Storage for Virtualized Servers White Papers

WHITE PAPER: The IBM Storwize V7000 Unified storage system, combined with powerful management software from IBM Tivoli, provides an ideal complement to VMware vSphere deployments by providing a highly virtualized storage infrastructure designed to meet the specific needs of virtual server environments. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 19 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: You need to maximize server virtualization efficiency, and doing so depends on choosing the right storage architecture. Check out this 2-page white paper to learn how.

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: You need a virtualization solution that’s simple to buy, deploy and manage, and that actually delivers the promised lower costs and increase efficiency benefits.  Check out this short white paper to learn more.

Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 18 Jun 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: You need to have the right metrics in place to measure storage efficiency in your cloud infrastructure. This white paper focuses on three aspects of cloud storage and discusses tools that can help you improve utilization, optimize capacity, and effectively manage costs.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains how to achieve truly efficient data protection amidst today's multitude of standalone solutions.

Posted: 08 May 2012 | Published: 08 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a solution to today's data deluge, offering a high-efficiency storage solution designed for forward-motion sustainability.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights several new features within EMC® Avamar® 6.0 that specifically target and greatly advance the capabilities and performance of VMware® data protection.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of deduplication in VMware environments. Three detailed case studies from organizations in different industries are presented.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to make sure you're getting the most bang for your buck when it comes to VM backup, data protection and DR for virtual environments.

Posted: 12 Apr 2012 | Published: 12 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: While maintaining high availability is critical in every business to avoid downtime and keep systems running smoothly, it can be very costly. This white paper introduces a new, automated storage solution that offers a cost-effective alternative approach to ensuring high availability and business continuity.

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Check out this ESG Report for a hands-on introduction to a hybrid solid-state storage solution designed to deliver fast performance for mixed-application workloads in both consolidated and virtual server environments. Read on to learn about the features of this technology, and to discover how it stacked up against ESG's lab testing.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides best practices and configuration guidelines on how to best integrate VMware vSphere® 5.0 with HP P4000 LeftHand SAN Solutions.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: As larger and more powerful servers are virtualized, many I/O issues can arise such as throughput congestion and preserving latency. This white paper introduces new technologies that aim at mitigating these challenges by utilizing platform hardware capabilities and better managing the allocation of storage I/O resources.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Gain workload mobility and recovery management across physical and virtual machines in heterogeneous environments with Dell AIM. Explore how Dell AIM simplifies the disaster recovery process and helps organization reach RTO and RPO targets by automating and validating storage management tasks.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ESG Lab review documents hands-on testing of HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software’s distributed volume management with a focus on federated workload balancing, asset management, and thin provisioning. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper is here to help you find the right cloud solution for your organization, and will help you unlock the full potential that cloud has to offer in terms of the fast and secure delivery of information. Read on to learn about the latest developments in cloud technology, and gain insight as to how to answer today's top cloud questions.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Though businesses have begun virtualizing their non-mission critical applications, major storage challenges have stood in the way of enterprises virtualizing their critical production applications. Find out how block storage solutions tailor-made for virtual infrastructures addresses these issues.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: NetApp and VMware have teamed up to create a joint solution to help you consolidate and virtualize your existing Microsoft applications environment, thereby helping reduce your infrastructure costs by up to 50% and protecting all your applications with best-in-class availability.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Holtsville, New York-based CARCO Group Inc. and its three divisions provide investigative, fraud detection, and risk mitigation services to large corporations, producing more than two million reports each year. This case study explores how CARCO deployed NetApp unified storage to support their virtualized infrastructure and file workloads.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the reasons for consolidating Windows environments and discusses the benefits of doing so with a joint NetApp-VMware solution, which include simplified management, enhanced availability and cost-effectiveness.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011