March 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Based on user surveys and first-hand inquiries, Forrester Security and Compliance Analyst John Kindervag provides an overview of what issues are driving SIM adoption and some of the key capabilities end users should look for when evaluating a SIM solution.
January 2007 - (Free Research) System i provides a wealth of data to help analyze performance and storage usage, but System i administration tools make this information cumbersome to access. This white paper offers best practices for selecting third-party system management tools to take full advantage of this information.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This webcast is an overview of Microsoft Unified Communications. Unified Communications can help you to collaborate with your coworkers, partners, and customers more effectively, setting up the environment for a "people-ready business."
May 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper provides an overview of recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This all encompassing E-Guide highlights key archiving elements and strategies for successful implementation. Download this E-Guide to learn more about best practices for tiering storage, 3 key elements of data archiving, and how to choose the right cloud storage provider.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization is more than just a buzzword. On the server side, companies are in full-fledged execution mode, and on the client side, things are starting to heat up, too. Come join us in CDW's downtown Chicago offices for a chat with Nathan Coutinho, solutions manager for CDW, to learn more about this exciting topic.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.
January 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the several reasons to implement a messaging archiving system and provides an overview of ten vendors whose offerings are focused squarely on the archiving space.
August 2009 - (Free Research) This podcast will cover snapshots and how they make backup operations more efficient. It will also reveal what factors you should consider before implementing snapshots. Listen to this podcast for an overview of how snapshot technologies can drive efficiencies in your data center.
December 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.
November 2006 - (Free Research) Storage challenges for IT professionals are particularly complex in today's environment of rapid obsolescence of storage hardware and digital media.
April 2009 - (Free Research) BMC Capacity Trending Advisor saves time and money, reduces the skills required for capacity planning, and delivers precision results that give you the data you need to procure the right resources to support business services. Learn more today.
September 2009 - (Free Research) In this white paper, we will discuss how to discover, manage, and archive information within your Exchange enterprise to successfully limit your legal exposure and protect your corporate information.
March 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.
December 2009 - (Free Research) This paper provides an overview of Hybrid Storage Pools and how they can help businesses meet growing demands for storage I/O throughput in today's data-intensive applications.
February 2010 - (Free Research) This article will provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.
December 2008 - (Free Research) This paper provides an overview of the new features in Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ and detailed information on live migration.
April 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.
April 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper provides an overview of the networking architecture for VMware® Infrastructure 3 on Dell™ PowerEdge blade servers. It provides best practices for deploying and configuring your network in the VMware environment.
January 2010 - (Free Research) The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.
June 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper discusses the importance of data integration and help you identify the key challenges of integrating data. It also provides you with an overview of data warehousing and its variations, as well as summarizes the benefits and approaches to integrating data.
May 2009 - (Free Research) This paper provides an overview of deploying Exchange 2007 Server in a virtualized environment using VMware 3.5 Update 3 on Dell PowerEdge Servers and EqualLogic iSCSI storage array. In this paper a solution building block is proposed for 4000 mailbox users to deploy in an ESX environment running on Dell hardware.
