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User Directed Storage Management: How To Make Users Accountable For Responsible Storage Usage sponsored by Northern Parklife WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored. Posted: 12 Feb 2009 \| Published: 12 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS Software \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: IT Infrastructure \| Network Optimization \| Operations \| Storage Virtualization

Open Source and Virtualization: Twin Trends to Drive Customer Value sponsored by Red Hat and JBoss WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in IT. This white paper provides an introduction to virtualization and explores the relationship between virtualization and open source and its effect on user control and efficiency. Posted: 18 Sep 2007 \| Published: 01 May 2007 TOPICS: Infrastructure Management \| Linux \| Open Source \| Open Source Software \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| 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

Five Hurdles Organizations Face When Investigating IT Virtualization & How to Overcome Them sponsored by About Agilysys, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Virtualization, while an important advancement for IT, has been put on the "back burner" by many organizations that think the project will be time consuming and costly. Learn about the realities of virtualization and why organizations should not wait. Posted: 25 Jan 2007 \| Published: 25 Jan 2007 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| High Availability \| SAN \| Server Consolidation \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Benefit Solution Case Study - Timmons Group sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: Timmons Group is a leader in the civil engineering industry; however, their storage requirements were growing at an unprecedented pace. Read this case study to learn how this company was able to overcome their challenges with innovative SAN solutions. Posted: 02 Apr 2008 \| Published: 02 Apr 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Migration \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization

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 TOPICS: Metadata \| Operating Systems \| ROI \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition for Hyper-V sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: Dell's Auto-Snapshot Manager / Microsoft Edition is an innovative bundled data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN. It's designed to help deliver high-performance, redundant, highly-available storage platforms for Hyper-V deployments - supporting departmental to mission-critical Windows server applications. Posted: 25 Mar 2009 \| Published: 25 Mar 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine Monitor

Streamline Your Storage Usage: 4 Straightforward Ways To True NAS Management sponsored by Northern Parklife WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention. Posted: 12 Feb 2009 \| Published: 12 Feb 2009 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Disaster Recovery \| NAS Software \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Provisioning \| Storage Resource Management \| Storage Virtualization