Virtualization is a white hot topic in the IT world, and with good reason. It's vital for networking professionals to understand how server virtualization and networks affect each other. In this expert e-guide learn about managing virtualization networking, distributed virtual switching, network capacity planning for virtualization and more. 

This analyst report examines Quantum’s DXi6500 family of disk storage systems, which are designed to help companies deal with modern day backup and recovery challenges. Read on to learn about the DXi6500 family and their ability to improve backup performance, manage costs, speed up recovery and more. 

In this expert e-brief, Microsoft expert and Storage Media Group contributor Brien M. Posey explains the most relevant technical features within the product and answers key questions about supporting and managing storage for Hyper-V. Read now to learn more. 

In this e-guide from SearchServerVirtualization.com, gain expert advice on how to handle data center growth with capacity planning and resource provisioning. Learn how performance management and capacity planning go hand-in-hand and find out how to interpret capacity management metrics to reduce costs and simplify management. 

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. 

Storage capacity efficiency through virtualization platforms can provide greater capacity in a more sustainable way than traditional storage methods. 

Watch this illuminating video to learn more about data deduplication as well as how the Quantum DXi-Series disk backup and replication solutions leverage data deduplication technology to dramatically shrink your disk requirements and enable remote replication replication as a disaster recovery technique. 

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. 

Explore the latest cloud computing trends and gain exclusive tips for how you can successfully define SLAs, plan for capacity, and more in this expert e-zine. 

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. 

Together, Dell and Microsoft have delivered a storage platform comprised of Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 and Dell’s PowerVault NX3100 for easy, reliable access to data stores, greatly simplified storage management, support for ROBO operations, and the capacity and scalability SMBs need to meet ongoing requirements. Read now to learn more.