Storage Systems White Papers

WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: With exploding amounts of data, CalTech needed to store critical digital information for NASA on a storage system that could deliver enterprise class reliability with power efficient technology to drive down cost. With over 2 petabytes of data on Nexsan Storage, CalTech has experienced 99.9% hardware reliability over the last 7 years.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

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

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

WHITE PAPER: Virtual provisioning on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays is designed to dramatically increase storage utilization, simplify storage management, and minimize power and space requirements. Taking advantage of this flexible, automated approach to storage allocation can help reduce total cost of ownership and enhance data center energy efficiency.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise flash drives represent a huge leap forward over traditional mechanical drives. When deployed in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays, these drives can dramatically boost storage performance for targeted data center workloads while helping increase resource utilization, enhance energy efficiency, and reduce total cost of ownership.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization technology is here to stay. When choosing a server virtualization application, it's important to understand the many facets various solutions have, and the limitations inherant in them. This paper explains the benefits of InMage's software-based solution.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT and business managers who are charged with controlling their budgets while closing infrastructure gaps and extending the benefits of IT virtualization will benefit from this white paper.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about 12 best practices for data backup and recovery such as Reliability, Breadth of Offering, Security, Accessibility, Scalability, Cost-effectiveness and more!

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 11 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are many IP storage capabilities that are becoming increasingly critical requirements for all customers. And there are many vendors offering various IP-based storage solutions. This paper makes the case for choosing EMC for IP storage.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2006

WHITE PAPER: The Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, delivers a high-performance, intelligent and scalable multiprotocol solution. This document describes best practices for using Oracle databases on Linux with NAS connectivity provided by the Hitachi NAS Platform through the NFS protocol.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 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: The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper documents the procedure for failback from a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery site after SRM has performed a failover on an HP LeftHand SAN. This document is intended for customers who are using an HP LeftHand SAN with VMware.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 05 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: No matter the business, industry, or size, reliable data access is essential to operations. As that data continues to grow exponentially, it is important to have a backup and recovery strategy that meets current business needs and has the flexibility to grow and change. Read this white paper to learn about HP data protection solutions.

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: With the acquisition of Diligent Corporation, IBM has put itself in the rather unique position as the only vendor that can offer to the enterprise a complete backup/recovery solution with servers, disk, tape, software, and data deduplication technology, all rolled into one.

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have you extended your virtual infrastructure to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization? This white paper serves as an in-depth, step-by-step guide to successful storage virtualization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Oracle Database 11g introduces the Advanced Compression Option to help customers cope with data growth and storage, regulatory compliance, and application scalability and performance challenges.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008