June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This presentation identifies just what aspects of performance are or are not critical to the successful deployment of these storage network technologies.
May 20, 2009 - (Free Research) In this webcast you'll hear from Falconstor Software's Product Marketing Manager , Peter Eichers, as he discusses Falconstor storage virtualization solutions.
December 30, 2008 - (Free Research) Miercom awarded Cisco MDS with 'Rated Best' for Reliability and Non-Blocking Performance in the Director Class Storage Area Networks Switch Industry Assessment. This paper explains the features Cisco MDS has that led to that award.
May 13, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.
May 28, 2009 - (Free Research) 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...
April 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper examines the performance considerations of placing Oracle Databases on enterprise flash drives versus conventional hard disk drives, as well as discusses the best practices for placing partial database contain-ers on flash drives.
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) With ever-growing capacity, storage managers are struggling to ensure that their installed disk capacity is being used as effectively and efficiently as possible. By pooling capacity from disparate storage systems, storage virtualization can help control spiraling growth while easing storage provisioning and management.
January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Virtual Instruments NetWisdom solution is a Fibre Channel performance monitoring tool for SANs that helps organizations simplify SAN administration and ensure that SAN performance and availability are optimized. Read this Butler Group technology audit to discover the advantages of NetWisdom, explore core functionality, and learn about deployment.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The existing storage solution at Eternit (Schweiz) AG, was unable to meet the
growing needs of the organization. The company wanted a solution that was scalable, cost efficient and easy to use. Read this case study to find out how Dell was able to assist with these goals.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this case study to see how Dell teamed up with Mc Allen Independent School District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%.
March 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Data storage management is a multifaceted process that is always changing. In this tutorial on SMB storage management, learn about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead.
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May 04, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this data sheet to explore the advantages of the Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom family of products for optimizing your virtual IT infrastructure or large Fibre Channel SAN.
March 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Companies around the globe are recognizing that a green initiative is not only good for the environment, it's good for the bottom line. Call it green or sound business practice, for IT the mission remains the same: lower infrastructure consumption and increase efficiency.
March 18, 2009 - (Free Research) In this video EMC's Tanya Loughlin, of Celerra product marketing, explains EMC's newest unified storage platform. The new Celerra NX4 features industry-leading price and performance, ease of deployment, and no-compromise availability.
November 2007 - (Free Research) IDC believes that thin provisioning is a powerful enabling technology with significant benefits to offer storage administrators looking for higher levels of storage efficiency.
June 2008 - (Free Research) In the summer of 2008, Dell commissioned a study by Forrester Research to determine the current state of iSCSI adoption, the applications that it is commonly used for, drivers for adoption, experience of adoptors, and attitudes of those who have not yet adopted the protocol. Read the fascinating findings here.
January 2009 - (Free Research) Forrester surveyed 124 of its global clients on storage for virtual server environments. For IT professionals who will either upgrade or deploy a new storage environment to support server virtualization, this report gives an overview of those survey reports, tells what firms have done in the past, and gives key Forrester recommendations.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Do more with less! In today's economic climate, businesses need to find ways to improve agility, deliver business continuance, improve availability and reduce operational costs.
September 2008 - (Free Research) To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores
this setup and configuration.