September 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Discussions with customers and research into vendor offerings are the basis of this white paper. It prescribes a customer transformation roadmap, profiles two customers’ information infrastructure journeys, and provides an analysis of IBM’s and EMC’s associated visions and strategies.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Unified storage is one of the technologies that IT managers are using to improve their storage efficiency as well as to improve business flexibility and lower the total cost of storage. Read this IDC report to learn about the features and business benefits of unified storage as well as the EMC Celerra unified storage platform.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This document provides a detailed overview of using EMC Celerra with VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere is an infrastructure virtualization suite that provides virtualization, management, resource optimization, application availability, and operational automation capabilities in an integrated package.
May 07, 2010 - (Free Research) This technical white paper takes an in-depth look at data deduplication. Read on to develop a better understanding of what this technology does, how it does it, and why it is becomes such a popular tool among organizations looking to manage storage more efficiently.
July 28, 2010 - (Free Research) Effective provisioning means not only working with an identity and access management provider and its product, but it is also about business process, effective communication and phased implementation.
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.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper covers the benefits provided by Virtual Provisioning™ for the EMC® unified storage platforms. This paper focuses on the Virtual Provisioning functionality at several levels including file systems, iSCSI LUNs, and CLARiiON® thin pools.
March 2010 - (Free Research) Data growth is one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities - facing organizations today. Those that learn to leverage the explosion of important new information sources can gain dramatic competitive advantage as others lag.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech’s ICON Manager interface with Virtual View eliminates the complexity and guesswork from provisioning and managing storage. Access this paper now to get an in-depth look at this technology.
April 2010 - (Free Research) QSystem Monitor’s (QSM) real-time DASD growth monitoring capabilities are ideal for combating problems in sudden storage growth. Learn more about CCSS solutions for detecting and preventing DASD growth with these examples.
May 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper defines six types of replication and looks at the advantages and drawbacks of each. It also provides an overview of factors (such as protocol and total cost of ownership) that should be taken into account when developing a replication strategy.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Join Senior Analyst from ESG, Terri McClure as she discusses why data storage is a top priority when it comes to optimizing the IT environment and how a combination of file virtualization and deduplication storage can address the financial and operational challenges created by data growth.
February 2009 - (Free Research) IBM recognizes the need to not only consolidate data center storage, but also to reduce the amount of array capacity required to store multiple copies of business-critical information. Read this article for information on how data center storage issues can be addressed using innovations such as data deduplication.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Join Senior Analyst from ESG, Terri McClure as she discusses why data storage is a top priority when it comes to optimizing the IT environment and how a combination of file virtualization and deduplication storage can address the financial and operational challenges created by data growth.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Join Senior Analyst from ESG, Terri McClure as she discusses why data storage is a top priority when it comes to optimizing the IT environment and how a combination of file virtualization and deduplication storage can address the financial and operational challenges created by data growth.
November 2009 - (Free Research) VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more.
August 2010 - (Free Research) The virtual server environment has clearly changed the data storage management tools landscape. For all the benefits virtualization brings, it also complicates the processes of planning and provisioning storage networks. Read this feature to learn more about data storage management and new market tools for a virtualized server environment.
May 2010 - (Free Research) Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Read this transcript to learn best practices for improving storage management and how to better control NAS data storage systems via data classification, tiering techniques and more.
July 2010 - (Free Research) 3PAR's next generation of thin technologies can save you up to 60% on the cost of a technology refresh, then help keep your storage costs low over time. Read this white paper now to learn more about 3PAR’s Thin Technologies, including: Thin Provisioning, Thin Conversion, Thin Persistence and Thin Copy Reclamation.
July 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this new program and hear experts reveal proven approaches to help you build a more efficient data center. Learn about three storage technologies that will help you cut power and cooling costs and reduce your overall number of disk drives.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Widely known as a thin storage pioneer, 3PAR® is not just a leader in thin provisioning but in overall storage efficiency—including minimizing power consumption, reducing administration time, and promoting environmental responsibility.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Check out this podcast to learn how VMware and Dell are leveraging VMware vStorage with the Dell EqualLogic PS Series SANs for greater virtual server performance and more efficient management.