WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Network Performance | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

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 - The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
Posted: August 14, 2009 | Published: August 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Fibre Channel SAN | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - In this presentation transcript, Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system.
Posted: August 4, 2009 | Published: August 3, 2009


Topics:  Backups | NAS | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This solution brief discusses 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: July 9, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | Infrastructure Management | SAN | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

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 - This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: April 2, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | High Availability | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Performance Testing | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

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 white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
Posted: May 5, 2009 | Published: April 30, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Databases | SAN | SQL | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite delivers financial returns in three ways: by improving utilization of existing resources, by reducing the pace of hardware investment and by reducing the need for administrative intervention in data management. This paper provides details on these three benefits and how this storage solution can benefit your organization.
Posted: April 10, 2009 | Published: December 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | NAS | RAID | ROI | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - With read/write speeds that are very close to most expensive models in the industry, the ioDrive's price/performance ratio will leave you saying, "WOW!" Read this white paper for more information on this paradigm-shifting data storage appliance.
Posted: March 20, 2009 | Published: March 20, 2009


Topics:  Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Management