WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. It outlines requirements for a software platform for supporting such an architecture, and, as an example, reviews the BusinessObjects“ Data Services XI Release 3 platform.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Workgroups

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 - Bringing together innovative software, server, and storage platforms, the Sun and Infobright solution provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, highly scalable data warehouse with low total cost of ownership.
Posted: May 11, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management | Databases | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.
Posted: March 25, 2009 | Published: March 25, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Security | Data Storage | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Switches

WHITE PAPER - Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage.
Posted: March 18, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Flash Memory | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Replication | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is designed to provide continuous data protection for Windows-based servers, with additional features for business-specific Microsoft workloads such as SQL Server and SharePoint.
Posted: February 10, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Migration | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Storage Capacity | Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Downtime | Storage Capacity

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains the advantages that virtual machine provides to the IT department.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Departments | Memory | ROI | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Systems Management | Virtual Machine | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure enables end users or their hosting providers to provision and manage hundreds of individual, virtual desktops from a set of centrally administered, consolidated servers.
Posted: August 1, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Desktop Management | Remote Access Protocols | Remote Computing | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage administrators looking for higher levels of storage efficiency.
Posted: May 7, 2008 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Deployment | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Thin Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explores the limitations of tape and traditional disk-based approaches to disaster recovery. It highlights the advantages of deduplication technology in disk-to-disk backup and wide area network (WAN) replication. It also discusses the positive implications of deduplication for remote office backup and tape consolidation.
Posted: August 30, 2007 | Published: September 29, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Content Archiving | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups | WAN