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Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage with XenDesktop
sponsored by Citrix and Fusion-iO
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper details the considerations that must be taken before selecting storage for VDI and explains how you can address those considerations with “hybrid” storage.
Posted: 23 Apr 2014 | Published: 23 Apr 2014

Citrix and Fusion-iO

Evolving SRM to Meet Enterprise IT’s Long-term Challenges
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how a comprehensive storage management strategy can help you keep up with your constantly evolving data center.
Posted: 23 Oct 2013 | Published: 19 Oct 2011

IBM

VMware vSphere Replication 5.5 Overview
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: This resource helps users understand what VMware vSphere Replication is, explain some of the benefits of its features, and provide an overview of how it works to protect virtual machines against failure.
Posted: 20 Sep 2013 | Published: 20 Sep 2013

Dell and VMware

Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource provides you with a detailed analysis of SRM and SAN tools enabling ease-of-use to manage shared storage environments. These fully featured, integrated and user-friendly tools are offered as solutions ranging from the holistic to the specialist, delivering a broad range of maturity levels and requirements.
Posted: 14 Jun 2013 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

IBM

Manage Hitachi Unified Storage Systems in IT Environments
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how your business can simplify operations with a comprehensive set of storage management tools. Learn how this solution suite leverages IT investments, reduces operational costs and increases storage asset utilization and efficiency.
Posted: 04 Oct 2012 | Published: 04 Oct 2012

Hitachi Vantara

Washington State University Case Study: Overcoming VDI Storage Performance Challenges
sponsored by Tintri
WHITE PAPER: Learn how Washington State University deployed storage for hundreds of virtual desktops on VMware View using a single Tintri VMstore.
Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 21 May 2012

Tintri

Technology Considerations for Managing Storage Area Network (SAN) Configurations
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

Master the Management Challenges of Your Virtualized Environment with IBM Service Management Solutions
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

White paper: IBM System Storage Solutions for SAP environments
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: To meet today’s business demands, continuous access to critical data and applications is vital. But what steps can you take to ensure this availability? This white paper discusses how IBM® System StorageTM for SAP IT platforms are providing companies with secure and collaborative solutions.
Posted: 01 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2011

IBM

EMC's VNX Family: A Unifying Force in Storage
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.
Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

EMC

EMC's VNX Family: A Unifying Force in Storage
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.
Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

EMC

HP 3PAR F-Class Storage Systems: A mid-range storage revolution for lean times
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This solution brief details the benefits of HP 3PAR F-Class Storage Systems.  Some of these are 50% fewer arrays that reduce capacity, power, cooling, and floor space by up to 75%. HP 3PAR F-Class Storage Systems can also reduce storage administration time by 90%. Read this document for more.
Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

3PAR Storage: Tailor-Made for Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses attributes of 3PAR Utility Storage that make it particularly suitable for virtual server environments. Also covered is how it addresses future user requirements uncovered in Taneja Group research.
Posted: 28 Feb 2011 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

HP & Intel®

 Big Data - It’s not just for Google Any More:  The Software and Compelling Economics of Big Data Computing
sponsored by AMD
WHITE PAPER: Big Data holds out the promise of providing businesses with differentiated competitive insights. But those insights, protected by a healthy level of technical complexity, require large-scale data consumption and an innovative approach to the analysis of large public and private data sets.
Posted: 25 Jan 2011 | Published: 25 Jan 2011

AMD

Evaluator Group: Analysis of HP D2D Product Line
sponsored by HPE and Intel®
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

HPE and Intel®

The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As we enter a new decade of record-setting growth of digital information, we face unprecedented challenges in how to manage our Digital Universe. Are you ready for the Digital Decade?
Posted: 21 Oct 2010 | Published: 21 Oct 2010

EMC Corporation

A Universal Approach to Greater File System Efficiency
sponsored by EMC Corporation
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

EMC Corporation

John Webster whitepaper: IBM Smarter Planet Storage Solutions
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

HP StoreOnce: reinventing data deduplication
sponsored by HPE and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper introduces and describes StoreOnce software, next-generation deduplication technology from HP that allows for better management, higher performance, and more efficient data protection, while providing IT administrators with a cost-effective way to control unrelenting data growth.
Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

HPE and Intel®

HP Data Protector software Granular Recovery Extension for SharePoint 2007 FAQ
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Used by more than 37,000 customers worldwide, HP Data Protector provides automated backup and recovery of physical and virtual servers from disk or tape. Read this paper to learn answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about HP Data Protector software and the Granular Recovery Extension for SharePoint 2007.
Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Five Best Practices for Protecting Backup Data
sponsored by Iron Mountain.
WHITE PAPER: Backup encryption should be a key element in any security strategy. To achieve that goal, corporations should follow five best practices. This paper details them.
Posted: 30 Jun 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

Iron Mountain.

Running VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
WHITE PAPER: This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.
Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010

Hewlett Packard Company and Intel

PROTECT - Bringing the edge to the data center - a data protection strategy for small & midsize companies with remote offices
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Learn how midsize businesses or enterprises with regional data centers or remote offices can effectively address data protection challenges by implementing solutions that help store and protect business critical data, cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability.
Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

HP & Intel®

The Business Value of Intelligent Tiered Storage
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn the economic benefits of Hitachi’s Intelligent Tiered Storage capability for unified block and file data environments; and how organizations can decrease TCO and gain faster ROI business value using Hitachi storage solutions.
Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

Hitachi Vantara

Streamlining Storage Management With Virtualization-Aware EMC Navisphere Manager On Dell/EMC CX4 Arrays
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource efficiency and simplify storage administration tasks such as problem diagnosis and change management.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

Dell | EMC