June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.
June 03, 2009 - (Free Research) Today's data center pros need to cut costs wherever possible, and the mainframe presents significant opportunities to do so. This expert podcast explains how to use specialty processors, load balancing, and compression database software for this task.
April 17, 2009 - (Free Research) BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution.
April 13, 2009 - (Free Research) How do you decide what workloads to virtualize? Mark Fontecchio, News Writer for SearchDataCenter.com sits down with George Crump, President and Founder of IT analyst firm Storage Switzerland to get to the bottom of the virtualization rollout mystery.
December 10, 2008 - (Free Research) Currently there is a high demand for a cost effective way to extend from incremental to bulk storage. Sun's J4000 family provides a solution that is both affordable and scalable.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Combining the power of the Solaris™ 10 Operating System with the data integrity and simplified administration of ZFS, the Sun Storage J4400 array is a strong candidate for improving backup & restoring operations. This paper discusses how to configure & deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL databases with the Sun Storage J4400 array.
May 06, 2009 - (Free Research) This test report details the results of an Exchange 2007 performance test comparing the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI SAN Array with the HP StorageWorks 2000i Modular Smart Array. The results may surprise you! Read on for more!
June 22, 2009 - (Free Research) This HP Video shows how the HP StorageWorks EVA6400/8400 is an ideal fit with VMware virtualization technology to deliver an optimized environment.
June 09, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper will discuss the importance of an enterprise-class storage infrastructure as you migrate to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays enable advanced integration with the robust server virtualization.
April 30, 2007 - (Free Research) Dell, Inc. commissioned Principle Technologies to compare the performance on a heavy Exchange 2007 workload of two mid-range Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions. Tested and compared were the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI SAN Array and HP StorageWorks 2000i Modular Smart Array. Read this paper for a detailed analysis of the results.
May 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Today's storage systems are often proprietary, expensive to manage, and rigid to deploy. In contrast, Sun Open Storage products, including innovative software and Sun Storage J4200, J4400, and J4500 arrays, offer a fresh alternative that can help organizations create a fast, reliable, and open storage infrastructure for less.
November 28, 2008 - (Free Research) Dell, Inc. commissioned Principle Technologies to compare performance for online transaction processing (OLTP) of two entry-level storage arean network (SAN) solutions - the Dell PowerVault MD3000i iSCSI SAN Array and HP StorageWorks 2000i Modular Smart. Read this paper for a detailed comparative analysis.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This ESG Lab Report documents the results of hands-on testing of the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 family with a focus on ease of implementation and management, availability, and agility as well as scalability of both performance and capacity.
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.
May 12, 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.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data protection, deduplication...
March 16, 2009 - (Free Research) Simplified management is one of many business values of the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array. A storage system that is simple to administer saves time and money, and reduces configuration errors. This paper highlights common configuration rules and tradeoffs for optimizing HP StorageWorks EVAs for cost, availability, and performance.
December 30, 2008 - (Free Research) Dell/EMC CX4 series storage arrays and Dell PowerEdge blade servers can be advantageously de-ployed in Oracle and Exchange 2007 solutions. The examples provided in this paper depict two such solutions.
June 02, 2009 - (Free Research) This eGuide discusses the backup best practices available for SMBs in
today's storage market. It's more important now than ever for SMBs to gain efficiency in their backup processes. This eGuide will highlight how SMBs can save money, and also how they can make their data backups more secure.
May 29, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this free trial guide to see which Sun storage solution works best
for you. Choose from a variety of options such as theSun Storage Unified
Storage Systems, Sun StorageTek systems, and many more.
June 10, 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.