TRIAL SOFTWARE - In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be achieved with an adequate amount of properly allocated resource capacity. Not allocating enough resources can cause critical bottlenecks - leading to performance problems and costly downtime events.
Posted: January 9, 2009 | Published: January 9, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - This white paper examines data deduplication technologies supported by the latest Storage Solutions from HP. Data deduplication is a hot topic in data protection and therefore, also a relevant topic for HP Data Protector software.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Deduplication | Data Security | Disaster Recovery | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | NAS | Storage Consolidation | Storage Provisioning | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Visualization | Enterprise Resource Management | Linux | Memory | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

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 - VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

MICROSITE - The Enterprise SSD Information Center includes independent expert advice from industry analysts, Fusion-IO content for the enterprise and a special video exploring the use of SSD in the enterprise. Learn how Fusion-IO's SSD Solutions can improve your company's bottom line today.
Posted: March 19, 2008 | Published: March 19, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor

PODCAST - In this expert Podcast, Nik Simpson, analyst with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world.
Posted: November 30, 2007 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Spending

WHITE PAPER - It is critical that SQL Server environments are well protected and maintain integrity. This white paper highlights how iSCSI SAN solutions can simplify management and protect this data, while retaining flexibility in SQL Server environments.
Posted: September 20, 2007 | Published: September 20, 2007


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | iSCSI SAN | Relational Database Management Software | Remote Backups | SQL Server | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups

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