September 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Learn about Dell and Iron Mountain's solution to one of IT decision-makers toughest problems: backing up a company’s critical data that sits on desktops, laptops and other distributed devices.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Backup and recovery software typically requires agents that are installed onto the host servers that a system administrator wants to back up. The Asigra solution requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. Read this whitepaper to learn more!
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.
December 2008 - (Free Research) At the City University of New York (CUNY), 143 students and six faculty members are taking part in a virtual application streaming pilot - as of September 2008, they can access campus software instantaneously from anywhere via the Internet. Read this case study to learn more!
April 2010 - (Free Research) Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how.
October 2008 - (Free Research) This paper reviews Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange, a disk-based data management solution which optimizes the storage capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server.
September 2009 - (Free Research) Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.
December 2009 - (Free Research) This chapter download, from the guide Mastering Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, co-written by Mark Minasi, provides an introduction to Hyper-V, highlighting information essential for building your own small environment using only native Windows software.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Compared to dedicated hosting, utility hosting is easily scalable and standardized as a turnkey package. Its chief advantage is that you pay only for the computing capacity that you use. A good time to adopt this solution is when change is taking place.
May 2009 - (Free Research) Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.
February 2009 - (Free Research) In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data.
November 2008 - (Free Research) After briefly considering and rejecting an open-source tool, Harvell and his team selected Vertica Analytic Database 2.0, as it is a high-speed, relational SQL database management system.
January 2010 - (Free Research) Freudenberg IT hasn’t always been satisfied with the performance and efficiency of its own storage environment. The 3PAR® InServ® E200 Storage Server was the perfect solution for FIT’s requirements for more performance, reliability, scalability, and efficiency and fit the company’s overall strategy of using and developing innovative technologies.
December 2008 - (Free Research) Global Knowledge and Red Hat have assembled 10 Tips and Tricks from Red Hat Certified Engineers® (RHCEs) to give you a quick reference guide to help you navigate Red Hat® Linux™ systems.
August 2009 - (Free Research) In this podcast featuring IT expert, Greg Shields, learn about hypervisor architecture as it relates to your OS. Discover how to improve IT management with virtual machine managers for storage migration and check host compatibility prior to migration. Learn about a technology that allows for rapid provisioning and supports multi-processors.
February 2010 - (Free Research) Virtualization is the future of enterprise computing. In this podcast, we discuss the two kinds of desktop virtualization - local and hosted - and how to decide which approach is best for your business. Download this podcast to learn more.
September 2010 - (Free Research) Chelsio's 320E 10GbE Storage Accelerator is a dualport 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with PCI Express host bus interface optimized for storage applications. The third-generation technology from Chelsio provides the highest 10GbE performance available and dramatically lowers host-system CPU communications overhead. Read this white paper to learn more.
September 2010 - (Free Research) Read this paper to learn how the new IBM DB2 created global temporary tables feature helps improve performance and manageability.
December 2009 - (Free Research) Scope creep kills innovation. Over $1 trillion is spent each year on R&D, and 60% of the projects fail due to requirements issues. By using requirements management best practices you can achieve 2x higher profits and 6x faster development cycles.
August 2010 - (Free Research) Replay 4 completely eliminates backup windows by taking continuous snapshots of your Windows application servers, with just a 1-2% performance hit. Recover from any server outage in 15 minutes or less and use 80% less storage space for your backups.
September 2009 - (Free Research) This evaluation guide is designed to help you choose the best tool for your needs today, while protecting your investment as your team, needs and agile maturity grow.
January 2008 - (Free Research) Download this Forrester commissioned case study and learn how a global F500 company simplified database monitoring for SOX and generated a 239% ROI and 5.9 months payback without impacting performance or requiring changes to their IT infrastructure.