Storage Infrastructure White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to choosing a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, questions about performance, ease-of-use and cost are sure to come up. This technical brief reviews key differences to consider between Ethernet SAN and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure when choosing a storage solution for your next virtual server or cloud storage project.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 07 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Obtaining the best possible backup performance is always a team effort in the sense that multiple technologies are brought together to provide optimal data protection performance. Read this white paper to learn why the components described in this document will help you to protect your valuable virtual machine environment.

Posted: 28 Dec 2010 | Published: 28 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This Technology Spotlight discusses the growth of Linux as a strategic platform for enterprises as well as the evolving uses of Linux and its benefits. The paper also looks at the role of Symantec in this important market.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how you can take control of your content with an integrated, end-to-end archiving approach for email and files and Increase the business value of your data while driving down the costs and complexity of the infrastructure all while staying compliant with legal and business mandates.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the benefits of Data Migration Facility (DMF) for streamlining data management for the most data-intensive environments. Usage scenarios are discussed along with the core technologies that have made DMF so successful.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Download this whitepaper to discover information to help hospitals adapt to their changing data landscape in a bid to secure, protect and manage the rapid growth of digital patient information.

Posted: 15 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Following the integration between Lloyds TSB and HBOS in 2009, the newly formed Lloyds Banking Group emerged as the UK’s largest retail bank. Read this white paper to learn how they used virtualisation to ensure its Wholesale Markets and Treasury and Trading (WMTT) department could operate at an enterprise level.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The new Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform delivers the best performance and capacity combined with lowest power consumption and lower cooling requirements, consuming up to 40% less power than its predecessor. Learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: What does sustainability mean for business and particularly for IT? Sustainable IT refers to efforts that increase the useful life and reduce environmental impacts of IT systems, and concurrently offer cost benefits to the business. Read on to learn how your business could benefit from going green.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: While the promise of cloud is heady, there is confusion about the different types of cloud, what they actually offer, and which will meet stringent business requirements. Knowing when and how best to deploy cloud is critical. This paper focuses on separating the hype of cloud from the “how to”.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how IBM is applying its expertise, global scope, and creativity to build the information backbone of twenty-first-century industries and public institutions. Continue reading to learn the benefits that a smart archive strategy can provide for your organization.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The deployment of virtualization technology has allowed businesses of all sizes to reduce costs and optimize resources. The impact has been particularly dramatic with server virtualization. By virtualizing their servers, many organizations have dramatically reduced their IT investment in hardware procurement. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain. Read this white paper to learn more about easing the tape backup process.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper details an analysis of the HP D2D Product Line, which provides both disk to disk and VTL backup. In June 2010, the product line was updated to include StoreOnce, HP Labs developed inline data deduplication, along with a number of other enhancements.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes technical and business considerations for deploying a virtual infrastructure for SAP landscapes with EMC and VMware technologies. The white paper addresses a variety of key considerations for deploying such an infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is bringing a new approach to enterprise-wide desktop deployments aimed at providing a better end user and administrator experience than physical desktop deployments, by lowering acquisition and management cost, and offering a highly scalable, easy to deploy and fully protected desktop environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: The amount of storage shipped to the Australian marketplace is tipped to increase by over 240% between 2010 and 2014.  Find out about successful ways to overcome the storage challenges created by such a high level of data growth.

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for information on data-generating technologies now available, the emerging applications that are harnessing them, and the desire among business executives across a broad range of industries to mine these applications for competitive advantage in some cases, and for the well-being of humanity in others.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and so much more.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Apr 2010