December 10, 2009 - (Free Research) Even though some network servers look very much like the standalone computers that fill your office, they play a very different role in your business than desktop PCs do, and therefore their design is very different under the hood. Take a tour of the components that give a server the power it needs to handle your tough workload.
January 15, 2010 - (Free Research) Widely known as a thin storage pioneer, 3PAR® is not just a leader in thin provisioning but in overall storage efficiency—including minimizing power consumption, reducing administration time, and promoting environmental responsibility.
August 03, 2010 - (Free Research) ARKIVIO auto-stor integrates the three key components for Intelligent Data Management – agentless data collection, data classification, and data management – into one product. This white paper describes the technical architecture and functionality of the ARKIVIO auto-stor solution.
July 29, 2010 - (Free Research) To achieve the full benefits of virtualization and power applications, scalable storage becomes a critical component of the next generation datacenter. Read this white paper and develop a better understanding of the benefits scale-out storage provides for virtual environments.
July 06, 2010 - (Free Research) This webcast provides a roadmap for configuring SharePoint. Learn how to select a server protection strategy and gain insight into the interdependencies between critical SharePoint components.
July 24, 2009 - (Free Research) This white paper presents an example configuration and best practices for deploying and configuring a highly available architecture using an example solution configuration and then discussing how the configuration helps in maximizing uptime.
November 2008 - (Free Research) Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
March 2010 - (Free Research) The Xiotech Emprise 5000 storage device and its foundation component, the Xiotech Intelligent Storage Element (ISE), are designed to redefine the construct of a storage foundation building block. The idea is to provide a storage target that delivers application-specific requirements, such as I/O operations per second (IOPS). Read more!
March 2009 - (Free Research) Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.
July 2009 - (Free Research) This data sheet provides information about the IBM System Storage™ TS7650 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Appliance, a preconfigured solution of IBM storage, IBM server and IBM's revolutionary ProtecTIER data deduplication software.
August 2010 - (Free Research) This paper examines a new approach to improving application performance, which is capable of delivering millions of IOPS and tens of GB/s throughput and allows capacity and performance to scale independently. Read on to learn about this cost effective, easy to use approach to dramatically improving application performance.
May 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 2010 - (Free Research) The explosion in data management requirements tends to be even greater and more complicated for high performance computing (HPC) applications. The white paper examines Panasas, a company designing storage solutions specifically for HPC data management, building on its ongoing development of the PanFS file system and storage operating system.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to SANs. The Compellent SAN enables businesses to continuously integrate new disk drive, switch and network interface technologies without having to replace existing hardware or software.
August 2010 - (Free Research) The webcast offers a step-by-step demonstration on how Tape Vault Expert can be used to easily and efficiently manage your company's off-site tape backup.
October 2009 - (Free Research) This whitepaper will discuss the challenges you can have to backup and protect using native tools and how you can successfully protect your SharePoint environment using Mimosa NearPoint™ for SharePoint.
June 2010 - (Free Research) Learn the powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure that Citrix NetScaler provides, offering a quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their web server count by 50 to 60 percent or more.
August 2010 - (Free Research) A database-backed application consists of several loosely coupled components, each of which must be secured independently. Security professionals must layer controls to compensate for multiple types of threats from multiple access point. Proper security of these applications requires a holistic approach.
July 2010 - (Free Research) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act promises strong incentives to encourage adoption of EMR and HIEs. But these advanced applications are just the tip of the iceberg; the back-end infrastructure (networking, security, virtualization) needed to support them are equally vital. Read this white paper to learn more.
January 2010 - (Free Research) The protocol utilized to transport data between servers and storage for High Performance Computing (HPC) and to define a Storage Area Network (SAN) is Fibre Channel(FC). Fibre Channel is an "invisible" protocol, because it is only known to the technicians that implement it and keep it working. This paper will provide an overview of this technology.
April 2010 - (Free Research) There is no out-of-a box software that you can buy to Next, Next, Finish your way to a complete virtual desktop environment. Instead, multiple technologies must be integrated in careful ways to create the necessary architecture. It's likely that you already have many components in place. Read this white paper to learn more.
