System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. This paper covers how to reduce and eliminate downtime. 

The term “storage virtualization” has been around for a while, but many storage vendors offer differing interpretations of what storage virtualization actually is. In this paper, Xiotech, the company that first delivered optimal storage virtualization for open systems, provides a practical, working approach to the topic. 

When Sun Country Airlines needed a solution to give employees data about flights and information to improve customer service and operations management, they turned to Blackberry. The Solution? Six highly useful applications were created for 50 BlackBerry smartphones to help airline employees check everything from delayed flights to lost baggage. 

This case study explains how Gaston County, N.C. eliminated server sprawl, implemented a reliable disaster recovery plan and consolidated applications using Compellent as their storage foundation. 

EMC’s storage expertise, innovative products, and service capabilities have allowed it to become the market leader in IP storage. According to the IDC research, EMC, along with its wide network of Velocity Partners, is the revenue leader in IP-based storage solutions. Read this paper to find out why. 

Read this white paper for an in-depth discussion of what data deduplication is, how it works, what problems it solves, and what options are available. 

Records management forces you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight process inefficiencies. This white paper explains why such a process is important. 

Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions. 

This Tech Report will dive deep into the capabilities as well as challenges with open-source storage, as storage pros continue to seek information regarding this increasingly popular storage trend. 

Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment. 

This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise. 

Electronically stored information (ESI) has become a major source of business records, and any organization that uses ESI - from email to word processing to instant messaging - must manage those records. This paper explains best practices for establishing effective archive retention policies.