Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers Reports

EGUIDE: IT shops looking to consolidate their data centers and virtualize servers have to weigh the latest storage networking technology developments as they plot any infrastructure upgrade. This SearchStorage.com E-Guide explores the current state of data storage networking infrastructure before you make an upgrade.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 25 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights several new features within EMC® Avamar® 6.0 that specifically target and greatly advance the capabilities and performance of VMware® data protection.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines and quantifies the costs and benefits of deduplication in VMware environments. Three detailed case studies from organizations in different industries are presented.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WEBCAST: In this informative webcast, VP and GM of Dell Storage Darren Thomas discusses Dell’s enterprise storage strategy which delivers the latest technologies and capabilities while focusing on cost reduction and ease of use

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 | Premiered: Apr 7, 2012

WHITE PAPER: While maintaining high availability is critical in every business to avoid downtime and keep systems running smoothly, it can be very costly. This white paper introduces a new, automated storage solution that offers a cost-effective alternative approach to ensuring high availability and business continuity.

Posted: 06 Apr 2012 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: At Dell Storage Forum 2011, SearchStorage.com spoke with Dell storage vice president Darren Thomas. Check out this expert E-Guide to learn Dell Storage VP Darren Thomas’s take on scale-out NAS, data reduction, 3PAR and EMC. Also learn why Dell’s data storage plans are piquing customer interest.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide can help by outlining the 5 most common mistakes made when backing up VMs and how to avoid them.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide to discover the features associated with vSphere 5, and specifically discover two functions designed to help you get a better handle on resource utilization in the face of today's data massive growth. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: In this E-Guide you'll receive an introduction to software-only storage, a VM-based shared storage solution that can help you significantly cut down on costs and management headaches. Learn how this technology functions, discover the impact that software-only storage has on other data center processes and more.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Oracle offers the broadest and most integrated portfolio of products to help you acquire and organize these diverse data types and analyze them alongside your existing data to find new insights and capitalize on hidden relationships. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation from Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth, dive into one of the most divisive topics in desktop virtualization today - storage for VDI. Discover the pros and cons of various storage implementations and how to decide which is the right solution for your organization.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide for 5 top tips to help you start overcoming performance issues and bottlenecks in your virtual environment today. Learn how to better manage your storage workloads, discover best practices to help you better utilise storage space, learn how to avoid unnecessary I/O operations and more.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: As businesses undertake virtualisation of their datacentres to consolidate servers, reducing administrative tasks and costs in the bargain, they may run into many unexpected challenges with networking, storage and server hardware. In this expert buyer's guide, discover how to overcome the trickiest virtualisation challenges.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: VDI isn’t a cure-all for desktop management problems, though many desktop virtualization vendors would have you think so. In this eguide, our team of experts identify and debunk the top 5 VDI myths out there and offer tips for calculating proper storage for VDI.

Posted: 29 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: As larger and more powerful servers are virtualized, many I/O issues can arise such as throughput congestion and preserving latency. This white paper introduces new technologies that aim at mitigating these challenges by utilizing platform hardware capabilities and better managing the allocation of storage I/O resources.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Sep 2011

EGUIDE: Get expert tips for the most cost-effective and efficient ways to allocate and configure your SAN storage for VDI environments in this e-guide.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this Tolly Test Report and how the HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System powered by Intel® Xeon® processors not only integrates with existing Microsoft, Unix, and Linux applications using CIFS and/or NFS, but also enables high-speed connectivity to a host of virtualization platforms, database applications, backup applications and more.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this tip guide for 5 best practices to better manage your virtual servers. In this guide you'll learn how to better balance your storage workload, understand the differences between storage for virtualized servers and desktops, learn how to utilize thin provisioning, improve storage utilization and more.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Though businesses have begun virtualizing their non-mission critical applications, major storage challenges have stood in the way of enterprises virtualizing their critical production applications. Find out how block storage solutions tailor-made for virtual infrastructures addresses these issues.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Holtsville, New York-based CARCO Group Inc. and its three divisions provide investigative, fraud detection, and risk mitigation services to large corporations, producing more than two million reports each year. This case study explores how CARCO deployed NetApp unified storage to support their virtualized infrastructure and file workloads.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automated storage tiering has become the must-have feature for all new storage arrays over the last two years. This presentation transcript discusses the ins and outs of automated storage tiering, and the 4 key ways it can boost your data center efficiency.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Bring efficiency and lasting value to your high-end computing environment with the Dell PowerEdge C6105. This AMD processor-based server offers exceptional work-per-watt performance for scale-out Web 2.0 environments, hosters and cloud builders.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Get fast answers to tough problems with the PowerEdge C6145; the only server in its class with two four-socket AMD Opteron 6100 processor-based servers in 2U. Featuring up to 96 cores, up to 1TB memory and up to 40Gbps I/O per card, it helps satisfy your need for speed and efficiency.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011