WHITE PAPER - The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

CASE STUDY - In the automotive world, testing is part of the culture, and it extends to the IT team where initiatives are undertaken with scientific precision. Such was the case with SGF, a Bavarian maker of automobile parts that was seeking a storage management solution. As this Case Study shows, SGF found the perfect match with Northern Storage Suite.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Disaster Recovery | NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Data de-duplication has been described as the next evolutionary step in backup technology. Many vendors lay claim to the best data de-duplication approach, leaving customers to face the difficulty of separating hype from reality. This document provides the background information required to make an informed data de-duplication purchasing decision.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Storage | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

BOOK - In chapter 13 of "Storage Area Networks For Dummies," important concepts of data de-duplication are detailed. The techniques described are designed to "lighten the load" of a company's data storage infrastructure, freeing up crucial storage space, and eliminating multiple instances of the same data.
Posted: February 12, 2009 | Published: February 12, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Content Archiving | Data Storage | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Virtual Tape Libraries

BOOK - In this chapter on Continuous Data Protection, you will learn how to use recent technical innovations to instantaneously recover data while enhancing overall data protection to make it faster, easier and more efficient.
Posted: February 10, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Backups | DAS | Disaster Recovery | LAN | SAN

WHITE PAPER - In this guide, OpenStorage best practices are examined and discussed to assist in eliminating the bottlenecks associated with deployment and functional testing of the solution.
Posted: January 30, 2009 | Published: January 30, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Domain Name Systems | NAS | RAID | Remote Computing | SAN

EGUIDE - This series of tips discusses the issues involved in integrating solid state drives at three junctions in enterprise storage environments.
Posted: December 19, 2008 | Published: December 19, 2008


Topics:  Hard Disk Drives | RAM | ROI | SAN | Storage Management | Windows

PRODUCT LITERATURE - Combining Microsoft Hyper-V technology with SCVMM 2008 on Dell platforms can help organizations create highly available virtualized systems while offering simplified management, dynamic performance, and reduced costs.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  High Availability | IT Infrastructure | Productivity | SAN | Server Virtualization | SQL Server | TCP/IP | Vendors | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This Dell High Availability Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V introduces different options to implement HA for Hyper-V environments.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Enterprise | High Availability | Memory | Operating Systems | SAN | SMBs | Testing | Virtual Machine Monitor

WHITE PAPER - This article provides an introduction to Hyper-V virtualization, discusses the overall architecture and underlying technologies, and offers guidance on best practices for deployment on Dell PowerEdge servers.
Posted: December 11, 2008 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Management | DHCP | Enterprise | High Availability | Operating Systems | SAN | Server Virtualization | Virtual Machine Monitor | VMware

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, and increase application performance.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: December 2, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | Disaster Recovery | IT Infrastructure | IT Managers | SAN | VMware

BOOK - This document describes the Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Databases | Enterprise | Memory | SAN

BOOK - Sun offers services that assist IT users with the opportunity to start evaluating open storage architecture strategies and evaluating how an open storage architecture can better support their organization' business and budgetary goals.
Posted: December 2, 2008 | Published: November 27, 2008


Topics:  Backups | MySQL | NAS | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

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