Storage Consolidation Reports

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

EGUIDE: Have you ever wished that you could consolidate the management of file, content and block data onto one storage platform for incredible cost efficiency, simplified management and a real solution to your long-term data challenges? View this E-Guide to understand how to reduce your costs and simplify management of file, object and block data.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

EZINE: This article will discuss a variety of strategies such as data deduplication, tiering and so on that administrators can employ to reduce demands on the storage network. Also in this issue, real-life VM failover and DR testing techniques.

Posted: 01 Dec 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Server virtualization is becoming increasingly relevant as businesses recognize the need to consolidate their storage infrastructures for cost reduction and environmental responsibility. Storage managers need to balance the benefits of virtualization against the complexity it brings, download this e-guide to learn more!

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

EBOOK: Virtualization's abstraction of resources offers some compelling solutions for keeping around old equipment past its usefulness for primary workloads. In chapter 4 of this e-book, you'll learn smarter ways to deal with reallocating your unused server and storage hardware.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many organizations to recognize that capital and operating expenses for datacenters have become an increasing part of their budgets. Read this paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how to find ways to cope with an expanding storage infrastructure, as well as provide continuous access to data stored on reliable and secure media, meet stringent compliance regulations and create operational efficiency while simultaneously cutting costs.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

CASE STUDY: Southwestern/Great American chose to swap its dual environment (SAP ERP ran off of a legacy IBM AS/400) for a leaner infrastructure based on VMware ESX and IBM blade servers with Intel Xeon processors that could run both SAP ERP and its Windows applications. Read this case study to learn about the combined VMware and Intel solution.

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 | Published: 28 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: EMC has long been considered the leader in information management and storage solutions for companies of all sizes all over the world. And EMC backup, recovery, and archiving solutions are specifically designed to conquer midsize workloads and business challenges. Read this white paper to learn more about EMC midsize solutions.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Join Founder and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Jerome Wendt, as he answers the most common data deduplication questions he’s hearing today – including the technology’s  benefits, dedupe products to watch out for, target dedupe on a virtual tape library and more.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Oracle offers the most complete portfolio of end-to-end virtualisation solutions available today. Read this paper to learn more about the solutions that are available at every layer of the infrastructure - from operating system and resource virtualisation, to virtual machines and hard partitioning, to desktops and storage.

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Jun 2010

WEBCAST: As data growth and virtualization continue to change the IT paradigm, backup strategies must evolve to deliver even greater consolidation and value. This webcast will examine how virtualization changes backup, the benefits of deduplication, as well as EMC’s Avamar and Data Domain solutions and how they work in VMware environments.

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 | Premiered: Nov 19, 2009

WHITE PAPER: Oracle offers the most complete portfolio of end-to-end virtualization solutions available today. Read this paper to learn more about the solutions that are available at every layer of the infrastructure – from operating system and resource virtualization, to virtual machines and hard partitioning, to desktops and storage.

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 | Published: 25 Jun 2010

ANALYST REPORT: This DCIG analyst report will provide a detailed look at the benefits, primary role and implementation methods of data deduplication.

Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Access this presentation transcript, brought to you by SearchStorage.com, to develop a better understanding of data deduplication from one of the world’s leading experts on deduplication – W. Curtis Preston.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 10 Aug 2010

EVENT: Please join us at VMworld to learn how Isilon can simplify your storage environment and maximize your investment in virtualization.

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 | Published: 06 Aug 2010

EBOOK: Few organisations are willing to pay more for storage every year. Data reduction can get you off the treadmill by reducing the amount of data you need to store, backup and manage, and this e-book explains compression, data de-duplication, archiving and several other techniques to achieve this outcome.

Posted: 02 Aug 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a description of the benefits and performance of the latest Dell™ PowerEdge™ R810 running Microsoft® SQL Server® in VMware® vSphere™ 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic™ PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 23 Apr 2010

EBOOK: As health care providers collect increasing amounts of patient data, the burden on IT infrastructure only worsens. This SearchHealthIT.com e-book discusses server consolidation in a health care setting, moving apps and servers to virtualized platforms, desktop virtualization for health care, best practices for server virtualization, and more!

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: A RAID is a method of ganging up, so to speak, a bunch of disk drives, such that the availability and/or the performance is actually improved. Read this transcript for more basics of RAID.

Posted: 08 Jul 2010 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

CASE STUDY: Boston Medical Center (BMC) needed to find ways to lower its operational costs to work within smaller budgets despite exploding data volumes, a sprawling server farm and 6,000 desktop users who needed access to clinical applications for patient care. The hospital pursued a data center virtualization strategy after partnering with Dell.

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft® and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft Virtualisation and the Compellent® Storage Center SAN™ solution.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data deduplication offers companies the opportunity to dramatically reduce the amount of storage required for backups and to more efficiently centralize backup data from multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. This paper discusses Backup Exec 2010 which now includes integrated deduplication capabilities.

Posted: 25 Jun 2010 | Published: 24 Jun 2010