ANALYST REPORT - Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  NAS | SLA | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This ESG White Paper discusses the importance of tiered storage, examines BlueArc's approach to intelligent tiering, and shows how it creates operational value for users' data storage infrastructures.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Migration | Data Storage | IT Managers | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: July 2, 2009


Topics:  Caching | Data Migration | Data Replication | Data Security | FPGA | High Availability | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage | Virtual Machine

EBOOK - This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

EBOOK - This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators.
Posted: June 15, 2009 | Published: April 15, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Cooling Capacity | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Service Creation | Service Creation Tools | Storage Architectures | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure

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

CASE STUDY - An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.
Posted: June 1, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Clustering | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | Storage Architectures | Storage Infrastructure | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

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

CASE STUDY - Llog Exploration Company brought in Fusion-io's ioDrive Solid-state Storage devices to see how much time the new devices would save using their existing 32-bit Seismic Micro-Technology KINGDOM geosciences workflow application on their network. The result?
Posted: March 18, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Recovery | Data Storage | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Replication | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: March 16, 2009 | Published: February 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Storage | Grid Computing | Oracle (Product) | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems

RESOURCE CENTER - Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.
Posted: November 30, 2006 | Published: November 30, 2006


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Hardware | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Spending | Storage Systems