WHITE PAPER - 8GFC technology is priced at a significant premium over 4GFC and depending on the configuration, deployment of 8GFC may be up to 2X the cost of using 4GFC.
Posted: October 8, 2008 | Published: October 8, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Hardware | SAN | Server Virtualization | Switching | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This report by Clabby Analytics, an independent research firm, examines trends in scale-out system designs and the critical impact that virtualization is having on enhancing overall systems utilization, management and operations.
Posted: October 2, 2008 | Published: October 2, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | High Availability | IT Infrastructure | SAN | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document explains how Fibre Channel will continue to improve and be an important SAN technology.
Posted: October 1, 2008 | Published: September 30, 2008


Topics:  DAS | Fibre Channel | LAN | NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the ways that SEPATON technology enables customers to get the most value, efficiency, and performance from their TSM environments.
Posted: September 24, 2008 | Published: September 23, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | LAN | Storage Management | Storage Media | Virtual Tape Libraries

WHITE PAPER - Fans of the CLARiiON midrange storage family will be pleased with the next-generation CX4 series, the release of which was recently announced by EMC.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | VMware | WAN

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores SAS -- a relatively new entry into the disk drive market -- as a very viable replacement for Fibre Channel based (FC) disk drives.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 9, 2008


Topics:  Disk Drives | Fibre Channel | IT Managers | RAID | SAN

WHITE PAPER - This guide is designed to help you understand the benefits of consolidating your storage by sharing storage from multiple application servers.
Posted: September 8, 2008 | Published: September 8, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | Data Storage | Fibre Channel | Networking | RAID | SAN | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - When evaluating storage solutions for DR in a virtual environment, there are several aspects you should consider. In this E-Guide discover several concerns to be aware of when planning for disaster recovery in a virtual server environment.
Posted: September 4, 2008 | Published: September 4, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Downtime | Fibre Channel | RPO | RTO | Server Virtualization | Storage Virtualization | WAN

WHITE PAPER - In this paper Greg Schulz and Jon Toor talks about the industry trends and perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center.
Posted: September 1, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | Ethernet Networks | Fibre Channel | Server Virtualization | VMware

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

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 - 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 - 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

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

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 - Before you can deploy server virtualization in the data center, you need a broad vision of how the process will work. Read this white paper for a step-by-step guide for virtualization planning, implementation, and management. Topics covered include...
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 - 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.
Posted: June 5, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Fibre Channel | NAS | Networking | SAN

WHITE PAPER - BlueArc's Titan Architecture is a revolutionary step in file servers with its hardware-based file system. This paper explains the details of the architecture to better understand the unique hardware-accelerated design and the object based file system.
Posted: March 10, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Fibre Channel | File Servers | Hardware | HPC | IETF | Network Attached Storage | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Systems | TCP/IP

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: January 16, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Grid Computing | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: December 24, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Content Archiving | Content Archiving Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | RAID | Regulatory Compliance | Serial ATA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Security