Storage Virtualization White Papers

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 technical white paper covers the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management.  Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion®, and vSphere DRS.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the ways in which an educational testing and research organization uses the cloud to leverage on-demand capacity for improved workload management while supporting the price points and computing power needed to pursue global opportunities.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the real value of storage virtualization from both business and IT perspectives, and offers explanations of the varying storage virtualization approaches with advice on how to make a technology and vendor decision.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 14 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM XIV Storage System was designed to create a different enterprise storage reality. By listening carefully to customers—including Oracle users—IBM has designed a storage system that tackles real storage issues head-on. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 | Published: 08 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data centers are going through massive changes at the compute layer. Server virtualization is transforming the IT landscape achieving amazing improvements in price-performance and agility. However, realizing the price-performance and agility benefits of virtualization at the storage layer can be a challenge. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: An Acronis white paper stating that integrating Disaster Recovery and Data Protection is a practical solution for reducing storage management TCO, improving IT administrator productivity, and increasing the reliability of backup and recovery plans.

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 | Published: 18 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data center virtualization not only consolidates IT resources and boosts efficiency, but increases flexibility, performance and availability. By combining storage virtualization by Compellent with server virtualization by VMware, users know their data center will operate efficiently today and adapt to change tomorrow.

Posted: 11 Jul 2011 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Unified networking over 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) offers significant benefits for the data center, including a simplified power infrastructure, lower equipment and power costs, and the flexibility to meet the evoling needs of virtualization. This paper dives into these benefits and reveals how you can make them a reality in your data center.

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: The foundations of cloud computing are built on ethernet and ethernet-based storage. This white paper explores the forces behind the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified networking, and reveals how you can acheive its benefits in your own data center.

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 | Published: 05 Jul 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: Learn how the outstanding computer power and memory capabilities of its UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack Mount Server joined with the high-performance EMC VNXe3300 system can support thousands of e-commerce order transactions per minute, serve thousands of web pages, and support thousands of mail users simultaneously in today’s SMBs.

Posted: 02 Jun 2011 | Published: 02 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get the top ten data management trends that will be important in 2011 and beyond. Leveraging these trends will enable you to make more insightful business decisions, reduce your IT costs and make your environment more responsive, available and scalable.

Posted: 31 May 2011 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the HP 3PAR Storage System and how the next-generation Tier 1 storage is designed to deliver the agility and efficiency demands of a virtual data centre and cloud computing environments. Read on for more information on the HP 3PAR Storage System.

Posted: 25 May 2011 | Published: 23 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IBM Redbook covers the impact of server and storage consolidation, data center network virtualization and consolidation technologies, and much more.

Posted: 23 May 2011 | Published: 10 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how CFOs can help ensure a healthier bottom line by taking proactive steps today.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The virtualization on x86 platforms has been a true game changer for desktop delivery. IT pros can now centrally manage, maintain, and enforce policies on desktops in ways never before possible with traditional desktops. This white paper explores the exact ways that the virtual desktop model can benefit companies.

Posted: 18 May 2011 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: The white paper Closing the Virtualisation Loop identifies the objectives in the next phase of virtual machine backup and recovery and provides recommendations on how to improve backup and disaster recovery in a hybrid IT environment.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help administrators choose an appropriate storage technology based on their requirements.

Posted: 02 May 2011 | Published: 02 May 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: In recent years, we have witnessed great technology leaps from all of the leading VDI software vendors. In this part of our series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell’s innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI.

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | Published: 26 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Through this year-long series of whitepapers and webinars, independent analyst Ben Kepes will be building a cloud computing curriculum designed for technologists and non-technical users alike.

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 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: In this new Quest Software white paper, learn about the five common challenges to a successful virtualization project – and how to solve each one. See how to ensure your company’s virtualization project is successful before AND after implementation. Read this white paper today.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment. Download now to find out the results. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011