Many new storage systems enable broader, more-flexible uses for solid-state drives (SSDs). This Gartner research piece identifies the advantages and disadvantages of various SSD architectural alternatives, and discuss how to use them to facilitate the design of high-performance, cost-efficient storage infrastructures. 

VMware's latest enterprise-level hypervisor product suite, vSphere, includes many new features and technological enhancements over its predecessor, VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). This white paper focuses on how VMware improved various storage technologies, how they relate to data backup and recovery, and more. 

One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays. 

Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution. 

Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space. 

Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. Forrester surveyed 124 of its global clients on the topic of storage for virtual server environments. 

In this mediacast, featuring Exchange expert, Lee Benjamin, learn how to use a storage calculator for optimal performance of your Exchange environment. Discover the new storage features of Exchange 2010 and how to utilize them for increased flexibility and reduced costs. 

This case study outlines how Info Support, a Dutch IT service provider, was able to launch new servers and storage up to 75% faster using virtualization. The challenge was that Info Support wanted to respond to their clients faster by creating an environment where new projects were up and running in a couple of hours. 

Xiotech offers a fresh approach to data storage—disk drives, drive enclosures, and controllers with its Intelligent Storage Element technology: A storage foundation that sets new standards for reliability, performance, scalability, and value. 

In this presentation transcript, Brian Greenberg, President and CEO, General System Dynamics, explores the distinctions between scale-out and scale-up systems, major use cases for this technology and an assessment of new scale-out/clustered storage systems from major vendors. 

Business continuity/disaster recovery requires a holistic approach that includes storage, infrastructure, servers, applications, middleware and the network. If that weren't complicated enough, today's new technologies are testing traditional methods of backup and data protection. It's time to take another look at your BC/DR plan. 

Data growth is the only absolute constant in IT and, arguably, is the inevitable cause of most operating problems. We must begin to look outside of the data center—to the business processes and applications driving much of the data growth that will be impacting our spending over the coming months and years. 

Today's data centers are in the midst of a revolution originating from the move to virtual server architectures powered by solutions such as VMware. Based on Datalink's experience protecting enterprise data centers, this white paper provides practical advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures.