Requiring a high performance, scalable and reliable networking infrastructure at its new facilities, O'Keeffe & Swartz turned to HP. With support for IP telephony a requirement, an HP Converged Infrastructure was deployed, along with Mitel IP telephony and HP Networking Software. 

In this podcast, George Crump, lead analyst for Storage Switzerland, discusses using PCIe bus extenders to implement I/O virtualization. Find out about PCIe bus extenders' advantages and disadvantages for users, the necessary steps, requirements to implementing them, and more. Listen to this podcast to learn more. 

This issue looks at two areas of pain, gain and risk in server virtualization: I/O bottlenecks and virtualizing email systems. 

Dell EqualLogic PS Series XVS arrays present a better option for meeting service level agreements while helping reduce costs. Read about the benefits in this solution brief. 

When a storage I/O bottleneck hampered the performance of Safeway Insurance’s online application for independent insurance agents, they turned to Dell's EqualLogic PS Series storage area network. Find out all the benefits this switch gave them by reading this case study. 

The O-ISM3 is The Open Group framework for managing information security and information in the Open Information Security Management Maturity Model (O-ISM3) wider context. It aims to ensure that security processes in any organization are implemented so as to operate at a level consistent with that organization's business requirements. 

To reduce complexity and provide scalability to growing data demands, organizations can consolidate traffic onto 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. 

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 storage system delivers unmatched capacity utilization, ease of use and an integrated dynamic management of I/O prioritization to make sure critical applications perform optimally under any load condition. Read this white paper to learn more. 

The Dell EqualLogic hybrid arrays are designed to support fast access to high demand “hot” data in a multi-tiered dataset. In this technical report, we provide a proof point for performance improvements in OLTP applications when using EqualLogic PS6010XVS arrays based on testing performed at Dell Labs in February 2011. 

In the September 2011 cover story of Storage magazine, Eric Siebert clears up some of the confusion as he looks at the characteristics of Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and reviews the pros and cons of each for virtual environments. 

This paper considers current data center storage challenges and outlines solutions and strategies that help meet the demands of increasingly virtualized IT environments while optimizing investments. 

This white paper introduces a new class of tools designed to optimize today's virtual infrastructure and combat these challenges. In this paper, discover how IT managers are overcoming concerns regarding fibre channel and the cloud, I/O challenges and more. You'll also receive today's best practices to ensure the future success of your cloud.