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Making IT Invisible: NetApp Storage for Virtual Server Environments
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY:
Server virtualization is one such technology that provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
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Connecting the Dots Between Storage and Virtualization
sponsored by EMC Partner Organization
VIDEOCAST: Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | When: 27 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY:
This videocast covers the usage of storage transports for server virtualization, iSCSI's readiness for virtualization deployments, and how to choose between using iSCSI over fibre channel, and vice-versa, in virtualization deployments.
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Storage and virtualization: Options for storage for VMs and Virtualized Environments
sponsored by EMC Partner Organization
VIDEOCAST: Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | When: 30 Jun 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY:
This Videocast Q&A discusses considerations and challenges around managing storage in a virtual infrastructure. Topics include what to consider when choosing a networked storage option and desktop virtualization's impact on storage.
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Massively Scalable NAS Infrastructure Requirements: Understanding Baseline Capabilities in Dense File Storage Environments
sponsored by Exanet
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
SUMMARY:
A certain set of baseline feature requirements is emerging for the massively scalable NAS environments, including massive capacity, performance, high availability, and manageability.
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University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
CASE STUDY: Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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St. Thomas University needed to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance.
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Managing Virtual Environments: What You Should Know about Backing-up, Managing and Tracking Virtual Machines
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 12 Jun 2008
SUMMARY:
This eGuide featuring content from Storage Magazine and SearchServerVirtualization provides tips and guidance on what storage professionals need to consider when backing up, managing and tracking their VMs.
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Using Storage to Maximize the Business Benefits of Virtualization
sponsored by LeftHand Networks
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 11 Jun 2008
SUMMARY:
The adoption of virtualization by corporations is being spurred by the availability of high performance multi-core servers that deliver the processing power, memory, and connectivity speeds.
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Enabling NAS Clusters: The Silicon Storage Appliance
sponsored by DataDirect Technologies
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 05 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY:
This paper provides a basic overview describing the most commonly used storage strategies for clusters, and some emerging technologies that attempt to answer the problems associated with largerscale data distribution in large clusters.
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Cisco Nexus 5000 and Emulex LP 21000
sponsored by Emulex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY:
This paper provides a technology overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet, discusses the benefits of solution being brought to market by Cisco and Emulex, and highlights some of the deployment scenarios for today's data centers.
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FCoE Driven Network Consolidation in the Enterprise Data Center
sponsored by Emulex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
SUMMARY:
This white paper describes a blueprint for a converged Ethernet fabric as a catalyst for network consolidation in the enterprise data center.
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Best Practices Guide: Emulex Virtual HBA® Solutions and VMware® ESX Server 3.5
sponsored by Emulex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
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This paper provides an overview of some of the cases and outlines the steps required to deploy NPIV on ESX Server 3.5.
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Cisco MDS and Emulex Virtual HBA Solutions for VMware Infrastructure 3
sponsored by Emulex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY:
This document provides data center users with valuable information for understanding the benefits of NPIV technology in a VMware environment and practical use cases and deployment scenarios for maximizing these benefits.
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8Gbs/s Fibre Channel for Next Generation Data Centers
sponsored by Emulex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 03 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
SUMMARY:
The architecture of Emulex LightPulse 8Gbs/s Fibre Channel HBA solutions minimize network disruptions and simplify management, it enables IT organizations to seamlessly transition their data centers to 8Gbs/s Fibre Channel technology.
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Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 2
sponsored by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 2
EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Posted: 19 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY:
Read this second issue of the Virtual Data Center E-Zine to learn strategies for taking on two of biggest virtualization challenges: I/O bottlenecks and email system virtualization.
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PS Series Storage Arrays Delivering High Performance iSCSI SANs
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2005
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This Technical Report analyzes the performance and scalability of SAN storage devices and compares EqualLogic iSCSI products with Fibre Channel products.
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Dickinson Wright Witnesses Vast Improvements with Equallogic SAN
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
CASE STUDY: Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 09 May 2008
SUMMARY:
iSCSI SAN supports blade server infrastructure with key functions such as snapshotbased backup, scaling with automatic configuration, and replication for disaster recovery.
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Lesson One: Building a SAN
sponsored by SearchStorage.com
PODCAST: Posted: 25 Apr 2008 | Premiered: 25 Apr 2008, 09:00 EDT (13:00 GMT)
SUMMARY:
In this first lesson of Advanced SAN School, Stephen Foskett, Director of Data Practice for Contoural discusses the different types of storage arrays, switches, and software that make up a storage network.
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Is iSCSI Good Enough?
sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: 23 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY:
IP SAN adoption is growing among users who want storage that's easy to install, configure and manage, and also comes at a price considerably less than that of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs.
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iSCSI and Virtualization: When It Fits, Why It Might Not Work, and How to Avoid Gotchas
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 02 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY:
This white paper discusses how iSCSI is taking a large leap into the enterprise, from open source projects to large independent hardware vendors. Read this white paper to learn more about iSCSI and how it is the perfect compliment to virtualization.
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Simplifying Storage for Remote Offices and Small-Medium Businesses
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 31 Mar 2008 | Published: 28 Mar 2008
SUMMARY:
This paper will examine the major concerns faced by remote offices and SMBs, and explain how the Dell AX4-5 can offer an easy to use, scalable, and affordable storage solution.
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Arrays Score with Both File and Block
sponsored by Storage Magazine
JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY:
There are pros and cons to running multiple protocols through a single array controller.
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Network Appliance and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
sponsored by Arrow Electronics, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 29 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
SUMMARY:
This technical report reviews the best practices for implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructures on Network Appliance fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
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Part 3: New Strategies for Data Center Storage and Networking
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
VIDEOCAST: Posted: 24 Jan 2008 | When: 24 Jan 2008, 09:00 EST (14:00 GMT)
SUMMARY:
New products and strategies in data storage and networking, including storage virtualization, IP and Fiber Channel hybrids and the evolution of hard disk drive storage.
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SUN'S REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 16 Jan 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
SUMMARY:
Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid is a portfolio of Sun and third-party products designed to reduce the risks, uncertainty, and costs associated with implementing an Oracle database.
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Best Practices: Enterprise SATA Deployment with High Performance and Reliability
sponsored by DataDirect Networks
WHITE PAPER: Posted: 24 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2007
SUMMARY:
Across many organizations, the rapid growth of data is outpacing storage budgets. SATA disk based archive storage is the perfect solution. Download this white paper to learn more about disk based archive storage and see if it will work for you.
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