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Using the F5 Acopia ARX for Automated Storage Tiering by F5 Networks
file data. The F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solution provides an automated tiering approach, without the drawbacks associated with other solutions. The amount...
Intelligent File Virtualization: Breaking Free from the Constraints of Today's File Storage Infrastructure by F5 Networks
Intelligent file virtualization solves issues pertaining to current file storage infrastructure in a simple and effective manner. This white paper...
IT Briefing: The Benefits of File Virtualization by EMC Corporation
Webcast entitled "The Benefits of File Virtualization." File virtualization is a set of interrelated technologies that administrators are deploying to help manage network...
Top Windows Storage Improvements for Cutting Costs in 2009 by F5 Networks
Today's IT infrastructures are complex and inflexible--and most of them just keep growing. Storage expenditures keep...
What is Microsoft Hyper-V? by Dell and Microsoft
In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai talks with WhatIs.com's Alex Howard about Microsoft's Hyper-V, a new virtualization platform from the...
Oracle Real Application Clusters in Oracle VM Environments by Oracle Corporation
by creating a software-based virtualization infrastructure that offers high availability and grid readiness. Running sophisticated or highly-available...
Virtualization Security: A Coordinated Approach for Intrusion Detection and Prevention by Third Brigade
This white paper examines current approaches to securing virtualized environments and how your company can...
Meeting the Challenges Affecting Data Replication Performance and Reliability by F5 Networks
of this the ever-present budget limitations, and it can make data replication solutions quite complicated.

The performance of most data replication solutions...
SAP Solutions on VMware Infrastructure: Customer Use Cases by VMware and Intel
real SAP customers have used VMware virtualization to: Optimize datacenter resources; Ease SAP upgrades, new implementations, and platform migrations; Better meet...
TechNet Webcast: Virtualization of Production Workloads including Active Directory, SQL Server, and Others (Level 200) by Microsoft
We concentrate on the single server virtualization approach in this presentation; we explore the high-availability approaches in related webcasts. In this session,...
Storage Virtualization Tips by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
when getting involved in a storage virtualization project. VMware, MS Virtual Server and VirtualIron make a lot of things easier:
- They don't make backup easier and can make...
An Architectural Framework for Enterprise Email Infrastructure & Security: Getting It Right Today, Getting Ready for Tomorrow by Sendmail, Inc.
paper examines the architecture limitations prevalent in today's large-enterprise email networks. As email security becomes an ever-more demanding problem...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
for a variety of reasons: capacity limitations, modernization, consolidation, and many others. But firms also need an alternate data center that's an...
Editorial: Top 10 Reasons to Find Another Vendor by Storage Magazine
with infinity to describe the limitations of a feature, take it as a sign that the limitations are very real and something you're bound to bang up against very soon.

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Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper discusses the 4 key reasons why one solution's byte-level data deduplication outperforms in-line...
An Economical, Automated Disaster Recovery Solution for Complete Protection of Your SAP Environment by Unisys
recovery and discusses some of the limitations of traditional disaster recovery for SAP environments. It then explores the Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP...
Reduce Your Storage Footprint: Data Reduction with Online Storage Optimization by Ocarina Networks
Ocarina File-Aware Optimization is a breakthrough new way to manage the explosive growth of online storage that lets you store up to...
Using VMware® ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides many different capabilities to improve these...
Finding the ‘Right Fit' for Protecting Virtual Machine Workloads by Symantec Corporation
addresses some drawbacks of server virtualization by delivering solutions that match requirements and workloads in various virtualization deployment scenarios. A...
Unlocking the Full Power of Massive Parallelism: Solving the Network Bottleneck in MPP Databases by Aster Data Systems
This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives. This...
Arrays Score with Both File and Block by Storage Magazine
a single array controller. File-system protocols like CIFS and NFS treat files as a single entity. For example, when a user opens a file, it's opened in its...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
through the filesystem. If a backup file is changed, deleted, or added during a backup, usually the worst thing that can happen is that the contents of the...
Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage: High Performance Storage for High Performance Computing by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
of the Sun Lustre™ file system as a scalable storage cluster using Sun Fire™ servers, high speed/low latency InfiniBand interconnects,...
Solaris ZFS File System Features and Enhancements in the Solaris Operating System for Enterprise Users by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Solaris ZFS file system helps companies take advantage of open storage platforms, enhance data services, and ease administration...
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EMC DiskXtender software), dynamic file virtualization (EMC Rainfinity software), network management (EMC Smarts software) and IP-based fixed content storage (EMC Centera...
types in the same array. A Celerra file-mover API leveraged with EMC's Rainfinity file management appliance (FMA) allows users to automate the movement of data...
wants to control access, speed file serving and improve its ability to back up, protect and recover the data. So IT pulls storage out of the servers and...
by implementing wholesale server virtualization. In addition to seeking better storage utilization, Buening says his operation wanted to improve reliability and...