Storage Virtualization White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about the acquisition of Akorri Networks, Inc. by NetApp. and the ways in which this merger is helping to provide customers with new virtualization technologies.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper from Symantec Corporation looks at the advantages associated with adopting a VMWare environment in organizations.

Posted: 08 Mar 2011 | Published: 08 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: 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

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: This paper is for IT organizations and service providers who are interested in building loud data centers. Read this paper to learn the complete architectural details with step-by-step instructions to set up and evaluate the two most common block-level storage protocols, FCoE and iSCSI, run over 10 GbE from end-to-end.

Posted: 03 Feb 2011 | Published: 03 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The speed of change in global markets and the challenges of new modes of business demand companies operate in and react to quickly changing landscapes. Nowhere is this more critical than in the means and methods the enterprise uses to power its business, typically via IT services.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 02 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability. It illustrates how Hitachi technologies, services and solutions facilitate the agility required to achieve it. Read on to learn more today.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO). Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, looks at the advantages of implementing an efficient storage system through virtualization. Read on to learn more!

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper examines complementary technologies from Hitachi and explains how they speed the benefits of virtualization and dramatically improve the management of the infrastructure while modernizing the storage architecture. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: When faced with the moment-by-moment business and IT pressures swirling around any large data center, a boiling cauldron may come to mind. Today's enterprise organizations are keenly seeking ways to securely and cost-effectively address rampant multifaceted data growth with flat or shrinking budgets.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Among today's most pressing IT challenges is the need to reenergize the data center to readily accommodate changing business requirements and demands for always-accessible information. But with an erratic economic climate and escalating IT costs, the data center has become a ticking time bomb.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The speed of change in global markets and the challenges of new modes of business demand companies operate in and react to quickly changing landscapes. Nowhere is this more critical than in the means and methods the enterprise uses to power its business, typically via IT services.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the benefits of Data Migration Facility (DMF) for streamlining data management for the most data-intensive environments. Usage scenarios are discussed along with the core technologies that have made DMF so successful.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses IBM's Real-time Compression—which enables organizations to optimize primary data stores so they can save new information, retain existing data for longer periods of time, consolidate existing systems, or benefit from some combination of the preceding.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Following the integration between Lloyds TSB and HBOS in 2009, the newly formed Lloyds Banking Group emerged as the UK’s largest retail bank. Read this white paper to learn how they used virtualisation to ensure its Wholesale Markets and Treasury and Trading (WMTT) department could operate at an enterprise level.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

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: Unified networking over 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) in the data center offers compelling benefits, including a simplified infrastructure, lower equipment and power costs, and the flexibility to meet the needs of the evolving, virtualized data center.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010