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A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage by Oracle Corporation

December 21, 2010 - (Free Research)

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.

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Delivering Storage Quality of Service with Oracle Pillar Axiom 600 by Oracle Corporation

December 02, 2011 - (Free Research)

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.

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Bringing Storage Efficiency to a New Level with Oracle's Unified Storage by Oracle Corporation

December 21, 2010 - (Free Research)

Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.

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Free online VMware Training from Dell by Dell and VMware

March 15, 2011 - (Free Research)

This course examines virtual infrastructures, and the evolution of the vSphere 4 environment and the products that are found in that environment. It aims to equip you with the knowledge required to decide which VMware datacenter products best meet your organization's virtualization needs.

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VoIP: How to Plan for the Bandwidth and Calculate the Cost Savings by Global Knowledge Network, Inc.

October 2005 - (Free Research)

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.

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Server Virtualization Basics Interactive Classroom by Dell and VMware

September 2011 - (Free Research)

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

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Presentation Transcript: Tiered Data Storage by Dell Compellent

August 2011 - (Free Research)

In this presentation transcript, Ashish Nadkarni, Senior Analyst and Consultant at Taneja, explores the three tiers that are typically the most beneficial for SMBs: primary, secondary, and tape.

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Save Money on Mainframe Hardware and Software: Five Simple Steps to Managing MIPS by Compuware Corporation

September 2009 - (Free Research)

This paper will detail how to control and manage MIPS usage by employing a systematic, repeatable approach that uses powerful technology and a proven process and expertise.

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Oracle Exadata Case Study: TDWI "What Works" Reprint by Oracle Corporation

December 2011 - (Free Research)

This white paper presents two case studies that illustrate how Oracle Exadata increased storage capacity for data warehouses by 150%, reduced operational and database running costs by 50% and on average improved database query performance by 10 times.

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Maximize Technology ROI Through Better Operations Management by GlassHouse Technologies (UK) Ltd.

September 2010 - (Free Research)

Technology upgrades are a constant in any IT environment, often driven by the need for more capacity or a platform’s end of life. Over the past few years, IT shops have been upgrading to improve their return on investment (ROI) as well. Read this white paper to learn about new ways to maximize technology ROI through better operations management.

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Make the Smart Storage Decision for Your Mission by DLT Solutions

February 2012 - (Free Research)

This white paper serves as a guide to help you navigate the increasingly-technical realm of virtualization. In this paper, learn today's best practices to help you start building a smarter storage infrastructure capable of meeting today's data growth and management challenges as well as preparing for future success

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ExaGrid Appliance Product Line Configurations by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

February 2012 - (Free Research)

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.

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Case Study: Bromford Group Sets Solid Foundation With Virtualised Fluid Data Storage by Dell Compellent

July 2011 - (Free Research)

Like many organisations, data at Bromford Group falls into two distinct groups. On one side is a Microsoft SQL database that tracks customer relationship management, records of tenants and properties. On the other side is all of the data that runs the business itself: Microsoft Exchange, corporate files, and network drives crammed with documents.

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The HP 3PAR Architecture by Global Knowledge

January 2012 - (Free Research)

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.

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Integrating Dell Equallogic™ Sans with Citrix XENSERVER: Realizing Virtualization’s Full Potential by Dell | EqualLogic

November 2008 - (Free Research)

XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.

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Scalability & Deployment Best Practices for the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 NAS System as a File Share Solution by Dell, Inc.

November 2011 - (Free Research)

This technical whitepaper provides performance and scalability metrics of the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage system as a file sharing solution in different operational scenarios.

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Tiered Storage Takes Center Stage (Horison) by Oracle Corporation

December 2010 - (Free Research)

This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

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Optimizing Information with a Tiered Storage Architecture by Oracle Corporation

July 2010 - (Free Research)

This paper is an introduction to the concept of tiered storage, the business needs that drive it and the value of implementing a tiered storage strategy. This strategy helps realize the value of information, drives down costs, lowers risks, improves accessibility, ensures the correct information is saved and so much more.

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Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Performance on VMware vSphere™ 4 by Global Knowledge

September 2009 - (Free Research)

Increased adoption of VMware infrastructure and continued performance advances in hardware and software have driven the virtualization of Microsoft Exchange. This paper will detail experiments that demonstrate the efficient performance and scalability of Exchange when running inside a virtual machine on a VMware vSphere™ 4 environment.

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Network Foundation - Cisco 1700 Series by Cisco Systems

Cisco 1700 Series modular routers are ideal for enterprise small branch offices and small and medium-sized businesses that need secure access to business applications, network resources, and Internet services. The Cisco 1700 Series delivers fast, reliable and secure Internet/network access through a wide-range of high-speed WAN access technologies.

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Real World Data Center Management: Part 2 by Dell, Inc. and Intel

September 2011 - (Free Research)

In this video, Brian Carpenter, Director of Information Technology at Heritage Auction Galleries, discusses how they manage data center growth at their organization. He digs into virtualization and the degree to which they have virtualized their environment and how this is managed. Watch this video to learn more.

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Case Study: High-performance Lustre File and Storage Platform by DataDirect Networks

November 2011 - (Free Research)

TGen has been a pioneer in the cluster computing industry for over 5 years. By deploying the DDN EXAScaler, TGen eliminated I/O bottlenecks and now fully has in place a storage solution for today’s and tomorrows’ sequence alignment. Read this case study to learn more.

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Protecting Vital Business Interests with a Simplified Storage Solution by Dell, Inc.

November 2011 - (Free Research)

Data growth and regulatory requirements have made backup, recovery, and archiving critical aspects of enterprise operations. Dell Services experts can assess how effectively an information infrastructure is getting the job done and deploy integrated, best-of-breed storage solutions to help ensure the safety and recoverability of critical data.

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7 Ways Dell Compellent Optimizes VMware Server Virtualization by Dell Compellent

March 2009 - (Free Research)

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.

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E-Guide: Top Tips for Data Backup and Recovery in a Virtual Environment by Dell and VMware

August 2011 - (Free Research)

This expert E-Guide outlines the top Hyper-V backup strategies and the best workarounds to avoid some of the stumbling blocks that can arise with Hyper-V virtual machine restores.

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