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Finding the Risks and Opportunities in Your Storage
sponsored by NTP Software
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 20 Oct 2009 | |
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Managing storage has become one of the most important tasks for many companies. Often the volume of data and the complexity of the environment make it hard figure out where to start. This White Paper will help you understand where to find the things that matter in your environment.
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Using VMware Infrastructure 3 with 3PAR Utility Storage in Datacenter Deployments
sponsored by 3PAR
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2006 | |
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This paper discusses the complementary benefits of combining features of VMware and 3PAR technologies to gain increased performance and avoid the cost of over-provisioning servers and storage in an IT infrastructure.
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How to Select the Correct RAID for an EqualLogic SAN
sponsored by Dell India
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2009 | |
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One of the most important decisions that you have to make when deploying a new storage solution is what RAID type(s) to use. Read this white paper for a discussion on how to select the right RAID policy for your Dell EqualLogic™ storage area network (SAN) arrays.
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Six Easy Ways to Control Storage Growth
sponsored by NTP Software
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Sep 2009 | |
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Controlling storage growth has become one of the most important challenges for many companies. This White Paper explores six ways that others have used with great success.
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Consolidating Multiple SQL Server 2000 systems using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This document covers the key overall concepts and procedures you need to setup and configure your Hyper-V platform. It reviews in detail the approach that PT and Dell recommend for a tested and validated installation of Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V.
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Consolidate SQL Server 2008 on Dell 4 Socket - Multi-Core Servers - using Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 10 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 10 Sep 2009 | |
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This Guide is a companion to How to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft’s Hyper-V. In this Guide, we use the Dell PowerEdge R900 and PowerEdge R905 as target servers.
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Streamlining Storage With CommVault Deduplication in the Dell PowerVault DL2000
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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The deduplication capabilities of CommVault® Simpana® 8.0 software in the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL2000 – Powered by CommVault are designed to eliminate unnecessary copies of backup and archive data—providing an integrated, simplified way to streamline storage throughout the enterprise.
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Northern Solution Series: Profiting From Real-World Storage Management
sponsored by Northern Parklife
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 03 Aug 2009 | |
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The Northern Storage Suite is a management solution by Northern Parklife Inc. that will help reclaim, reduce and maximize your current infrastructure. This article provides four real-world examples dealing with reclaiming capacity, reducing data growth, maximizing storage resources, and involving users while minimizing administration.
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Email, Database and File Sharing on Dell™ NX4: Dell NX4 Reference Architecture for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Microsoft SQL Sever 2005
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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The NX4 allows businesses to consolidate Microsoft Exchange application storage, Microsoft SQL database storage, and general purpose file servers on to a single, unified storage platform. This consolidated storage methodology delivers network-attached storage (NAS) for file sharing and iSCSI or Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) connectivity.
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Dell NX4: Achieving Storage Efficiency with Data Deduplication
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2008 | |
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This paper illustrates the concepts of Celerra Data Deduplication. It also shows how a user can use and manage deduplication on the Dell NX4 network-attached storage (NAS) system.
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ESG White Paper: Enabling Enterprise Class Features for the Mid-Range: Focus on BlueArc Mercury
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution.
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SiliconFS™: The BlueArc® Filesystem
sponsored by BlueArc Corp.
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Jul 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jul 2009 | |
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The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
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Seven Requirements for Balancing Control and Agility in the Virtual Environment
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Unparalleled agility is the promise of virtualization. But managing change, staying compliant, and preventing virtual sprawl are just a few of the challenges you could face before you reap the rewards. VMware joined us recently to co-author 7 must-read tips for striking the perfect balance in your virtual environment.
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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 17 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 15 Jun 2009 | |
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Virtualization adds a whole new level of complexity to the IT infrastructure, introducing new challenges in every step of the process *#45; from planning to configuration and management. Read how effective service management can help tackle the challenges of virtualization in this white paper from BMC Software.
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