March 05, 2010 - (Free Research) This case study examines VMware's use of client-side deduplication. In 2007, VMware evaluated and deployed the Avamar Axion client-side deduplication and replication offerings as a means of protecting and recovering over 300 physical and virtual systems across its infrastructure.
March 01, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper introduces IP storage technologies and the platform benefits for Oracle running on consolidated IP storage over NFS. It also reviews the features of Oracle 11g Direct NFS and summarizes the business and performance benefits observed after extensive lab testing on EMC® Celerra® network-attached storage (NAS).
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) What are you doing to combat unstructured data growth? Listen to this expert FAQ podcast as it discusses clustered network-attached storage (NAS) as a solution, the pros and cons and the vendors in the NAS market.
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.
August 12, 2009 - (Free Research) The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.
March 25, 2009 - (Free Research) Storage consolidation brings many applications together to a single storage pool. It improves storage utilization, simplifies management, and increases reliability in well implemented SANs. While consolidation makes it easier to manage, provision, and backup your data, how do you manage different application service level requirements?
July 29, 2010 - (Free Research) With the right infrastructure in your virtual environment, you can dramatically improve resiliency and flexibility without breaking the bank. This Forrester Consulting paper explains how.
July 29, 2010 - (Free Research) This report examines the transition from a period of Strategic Consolidation to one of focused Process Improvement, stages two to three in Forrester’s Virtualisation Maturity Model.
June 04, 2010 - (Free Research) With the right infrastructure in your virtual environment, you can dramatically improve resiliency and flexibility without breaking the bank. This Forrester Consulting paper explains how.
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...
June 07, 2010 - (Free Research) Before choosing from HP's rich portfolio of virtualization services, read this paper for eight considerations to help make the best decision for your virtualization needs.
January 27, 2010 - (Free Research) The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.
May 01, 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.
September 02, 2010 - (Free Research) In this month's cover story, Jacob Gsoedl explores how unstructured data became one of the top challenges in today’s organizations and highlights how file/NAS virtualization allows for future growth.
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).
June 09, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this report for a discussion of the WAN and SAN performance results gained from using this new backup and replication solution.
August 10, 2009 - (Free Research) Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.
December 10, 2009 - (Free Research) This paper describes how any small business can benefit from the advantages of a server-based network. Putting a fast and well-equipped server to work increases your productivity, enables smart backup and archiving, and vastly improves the security of your data.
April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Dell, Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to determine the relative performance of various remote replication and backup technologies for remote office/branch office (ROBO) data protection to a central office across a wide area network (WAN) using the Blue Coat® WAN Optimization solution. Read this test report to learn more.
December 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell Inc. (Dell) commissioned Principled Technologies (PT) to determine the relative performance of various remote replication and backup technologies for remote office/branch office (ROBO) data protection to a central office across a wide area network (WAN). Read this test report to discover key findings.
August 24, 2010 - (Free Research) Deduplication, compression, and bandwidth enhancement technologies available in Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2100 backup and Blue Coat® ProxySG® WAN Optimization appliances can alleviate stress on networks - helping organizations enhance data protection and application recovery at remote or branch offices.
February 12, 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.
