SAN Reports

EGUIDE: This expert SearchStorage.com E-Guide points out red flags of SAN management problems-to-come so you can catch them before they manifest in your virtual environment. Check it out to learn how your peers are responding to these pain points.

Posted: 17 Dec 2012 | Published: 17 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the adoption and benefits of clustered storage across a variety of enterprises. Discover what these storage users consider to be the most important attributes for a clustered storage system.

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

EGUIDE: This e-guide examines the forces driving the unified storage movement and elaborates on the key benefits these systems deliver. Learn about the key architectural characteristics of unified storage and how to differentiate between integrated and modular deployment methods.

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 | Published: 12 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: See how the Nytro product family from LSI provides financial services organizations with flash-based application acceleration to deliver real-time analytics to meet competitive, customer and compliance demands.

Posted: 12 Jun 2013 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers a broad range of business and economic benefits of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series Adapters. This solution helps close the I/O performance gap and provide the entire SAN benefits including OPEX and CAPEX savings, getting more out of an existing SAN, and increased revenue.

Posted: 24 May 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: This report examines and details the Hitachi approach to delivering storage capacity efficiency via its USP V and VSP platforms. In doing so, it will highlight how Hitachi looks at the overall economics of storage by reducing relevant operating expenses which they address with the characteristics of their storage systems and software.

Posted: 29 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

VIDEO: Watch this video to learn how one vendor's storage virtualization solution gives you access to all of your resources from a single interface, significantly simplifies management and reduces the overall costs of your IT environment.

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 | Premiered: 16 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the application performance capability of the FabricCache QLE10000 Series Adapter in single-server and multi-server environment, enabling the acceleration of clustered and virtualized environments with a transparent, shared cache.

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 | Published: 30 Nov 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the advantages of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series adapters bringing transparent, shared caching to enterprise application environments. It combines a QLogic Fibre Channel adapter with intelligent caching to bring new levels of scalable application performance to existing SAN environments.

Posted: 25 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper outlines NetApp’s Clustered SAN systems ability to supply a compelling solution to meet current mission critical storage needs as well as future enterprise storage requirements.

Posted: 19 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

EZINE: IT professionals are redesigning their storage strategies and looking into new technologies to address this critical priority. This issue of Storage Magazine examines this emerging concept and the ways that organizations can incorporate it into their infrastructures through better capacity management and the use of shared storage and cloud backup.

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 | Published: 08 Apr 2013

VIDEO: This short clip reveals the use of IBMs XIV storage system and how it cost effectively provides robust SAP services to customers at blazing speeds.

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Premiered: 30 Jan 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this expert presentation transcript from SearchVirtualStorage.com, Howard Marks, chief scientist and founder of DeepStorage.net, discusses VMware SAN configuration issues that could cause problems in your virtualized environment.

Posted: 20 Mar 2013 | Published: 20 Mar 2013

WHITE PAPER: Storage systems today must match agility with proven, diversified I/O performance to satisfy an enterprise's changing needs. NetApp has benchmarked superior I/O performance in their FAS6240 Clustered SAN storage array, resulting in its ranking as Silverton Consulting's Enterprise OLTP Champion of Champions™ for 1Q-2013.

Posted: 14 Mar 2013 | Published: 28 Dec 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide explores top strategies and tools for successfully monitoring virtual machine (VM) performance. Included are details concerning why performance data retrieved from within the VM may not always be accurate, and how the right performance monitoring tool can resolve any discrepancy in performance numbers.

Posted: 05 Feb 2013 | Published: 05 Feb 2013

EGUIDE: This exclusive SearchStorage.com E-Guide takes a close and clear look at cloud storage and backup so you can arm yourself with the correct facts. Check it out now for a comparison of cloud backup, cloud storage and storage in the cloud, and learn how to differentiate between cloud backup, recovery and restore.

Posted: 05 Dec 2012 | Published: 05 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: Discover how implementing a Unified Fabric can reduce costs and improve the alignment of data center assets to better fulfill business requirements.

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 | Published: 18 Oct 2012

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide outlines best practices for building a cost-effective database infrastructure on SANs and how to ensure uptime in these Oracle, SAN environments. Read on to learn what it takes to deploy a scalable, efficient and cost-controlled database infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 | Published: 11 May 2011

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: SolarWinds® SAN Monitor for EMC® is a free desktop tool that gives you the visibility into your physical storage to make sure it's in good health and lets you quickly and easily monitor EMC CLARiiON® arrays with at-a-glance insight into storage.

Posted: 03 Aug 2012 | Premiered: 03 Aug 2012

WHITE PAPER: This short white paper explores the 4 key capabilities your organization needs to meet today's storage requirements, and how to seamlessly acquire them. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WEBCAST: Learn – in less than six minutes – about a cloud approach that can be labelled a “data centre without walls,” enabling a virtual capacity that is both distance-independent and dynamically scalable. View now to learn the cost- and productivity benefits this approach can offer your organisation.

Posted: 29 May 2012 | Premiered: May 29, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Explore how an advanced, host-based storage fabric solution can provide the highly scalable and available storage necessary to support Hyper-V private cloud or VDI deployments.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Discover how your organization can overcome many VDI storage-related challenges and maximize the return on your desktop virtualization project by leveraging shared storage. Explore the advantages this storage approach offers virtualized environments, and learn how you can easily enable shared storage.

Posted: 18 May 2012 | Published: 18 May 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Storage can cause many problems for VDI. Brian Madden discusses these challenges and also explores one potential solution - a primary storage appliance - and evaluates how it performs in this expert presentation transcript.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides insight into the key differences between virtualizing network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) architectures. Read on to discover which storage virtualization choice is right for your organization.

Posted: 01 May 2012 | Published: 26 Apr 2012