Choosing a Storage Platform

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Case Study: Lessons Learned with Hyper-V and NetApp by NetApp
took into consideration when choosing a storage solution that would optimize Hyper V's potential...
Server hardware choices: Virtualization increases challenges by Dell and Microsoft
don't choose the appropriate server platform for your project. Indeed, selecting the appropriate platform requires considering a variety of factors so that the...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ — Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
turned to protecTIER, who deployed a new, director-class 4Gbps Fibre Channel fabric, a new IBM 3584 tape library with seven LTO-3 tape drives, and a virtual tape...
Choosing Servers for Production-Level Virtualization Environments: A Q&A by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Clabby is interviewed about server platform decisions points in production-level virtualization. In this podcast, analyst Joe Clabby is interviewed about server...
Solution Guide - Choosing Storage for Dell Database Solutions with Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell/EMC Storage by Dell, Inc.
34; that can help you select a storage solution to meet your capacity, performance and availability needs...
eGuide: Server Virtualization: Evaluation, Planning, and Migration by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
44; and migration tips for creating a virtual infrastructure. Creating the right virtual environment for your IT shop is all about careful evaluation,...
NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
protection, NetBackup 6.5 provides a common platform from which firms can choose and manage a comprehensive set of cost-effective options for diskbased...
The Enterprise Strategy Group on Services Oriented Storage Solutions by Hitachi Data Systems
The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate processes, simplify management and leverage physical assets without...
HP Simply Consolidation Solution Guide: Your Guide to Shared Storage for Business Efficiency by Hewlett-Packard Company
In addition, it discusses what a storage area network (SAN) does and suggests practical ways to choose the solution that is right for your business. The focus of...
The Benefits of Integrating the Virtualization Platform with the Shared Storage Backend by Citrix
platforms for both server and storage virtualization is key to realizing virtualization's full benefits. When getting started with virtualization, most IT...
Modular Storage: The Dell™ Powervault™ MD Storage Family by Dell, Inc.
simplify IT by optimizing your data storage architecture and ensuring the availability of your data. In the past, storage customers were forced to choose...
Sun Microsystems Open Storage and SSD Resource Center by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
is a one stop shop for all of your storage research needs around Open Storage and SSD (solid state drive). Here you will find expert editorial content as well as...
Editorial: Green, greener and greenest by Storage Magazine
to paraphrase him: It's not easy being a storage manager. I'll try to maintain some dignity here by not quoting Kermit the Frog on the subject of green, but it's not beneath...
PODCAST: Storage & Virtualization: Options for Smaller Environments by Dell, Inc.
specifically the effects on your storage and data management architecture. This short question and answers session walks through the benefits of...
IDC White Paper: Addressing Business Challenges with a Scalable Storage Infrastructure by Hitachi Data Systems
solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and...
XenServer Enterprise Virtualization Platform (Demo) by Citrix
manages virtualization as a flexible aggregated pool of compute and storage resources. This software demo details how this application can...
eBook - Chapter 1: Choosing Your Server by Dell, Inc. and Intel
chapter from Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) contains information to guide administrators and IT managers in the selection and...
Try XenServer Enterprise Edition Now with a Free 30-day Trial by Citrix
XenServer Enterprise Edition is a powerful platform managing virtualization as a flexible aggregated pool of compute and storage resources, for...
An Introduction to the World Digital Asset Management Market by EMC Corporation
DAM is defined as a value chain of software products that enable the archival and management of digitized content. There is vast...
Geographic Factors for Data Center Site Selection by FORTRUST LLC
Any company in the midst of a data center site selection process commonly finds itself with a number of factors to consider. The site selection...
Disaster Recovery eZine - Covering All the Bases: A Concise Guide to Disaster Recovery Essentials, from Building a Plan to Putting It to the Test by SearchDisasterRecovery.com
issue isn't whether or not you have a DR plan, but rather if you have one that will work when needed. This paper covers all the bases. Disaster recovery (DR) has...
Optimize your Thin Storage with 3PAR and Veritas Storage Foundation by Symantec Corporation
offers to its end users. Maximizing storage utilization continues to be an ongoing effort for many organizations and thin provisioning is now being...
Best Practices for an Email Archiving Deployment Plan by Sunbelt Software
of your archiving solution in a lab, the pilot testing phase, enterprise deployment phase and best practices for employee communication throughout...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
to all of their jobs, now provide a choice. For larger backup environments where multiple jobs, different data types, and variable retention periods...
LEARNING GUIDES
the array and the data

With NAS, a storage administrator is attaching to a network, and that's the value proposition of NAS: to be able to share over a network. "That's...

point of differentiation from a storage area network (SAN). SANs have no file system and support only block-level access to data through protocols, such as Fibre...
for growth.

Hill points out that a storage consolidation effort is an opportunity to minimize the amount of data that actually needs to be moved, for example, by...