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Emprise™ 5000: High-performance, low-cost storage building block by Xiotech Corporation

November 23, 2009 - (Free Research)

Xiotech’s Emprise 5000 system is a revolutionary concept in data storage. It is built on patented Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) technology—a perfectly balanced building block of performance, reliability, and scalability.

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Building High-performance, Highly Available IP Storage Networks with HP SAN/iQ Software by Hewlett-Packard Company

August 13, 2009 - (Free Research)

If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.

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Fundamentals of a Well-Built SAN by Hewlett-Packard Company

August 12, 2009 - (Free Research)

The purpose of this white paper is to describe the benefits of a clustered architecture in comparison with traditional controller-based architectures, and to discuss the technology that makes HP LeftHand SANs better by design.

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Case Study: Snapfish Builds a Massive, High-Performing, Scalable Storage Infrastructure with HP Scalable NAS and EVA and MSA Storage Arrays by Hewlett-Packard Company

November 19, 2008 - (Free Research)

Because their previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet their existing and future needs, Snapfish was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability and improve performance, storage management and flexibility. This case study details how they solved this issue.

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ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy by Hewlett-Packard Company

October 01, 2008 - (Free Research)

This paper examines the risks and costs organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.

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Building a Powerful, Resilient, Affordable IT Infrastructure by CompuCom and IBM

October 09, 2009 - (Free Research)

Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.

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Inside the Dell Equallogic™ PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays by Dell, Inc.

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.

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Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

November 2008 - (Free Research)

This article is intended for IT managers and storage architects familiar with HPC applications and data requirements in the organization.

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WAN-optimized Replication: Built into FalconStor Solutions by FalconStor Software

March 2009 - (Free Research)

Data replication has become part of the fabric of IT due to its multiple uses and benefits. But as IT are aware, data replication increases your bandwidth and storage costs. WAN optimization technologies can help reduce the amount of bandwidth and storage capacity used by data replication, enabling cost savings while maintaining application...

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Storage Systems & Storage Management Track: New Developments in Scale-out vs. Scale-up Data Storage by 3PAR

August 2009 - (Free Research)

In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors.

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Datalink Efficiency Central - Efficiency Library by Datalink Corporation

August 2009 - (Free Research)

Datalink is committed to helping you build, maintain, and grow highly efficient data centers - Efficiency Central. Learn about the most efficient information technologies, how they're best applied, and what our customers have experienced.

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Tiered Storage and Virtualization in the Real World by Hitachi Data Systems

June 2007 - (Free Research)

Does a transition to virtualized tiered storage deliver true value, a fast return on investment (ROI), and verifiable cost savings? This case study documents the specific business and economic value realized by one enterprise company after its first year using new storage architecture built on Hitachi tiered storage.

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Why Virtualization Matters to the Enterprise Today by IBM

December 2007 - (Free Research)

This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible.

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Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers by Hewlett-Packard Company

April 2009 - (Free Research)

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

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Building a Smarter Storage Infrastructure by F5 Networks UK

September 2009 - (Free Research)

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

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High-Performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) by Adaptec, Inc.

November 2009 - (Free Research)

Built on Adaptec Unified Serial® (SATA/SAS) Series 5Z, Series 5 and Series 2 storage controller technology, High-performance Hybrid Arrays (HPHAs) provide for maximum performance at the lowest capital investment and operating costs.

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Dell completes virtualization deployment for heavy-equipment dealer Kelly Tractor in 20 days by Dell and VMware

July 2008 - (Free Research)

An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.

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Building Proven Data Protection Strategies by Data Domain

September 2008 - (Free Research)

This paper compares traditional data protection options and provides an overview of the impact data deduplication is having on the storage industry. Deduplication is quickly gaining momentum in the growing disk-to-disk backup market and offers several significant improvements over traditional data protection methods.

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SEPATON Architecture: Designed for Data-Intensive Enterprises by SEPATON

May 2009 - (Free Research)

This paper describes the innovative architecture that SEPATON has designed specifically to meet the data protection challenges of data-intensive enterprises while achieving optimal cost savings and measurable ROI.

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Forrester: Inquiry Spotlight, Archiving Best Practices Q4 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company

December 2008 - (Free Research)

In 2008, Forrester answered 106 end user inquiries on archiving, including questions on eDiscovery, retention, message archiving, and using archiving to cope with the data growth explosion. This white paper summarizes these answers and explains why it's necessary to retain data for regulatory compliance or legal discovery purposes.

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Business Critical Cloud Storage: Best Practices for Archiving Customer Data by Iron Mountain Digital

October 2009 - (Free Research)

Profiled in this whitepaper are two examples of ISVs that have turned to Iron Mountain's Archive Services Platform API solution to help their customers better manage their data. Read this Whitepaper from Iron Mountain to learn more.

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The Importance of a Cloud Storage API - New Information Management Capabilities and Revenue Streams for ISVs by Iron Mountain Digital

October 2009 - (Free Research)

As Storage Switzerland writes, APIs such as Iron Mountain’s Archive Services Platform API allow ISVs greater control than do cloud NAS gateways over how and where data is stored. Read this Technology Brief from Storage Switzerland to learn more.

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Dell™ Reference Architecture Sizing and Best Practices for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a VMware® ESX Server Environment using EqualLogic PS Series Storage by Dell, Inc.

October 2009 - (Free Research)

This paper describes the Dell Reference Architecture, a blueprint or a starting configuration, for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 in a virtualized server environment and provides guidelines for designing and sizing the storage for the same using Dell EqualLogic PS Series storage systems.

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Optimizing the Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency by Dell, Inc. and Intel

April 2009 - (Free Research)

The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region.

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HP Enterprise Virtual Array tiered storage solution for Oracle: Aligning storage performance and availability with the business value of information by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel

February 2008 - (Free Research)

Together HP and Oracle offer a comprehensive suite of information management tools to help efficiently capture, manage, retain, and deliver information over time. This yields a highly integrated hardware and software infrastructure, leveraging storage tiers with differing performance and availability characteristics. Read this paper to learn more.

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