PING is an international golf equipment company based in Phoenix, AZ. Facing a forklift upgrade on an old SAN that had reached capacity and couldn’t adapt to PING’s changing business requirements, the IT department sought a flexible, scalable solution. 

This white paper explores how investing in storage virtualization and automated tiered storage can optimize your data center, lowering your total cost of ownership and offering a significant return on investment. Specifically, it details the benefits of deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 on Data Progression solutions 

W. Curtis Preston discusses the issues surrounding restoring deduplicated data in this podcast. 

EqualLogic firmware version 5.1 enables Dell EqualLogic PS iSCSI SAN arrays to leverage automated performance load balancing. This feature finds the most efficient location for data at the sub-volume level, enabling a more granular level of data management than traditional tiering approaches provide. Read this white paper to learn more. 

<p>This case study follows one organization's approach to addressing their space, power, and cooling constraints. Explore the virtualization architecture they decided on and the key hardware, software, and service components that comprise it.</p> 

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. 

For every area of your datacenter, Sun Professional Services has created a tailored assessment service. 

Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Dell Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this whitepaper to find out how Dell Compellent can save save your company millions of dollars. 

This presentation transcript, brought to you by our editors, offers advice to help you successfully navigate the virtualization path. Hear how one company decided on a virtualization strategy and put the appropriate measures in place to effectively manage its virtual environment 

This tutorial presents a framework and financial methodology for deciding whether an enterprise should replace its current "status quo" tape storage solution with a new "proposed" solution, and the economics related to that decision. 

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. 

Iren Energia is the second-largest utility company in Italy. The company built a virtualized environment that included a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN. It chose Dell ProSupport for rapid, 24/7 response. Read this case study to learn the many benefits Iren Energia received.