This comprehensive interactive classroom explores what you need to know about server virtualization, and provides insights, analyses, and answers to FAQs. 

Virtualization specialist Chris Evans recently spoke with SearchVirtualStorage.com about vStorage API—a group of application program interfaces from VMware. This Expert Briefing will help you define and understand VMware vStorage APIs and their impact and potential in your IT shop. 

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. 

<p>You need to have the right metrics in place to measure storage efficiency in your cloud infrastructure. This white paper focuses on three aspects of cloud storage and discusses tools that can help you improve utilization, optimize capacity, and effectively manage costs.</p> 

Download this report to learn how your organisation can use smart technology to drive innovation and enhance your competitive position, without breaking the bank. 

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 white paper looks at the challenges associated with virtualization deployments, such as managing workloads, and discusses the key components of a properly designed virtualized data center. It then presents innovative solutions that achieve the highest and most cost-effective virtualized performance — while aligning IT to business goals. 

Oracle's tiered storage strategy lets you effectively manage and store data across multiple types of storage media while reducing your total cost of ownership up to 54 percent. Oracle is the only technology leader to provide a scalable, end-to-end storage solution that aligns data value with the right combination of cost, performance, and capacity. 

Faxes are moving to the cloud. No longer do you need to worry about the cumbersome manual processes of printing, managing paper, maintaining equipment and more. This paper offers an overview of a specific solution that delivers faxing as a fully integrated, on-demand service within your ERP environment. Read this to discover its many benefits. 

This case study explains how Quantum DXi3500 Saves Virtual Iron Time & Money with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. 

Virtualization on industry-standard servers has transformed IT service delivery, enabling companies to dramatically consolidate infrastructure, reduce costs, and much more. Read this paper to learn about the features and benefits of Vmware vSphere and the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series-based servers. 

<p>Big Data presents opportunities to achieve unprecedented business advantages. However, leveraging big data to fully realize its benefits requires a new approach to IT infrastructure and a different way of thinking about the way business and IT work together. Check out this quick slideshow to learn how.</p> 

This white paper provides an overview of specific information required for administrating storage on Linux servers connected to the Dell Compellent Storage Center. The information is intended for administrators with at minimum a basic understanding of Linux systems, specifically general tasks around managing disk partitions and file systems.