RAID Research
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Storage Efficiency Best Practices: Tiering and Energy Efficiency
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.You need modern storage that is simpler, more agile, and grows along with your business. Check out this expert E-Guide to explore 8 green storage best practices that increase energy efficiency while reducing your costs.
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E-Guide: Best Practices to Boost Read/Write Performance in MPFS File Systems
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelRapid data growth has made it difficult for storage systems to support high performance computing (HPC) environments. This expert e-guide explains how multi-path network file system technology can meet HPC requirements and provides best practices for proper deployment.
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Virtual Desktop Storage Basics: Storage Allocation for VDI
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.Virtual desktops may make management easier, but you have to make sure you have the right storage in place. Check out this 2-page white paper for an overview of storage-allocation tactics and technologies that will help you fully reap the cost and efficiency benefits that VDI promises.
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High Performance Computing E-Zine - Issue 1
Sponsored by: SearchDataCenter.comThis issue of the high performance computing (HPC) e-zine takes a closer look at the latest advances in file systems and the impact they are having on the HPC community. Find out how HPC architectures have evolved over time and obtain best practices for properly implementing Multi Path File Systems (MPFS).
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E-Guide: NAS Systems Buying Decisions
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftCheck out this E-Guide to learn about a viable and now cost-effective storage solution – NAS and what you should consider when evaluating this product for purchase. Also discover what Dell’s VP has to say about scale-out NAS and more.
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CW Buyer's Guide: Server Virtualisation
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comThis Computer Weekly buyer’s guide to server virtualisation looks at the potential barriers to successful virtualisation and how they can be overcome.
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2012 Trends to Watch: Storage
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comOvum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends.
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E-Guide: Business-Ready Configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V R2 on Dell PowerEdge M-Series Servers with EqualLogic Storage
Sponsored by: Dell and MicrosoftBusiness-Ready Configurations for Virtualization are a reference architecture family of products designed to aid in the ordering, deployment, and maintenance of a virtualization infrastructure. These architectures are designed to meet specific customer needs. Read on to learn more.
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Tennis Australia scores big with IBM® XIV® Storage Systems
Sponsored by: IBMWith the pressure and exposure of major international tournaments, Tennis Australia had a compelling need for reliable, easy-to-manage storage that could scale quickly. IBM served up their XIV Storage System, which dramatically reduced downtime, cut costs, and simplified storage management. Read this case study for more.
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Achieving Superior Manageability, Efficiency, and Data Protection with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Software
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationOracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.
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Oracle RMAN Disk-to-Disk Backup Methods Using Sun Storage Array
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis document provides a high-level description of how to implement an RMAN backup and recover methodology using Sun® storage arrays as the storage medium. For more information about Oracle best practices, refer to Best Practices for Running Oracle RAC Database with ASM on a Sun Storage 6540, 6580, or 6780 Storage Array.
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Sizing Storage: How to Create Your Ideal Infrastructure
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelThis white paper looks at how to match the right storage infrastructure with business size — whether it’s 50, 100 or 250 employees. Organizations must consider their needs and future growth in deciding what storage technology to choose. Find out how Dell and Intel technologies can help businesses of these sizes grows.
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A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
Sponsored by: Oracle CorporationThis paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
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Uptime and the Value of Clustering for Linux Servers
Sponsored by: Global KnowledgeThis 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.
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DXi-Series Disk Backup Systems with Data Deduplication: Providing Comprehensive Data and System Integrity
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationAccess this paper now for a detailed look at the processes that operate at the solution, file system, and system hardware levels of the Quantum’s DXi®-Series disk backup solutions.
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Overcoming problems with RAID
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and IntelIn this expert webcast, learn how to recognize and deal with common RAID issues in storage arrays.
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What Is New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage
Sponsored by: Dell and VMwareWith the launch of vSphere 4, VMware introduces a new version of the hypervisor, ESX 4.0 and the management interface, vCenter. Some key benefits offered by this release are greater resource efficiency, management control and freedom of choice for virtual datacenter storage resources and connectivity options.
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Data Deduplication Background - A Technical White Paper
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThe purpose of data deduplication is to increase the amount of information that can be stored on disk arrays and to increase the effective amount of data that can be transmitted over networks. Read this white paper to learn more about data deduplication as well as Quantum Dxi-Series disk-based backup solutions.
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Seven Ways To Lower Storage TCO
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc.Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Dell Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this whitepaper to find out how Dell Compellent can save save your company millions of dollars.
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General Backup Purchasing Considerations
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThis chapter discusses the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. Also discussed are the issues to be aware of during this process, such as recovery deadlines, scalability, security, and more.
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DigitalFilm Tree Gets Faster Post-Production in Diverse Workflows with StorNext
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationWhen deadlines are tight and speed is of the essence, you need data management software that makes data sharing faster and organizes effectively. Download this white paper and discover a new data management solution that does all this and more.
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Quantum Makes Enhanced Backup Real
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationQuantum Corp. has announced general availability of its DX30 - a disk-based backup solution that emulates a tape library.
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Enhanced Backup
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThis paper covers a number of issues that must be considered when evaluating the use of disk in a backup architecture.
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Why Do We Like the Quantum DX30 so Much?
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationDorian Cougias, CEO of Network Frontiers and the author of "The Backup Book: Data Protection from Desktop to Data Center" discusses the pros and cons of disk-based backup technologies.
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Enhanced Backup: Why Quantum DX30?
Sponsored by: Quantum CorporationThe job of the Quantum DX30 is to provide enhanced backup protection to the vast majority of those business applications that cannot justify being re-engineered for mirroring and/or remote replication.
