Storage Systems White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how data growth has created a storage management gap that is exacerbated by increased availability requirements and the risks of downtime. Find out why purchasing more storage is not a viable long-term solution to this problem and get advice on how to significantly reduce your storage footprint.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how health care facilities can address today's multidepartmental digital imaging conundrum with enterprise-level data management.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper gives you an inside look at the could-ready data center network and how to implement one in your organization.

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the challenges encountered when an imagery technologies team decides to launch a new imagery-processing site.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper we explore Object Storage, compare it to traditional NAS, and demonstrate that an intelligent, policy based data management strategy is the best approach to determining when it is beneficial for organizations to use Object Storage, or continue to use NAS.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The target audience for this white paper is advanced DX Storage administrators and support teams. It is meant to provide instructions on advanced configuration of asynchronous remote replication through these configuration files.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Scalability is one of the areas of focus in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The importance of scalability is driven by the convergence of several factors, which have combined to create a strong customer demand for a high performance, production ready Linux infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more about scalability and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to data protection and recovery, many businesses are not as safe as they believe. The first thing that comes to mind when considering a disaster recovery plan, by the average consumer and corporate technology professionals alike, is a backup of critical files. This white paper will answer important questions on backups and recovery.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 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: 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: 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: Read this case study to learn how Nexans Euromold expired (HP msa1000), André Fouquart, Information Systems Manager at Nexans, went looking for a new storage platform. It soon became clear that an IBM SVC solution combined with IBM System Storage™ DS3400 arrays was the best solution, read more now.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many organizations to recognize that capital and operating expenses for datacenters have become an increasing part of their budgets. Read this paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: IBM delivers unified storage management that is superior to legacy solutions, resulting in greater efficiency that reduces costs, improves performance, delivers unmatched scalability to better meet service levels and offers a higher level of reliability to manage risk.

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 | Published: 14 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009