January 29, 2010 - (Free Research) Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control.
August 10, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper examines a new approach to improving application performance, which is capable of delivering millions of IOPS and tens of GB/s throughput and allows capacity and performance to scale independently. Read on to learn about this cost effective, easy to use approach to dramatically improving application performance.
July 23, 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.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions is based on Xiotech’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology and proven virtualized, distributed cluster architecture. Read this white paper now to learn about the Emprise 7000 family in detail and the many benefits available.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech's Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE) technology and provides a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability that delivers the lowest total cost of ownership of any SAN or SAN-like storage system on the market.
May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) RAID has been a mainstay of data protection for decades, but now its days may soon be numbered. In the May 2010 cover story of Storage magazine, Marc Staimer details the various issues of traditional RAID today and highlights how alternative technologies aim to address these problems. More...
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.
March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.
November 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper outlines key business problems facing customer IT environments and how the new Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) technology can be used to address these challenges. This paper provides an overview of the EFD technology and its effect on specific business applications.
August 26, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn backup expert W. Curtis Preston’s take on the state of virtual server backup today including an overview of the different approaches to virtual server backup, the importance of Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS) for backing up VMs and more.
July 16, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn backup expert W. Curtis Preston’s take on the state of virtual server backup today including an overview of the different approaches to virtual server backup, the importance of Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Services (VSS) for backing up VMs and more.
November 25, 2009 - (Free Research) This analyst report examines Quantum’s DXi6500 family of disk storage systems, which are designed to help companies deal with modern day backup and recovery challenges. Read on to learn about the DXi6500 family and their ability to improve backup performance, manage costs, speed up recovery and more.
March 16, 2010 - (Free Research) This SearchDisasterRecovery.com presentation transcript will give you a crash course on how to implement a cost-efficient disaster recovery plan. You'll hear an overview of disaster recovery and recieve some general advice to get you started on the business and technology considerations that are going to be crucial to you.
April 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
November 30, 2006 - (Free Research) Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.
February 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Since the cost comparison between tape and disk is obviously far more complex than the media itself, this brief outlines all the considerations necessary for a more complete understanding of the benefit and true cost comparison between tape and disk to help IT professionals choose and justify their backup environment.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper explains what is meant by storage thin provisioning, the way it works and the storage problems it addresses. It describes its potential benefits as well as a few pitfalls for potential users to watch out for.
July 09, 2010 - (Free Research) This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.
December 11, 2008 - (Free Research) This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
March 30, 2009 - (Free Research) This DCIG analyst report discusses the changing role of tape as a backup target in both the short- and long-term. It goes on to examine leading LTO technology, and why many companies are looking at refreshes - not overhauls - to meet new organizational expectations.
