June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn more about the Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system, a revolutionary concept in data storage offering the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) of any storage area network (SAN) or SAN-like system on the market.
May 17, 2010 - (Free Research) Distributed computing has been the dominant IT architecture for the past 15 to 20years. Over that period, IT has needed to adapt to profound changes in the infrastructuresupporting the way that users access applications. Read on to learn more!
July 09, 2008 - (Free Research) Built on patented peer storage architecture, the Dell EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offer high performance, reliability, intelligent automation, and seamless virtualization of storage to enable simplified enterprise storage deployment and management, and comprehensive data protection.
April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) Online dieting website SparkPeople.com sought to eliminate its storage I/O bottleneck to give customers fast, simplified access to their information from its database-powered Web site, and ensure that the next busy season would pose no scalability problems. Learn how they achieved their goals with Dell and Dell/EMC solutions.
August 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Automated Storage Tiering features provided standard on Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series SANs are designed to help organizations to reduce costs, improve performance, optimize SAN storage, and much more. Read this solution brief to learn more about the features and business benefits.
August 09, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper explores the need for uptime, explains the three components that contribute to uptime, reviews some of the problems with existing enterprise server management, provides a clear definition of clustering, and finally gives an honest explanation of what it can and can’t offer your organization.
June 04, 2010 - (Free Research) This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.
April 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft® and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft Virtualisation and the Compellent® Storage Center SAN™ solution.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Dell worked with partner Symantec to provide ENGlobal, an energy engineering firm, with a data protection and deduplication solution running on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers and Dell EqualLogic™ iSCSI storage arrays. Read this case study to learn how these solutions helped cut storage management time by 50% and improve data protection.
May 05, 2010 - (Free Research) This white paper defines six types of replication and looks at the advantages and drawbacks of each. It also provides an overview of factors (such as protocol and total cost of ownership) that should be taken into account when developing a replication strategy.
July 29, 2010 - (Free Research) As the number of doctors and hospitals using electronic health records and digital images grows, so will the demands on storage. The strategies presented in this e-book will help health care IT professionals meet those storage needs.
June 08, 2010 - (Free Research) Organizations for the first time now have at their fingertips a Buyer’s Guide that provides them with a comprehensive list of midrange arrays that can assist them in this all-important buying decision while removing much of the mystery around how midrange arrays are configured and which ones are suitable for which purposes.
October 01, 2008 - (Free Research) Priceline.com purchased and deployed six 3PAR InServ S400 tiered storage arrays across multiple locations to consolidate and protect all mission-critical and SAN-resident data, including core demand collection and offer processing Oracle® databases.
November 24, 2009 - (Free Research) This data sheet discusses SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ) for managers of Dell EqualLogic storage. SAN HQ uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to collect performance, alarm and health status data from dozens of EqualLogic storage array groups that could be spread across multiple locations around the world.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) Xiotech’s Emprise 7000 family of storage area network (SAN) solutions is based on Xiotech’s patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology and proven virtualized, distributed cluster architecture. Read this white paper now to learn about the Emprise 7000 family in detail and the many benefits available.
June 03, 2010 - (Free Research) This paper is directed toward all levels of IT professionals—anyone who is interested in understanding the differences among the diversity of storage area network (SAN) offerings and approaches to storage virtualization. Read this paper to find out more.
June 23, 2010 - (Free Research) In this case study, Wikibon interviews a UNIX infrastructure manager about the four sets of storage management tools for the SAN that he and his team uses, his future SAN management plans, and how he has reduced the number of SAN management tools.
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) This ESG Lab Review documents the pay as you grow scalability and availability of the HP P4000 SAN. Topics explored include getting started with a Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), online upgrades to physical appliances, proven support for more than 150,000 Microsoft Exchange users, and hyper-redundant fault tolerance.
June 01, 2010 - (Free Research) This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.
March 01, 2010 - (Free Research) By using VMware and the Compellent SAN together, enterprises can compound the benefits of virtualisation. This paper addresses seven technical advantages and describes how they allow the Compellent SAN to optimise VMware server virtualisation.
March 02, 2010 - (Free Research) Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series storage area network (SAN) arrays offer a solid shared storage foundation for a virtualized data center that can enable organizations to take full advantage of the high-availability features included with Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V™.