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 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 - This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Networking | Data Centers | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the innovative architecture that SEPATON has designed specifically to meet the data protection challenges of data-intensive enterprises while achieving optimal cost savings and measurable ROI.
Posted: May 20, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Management | ROI | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

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 - This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise.
Posted: April 22, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2008


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Regulatory Compliance | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | Vendors | VMware

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 - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: March 14, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2008


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

WHITE PAPER - The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | High Availability | RAID | Storage Devices | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VM

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

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

WHITE PAPER - This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible.
Posted: May 8, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Enterprise | SAN | Server Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management | Workstations

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