January 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Virtual Instruments NetWisdom solution is a Fibre Channel performance monitoring tool for SANs that helps organizations simplify SAN administration and ensure that SAN performance and availability are optimized. Read this Butler Group technology audit to discover the advantages of NetWisdom, explore core functionality, and learn about deployment.
March 17, 2009 - (Free Research) Data storage management is a multifaceted process that is always changing. In this tutorial on SMB storage management, learn about iSCSI versus Fibre Channel storage area networks (SANs), managing your data backups, and the biggest SAN storage management trends for the year ahead.
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May 13, 2009 - (Free Research) Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.
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 18, 2009 - (Free Research) This solution overview details the EMC CLARiiON AX4, an entry level SAN for VMware that brings VMware benefits by enabling and supporting new functionality. Give your SAN enterprise-class capabilities and efficiencies at a surprisingly economic price. Read on for further details.
September 30, 2008 - (Free Research) To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores
this setup and configuration.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) What happens to a business like Blackboard when email stops working? Orders aren't received. Support messages aren't sent. Communication stops. With Replay AppImage fully implemented, Blackboard is only minutes away from complete Exchange recovery should they experience anything from a small glitch to a full-blown disaster.
March 26, 2009 - (Free Research) Preston discusses several different implementation practices in this video, highlighting source vs. target data deduplication. He discusses the pros and cons of this and other implementation methods available, and how each fits into different types of environments.
June 05, 2009 - (Free Research) Navicure, an insurance claims processing company, needed a more robust storage and disaster recovery solution. They chose a scalable, in-house storage area network using Dell EqualLogic PS Series Internet SCSI arrays, and automated the planning, testing, and deployment of a disaster recovery solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager software.
June 01, 2009 - (Free Research) The leading switch vendors have revealed their visions of a unified data center network infrastructure. It sound good, but what are the ramifications for the storage networking infrastructures you have in place. Explore this presentation to learn more.
May 15, 2009 - (Free Research) In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.
December 30, 2008 - (Free Research) Virtual Infrastructure makes it possible to run multiple applications and operating systems in a single resource pool that spans several physical machines. This White Paper describes the innovative approach introduced by Cisco and VMware to support an end-to-end virtualized SAN environment that is flexible, scalable, and mobile.
December 21, 2008 - (Free Research) This document addresses the relevant business and technical challenges that the Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) feature addresses and then describes the solution benefits that help meet these challenges.
April 01, 2009 - (Free Research) A leading global financial institution embarked on a data center consolidation and reclamation project that spanned nearly 2000 servers and 76 EMC arrays. The results included US$4 million in savings by reducing physical storage capacity 40 to 60 percent.
June 15, 2009 - (Free Research) Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.
May 01, 2009 - (Free Research) Hitachi Data Systems introduces Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer software with unique Root Cause Analysis functionality. The IT Operations Analyzer is a powerful, proven approach to simplifying data center management, with comprehensive performance and availability monitoring of up to 250 server, network and storage nodes.
June 15, 2009 - (Free Research) A well thought out storage design will help your organization achieve the most from your Exchange solution architecture - taking into consideration capacity, performance and availability, as well as budget, requirements. This Solution Brief includes nine key considerations for storage deployments to support your Microsoft Exchange environment.
March 09, 2009 - (Free Research) As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Compellent Optimizes VMware 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 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!
