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Enterprise Storage Quality Awards: Vendor Ratings across 5 Categories by Hitachi Data Systems
This e-guide highlights the results of the Enterprise Storage Quality Awards. Read now to find out which vendors scored highest in initial product quality, reliability, features, technical support, and more.

Enterprise storage arrays are among the most important facets of both IT shops, and the organization as a whole. So, naturally, they are held to high standards of service and reliability. But which vendor leads the pack in enterprise storage arrays?

This e-guide highlights the...
Top Five Business Reasons to Use Hitachi Enterprise Storage in Virtualized Server Environments by Hitachi Data Systems
applications. Access this resource to learn how Hitachi Enterprise Storage solutions can improve the performance, management and efficiency of your storage systems.

Selecting the right storage system is crucial to the success of any virtualised server environment, especially as these environments evolve to hundreds of virtual machines and critical applications. Access this resource to learn how Hitachi Enterprise Storage solutions can:

  • Improve performance, management and
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Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures by Dell, Inc.
easier to deploy, manage and build a virtualized enterprise storage infrastructure.

This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high performance, dynamic IT infrastructure, with benefits such as:

  • Simple, centralized management
  • Flexible and quick deployment of virtualized resources
  • Common IP network-based infrastructure
  • Enterprise-class
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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: Architected for Open, Simple, and Scalable Enterprise Storage by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd
hardware. By using open technologies, Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems avoid the constraints, pitfalls, and costs of traditional storage appliances.

As organizations strive to manage their rapidly expanding storage infrastructure, they face challenges that are technical, managerial, and economic. Traditional NAS appliances have fallen short, due to the proprietary nature of their software and the special-purpose nature of underlying hardware. The Sun...
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Global economic circumstances are affecting how organizations are looking at the IT environment. A tougher business climate, aggravated by volatility, increased...
E-Guide: Virtual Tape Libraries and Data Deduplication in Enterprise Storage Today by Fujitsu America, Inc.
virtual tape libraries and data deduplication in today’s enterprise storage environments.

A virtual tape library (VTL) today has varying definitions but most agree that an enterprise-class virtual tape library should back up at least tens of terabytes of data daily and be able to store hundreds. High-end virtual tape libraries must scale easily and support complex backup and recovery environments. This helps ease the ability of adding disk capacity in turn backing up more and more data all the...
White Paper: Solving the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues with Virtualization by Hitachi Data Systems
This white paper answers the question: "What can storage virtualization do for my organization?" Explore business issues that can be addressed with storage virtualization and understand how much or how little disruption such a technology could cause. This paper demonstrates six specific ways storage virtualization can help solve many of the most common issues IT organizations deal with regarding cost control, management and use of existing resources. In each case,...
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps enterprises reduce capital and operating expenditures, garner a greater return on existing storage assets and ultimately lower the total cost of ownership (TCO). Read on to learn more.

This paper examines the exceptional Storage Economics principles built into the Virtual Storage Platform. It delineates how it helps...
E-Guide: Enterprise Storage Quality Awards - Vendor ratings across 5 categories by Hitachi Data Systems
This eGuide tallies the ratings of five enterprise storage vendors and presents a detailed summary for each category. Find out which market players earned high scores, where the winner set new records, and how its other offerings are closing the gap between midrange and enterprise storage.

IDC_ Entry-Level Enterprise Storage: Stepping Up to Big Challenges by Hitachi Data Systems
paper examines the functionality and benefits a converged storage architecture provides and explains why businesses no longer have to spend more to get the enterprise-level technology best suited to their data storage needs

Managing the Information that Drives the Enterprise Storage: Focus on Storage for Virtual Machines by Dell, Inc. and Intel®
Virtualization puts new demands on storage, so whether you opt for FC, iSCSI or NAS, storage will be a key factor for your virtual environment. Read this e-book for expert tips and suggestions on managing storage for virtual servers and virtual desktops including, ten things to know about storage for VMs and choosing NAS for virtual machines.

Virtualizing servers and desktops can make maintenance and management a lot easier for system administrators but not so...
Managing the Information That Drives the Enterprise STORAGE by SearchStorage.com
industry salary trends, information about backups, storage consolidation tips, and data migration tips.

