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Unified Storage Comparison Guide
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This useful comparative guide will help you understand the current entry-level enterprise unified storage landscape. Read on to compare the benefits of different offerings, and find a solution that meets your current and future storage requirements.
Posted: 13 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

Hitachi Vantara

Virtualization Is Key to Storage Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have consolidated their storage infrastructures and a growing number see storage virtualization as an essential part of an effective consolidation strategy. Read this white paper to learn the benefits delivered from this strategy.
Posted: 01 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Avoiding SAN Performance Problems
sponsored by Virtual Instruments
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

Virtual Instruments

Capabilities of leading RAID storage system may surprise you
sponsored by Dot Hill Systems Corp.
WHITE PAPER: SUSE needed a new storage infrastructure to accommodate over 80TB of data to host its core SUSE Linux Enterprise internal development environment. This case study illustrates how SUSE utilized one storage solution to address these issues and, in turn, reaped the many benefits.
Posted: 07 May 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Dot Hill Systems Corp.

Building the Efficient Enterprise with Dell, Intel, and VMware vSphere 4
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
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

DellEMC and Intel®

Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage
sponsored by EMC
WHITE PAPER: In this two-page paper, discover a data strategy designed for organizations with VNX storage and explore the top five reasons VNX users deploy this strategy in their IT environment.
Posted: 26 Jul 2013 | Published: 29 Jun 2012

EMC

NetApp’s Crafty Acquisition of Akorri Will Be Boon to Users — and Not Just NetApp Users
sponsored by NetApp
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

NetApp

A Perfect Fit: IBM XIV Storage System with VMWare for Optimized Storage-Server Virtualization
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere
sponsored by 3PAR
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

3PAR

Software-defined Storage: the overall benefits
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief video cuts through some of the confusion surrounding SDS and tells you what to look for – and what to avoid – when choosing an SDS product.
Posted: 18 Mar 2015 | Published: 18 Mar 2015

IBM