In this case study read how Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while also controlling hardware acquisition and power consumption costs. 

This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice. 

In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data. 

Hot spots can seriously reduce the efficiency of an organization's computer equipment. Watch this webcast for expert tips on remediating your data center's hot spots and discover the costs associated with the task. 

Deduplication can decrease the physical spend on data center footprint, power, cooling, and physical tape and media costs. This podcast defines deduplication and explains how it can make your data center more efficient. It will also shed some light on what factors you should evaluate when considering a deduplication strategy. 

The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments. 

The ability to stay up and running in the face of a disaster can be crucial to the survival of any business. Without effective disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity plans, businesses risk lost income, lost productivity, or worse. Read this brief paper to learn about effective disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. 

Storage networks provide the link between the servers that need data and the storage systems that store that data. Too often, however, storage networks are just considered the connective tissue in the storage environment and are often overlooked when greater performance, scalability or new services are needed. 

Hacking, cracking, and cyber crimes can wreak havoc on an organization. This white paper discusses ten common methods hackers use to breach your existing security, and what you can do to protect yourself. 

With spending on cost-saving technologies such as virtualization rising, and the maintenance of networking and enterprise Microsoft software keeping IT professionals constantly in demand, here's our top 10 hot skills that will take us from a down economy and beyond. 

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. 

Virtual server technology has made one key task a lot harder: backup. In this SearchStorageUK essential guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about protecting virtual servers.