WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an architectural overview and configuration guidelines for deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 SP2 with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 x64 Enterprise or Standard Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Databases | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Software | SQL Server | Testing | Windows

CASE STUDY - Dell iSCSI solution simplifies storage management for MisterArt.com, supporting 80 percent business growth and nearly two times better performance.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Customer Satisfaction | Fibre Channel | Hardware | Productivity | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Testing

WHITE PAPER - This overview of Dell Virtualization Reference Architecture (RA) white paper describes three validated configurations for Dell | VMware and Dell | Citrix XenServer Dell™ edition virtual infrastructures.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Many companies realize the importance of reducing exchange server complexity by leveraging storage platform capabilities. Read this paper to discover the advantages of Storage Area Network (SAN).
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: July 10, 2008


Topics:  Collaborative Applications Software | DAS | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Disk Storage Systems | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel Switches | SAN | Server Management | Storage Hardware | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains implementing a comprehensive storage strategy based on simple, cost-effective, and capable plug-and-play technologies which can help reduce costs, increase efficiency, and ensure business continuity.
Posted: August 27, 2008 | Published: August 27, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Fibre Channel | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Read Storage Magazine's August edition which features the following articles: Enterprise-ready VTLs, Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors, Storage at your service, Lights, camera, storage!
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Ethernet Networks | Fibre Channel | MAID | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - This white paper focuses on how the Data Domain deduplication storage solution integrates with standard NBU architectural and operational environments in order to overcome the growing gap between what is being accomplished and needs to be accomplished.
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | Storage Best Practices | Systems Management | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

VIDEO - Watch this video for a brief overview of the future-ready Dell/EMC CX4 Series arrays, focusing on the innovations, such as UltraFlex modular I/O and virtual provisioning of this highly flexible storage platform.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Switches

VIDEO - Learn more about how the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays can scale capacity, performance and functionality to meet your changing storage needs today and tomorrow.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems

VIDEO - Check out this podcast and learn how virtualization can affect your company's security and the impact that this technology has on independent software vendors.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Premiered: August 12, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - This guide reviews the factors driving virtual I/O adoption, how virtual machine technologies benefit from virtual I/O, and the specific solutions that are available now.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Fibre Channel | LAN | Server Management | Server Virtualization

BROCHURE - The Dell/EMC CX4 storage arrays build on the CX reputation of flexibility, ease-of-use, and innovation, and are designed to greatly improve levels of performance and expandability. Learn more about it in this brochure.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 8, 2008


Topics:  Cost Benefit Analysis | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | High Availability | SAN | Scalability Testing | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the architecture and functionality of the Dell/EMC CX4 Series Storage Arrays, including new design innovations such as UltraFlex modular I/O technology.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how Virtual Provisioning and the new Dell/EMC CX4 Series helps organizations to reduce storage costs by increasing capacity utilization, simplifying storage management, and reducing application downtime.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Databases | Fibre Channel | Oracle (Product) | RAID | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | Storage Management | VMware

WHITE PAPER - In this white paper learn how sequential performance provides customers with improved data transfer rates for applications such as data warehousing, streaming video, high-performance technical computing, and backups and restores.
Posted: August 7, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Fibre Channel | Load Balancing | Network Performance | RAID | SNMP

WHITE PAPER - This document shares Juniper Networks best practices in designing a highly efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network.
Posted: July 29, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | Firewall Appliances | Firewall Management | Firewall Server Hardware | Firewall Server Software | iSCSI SAN | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Increasing power demands and space limitations in the data center have begun to transition server virtualization technologies from luxuries to necessities. Server virtualization provides a path toward server consolidation that results in significant...
Posted: July 18, 2008 | Published: May 14, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | Network Infrastructure | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report outlines the state of current server virtualization data protection and recovery approaches, while also keeping an eye on the future. Numerous improvements in virtualization data protection are on the horizon, and with creative use...
Posted: July 18, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Centers | Enterprise | Fibre Channel | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | Virtual Offices | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The backup system is one of the most expensive and troublesome systems in your data center, and yet it's rarely configured for optimum performance and maximum utilization of resources.
Posted: July 11, 2008 | Published: July 11, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Disk Backups | Fibre Channel | Hardware | IT Infrastructure | Software | TCP/IP

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization provides liquidity to IT by delivering improved hardware utilization, physical server consolidation, increased availability and lower data center operating costs.
Posted: July 8, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Fibre Channel | Networking | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Software | Server Virtualization | Tiered Storage

VIDEOCAST - 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.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 27, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

VIDEOCAST - 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.
Posted: June 30, 2008 | Premiered: June 30, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI SAN | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - A certain set of baseline feature requirements is emerging for the massively scalable NAS environments, including massive capacity, performance, high availability, and manageability.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Fibre Channel | High Availability | NAS | Storage Management | Worms

CASE STUDY - 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.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Fibre Channel | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: June 12, 2008 | Published: June 12, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Fibre Channel | IP SAN | NAS | Server Virtualization | VMware