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

VIDEO - This Videocast presents the idea and strategies of Open Storage and the key benefits it delivers to storage architectures. Learn more about Open Storage and how it can help your organization build a highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage system.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Premiered: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Green Storage | Open Source Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: May 27, 2009


Topics:  Backups | CIOs | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Economic Environment | Green Data Center | Green Storage | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | TCO

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

EZINE - A trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...
Posted: May 28, 2009 | Published: May 28, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Deduplication | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | RAID | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Media

VIDEO - Watch this videocast to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.
Posted: May 27, 2009 | Premiered: May 27, 2009


Topics:  Backups | CIOs | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Economic Environment | Green Data Center | Green Storage | High Availability | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | TCO

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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript explores the primary technological differences inherent in the various forms of data deduplication currently available.
Posted: May 6, 2009 | Published: January 28, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Remote Computing | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

WEBCAST - BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.
Posted: April 24, 2009 | Premiered: April 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Service Management | Capacity Planning | Data Management | Data Storage | IT Service Management | IT Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Management

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript highlights a solution that helps eliminate wasteful data and creates a more efficient storage infrastructure by reclaiming crucial storage space.
Posted: March 27, 2009 | Published: February 25, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management

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

EBOOK - Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment.
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Published: March 19, 2009


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

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