Storage Virtualization Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Dell tested a sample of 1,000 virtual desktops and simulated real-world workloads using a Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN in a Citrix XenDesktop VDI environment with Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 as the hypervisor.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper covers the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management.  Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion®, and vSphere DRS.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the real value of storage virtualization from both business and IT perspectives, and offers explanations of the varying storage virtualization approaches with advice on how to make a technology and vendor decision.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 14 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about the acquisition of Akorri Networks, Inc. by NetApp. and the ways in which this merger is helping to provide customers with new virtualization technologies.

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

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: The deployment of virtualization technology has allowed businesses of all sizes to reduce costs and optimize resources. The impact has been particularly dramatic with server virtualization. By virtualizing their servers, many organizations have dramatically reduced their IT investment in hardware procurement. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 04 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Used by more than 37,000 customers worldwide, HP Data Protector provides automated backup and recovery of physical and virtual servers from disk or tape. Read this paper to learn answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about HP Data Protector software and the Granular Recovery Extension for SharePoint 2007.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment.

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization technology is here to stay. When choosing a server virtualization application, it's important to understand the many facets various solutions have, and the limitations inherant in them. This paper explains the benefits of InMage's software-based solution.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT and business managers who are charged with controlling their budgets while closing infrastructure gaps and extending the benefits of IT virtualization will benefit from this white paper.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the emergence of standards-based architectures, virtualization, and ubiquitous high-speed connectivity, cloud computing technology is primed to form the basis for a new, highly efficient enterprise IT infrastructure. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This IBM white paper describes how Virtualization is an important element of a dynamic infrastructure and expands on the areas of server, storage, application, network, and client virtualization and the IBM technology and benefits from each.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: The rapid adoption of server virtualization technology by organizations of all sizes has been driven by cost, flexibility and time to market. The cost savings in server consolidation are the primary motivators, but the ability to quickly deploy new applications to suit changes in the business has led many to use VMware products.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper documents the procedure for failback from a VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) recovery site after SRM has performed a failover on an HP LeftHand SAN. This document is intended for customers who are using an HP LeftHand SAN with VMware.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Published: 05 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Have you extended your virtual infrastructure to include the benefits of advanced storage virtualization? This white paper serves as an in-depth, step-by-step guide to successful storage virtualization.

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 17 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: The goal of this paper is to present the unique considerations that virtualization presents to regulatory and standards compliance, and then prescriptively describe how to mitigate risks.

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Global file virtualization is changing network storage management. Learn about a solution that allows organizations to easily simplify management, increase utilization, resolve performance bottlenecks, leverage tiered storage and lower TCO.

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 03 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read the IDC Vendor Spotlight on Zmanda. Learn the latest user requirements, market trends and the unique role of Zmanda in bringing enterprise-scale open source backup & recovery solution to the market.

Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 May 2008