Storage Provisioning Reports

WHITE PAPER: This guide provides an overview of the specific reasons customers choose to deploy Microsoft applications with VMware vSphere Essentials on EMC's VNXe storage solution.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) technology and describes its features and implementation.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: With the pressure and exposure of major international tournaments, Tennis Australia had a compelling need for reliable, easy-to-manage storage that could scale quickly. IBM served up their XIV Storage System, which dramatically reduced downtime, cut costs, and simplified storage management. Read this case study for more.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: In this case study, learn about Xtium's upgrade to Dell EqualLogic Firmware 5.0 which enabled the use of thin clones—thin-provisioned, writeable copies of data volumes—and leveraged direct integration with their VMware vSphere 4.1 environment with vStorage APIs.

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

ANALYST REPORT: In today’s challenging business environment a more highly optimized approach to IT sprawl is required and reducing storage complexity is a major hurdle. EMC’s new VNXe series storage system in conjunction with the company’s Unisphere storage management are designed to improve “usability” in storage solutions for SMBs.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Not since the advent of the Internet has a technological concept achieved more attention than cloud computing. AMD’s server platform technology is uniquely tuned to address critical government requirements for reducing costs, simplifying operations and raising energy efficiency in server price/performance. 

Posted: 25 Jan 2011 | Published: 25 Jan 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: The following report contains answers to 5 crucial data center questions posed by Hitachi Data Systems to Benjamin S. Woo, program vice president of IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems research, on behalf of Hitachi Data Systems' customers.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 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: Backing up virtual machines is tougher than you think; and the fact of the matter is it’s not a straightforward process! This guide will walk you through how to determine which method is best for your storage requirement.

Posted: 06 Dec 2010 | Published: 06 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: 76 of the Fortune 100 trust their data to Hitachi Data Systems, shouldn’t you? The following e-guide showcases how easy it can be to implement virtualization, tiered storage and software to deliver significant economic benefits to the organization.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Provisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: To solve the dilemma of meeting both data growth and budgetary ultimatums, IT must be agile. This paper examines the four rubrics of data center transformation: virtualization, automation, cloud-readiness and sustainability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: To adeptly meet new business conditions and reduce total cost of ownership, Overstock.com recently implemented a virtualized, multitiered storage solution. Read this case study to learn about the dramatic cost reductions and operational efficiencies Overstock.com has realized.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: Getronics, a computer service company, needed to decrease the amount of time it took to build new hosted services for their clients. Read this case study to see how IBM helped reduce implementation times for new services from four weeks to just a few hours.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of a brief demo and video where Mike Laverick covers: Templates, thin virtual disks, how to create new virtual machines with vSphere, as well as how to make a virtual disk be thin-provisioned.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010

DATA SHEET: Oracle Solaris ZFS offers a dramatic advance in data management with an innovative approach to data integrity, near-zero administration, and a welcome integration of file system and volume management capabilities. Read this data sheet to learn more!

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 | Published: 26 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT professionals are increasingly responsible for doing more than just provisioning servers and maintaining applications – they are core players in the risk management process. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 19 Aug 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Because SSD storage is expensive, organizations want to be sure of its benefits before making an investment. Read this article to learn if SSD storage and automated tiering are right for you.

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | Published: 03 Mar 2010

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: To realize the full benefits of vSphere, you need networked storage. And when it comes to virtualized servers, iSCSI is viewed as the top choice over Fibre Channel. In this month's cover story, Eric Siebert goes under the hood of VMware vSphere to show you how to make iSCSI work for virtual machines plus other essential and informative articles.

Posted: 06 Aug 2010 | Published: 06 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 01 May 2009

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

ANALYST REPORT: This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

EBOOK: Chapter 4 of the Advanced Virtualization e-book will examine the nuances of virtual storage, including provisioning, performance and remote storage methods that help ensure you allocate the right amount of storage - at the right performance level - for each application.

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Gain insight from industry analyst Tony Asaro on how enterprises can efficiently maintain costs, reduce risk and optimize systems when implementing a data center move or migration.

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010