WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

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

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

WHITE PAPER - One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: September 29, 2009


Topics:  RAID | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Devices | Storage Management | Storage Spending

WHITE PAPER - This technical note discusses how to configure deduplication for primary storage policy copies on the Dell PowerVault™ DL2000 magnetic library to achieve high performance.
Posted: August 12, 2009 | Published: August 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Databases | Disk Storage Systems | Storage Appliances | Storage Best Practices | Storage Devices | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.
Posted: August 12, 2009 | Published: June 9, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Data Center Consolidation | Ethernet Adapters | Fibre Channel | iSCSI Protocol | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Devices | Storage Virtualization | TCO | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3

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 - As USB devices have evolved into useful storage media, they've also turned into a security nightmare for organizations. Read how to embrace this technology to aid in the reduction of operating costs and effectively protect data by enforcing removable device usage policies.
Posted: March 11, 2009 | Published: March 11, 2009


Topics:  Data Encryption | Data Encryption Software | Network Security Software | Security Management | Security Threats | Storage Devices | Storage Media | Storage Security

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 paper discusses the use of industry standard servers, with an abundance of CPU and memory as storage controllers by leveraging industry standard hardware and general purpose software to create a high performance storage architecture.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | RAID | Storage Devices | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the impact of de-duplication in a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and recovery environment.
Posted: June 9, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Visualization | Disaster Recovery | Storage Appliances | Storage Devices | Tape Backups | TCO