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ESG Lab Validation Report on Brocade Virtual Fabrics and Director Power Efficiency
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Hands-on lab testing of Fibre Channel directors including measurements by an independent electrician. Learn how power savings can leave more watts and amps available per rack and per floor tile for bladed servers and storage.
Posted: 15 May 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

Brocade

Secrets to Shrinking Your Storage for VMware
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: VMware has drastically increased storage capacity requirements, but deduplication functionality can help reverse this effect. Read this white paper to learn how real IT shops have managed to achieve space capacity savings in the virtualized data center.
Posted: 19 Dec 2008 | Published: 19 Dec 2008

NetApp

NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices
sponsored by NetApp
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

NetApp

HP Servers in a Virtual Environment
sponsored by PC Connection and HP
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to provide examples of how HP server virtualization and HP storage virtualization technologies work together to improve data center operational efficiency.
Posted: 19 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Dec 2005

PC Connection and HP

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Vmware Edition Automated, Integrated, and Scalable Protection of Virtual Machines
sponsored by DellEMC and IntelĀ®
WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

DellEMC and IntelĀ®

Virtualization Overview
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Virtualization has the power to improve performance across IT and new hardware components like blades and 64-bit processors have only fueled its popularity. Download this paper to get a comprehensive overview of the virtualization infrastructure.
Posted: 21 Dec 2006 | Published: 01 Dec 2006

VMware, Inc.

Virtualized Storage from HP
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This paper is designed to help users who would like to understand virtualization better in order to evaluate the operational benefits it could provide.
Posted: 30 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Consolidation through Virtualization
sponsored by IBM Software Group
WHITE PAPER: A consolidated infrastructure based on virtualization capabilities can help lower costs by reducing complexity, improving utilization and easing management through a common management platform and efficient tooling.
Posted: 13 Mar 2008 | Published: 12 Mar 2008

IBM Software Group

Optimizing Storage with Global File Virtualization
sponsored by EMC Corporation
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

EMC Corporation

Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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

Oracle Corporation