PODCAST - Traditionally, NAS systems have had limitations in throughput, connectivity, reliability and scalability. Today, a new generation of high-performance NAS is making high-availability for NAS a reality. In this expert podcast, find out about the latest trends in clustered NAS and what it means for storage pros facing increasing data storage growth.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Premiered: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Software | Clustering | Distributed Computing | High Availability | High Performance Computing | NAS Software | Network Management | Networking | Storage Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This quick start guide shows how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and hosts on the Solaris™ Operating System for Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Oracle (Product) | Solaris | Storage Hardware | Storage Systems

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Performance Testing | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WEBCAST - In this Mediacast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: April 15, 2009


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Spending | Storage Systems

PODCAST - In this podcast, you'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD technologies and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver fast, simple, innovative new tools for storage management.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Premiered: April 15, 2009


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Spending

EGUIDE - Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for well-heeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.
Posted: November 9, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD - The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 29, 2009


Topics:  Performance Testing | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

EGUIDE - Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for wellheeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

EBOOK - How can you develop the optimal hardware strategy for maximum performance of your SAP environment? This eBook includes tips and insight from server, storage, virtualization and SAP software pros that will help you get the most out of your SAP enterprise software.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Database Server Software | Databases | Memory | Memory Management | SAP (Product) | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Appliances | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

PODCAST - Disk offers significant management and performance benefits over tape-based storage systems. Now, with advances in virtualization and deduplication, disk-only storage is also less expensive than tape. This podcast explores a real-world example of an organization going tapeless and outlines the processes required and the resulting benefits.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Premiered: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | Storage Management | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Best Practices | Data Recovery | Exchange Virtualization | Microsoft Exchange | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Hardware | VMware ESX

DATA SHEET - This data sheet highlights the features and benefits of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server, a storage product highly optimized for use with Oracle Database.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Database Management | Database Server Software | Databases | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware