WEBCAST - This webcast is part of Falconstor Software's "IT as a Weapon Series" designed to provide insight for IT managers and storage professionals. In this presentation, Vice President of Falconstor's Enterprise Solutions, Chris Poelker, discusses common IT challenges, the importance of deduplication, and examines the benefits of Falconstor's solutions.
Posted: May 20, 2009 | Premiered: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | RPO | RTO | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Today's storage environments need a way to keep data intact without consuming corresponding disk storage. The FalconStor® File Interface Deduplication System provides the solution. Read on to discover the amazing benefits of this data deduplication solution.
Posted: May 20, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Databases | Disk Backups | Disk-to-Disk Backup | SQL | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Replication

WHITE PAPER - Dell™ EqualLogic™ Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.
Posted: May 14, 2009 | Published: November 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Security | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This TIP research paper delivers findings from over 245 in-depth interviews with Storage professionals at large enterprises, most of them among the Fortune 1000. Read on to learn about the top Storage team challenges and initiatives, current state of deduplication environments and solutions, and much more.
Posted: May 8, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups

TRIAL SOFTWARE - Getting data moved over to a new server is more than merely copying the most recent files and folders to that machine. File security, permissions, shared folders and local groups facilitating access need to be maintained.
Posted: April 15, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Migration | File Server Software | NAS | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Security | Windows Server Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper introduces three techniques employed in the production Data Domain deduplication file system and shows how they can be used to relieve the disk bottleneck.
Posted: April 10, 2009 | Published: April 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Management | Data Management | Data Storage | Disk Backups | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Tape Backups | Tape Libraries

EBOOK - Now is the time to realize all of the benefits of virtualizing your test and development lab. This chapter highlights some of the benefits of consolidating your test and development environments through virtualization, including costs savings, accelerated time to deployment and system consistency throughout your environment.
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Published: March 19, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
Posted: March 14, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

CASE STUDY - In its VMware server environment, Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (HE&R) needed to get more proactive visibility into its resource utilization and allocations to plan for future growth.
Posted: March 6, 2009 | Published: March 6, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

TRIAL SOFTWARE - In a virtual server infrastructure where all resources are shared, optimal performance can only be achieved with an adequate amount of properly allocated resource capacity. Not allocating enough resources can cause critical bottlenecks - leading to performance problems and costly downtime events.
Posted: January 9, 2009 | Published: January 9, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Server

CASE STUDY - Using the VKernel Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer, Hasbro is able to continuously monitor shared CPU, memory, and storage usage to properly allocate the required resources among all of its deployed virtual machines.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Authentication | Capacity Planning | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Visualization | Enterprise Resource Management | Linux | Memory | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains the advantages that virtual machine provides to the IT department.
Posted: November 14, 2008 | Published: November 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | IT Departments | Memory | ROI | SAN | Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Systems Management | Virtual Machine | VMware

WHITE PAPER - VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
Posted: June 19, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware

MICROSITE - The Enterprise SSD Information Center includes independent expert advice from industry analysts, Fusion-IO content for the enterprise and a special video exploring the use of SSD in the enterprise. Learn how Fusion-IO's SSD Solutions can improve your company's bottom line today.
Posted: March 19, 2008 | Published: March 19, 2009


Topics:  Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor

PODCAST - In this expert Podcast, Nik Simpson, analyst with The Burton Group, discusses trends in green storage, distinguishing industry hype from what storage managers are actually doing in the real world.
Posted: November 30, 2007 | Premiered: July 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Spending