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 Sun BluePrints™ article demonstrates how to design tiered storage systems to meet specific RAS and data access requirements.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Databases | Enterprise | Hardware | OLTP | RAID | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Read this document to find out how your company can take advantage of iSCSI storage.
Posted: November 25, 2008 | Published: November 25, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems | VMware

WHITE PAPER - An understanding of the 9 types of cooling systems and their attributes can be used to develop guidelines for when each type should be used, and such guidelines are provided in this paper for both raised floor and hard floor applications.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Managers | LAN | Storage Systems | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Management | Storage Systems | TCO | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - In this session, you'll learn what every storage pro needs to know about how new legal requirements regarding electronically stored information affect the storage systems they manage.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Electronic Discovery | Regulatory Compliance | Storage Systems | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - Primary Storage Optimization (PSO) technologies keep storage capacity requirements as low as possible and guarantee zero impact on application performance.
Posted: November 21, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Hardware | ROI | SSO | Storage Capacity | Storage Management Services | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER De-duplication Gateway based on innovative Diligent ProtecTIER technology was designed to meet the data protection needs of midrange and enterprise-class data centers.
Posted: November 20, 2008 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Management | Enterprise | Information Security | Purchasing | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how Sun is leading the open storage revolution, combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 19, 2008


Topics:  High Performance Computing | Linux | Open Source Software | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Hardware | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware | Windows

WHITE PAPER - HP and VMware have the technology and services you need to put virtualization to work to consolidate your IT environment in a manner that reduces costs, simplifies your IT environment and increases business agility.
Posted: November 19, 2008 | Published: November 18, 2008


Topics:  IT Service Management | Networking | SAN | Storage Systems | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper presents the power consumption characteristics of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Data Storage | Disk Drives | SAN | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Ocarina Optimizer and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile.
Posted: November 13, 2008 | Published: November 13, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Warehouses | NAS | SAN | Storage Systems | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

WHITE PAPER - Organizations tend to create a great amount of similar data and deduplication makes it easier to manage this data when they do. Read this white paper to learn about deduplication and how you can use it as a fundamental tool in your storage architecture.
Posted: November 6, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Data Protection | Databases | Email Archiving | NAS | Storage | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - Learn how Dot Hill has developed a provider for the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) which can greatly improve backup management processes for Microsoft Exchange environments.
Posted: October 21, 2008 | Published: October 21, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Microsoft Exchange | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how Thin Provisioning works and what benefits it delivers as well as the facts that need to be taken into account for a successful implementation.
Posted: October 14, 2008 | Published: October 14, 2008


Topics:  Databases | NAS | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Vendors