIM. Explore how Dell AIM simplifies the disaster recovery process and helps organization reach RTO and RPO targets by automating and validating storage management tasks.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

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: Although scale-out storage technologies were once viewed as specialized infrastructure solutions that really only made sense in a few environments, today these platforms are making their way into mainstream IT. Check out this ESG market forecast to discover current trends and future predictions regarding the development of these solutions.   

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn why consolidating your storage may be the answer to your content management and security challenges. In this paper, learn about the changing requirements of today's storage landscape and receive best practices to help you manage performance, capacity, reliability and cost of your organization's storage.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you understand the important factors to be considered when selecting drives for your storage infrastructure. In this paper you'll receive 6 key tips and considerations to examine before deciding on a storage solution, and discover which technologies are better-suited for various types of data and/or organizations.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your nightly backup process, enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: As a Disk Backup Champion, ExaGrid received the highest rating from Info-Tech Research Group for its exceptional product architecture and overall vendor score highlighting the company’s ‘exemplary’ strategy and strong viability, reach and channel. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The 2011 Midrange Deduplication Appliance Buyer’s Guide rated the ExaGrid EX13000E “Best-in-Class” out of 37 different deduplication solutions for its functionality and capability. All ExaGrid appliances rated as “Recommended” scoring a 9.8 in technical support. ExaGrid rated as “Excellent” for hardware across all products. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: ESG Lab believes that organizations struggling with the cost, complexity, and risk associated with tape backups would be wise to consider the bottom line savings that can be achieved with ExaGrid. Check out this lab validation report to learn more.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

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: Data protection is simple: take everything and copy it somewhere far enough away so that you’ll have it in an emergency. The challenge is how to do this in an efficient and reliable way. Learn Riverbed optimizes DR across the widest range of backup mechanisms, with no changes to your software or storage

Posted: 12 Jan 2012 | Published: 12 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This brief paper introduces three solutions capable of working together to bring your business a complete and shared virtualized infrastructure, designed to help you simplify management and enhance resource efficiency. In this paper, you'll learn about each of these three technologies and the benefits they can bring your organization.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 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: 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and discusses the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution, which include simplified management, enhanced availability and cost-effectiveness.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read ESG’s report on the crucial role of storage management to simplify administration and advance virtualization adoption and benefits: efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper features today's best practices regarding efficient data management and provides you with the information you need to optimize your existing storage infrastructure and increase efficiency throughout your data center. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to the EMC Isilon OneFS operating system, the foundation of the Isilon scale-out storage platform. In this paper, you'll learn about the benefits of storage scaling and gain an overview of the architecture of this platform.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011