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Storage Virtualization - The Next Step in Controlling Spiraling Costs sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Storage consolidation provides a partial solution to soaring storage administrative costs by expanding device connectivity and reducing points of management. It does this by simplifying cumbersome tasks-like allocating storage, load balancing, configuring RAID, and backing up and restoring data. Get the details here. Posted: 25 Mar 2009 \| Published: 25 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| TCO

Special Report: Virtualization sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is an approach to pooling and sharing IT resources so they can flexibly and automatically meet fluctuating business demand. This special report provides a complete outline on virtualization from how to get started technically and organiz... Posted: 01 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2007 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Regulatory Compliance \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Security \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware

InfiniBand Software and Protocols Enable Seamless Off-the-shelf Applications Deployment sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The focus of this article is to discuss what application developers need to know to enable their IP, SCSI, iSCSI, sockets or file system based applications to operate over InfiniBand. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

Dell NX4: Achieving Storage Efficiency with Data Deduplication sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: 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. Posted: 22 Jul 2009 \| Published: 01 Dec 2008 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Replication \| NAS \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

Agentless Architecture: Agentless Backup is Not a Myth sponsored by Asigra WHITE PAPER: Agentless backup is NOT a myth. The Asigra solution is proof because it requires no agents, which inherently makes it easier to install and support than legacy backup and recovery solutions. This paper serves as an introduction to Asigra's Hybrid Cloud Backup and Recovery Software. Posted: 20 Apr 2009 \| Published: 20 Apr 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Continuous Data Protection \| NAS \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel WHITE PAPER: Intel IT planned, engineered, and has implemented a virtualized business-computing production environment. This multi-year initiative has confirmed virtualization benefits including server consolidation ratios between 10:1 and 16:1, faster deployment, and faster recovery. This white paper explains how they implemented virtualization. Posted: 17 Apr 2009 \| Published: 02 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| ROI \| Storage Management \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Backups \| Best Practices \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VMware

InfiniBand for Storage Applications sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: InfiniBand defines an industry-standard implementation of remote direct memory access, protocols and kernel bypass to minimize CPU overhead allowing computing resources to be fully used on application processing rather than network communication. Posted: 04 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Dec 2007 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Infiniband Architecture \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software	All resources sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, Inc.

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 TOPICS: Blade Servers \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Software Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Virtualize Servers with Microsoft Hyper-V and NetApp sponsored by NetApp and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: Microsoft's Hyper-V technology provides a full-featured server virtualization environment that is well suited for Windows and non-Windows environments. This article will help you understand Hyper-V with some guidelines for getting started using the technology in NetApp environments. Posted: 09 Feb 2009 \| Published: 09 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Security \| Disaster Recovery \| Hard Disks \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Virtualization