Storage Optimization White Papers

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: 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: 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: The evolution of the network creates a number of new opportunities, especially for the convergence of storage and real-time traffic.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage is a smart storage solution that directs application workloads to a specific storage location (or "tier") based on performance and cost characteristics. This white paper provides an introduction to tiered storage; learn exactly how tiered storage functions, and how to determine which data should be sent to which tier.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for a technical introduction to storage tiering and its implementation. You'll learn exactly how tiered storage works, and how to determine if it's the right strategy for your organization. Finally, you'll receive recommendations on how to evaluate available tiered solutions and determine which will best meet your needs.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 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: In October 2010, IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment enterprises may realise by deploying IBM’s Real-time Compression solution. Read this case study to learn the results.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Hybrid Storage Pool architecture is a unique way to integrated flash-based SSDs into the storage system, providing for higher performance and lower power consumption compared with traditional approaches. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The integration of Oracle's x86 blade systems, Oracle VM, and Oracle Unified Storage appliances, connected with either Ethernet or InfiniBand fabric services, forms a dynamic and elastic infrastructure-as-a-service solution for private cloud deployments. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | Published: 11 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is intended for IT planners, storage architects, administrators, and others involved in evaluating, managing, operating, or designing VNX storage systems.

Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to learn about a storage metrics methodology that can expand to both the private cloud and traditional enterprise environments.

Posted: 05 Oct 2011 | Published: 05 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive white paper explores how the IBM XIV system's unique architecture and approach to storage enable it to accomplish a better bottom line for you and your business.

Posted: 26 Sep 2011 | Published: 26 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper begins with an outline of the characteristics of computing from a distance, describes how WAN optimization of cloud resources improves the user experience, explains how Riverbed’s Cloud Steelhead achieves this, and concludes with several deployment examples.

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 | Published: 06 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s most popular backup storage targets featuring deduplication, however, don’t address the long-term operational issues that are sure to arise as secondary storage environments expand.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: To cut costs while continuing to meet service level objectives, organizations of all sizes are initiating projects based on strategies to simplify IT, consolidate resources, and increase energy efficiency. One of the technologies many organizations are leveraging to meet these goals is virtualization.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center's capabilities focus on storage configuration management and provide analysis of current storage utilization and best practice recommendations to provide the storage administrator with analytical input that will provide significant assistance.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011