Storage Infrastructure White Papers

WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is one of those things that is a means to an end—and not an end in itself. The reason is a matter of economics. Read this paper and find out why.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell commissioned Principled Technologies to estimate how many months it would take to recapture initial investment costs when consolidating multiple 4-year-old Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 server and storage solutions onto a Dell PowerEdge R710 server and storage solution using Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies are now at a juncture where they have a unique opportunity to put in place an underlying backup and archive disk infrastructure that eliminates today's silos of deduped data and islands of underutilized capacity resulting from scalability and scope limitations.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 11 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: 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: 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: 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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: IBM has the vision, expertise, experience and product offerings that enable you to build an optimal architecture for application performance that drives business success.

Posted: 16 Jan 2009 | Published: 16 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data compression features in data warehouse databases are the current trend, and this paper explains the benefits of compression in data warehousing and differentiates compression approaches taken by different databases.

Posted: 03 Dec 2008 | Published: 03 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Any organization with growing data storage -- and that's just about everybody now -- needs to do something, and what they did in the past won't work in the future. This paper gives a brief view into "new storage" -- flexible, scalable and green.

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: The test results and information presented in this paper explain how to properly plan for and successfully deploy a remote copy infrastructure for an Oracle 10g database using HP XP12000 Disk Arrays and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software.

Posted: 11 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

WHITE PAPER: Discover the benefits of Symantec's free new software additions to the Veritas Storage Foundation. In this quick overview, you will be introduced to the benefits, capabilities and overall strategy behind these two new resources.

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2006

WHITE PAPER: IT groups form highly interdependent groups to manage applications, servers, data, and storage. Integrated data management (IDM) is a new approach to simplifying data management and improve IT productivity. Download this white paper to lear...

Posted: 19 Dec 2006 | Published: 01 Apr 2006

WHITE PAPER: With the explosion of data, storage environments are becoming more complex. Poorly designed storage infrastructures are putting companies at risk. Download this study to learn how storage managers built stronger storage management teams and environments.

Posted: 31 Jul 2006 | Published: 01 Jul 2006