View the helpful blog post to learn how to build the most cost-effective applications using Windows Azure Storage (WAS) by understanding how bandwidth, transactions, and capacity are billed. 

Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management. 

This 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. 

This Oracle white paper describes the application of Oracle VM Server for SPARC to implement high-capacity enterprise systems. 

The Pillar Axiom 600 system delivers business-critical, deterministic Quality of Service consistent with the business value of the application and its data. It eliminates the requirement to overbuy and under-utilize storage to buffer against application interference in a multi-tenancy shared storage system. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Check out this white paper to learn how hybrid storage can offer the performance of solid-state storage and the cost effectiveness and capacity of traditional disk storage. 

Access this resource to uncover how datacenter infrastructure management brings IT and facilities together to create a datacenter-wide view that opens the door for creating business value, innovating the datacenter, and increasing flexibility to respond to changing business needs. 

This solution brief discusses the backup and archive challenges that SMBs face and how tape storage solutions from IBM help companies cost-effectively ensure continuous operations, solve backup and archive problems, and address regulatory compliance. 

Explore current trends and tools for capacity planning in this expert e-brief. Discover how you can maximize server space and overcome top challenges of capacity planning to increase server utilization and ROI these tips from virtualization pro David Davis. 

The economic drivers for VoIP are catching the attention of CFOs, CIOs, and others involved in costs. Learn how to justify the costs of implementing VoIP and how to plan for its bandwidth. 

Learn how HP is combining the best new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimizes virtualized resources, while meeting business requirements for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance. 

While cloud computing has gained increasing popularity, the concerns about user access and privilege accounts are still often left to be addressed. In this resource, uncover an approach to help tackle these challenges and proactively enforce access policies to control privileged accounts in the cloud. 

<p>Too often, organizations choose x86-based platforms over more cost-effective mainframe alternatives. This white paper reviews the key benefits of the mainframe and discusses the savings you can expect by using these systems to support heavy I/O applications in your Linux environment.</p>