Compact Disks Reports

WHITE PAPER: By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses several ways to develop a successful IPAM strategy.

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 | Published: 09 Jun 2014

EGUIDE: An aging data center may no longer be able to meet the power, cooling, and structural demands of advancing technologies. This exclusive e-guide details five data center upgrade strategies to modernize your facility and Robert McFarlane, with over 35 years experience in data center design, power, and cooling, offers data center design advice.

Posted: 05 Feb 2016 | Published: 03 Feb 2016

WHITE PAPER: Read this DCIG 2014 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guideand learn how to make intelligent, cost-effective decisions when it comes to tape storage.

Posted: 05 Jun 2014 | Published: 05 Jun 2014

CASE STUDY: Bluewater Power implemented a set SAP and IBM solutions to help deal with new regulations and mandates in the energy sector. Read this case study to learn all the benefits Bluewater experienced by choosing this set of SAP and IBM solutions and learn how your organization can experience these same benefits as well.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 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: Take a look at this exclusive resource to find out how this converged infrastructure hardware can help you enable business success.

Posted: 18 Feb 2014 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

PRODUCT LITERATURE: The Brocade 5000 is the industry's highest-performing midrange switch and the first common platform to provide non-disruptive and seamless expansion of existing SAN fabrics.

Posted: 22 Feb 2007 | Published: 22 Feb 2007

EGUIDE: This vendor-neutral e-guide will assist you in first determining if your enterprise will benefit from AFA implementation, and, should you decide to do so, making the case for AFAs. Read on to hear from IT Consultant Logan Harbaugh on AFA advantages and applications, how SSDs compare to HDDs, and more.

Posted: 23 Mar 2018 | Published: 20 Mar 2018

WHITE PAPER: A shared storage solution is critical to achieving many of the benefits of server virtualization. Find out how LSI Syncro CS solutions can help you get reliable and high availability shared storage now.

Posted: 19 Jul 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

EGUIDE: Use this guide as a means to building your all-flash array business case by characterizing your apps and their requirements. Inside, you'll learn how to construct your AFA case, while reviewing five factors to consider before making your purchase.

Posted: 09 Aug 2017 | Published: 03 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: With today’s environmental concerns, even IT professionals can make a difference. Energy-efficient data center network designs are important to implement, while being cost-effective and not sacrificing performance.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.

Posted: 24 Nov 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

EBOOK: Though all-flash arrays are popular, hybrid arrays offer the performance of flash arrays with the price of spinning disk drives for less frequently accessed data. Check out this buyer's checklist for a thorough analysis of the cost-benefits of hybrid flash vs. all-flash vs. spinning disks.

Posted: 21 Jun 2016 | Published: 21 Jun 2016

EBOOK: In this buyer's checklist, learn how hyper-converged systems differ from traditional storage systems and find insights into some of their unique features, as well as guidance for evaluating, purchasing and deploying these systems.

Posted: 14 Jul 2016 | Published: 14 Jul 2016

CASE STUDY: In this case study Calit2 and Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA) develop a cost-effective, high-performance environment where researchers have unlimited access to the existing genomics data.

Posted: 28 Jul 2008 | Published: 25 Jul 2008

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

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide explores the benefits of converged infrastructure and details the preliminary steps of implementing this infrastructure. Also, discover how to improve agility levels and reduce bottlenecks, and realize what converged infrastructure can bring to private cloud computing.

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 | Published: 10 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: High density computing is today's standard in best-in-class performance and availability, and those that fail to keep pace or fall behind will find themselves no longer competitive in today's markets.

Posted: 11 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008

CASE STUDY: TSI Terminal Systems (TSI) is Canada's largest shipping terminal operator and recently needed a way to integrate a new ERP system and train 1,200 users, on a set schedule, all without expanding IT headcount.

Posted: 31 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript discusses how to maximize efficiency in data storage environments and also outlines capacity utilization efficiency, including data archiving technologies.

Posted: 06 Sep 2012 | Published: 06 Sep 2012

WHITE PAPER: This case study highlights the importance of updating IT systems to handle increased storage demands. It also explains how one organization was able to implement a shared storage solution that was designed to work in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 23 Apr 2014 | Published: 30 Apr 2013

EGUIDE: See how London Capital Group cut deployment times and datacenter footprint by ditching server-plus-SAN architecture for hyper-converged server/storage boxes.

Posted: 27 Sep 2016 | Published: 23 Sep 2016

CASE STUDY: Air France short-haul and regional brand Hop jumps to Pure Storage after coming up against Dell EMC, NetApp and HPE, which all tried to sell it solutions ill-suited to its needs.

Posted: 13 Feb 2020 | Published: 13 Feb 2020

CASE STUDY: When a tape backup failed after a small electrical fire damaged a file server, 3 IT staff members had to spend more than two weeks re-inputting data - which delayed other projects. Read this case study to learn about this organization benefited from deploying an instant restore appliance.

Posted: 22 Nov 2013 | Published: 28 Jun 2012