WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.
Posted: September 10, 2009 | Published: September 10, 2009


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - You probably think it couldn't happen to you, but disastrous events occur more often than not. Perhaps not a hurricane or earthquake or malicious attack, but there are potential risks for every business. Developing a solid data-recovery plan can keep your business up and running in the event of a disaster or other unfortunate event.
Posted: September 8, 2009 | Published: September 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Malware | Security Threats | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Security

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the challenges and drawbacks of in-the-cloud storage, addressing such issues as control, security, compliance, data availability, and overall management. It also shows how storage can work within a private or internal cloud framework.
Posted: August 31, 2009 | Published: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Published: August 13, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Management | Clustering | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | NAS | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Operating Equipment Efficiency or Effectiveness (OEE) | Operating System Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper outlines the new capabilities and performance enhancements that NetApp / IBM N series clients can now realize with TSM 6.1 in two key enterprise backup and restore scenarios for network data storage.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mirroring | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center.
Posted: June 23, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | IT Managers | RPO | RTO | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.
Posted: June 10, 2009 | Published: June 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - In this solution brief learn how the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series can provide a fully virtualized storage infrastructure that delivers high availability, resiliency, flexibility, and scalability that is simple and cost-effective to deploy, manage and grow.
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: November 3, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | Performance Testing | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
Posted: June 9, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise Architectures | High Availability | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices

WHITE PAPER - In this research paper you'll learn about the top challenges facing storage professionals in Europe and information about Data Domain deduplication storage systems.
Posted: May 30, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This TIP research paper delivers findings from over 245 in-depth interviews with Storage professionals at large enterprises, most of them among the Fortune 1000. Read on to learn about the top Storage team challenges and initiatives, current state of deduplication environments and solutions, and much more.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: May 8, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Continuous Data Protection | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Microsoft Exchange | NAS | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

WHITE PAPER - Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies.
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Published: March 27, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Database Management | Database Management Software | Database Security | Documentation | Personal Information Management Software | Regulatory Compliance | Security Standards | SQL Server | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management Software