New research from the International Technology Group demonstrates that the three-year operating and capital expenses for deployment and use of IBM XIV storage systems average 69 percent less than for EMC VMAX equivalents. 

The IBM XIV Storage System was designed to create a different enterprise storage reality. By listening carefully to customers—including Oracle users—IBM has designed a storage system that tackles real storage issues head-on. Read this white paper to learn more. 

Companies are successfully leveraging IBM's Smart SOA™ Approach based on IBM's experience of working with more than 6550 customers worldwide. 

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) in Australia was experiencing rapid rates of growth in data volumes - increasing around 60 percent annually - when they decided to increase their SAN capacity. They chose the IBM XIV Storage system. Read this and get the details. 

This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage. 

This white paper focuses on storage as an essential cornerstone to a private cloud environment and proposes the key elements to successful implementation. It describes the IBM XIV Storage System as a highly strategic general purpose storage solution for private cloud environments. 

This webcast explores key factors companies should consider when making a server selection, including compute capacity, management, and energy consumption. Discover single-socket systems that possess these attributes, enabling you to save money without sacrificing performance, flexibility, or ease of use. 

This analysis discuses IBM's Storwize V7000, which provides the mid-range datacenter with the modular scalability previously reserved for enterprise ones.  It enables the datacenter to protect its investments without changing the base platform. With future enhancements, the datacenter can expect an even longer lifefrom this investment. 

This study provides you with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of IBM’s Real-time Compression solution on your organization. Read on to see how this solution tested and how it can contain the data growth in your business.  

How are you expanding your business in the channel in 2012? What areas of specialization are your customers clamoring for? What are you doing to address their needs? Check out this December issue of Channel Strategies and make sure you're on the right track for 2012. 

Data growth is one of the most significant challenges – and opportunities - facing organizations today. New forms of data, the retention of additional detail for analysis, increasing pressure for high availability of more of the data, regulatory and security requirements – all are contributing to substantial rises in data volume. 

As enterprises turn to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs, Server virtualization solutions such as VMware Infrastructure software are helping organizations achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. Read this paper for 7 Ways Dell Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization. 

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.