Storage Hardware White Papers

WHITE PAPER: In selecting a disk-based backup solution, it's critical to consider the scalability of each prospective solution to ensure that it will meet the needs of your organization now and into the future. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explores one such technology - a data center solution designed to help organizations achieve timely, repeatable and consistent virtual deployments - and explores how it stands up against some of today's most pressing virtualization challenges. Also included are today's best practices regarding virtual environments.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper makes the business case for utility storage, the delivery of IT resources as a service (similar to a water or electric company), and introduces an infrastructure solution designed to leverage this principle and improve an organization's journey to the cloud. Read on to learn about this emerging technology and its benefits.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ESG lab review explores the results from hands-on testing of an emerging SAN solution designed to meet today's growing storage challenges. In this paper, learn how this integrated technology can deliver an unprecedented price-performance ratio while maintaining easy installation and simplified management.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a brief introduction to several technologies that can help you reap the benefits of storage consolidation. Read on to learn the keys to creating a unified storage infrastructure, and how to lower costs throughout your storage infrastructure without compromising efficiency or performance.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: You need to optimize your IT infrastructure to ensure future business success. This white paper explores an efficient, cost-effective, and easy-to manage approach to achieving this goal. Learn how to leverage the full potential of virtualization and discover a recommended storage system and its key benefits.

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper for an overview of scale-out storage and gain insights on cloud topology, hardware and software deployment, configuration steps and more.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource takes a closer look at a hyperscale-inspired server that is based on one of the world’s lowest power per core processors, enabling you to worry less about your budget and more about growing your business.

Posted: 23 Aug 2011 | Published: 23 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces EMC Unisphere  for VNXe, a web-based management environment for creating storage resources; configuring and scheduling protection for stored data; and managing and monitoring other storage operations on VNXe platforms.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses key criteria and decision points for determining what server and storage hardware are appropriate for a medium-sized SharePoint Server 2010 farm. It offers guidelines and rules of thumb for determining how much storage space should be allocated, and when separate storage volumes are desirable.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: This research note presents results from a recent survey on virtualization and cloud computing. Find out why many of your peers are looking into fabric-based infrastructures and get recommendations to help you leverage the full benefits of this technology.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to provide DX Storage administrators, application developers, and support teams instructions on the DX platform configuration required when applications are utilizing the remote synchronous write feature to enable synchronous writes to a local and remote DX Clusters.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper we explore Object Storage, compare it to traditional NAS, and demonstrate that an intelligent, policy based data management strategy is the best approach to determining when it is beneficial for organizations to use Object Storage, or continue to use NAS.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper we explore Object Storage, compare it to traditional NAS, and demonstrate that an intelligent, policy based data management strategy is the best approach to determining when it is beneficial for organizations to use Object Storage, or continue to use NAS.

Posted: 29 Mar 2011 | Published: 29 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: In support of the launch of the new SMB focused VNXe unified storage systems, EMC recently announced sweeping enhancements and additions to its award winning Velocity Solutions Provider Program. Access the IDC report now to further details.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to Increase your opportunities and shorten your sales cycle by selling the EMC® VNXe™ series, a new unified storage offering for small and medium-size businesses. Continue reading this paper to learn the top five reasons to sell EMC’s new VNXe series unified storage.

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 | Published: 14 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: EMC has just announced two new unified storage platforms. EMC states that these two products build on the simplicity and efficiency focus it is already driving by adding affordability and power – overall its new products are “optimized for virtualized IT.” This paper will review the validity and relevance of these assertions against market needs.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: The EMC VNXe series redefines networked storage for the small business to small enterprise user, delivering an unequaled combination of features, simplicity, and efficiency. This paper takes an in-depth look at the EMC VNXe series hardware and base software solutions.

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 | Published: 12 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This guide provides an overview of the specific reasons customers choose to deploy Microsoft applications with Hyper-V on EMC's VNXe storage solution.

Posted: 12 Feb 2011 | Published: 12 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: EMC has long been considered the leader in information management and storage solutions for companies of all sizes all over the world. And EMC backup, recovery, and archiving solutions are specifically designed to conquer midsize workloads and business challenges. Read this white paper to learn more about EMC midsize solutions.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we compare a typical Exchange 2003 configuration of 10,000 mailboxes on somewhat legacy hardware with two examples of an Exchange 2010 configuration to show the potential efficiencies attainable by migrating to Exchange 2010 on new server and storage hardware from Dell.

Posted: 22 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 May 2010