This magazine issue covers several topics, including industry salary trends, information about backups, storage consolidation tips, and data migration tips. Other topics covered in this issue include Microsoft and DAS, outsourcing and going green, data centers and converged networks, and best practices for power and cooling.
Introduction to Virtualization E-book, Chapter 5: Storage in the Virtualized World by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
virtualization, the benefits don't end there. Enterprise storage can also benefit from virtualization technologies. In addition, virtualization directly affects storage efficiency, can improve storage management and allows non-disruptive data migration across storage systems. Despite its many benefits, storage virtualization also has a number of potential drawbacks. This chapter reviews the benefits and tradeoffs of storage virtualization, discusses ways to best use this...
E-Guide: Data Deduplication and Backup Approaches in Enterprise Storage Today by IBM

Data deduplication was the hottest topic for data storage pros in 2009. It's no longer a bleeding-edge technology, and the cost savings of data reduction is especially appealing as organizations cope with data growth and tightening budgets. In response, storage vendors are pumping out more data deduplication products and approaches to cut down on the size of data stores.

This can make choosing a data deduplication and backup approach seem confusing. Fortunately, this e-guide...
IDC: The Business Value of Entry-Level Enterprise Storage by Hitachi Data Systems
In this short white paper, learn how to deploy the next-generation of entry-level arrays to businesses that are budget-conscious, but also cannot afford to compromise on technology.

HP Converged Storage Sets the Stage for the Next Era of Computing by HP and Intel
that are changing the way business storage works today.

Enterprise storage has undergone many changes in recent years – with converged storage and infrastructure 2.0 paving the way for reduced IT infrastructure costs and greater performance. This report sponsored by HP + Intel discusses the latest trends that are setting the stage for the next era of computing. Learn about the new infrastructure and storage trends that are changing the way business storage works today.
E-Guide: Improving Storage Efficiencies in your Storage Environment by Symantec Corporation
and learn how to increase overall efficiency in your enterprise storage environment.

Storage efficiency is the ability to store and manage data that consumes the least amount of space with little to no impact on performance. Learning ways to evaluate and increase storage efficiency within your organization can help manage costs, reduce complexity, and lower overall risk. Download this guide for tips on evaluating your data storage efficiency and learn how to increase overall...
Current Storage Trends: SSD & Virtual NAS by Avere Systems
tiering. You'll also learn about the latest trends in enterprise storage today, discover the ins and outs of virtual NAS and learn four ways to virtualize file access. Read on to learn more.

As data continues to grow, finding efficient and affordable storage has never been more important. And in order to keep up with today's data-intensive environments, it's critical to stay up to date on the latest storage trends and technologies.

Check out this E-Guide to learn about emerging storage solutions...
An Economical Approach To Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
is increasingly vital to business viability. While many enterprise storage management systems provide adequate data protection, most come with limited flexibility and at a high cost, especially for smaller deployments.

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer enterprise-class storage features while leveraging open source software and industry standard components to lower costs and provide greater innovation. By taking advantage of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems...
Clabby Analytics: Getting Storage Under Control by IBM
nearly every other year. Enterprises need a cost effective enterprise storage management strategy that focuses on making the storage infrastructure more efficient.

But how can you add more storage devices when you have a flat IT budget?

Take a look at this white paper to find an excellent example of an integrated storage management environment that can centrally manage a heterogeneous storage environment, automate a wide variety of storage management tasks, and enables storage to easily be...
Presentation Transcript: Best Practices around How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with NAND Flash by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

NAND flash is changing enterprise storage architectures now. Read this transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM. We'll discuss application and performance metrics, addressing of disk drives and solid state drives (SSDs), endurance, reliability and the cost saving opportunities that flash presents in today's datacenter. We'll also explain how you can utilize flash technology and the...
Presentation Transcript: How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with NAND Flash by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.

NAND flash is changing enterprise storage architectures now. Read this transcript and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM. We'll discuss application and performance metrics, addressing of disk drives and solid state drives (SSDs), endurance, reliability and the cost saving opportunities that flash presents in today's datacenter. We'll also explain how you can utilize flash technology and the...
Flash Storage for Dummies by NetApp
cost-effective technology that can be used to optimize enterprise storage environments running mission-critical, I/O intensive applications.

Check out this e-book, Flash Storage for Dummies, and explore the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. Read now to discover the benefits flash technology has to offer including:

  • Improved performance
  • Increased reliability in storage infrastructures
  • Reduced energy
  • And more

 

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