ASSESSMENT TOOL - Use this calculator to determine the potential storage cost savings your company could realize by implementing the F5 ARX solution. Just answer a few simple questions about your environment to get a three-year savings analysis. Make sure you review the Case Studies to learn how other companies have reduced their storage costs by 50% or more.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 17, 2009


Topics:  NAS | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Spending | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - "Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Spending | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

TRIAL SOFTWARE - F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 14, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Administration | Database Management | Network Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - A robust enterprise cloud should not be focused myopically on CPUs, memory, disks, and a range of IP addressees. Businesses instead should include the nine attributes presented in this paper when formulating an enterprise cloud platform strategy.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Enterprise | Storage Industry | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blue print or a starting configuration, for designing Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 storage in a virtualized server environment using Dell™ EqualLogic™ arrays.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | Microsoft Exchange | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

EGUIDE - Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for wellheeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: October 28, 2009


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Coupling NetApp’s SnapMirror and SnapVault technology with Syncsort’s BEX software has created an integrated disk-based solution for data protection and disaster recovery of mission-critical digital assets. Within minutes of an outage or disaster, applications, databases and users can be accessing data and resuming business.
Posted: October 27, 2009 | Published: January 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

DATA SHEET - Fast backup. Instant recovery. Superior data protection for physical and virtual environments. BEX Delivers excellent value for the lowest total cost of ownership. Read this data sheet for the specifics and benefits of BEX 3.1.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.
Posted: October 20, 2009 | Published: October 20, 2009


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - Massive data growth and long retention periods of fixed-content data is changing the landscape of enterprise data storage and is challenging storage administrators to deliver a cost effective storage strategy. A Storage Resource Management [SRM] tool can help manage the flow/volume of data.
Posted: October 16, 2009 | Published: October 16, 2009


Topics:  Data Deduplication | Data Replication | Data Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Devices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

ANALYST REPORT - ISVs eager to unlock the potential of cloud technology have latched onto APIs that allow them to integrate cloud technology with their own applications. Ultimate success depends on choosing the right cloud storage provider. Read this Opinion Paper from the Taneja Group to learn more.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Electronic Discovery | Electronic Discovery Software | Information Management | Information Security | ISVs | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - Cloud storage is a rapidly growing technology. Read this paper for the latest definitions of cloud storage and cloud service and to more closely examine cloud storage benefits and offerings.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | Software as a Service | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This E-Guide explores server virtualization and its impacts on storage. Learn more about the dynamic nature of virtualized environments and the overall state of adoption, performance spectrum, benefits, and challenges.
Posted: October 9, 2009 | Published: October 9, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - Organizations are often challenged by the need for a “mixed” data protection strategy that includes VCB or esXpress, agent-based backups of VMs, and backups of non-VMware systems. Quantum provides a broad portfolio of highly scalable disk and tape solutions designed to meet the data protection needs of any VMware environment.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: October 8, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Disk Backups | Disk Drive Controllers | Disk Drives | Disk Mirroring | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Standards | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why.
Posted: October 8, 2009 | Published: March 18, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | Storage Media | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries