Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

This paper proposes several sample virtualization architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture. 

In this February 2012 cover story of Storage magazine, we announce this year’s 18 Products of the Year winners and highlight why they stand out from the competition. Read now to learn more. 

Storage performance and capacity demands are increasing rapidly, creating storage input/output challenges for many enterprises running applications that need fast response times. This Webcast will address those challenges and explore a proven solution: Oracle's Sun Flash storage portfolio. 

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. 

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. 

When the business intelligence platform at Princeston Insurance reached its capacity, the company needed to reevaluate their overall storage strategy. This case study outlines the journey they took to find a new infrastructure solution to increase business agility, IT efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Read on to learn more. 

Remember when virtualization was the hottest technology around? Back then, things were easy. Of course, those were virtualization’s early days, with low-hanging fruit and opportunities for improvement aplenty. But, then, something happened. Read on to learn more. 

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software is a specific set of enhancements made to the core Oracle Fusion Middleware products to optimize their performance on Exalogic. Read this paper for a software overview. 

This SearchStorage.com E-Guide outlines how vendors are implementing this technology, and in particular what automated tiered storage approach they’re taking for solid-state drive. 

Such a wealth of deduplication options in the storage market place provides ample choices, but it can also lead to some confusion. Download this e-guide to educate yourself and co-workers about deduplication technology in general, and specifically how to choose the best solutions to meet your business demands. 

The automation of traditional paper based processes with technology can lead to unnecessary complexity. This leads to increased costs and other challenges which can be avoided if solutions are simple and fit closely to the business task in hand.