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Cut Infrastructure Complexity with Converged Infrastructures
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Find out why companies are choosing to turn to converged infrastructures to enable flexible and highly integrated turnkey solutions. You'll learn how you can spend less time managing your converged infrastructure and more time solving business challenges.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2013

Hitachi Vantara

A converged platform solution that lives up to the hype
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Learn more about a converged platform that offloads systems integration responsibilities from your IT department.
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Oct 2012

Hitachi Vantara

Coffee Break: Embracing Flash Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores the performance gap between CPUs and hard disk storage over the past 25 years and showcases comprehensive flash storage technology designed to bridge this widening gap by delivering immense performance and economic benefits
Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 12 Nov 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Storage I/O Performance Testing: How to Design, Size and Deploy a VMware View-Based VDI Solution
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper presents the results of a series of storage I/O performance tests and provides storage sizing guidance and best practices based on those results for a VMware View based VDI solution.
Posted: 11 Nov 2013 | Published: 11 Nov 2013

Dell and VMware

Accelerating network convergence in virtualized and cloud data centers
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover an innovative unified storage switch that provides a comprehensive platform and modular design that supports leading edge networking protocols – enabling IT organizations to converge LAN and SAN throughput in high I/O, virtualized environments.
Posted: 11 Nov 2013 | Published: 11 Nov 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

IDC: Enterprise Storage: Efficient, Virtualised, and Flash Optimised
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: In this informative paper, learn how advanced software defined storage capabilities that are easy to deploy help deliver a robust enterprise-grade virtualization platform that is efficient, cost effective and optimized. Read on now to learn more.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

IBM

Plas Plastic Case Study: Virtualization Delivers Greater Flexibility
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: In this case study, see how one organization is benefiting from virtualizing its networks for a more scalable, efficient, and reliable IT infrastructure that is prepared for continuous growth and productivity.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

Dell EMC and Microsoft

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores one market-leading integrated compute platform that can help you minimize interaction in terms of testing and technology integration, reduce overall complexity, streamline IT operations and much more.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Aug 2013

Hitachi Vantara

Storage Infrastructure Performance Validation
sponsored by Load DynamiX
WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores a cost-efficient performance validation approach designed to deliver high performance, practical and accurate workloads, and increased decision-making speed.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 01 Nov 2013

Load DynamiX

FAS2240 - An Inside Look
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper details NetApp's ground breaking storage platform designed to provide resiliency, availability, serviceability, and manageability.
Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

NetApp

Protect Data in VMware-Based Environments with IBM Tivoli Solutions
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief resource examines the challenges of traditional backup and storage approaches in virtual environments, and introduces a unified platform that enables your organization to meet these challenges and effectively store, analyze, manage, and protect data.
Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

IBM

FlexPod Express - The Cure for Server Sprawl
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: Small and medium-sized businesses everywhere are reporting symptoms of "server sprawl." This epidemic is characterized by an overabundance of underutilized servers and storage systems, often caused by running one application per server to protect against potential machine crashes. Read on to learn about a solution that can help.
Posted: 07 Nov 2013 | Published: 09 Oct 2013

NetApp

Keeping up with new technologies in your data centre
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the impact that new technologies are having on data centers and offers a solution for developing the strategies to keep up.
Posted: 06 Nov 2013 | Published: 06 Nov 2013

IBM

Linxdatacenter
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: In this brief resource, you will discover how an international carrier-neutral data center and LinxCloud solutions provider deployed a solution portfolio that combines NetApp storage systems, Cisco Unified Computing System servers, and Cisco Nexus fabric into a single, flexible architecture to create a reliable cloud platform.
Posted: 05 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

NetApp

Global Design Services
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: In this one page resource, you will discover how a brand-name global design services company deployed an innovative storage solution to replace inefficient backup and disaster recovery systems, which consumed 95 percent of system CPU and storage availability.
Posted: 04 Nov 2013 | Published: 04 Nov 2013

NetApp

Sizing and Best Practices for Deploying Virtual Desktops with Dell EqualLogic Virtual Desktop Deployment Utility in a VMware Environment
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a storage solution that was built for VDI deployments. Discover the specific features this system possesses to adequately perform for VDI and learn about the benefits this technology can provide. Read on now to learn more.
Posted: 04 Nov 2013 | Published: 04 Nov 2013

Dell and VMware

VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for Virtualized Exchange 2013
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a proven infrastructure that consolidates and virtualizes your Exchange environment while addressing user SLAs, lowering costs and simplifying overall management. Read on now to learn more.
Posted: 31 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

EMC

Solution Impact Analysis: SMBs Leverage EMC VSPEX for Rapid ROI
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores how three different organizations transformed their environments with a simple, efficient and flexible virtualization platform.
Posted: 30 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2013

EMC

Communications service providers can ease data storage management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the challenges of growing data volumes, and introduces a storage management, backup, and recovery tool that can ease the data management burden for communications service providers.
Posted: 30 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

IBM

Reducing the costs and risks of data storage in the federal government
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource introduces a storage and data management approach that helps reduce storage costs and risks, increase data protection, and much more.
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2012

IBM

Day in the Life of a Storage Administrator: which scenario best describes your duties?
sponsored by APTARE
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to explore a day in the life of a storage administrator with and without a solid backup solution. Find out which scenario best describes your duties.
Posted: 29 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Aug 2013

APTARE

Top reasons why customers virtualize with EMC VSPEX
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: Check out this short paper to learn how to transform your environment with this simple, efficient and flexible virtualization solution. Find out how this architecture can help you simplify your backup and recovery, reduce backup times and storage requirements, effortlessly scale depending on your needs and much more.
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

EMC

VDI with Dell EqualLogic Hybrid Arrays: A Comparative Study with the Industry-leading SAN solution
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover state-of-the-art hybrid arrays that combine SSDs and traditional HDDs in the same chassis to cost-effectively ensure maximum VDI performance. Find out how this innovative approach stacks up against other VDI deployments
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Optimizing VDI data management with unified virtualized storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores how optimizing VDI helps simplify user data management and enables device – and location – independent data access. Find out how a unified virtualized storage technology helps boost IT flexibility.
Posted: 28 Oct 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

DellEMC and Intel®

Blog Post: Changing the Economics of the Data Center
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Learn about the new features and capabilities available on Dell's Storage Center 6.4, including Flash optimized solutions and a new SC280 dense enclosure.
Posted: 25 Oct 2013 | Published: 06 Aug 2013

DellEMC and Intel®