iSCSI

Evaluator Group worked with HP to access the features, performance and enterprise capabilities of the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup system. HP labs and equipment were utilized, with testing under the direction of on-site Evaluator Group personnel. Testing focused on validating high availability features, performance, and application integration.

This document provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution.

Magna International implemented NetApp storage to drive innovation while achieving enterprise IT efficiencies and agility. Read on to find out more.

DCI implemented NetApp storage to complement VMware for cost savings, data/business protection, plus cloud-enabled IT service delivery.

This study provides an overview of current virtualization trends, including plans to deploy and virtualize IT infrastructure.

Mware host level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. In this paper we explore 6 fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup.

Working with CVSI to deploy IBM Tivoli, BladeCenter and System Storage technologies

This study provides the market size and initial five-year forecast for the worldwide PBBA market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage.

Read this whitepaper to learn about solutions like the EMC Data Domain Archiver and how it addresses many challenges organizations are struggling with

This paper will discuss how the GDA enables several levels of consolidation from local backup to multi-site DR.

Read how to speed up storage provisioning, automatically fine-tune data placement, minimize disk capacity and integrate storage with SRM by implementing Fluid Data storage.

This white paper describes how Fluid Data storage reduces the capacity required to support VMware and maximizes system performance and efficiency.

The VMwareŽ vCenter Plug-In for Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays enables VMware administrators to perform a wide range of storage provisioning and management tasks themselves - without having to rely on external IT resources.

Server virtualization is becoming a no-brainer for any business that runs more than one application on servers. Nowadays, a low-end server is 64-bit capable and comes with at least 8GB of memory. Without virtualization, most such servers cruise along at 5 percent of CPU capacity with gigabytes of free memory and some I/O bandwidth to spare. Virtualization helps you better utilize these resources.

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This white paper discusses Unisphere for VNXe. It describes the Unisphere for VNXe interface, and explains how an IT generalist can easily complete storage-related tasks using this intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

This white paper introduces the EMC Fast VP technology and describes its features, functions, and management.

Server virtualization is becoming a no-brainer for any business that runs more than one application on servers. Nowadays, a low-end server is 64-bit capable and comes with at least 8GB of memory. Without virtualization, most such servers cruise along at 5 percent of CPU capacity with gigabytes of free memory and some I/O bandwidth to spare. Virtualization helps you better utilize these resources.

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

It's a fact that nothing drives upsell and cross-sell opportunities more than storage sales. A new eZine from Everything Channel can show you exactly where the opportunities are today in the red-hot storage market and how to make the best of them. New data, fresh insight, and sales strategies you can take right out into the field all await you in this new online publication from Everything Channel.

In this White Paper, IDC discusses the reasons for ongoing data growth within organizations and examines a number of technology approaches that can help IT departments manage the costs associated with provisioning storage more effectively. Understanding what drives the growth of data, the challenges inherent with existing practices for provisioning new storage and the economic impact of the low utilization rates for storage found in most enterprises will help businesses in assessing the right approach to their next storage acquisition, in light of the change in economic dynamics and the looming threat of a storage management meltdown. IT departments have several primary concerns about storage infrastructure: * Ensuring application and data availability * Limiting downtime, both scheduled and unscheduled * Ensuring data security and integrity * Reducing the initial acquisition and ongoing costs associated with storage * Managing storage resources and their utilization levels * Addressing the complexities within the storage environment All of these issues are of great concern to IT departments and, if not handled correctly, can lead to challenges for the business. Since many IT departments are concerned with these issues, we can begin to understand the many challenges faced when it is time to provision new storage capacity, be it for a new application or to cater for the growth in data from existing applications or users.

As the economy emerges from the global financial crisis of 2009 and businesses start to take a cautiously optimistic view of the future, IDC is seeing certain changes take place within the business environment, especially around attitudes to IT purchasing and specifically around the challenges that have emerged regarding storage technologies. Most critically is the emergence of storage as a business critical solution environment that proved to be immune to the recession, in that businesses were quick to discover that, in spite of the slowdown in revenues and income, data continued to grow and, in some cases, this growth in data was a direct result of the impact of the recession. Consequently, one of the unexpected outcomes of the financial crisis is that storage has emerged as a new area of concern for business owners as they began to understand that it was almost impossible to reduce data growth and, therefore, efficient methods of managing data will have a direct impact to the efficiency of the business.

Crest Animation, a full-service animation studio based in India, has been growing rapidly and expanding its market by working on full-length feature movies. In order to take on an increased workload, the company needed to upgrade its storage infrastructure. The company was looking for a storage solution that was robust and scalable, that would eliminate bottlenecks, and that could grow quickly. Read this case study to learn how Crest Animation implemented a scalable storage solution with a unified, high-performance, highly reliable infrastructure that is bottleneck-free.

This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining-to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. Is there a way out?

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010. In this free white paper, they'll show you how to simplify managing all that extra data while lowering costs, by implementing unified storage.