SAN Reports

EZINE: Volume 8 of the Exchange Insider e-zine compares available Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) editions and then gives instructions for deploying BES Express for Exchange 2010. You’ll also get an overview of configuring Exchange Server 2010 for BES and some device management best practices to make sure all your clients remain in peak condition.

Posted: 08 Feb 2011 | Published: 08 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

WEBCAST: Join Scott Lowe, VMware-Cisco Solutions Principal for EMC and Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, as they provide insights as to how a comprehensive view, from the VM to the LUN, is imperative for further consolidation and safe Physical to Virtual migrations of your Tier 1 applications.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Premiered: Jan 31, 2011

EZINE: In this month’s e-zine discover several ideas on how to move virtualisation up on the priority list for your organisation. Also learn what you need to consider when planning storage in virtualised environments, and receive step-by-step instructions on how to import a virtual machine with the open virtualisation format (OVF) tool.

Posted: 17 Jan 2011 | Published: 17 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: Read this E-guide to learn more about the regulations involved in storing health data, how a SAN can improve data archiving and how to weigh the pro's and con's to achieve the most efficient data archiving strategy for your organization.

Posted: 12 Jan 2011 | Published: 05 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: When it comes to choosing a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, questions about performance, ease-of-use and cost are sure to come up. This technical brief reviews key differences to consider between Ethernet SAN and Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure when choosing a storage solution for your next virtual server or cloud storage project.

Posted: 10 Jan 2011 | Published: 07 Jan 2011

EGUIDE: Managing, organizing, and storing data can be a difficult task. Storage managers have, in recent years, turned to SRM tools to aid them in these tasks; however, recent data has shown that these tools have failed to meet the high demands of today’s data growth. Read on to learn more about the SRM landscape and how they struggle to meet demands.

Posted: 22 Dec 2010 | Published: 22 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Recent technology improvements aiding the success of tiered storage include new solid-state disks (SSDs), improved Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and more efficient data movement, classification and quality of service (QoS) software. Continue reading this tutorial to learn more.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Steve Kenniston and Daniel Gill are going to talk about extraordinary storage efficiency with IBM Real-Time Compression.

Posted: 17 Dec 2010 | Published: 17 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

CASE STUDY: IDS Scheer made the strategic decision to virtualize the server and storage infrastructure, using VMware vSphere on IBM System x3850 M2 servers, and introducing IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller (SVC) to manage its IBM storage devices. The result has been a dramatic simplification of the technology infrastructure.

Posted: 03 Dec 2010 | Published: 03 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

WHITE PAPER: Some iSCSI vendors bring complex multi-node failover mechanisms and more to the table, complicating head-to-head comparisons. In this report Taneja Group sets out to examine Dell’s differentiation in the midst of a crowded and rapidly growing field.

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: With the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more!

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: This searchstorage.co.uk eguide is comprised of the best and most read expert articles. Read this brief guide to find out how to avoid the common pitfalls of  storage planning and how you can prepare your business for 2011.

Posted: 23 Nov 2010 | Published: 23 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: This paper examines how health care CIOs are burdened by small data centers that are difficult to expand, yet they need to accommodate growing amounts of data. Virtualization may be the answer.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 | Published: 19 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

BOOK: This IBM® Redbooks® publication is a detailed technical guide to the IBM System Storage™ SVC, a virtualization appliance solution that maps virtualized volumes that are visible to hosts and applications to physical volumes on storage devices. Continue reading to learn how to implement the SVC at a 5.1.0 release level with a minimum of effort.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: It’s a fact: Information–both its availability and accessibility–is critical for the success of any business in a 21st Century economy. Yet most IT organizations are not organized around information, but around infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications. We are entering perilous times for data. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com provides you with a data protection and recovery checklist to help your organization overcome these challenges. Also, learn about various backup methods for virtual machines and discover risk factors associated with each approach.

Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Do you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010

CASE STUDY: In order to eliminate its storage I/O bottleneck, SparkPeople redeployed three databases on a new Dell/EMC storage array along with Dell PowerEdge servers to host Web applications. Access this case study now to learn more about this about transition and the benefits achieved.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010