WEBCAST - Boston Medical Center details its decision process and successful implementation of Data Domain deduplication storage as well as the economic benefits received by going tapeless for backup and disaster recovery. Brad Blake, IT Director at Boston Medical Center, presented to an audience at Gartner's Data Center Conference.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Premiered: October 23, 2009


Topics:  SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware

EGUIDE - In this e-guide, storage networking experts and technologists spotlight the advancements that will have the most significant impact in storage networking to help you prepare for the future.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - At its most basic, file virtualization is about separating file data from restrictions in how it is accessed and manipulated. It can also ease things when it comes to migrating those storage systems. Read this presentation transcript to find out more about file virtualization.
Posted: October 16, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2009


Topics:  File Server Software | NAS | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Structured Data

WEBCAST - In this webcast, discover how application and desktop virtualization together with blade servers and SAN technology provide the most cost-effective virtual desktop tools for everyone in your organization. Gain insight into how to leverage this approach to simplify your IT systems while improving the productivity of your users.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Premiered: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Desktop Applications Management | Desktop Management | Desktop Virtualization | Desktop Virtualization Software | Microsoft Hyper-V | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Management | Systems Management

EGUIDE - This E-guide addresses configuration and change management in a partially virtual environment. Topics include: reporting on and managing virtual servers, the effects of physical changes on servers, how to extend change management processes like ITIL to cover the SAN, and handling human problems between the networking, datacenter, and storage teams.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Configuration Management | Hardware Configuration Management | ITIL | Network Configuration Management | Network Infrastructure | Network Management | Network Monitoring | Network Performance | SAN | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This report documents the results of ESG Lab testing of the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). The enhanced high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of asynchronous remote mirroring are also presented.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: December 22, 2008


Topics:  NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | eCommerce | SAN | Storage Management

WEBCAST - Businesses rely heavily on their servers, so if they fail productivity is lost. This expert webcast explores the dangers of unplanned server downtime. Discover some of the most important planning, configurations and management issues for server high availability.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Premiered: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Grid Computing | High Availability | Network Management | Network Performance | SAN | Server Hardware | Server Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions provide optimized storage for your virtualized server environment, allowing your storage infrastructure to support virtual servers, including support for high-availability (HA) and disaster-recovery (DR) features in virtual environments.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  High Availability | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | Storage Standards | Storage Virtualization

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - In recent years, server technology has taken an enormous leap forward, thanks to the incredible advances from Dell's engineering teams and Intel's introduction and evolution of Xeon® processors. No matter what IT challenges you are helping your customers to solve, you'll find the answer with Dell and Intel.
Posted: October 7, 2009 | Published: October 7, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Management | NAS | SAN | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | Tower Servers

CASE STUDY - Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | TCO | Tiered Storage

CASE STUDY - Read this case study to learn how one of India's leading financial services firms paved the way for continued growth and improved customer service by deploying Dell servers and a Dell SAN.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: December 24, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | ERP | Financial Services | Financial Services Industry | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure

CASE STUDY - Read this paper to learn how Precision Automation and Robotics India Ltd reduced server footprint by 50 percent and energy costs by 30 percent by implementing an infrastructure based Dell™ PowerEdge™ blades running virtualization and Dell/EMC SAN array.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: February 19, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

EGUIDE - This E-Guide will highlight the key considerations to be aware of when evaluating online backup solutions and will also highlight critical questions to ask vendors.
Posted: September 30, 2009 | Published: September 30, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Continuity Planning Software | Continuous Data Protection | NAS | Online Backup Software | Online Backups | SAN | SMBs | Storage Architectures | Storage Industry | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  RAID | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Devices | Storage Management | Storage Spending