This resource examines hot-air and cold-air containment methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment is the preferred best practice for new data centres. 

Check out this first 2012 issue of Storage Magazine for in-depth analysis of the factors you need to consider when choosing the best type of DR site for your organization, including balancing costs against risks. 

This expert handbook explains how to set up a data center cooling monitoring system, looks at how increasing server inlet temperatures can optimize cooling efficiency and outlines methods for building hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment systems. 

This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture. 

Virtualization and cloud computing are driving the need to deliver enterprise IT as a service. Explore how the HP 3PAR Utility Storage addresses the key weaknesses of existing storage architectures, such as growing capacity requirements, underutilization of existing storage assets, and administrative inefficiency. 

Business Ready Configurations for Virtualization are pre-configured, easy to order, bundled solutions that include Dell PowerEdge™ blade servers, Dell EqualLogic™ SAN, and VMware vSphere™. This white paper provides a detailed reference architecture for the Business Ready Configurations. 

<p>It is becoming increasingly difficult for IT professionals to manage the substantial amount of information their enterprises are generating today. This white paper discusses how to combat this challenge with a converged infrastructure. Discover a system that can help you leverage this strategy and review the benefits it offers.</p> 

Read this white paper for an inside view of the industry-leading HP technologies of the HP CloudSystem. You'll also learn of three CloudSystem offerings and their major extensions. 

Dell Storage and the Fluid Data architecture keep your data as dynamic as the organization it supports by putting the right data in the right place at the right time–for the right cost. Customers can cut cost, time and risk as they focus on moving their organizations forward. Read this brief white paper to learn more. 

This expert e-guide provides insight into the key differences between virtualizing network-attached storage (NAS) or storage area network (SAN) architectures. Read on to discover which storage virtualization choice is right for your organization. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

This white paper introduces a scale-out NAS software solution for cloud environments designed to meet unstructured data requirements and provide a high-performance, virtualized and centrally managed storage pool. Able to scale both capacity and performance, you'll be able to achieve an unprecedented price/performance ratio without compromise. 

ExaGrid’s disk-based backup with deduplication product line provides the only architecture in the market with a post process whereby you’re able to keep a full backup. Check out this resource to learn how.