July 13, 2010 - (Free Research) The Dell/EMC NS family of unified storage enables organizations to easily and cost-effectively consolidate both unstructured file-system data and structured application data into a single shared storage system - helping organizations control costs, streamline management, and enhance storage availability and performance.
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) “High Speed RAID 6” disk arrays from Winchester Systems provide a unique and unmatched combination of reliability, performance and affordability in a truly open storage product that is in its tenth generation of development. Read this white paper for all the details on this next generation of high speed disk arrays.
August 11, 2010 - (Free Research) As the demand for information access has increased exponentially over the past decade to meet the growth of the Internet as whole, including e-commerce and commercial databases, the demand placed on datacenters has intensified. Read this paper to find out more.
June 18, 2010 - (Free Research) Built on breakthrough virtualized peer storage architecture, the EqualLogic PS Series simplifies the deployment and administration of consolidated storage environments. Read this product overview to learn more.
September 08, 2009 - (Free Research) A business manager identifies an urgent need for a software application and requests a server to run the new application. Then the server provisioning process kicks off. Read this short whitepaper to learn about new techniques and technologies that can enable your business to cut through so much of the red tape involved in adding new applications.
June 09, 2010 - (Free Research) In order to fully understand present and future advancements in RAID technology, start with the basics principles of what makes RAID such an effective enterprise storage technology. This podcast discusses everything RAID including the different levels, basic principles, benefits and drawbacks of leveraging RAID, the 2010 market trends and more.
April 09, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper introduces the EMC Data Domain Global Deduplication Array (GDA), the industry’s highest-performance inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications, and explains how it delivers scalable performance and capacity, enhanced multi-site disaster recovery, and simpler, end-to-end backup administration.
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.
May 11, 2010 - (Free Research) The white paper outlines the advantages, limitations, and best practices of using Winchester Systems v-IP Virtual iSCSI Storage Appliance and FlashDisk RAID in conjunction with a VMware virtual infrastructure. It is intended to provide a clear understanding of how v-IP integrates with VMware and focuses on the product’s robustness.
July 08, 2010 - (Free Research) A RAID is a method of ganging up, so to speak, a bunch of disk drives, such that the availability and/or the performance is actually improved. Read this transcript for more basics of RAID.
May 28, 2010 - (Free Research) As the number of VMs in a virtual environment grows above 40, many organizations tend to over-allocate CPU, memory, and disk resources. Download this free trial of VKernel Optimization Pack (Virtual Appliance) to right size your virtual machines, reclaim wasted storage and server resources, and uncover abandoned snapshots, disk images, VMs.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network (FC SAN), and multi-protocol solutions (defined as systems that provide FC, iSCSI, and NAS connectivity).
August 27, 2009 - (Free Research) In this expert webcast, learn the basic factors that go into choosing a new server for your environment, with details on processors, server types, consolidation options and more.
March 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Oracle's revolutionary Sun Storage F5100 flash array is a simple, high-performance, ecoefficient solid-state storage solution designed to help accelerate database operations. Read this white paper to learn more.
June 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Storage performance and capacity demands are increasing rapidly, creating storage input/output challenges for many enterprises running applications that need fast response times. Join us for a Webcast that will address those challenges and explore a proven solution: Oracle's Sun Flash storage portfolio.
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...
April 07, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper is intended for people who are proposing solutions, who are providing installation services or consulting, and who might be assisting in deploying VMware ESX backup solutions with HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks storage technologies.
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.
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.
April 23, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper for an exploration of how organizations can gain significant performance and cost benefits by upgrading legacy 2-socket servers to new Dell PowerEdge 11th generation 4/2-socket servers.
July 12, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper describes the benefits and performance of the latest Dell PowerEdge R810 running Microsoft SQL Server in VMware vSphere 4.0 Update 1 (U1) and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
January 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This IDC Vendor Profile focuses on 3PAR, a leading provider of utility storage solutions. IDC will examine how 3PAR has redefined data storage for the emerging era of storage virtualization and the product strategy behind 3PAR’s extensive utility storage solutions.