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IDC White Paper: Key Criteria in Selecting an Enterprise Online PC Backup Solution
sponsored by Iron Mountain
WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates the top–level benefits of online PC backup. Read this paper to learn more about how to choose an online PC backup solution for your mid-sized organization or enterprise!
Posted: 11 Jan 2010 | Published: 15 Dec 2008

Iron Mountain

Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange Server - Data Domain Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide
sponsored by EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions
WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.
Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009

EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions

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

Asigra

Best Practices: Backing Up VMware with Veritas NetBackup
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: As there are many ways of using VMware technology, there are just as many methods available for protecting this innovative technology. System administrators and IT technologists can use this paper to determine one of three recommended solutions for protecting VMs. Each of these technologies has relative advantages and disadvantages.
Posted: 17 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

Symantec Corporation

Best Practice for NDMP Backup Veritas NetBackup
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Customers are confronting the confusing number of options and configurations when it comes to backing up and restoring their network attached storage servers. This paper addresses this by describing the best practices for protecting and recovering NAS devices utilizing the Network Data Management Protocol.
Posted: 06 Mar 2009 | Published: 05 Jan 2009

Symantec Corporation

Next Generation Management Software for Blade Environments
sponsored by HP & Intel®
WHITE PAPER: One approach being used to reduce complexity and TCO in the data center is the implementation of new management software for blade servers, increasing business value and trimming expenses that vex IT budgets and divert important resources for transformational projects.
Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

HP & Intel®

Comparison of Performance and Ease of SAN Deployment using HP Simple San Connection Manager (SSCM) Solution
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This report compares the performance of HP's 8Gb FC solution alone versus it's performance in conjunction with the Simple SAN Connection Manager. The results are remarkable! The Simple SAN Connection Manager took half the time to configure and 2/3rd fewer configuration step to deploy a FC SAN compared with configuring each component separately.
Posted: 03 Mar 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2009

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Taming The Power Hungry Data Center
sponsored by Fusion-IO
WHITE PAPER: The widening disparity between CPU performance and that of storage subsystems has spawned numerous solutions that do not fix the problem. This white paper exposes this fundamental flaw and introduces the means available today to substantively reduce power consumption while improving performance: Fusion-io's flash memory-based storage technology.
Posted: 16 Feb 2009 | Published: 16 Feb 2009

Fusion-IO

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

Northern Parklife

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

Northern Parklife

Using Snapshots in Your Data Backup Strategy
sponsored by Dell | EqualLogic
WHITE PAPER: This document discusses the use of snapshots in your data backup strategy, as well as a new snapshot product offering from EqualLogic to simplify your backup projects.
Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

Dell | EqualLogic

Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Dec 2008

Dell EMC and Microsoft

Integrating HP Data Protector Software with HP Data Deduplication Solutions
sponsored by HP Inc
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss HP Data Protector Software which fully supports HP data deduplication technologies allowing you to recover files more quickly while reducing your data management and storage costs.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

HP Inc

HP Data Protector Software Advanced Backup to Disk Integration with Virtual Tape Libraries White Paper
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a better understanding of the integration of HP Data Protector Software with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the HP Data Protector Software.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Managing SharePoint in an Enterprise Environment
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and other SharePoint technologies are excellent tools for a modern, web-based office environment. This white paper gives pointers on managing them.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 11 Oct 2008

Global Knowledge

ExaGrid: A Scalable Approach to Disk-based Backup
sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Looking for a new disk-based backup solution? Download this Taneja Group white paper to learn some key criteria to consider when evaluating disk-based data protection vendors and how one company matches up against these criteria.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Published: 20 Oct 2008

ExaGrid Systems, Inc.

Integrating Dell Equallogic™ Sans with Citrix XENSERVER: Realizing Virtualization's Full Potential
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: XenServer enables consolidation of server and other infrastructure resources, by combining servers and storage into resource pools that can be apportioned to the applications with the highest business need.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Published: 10 Nov 2008

DellEMC and Intel®

Solving the Distributed Data Problem
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Companies need to reevaluate traditional methods of protecting branch office and PC data such as tape backups and other localized do-it-yourself solutions. Read this white paper to learn about remote on-demand services.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008

IBM

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003: Best Practices Data Storage Setup
sponsored by Dot Hill Systems Corp.
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended to be a starting point to tune and optimize the storage system within the Exchange environment.
Posted: 03 Oct 2008 | Published: 03 Oct 2008

Dot Hill Systems Corp.

The New Storage: Flexible, Scalable, and Green
sponsored by Dell | EMC
WHITE PAPER: Any organization with growing data storage -- and that's just about everybody now -- needs to do something, and what they did in the past won't work in the future. This paper gives a brief view into "new storage" -- flexible, scalable and green.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008

Dell | EMC

MD3000 and MD3000i: Array Tuning Best Practices
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overall approach to tuning I/O performance and also provides specific guidelines for using the storage array tuning controls.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 16 Sep 2008

DellEMC and Intel®

IBM System x Servers - The Right Choice. Open. Easy. Green
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBMSystemx is a portfolio of robust servers built on IBMX-Architecture's our blueprint for bringing innovation tox86systems. Innovation that helps set you apart from the competition. Learn more in this paper.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Published: 11 Sep 2008

IBM

Dell PowerVault MD3000 3000 Mailbox Single Copy Cluster Microsoft Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 3000 mailbox Exchange 2007 environment with Single Copy Cluster in a high availability clustering mechanism based on the Microsoft Cluster Service shared storage.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

DellEMC and Intel®

Solution Guide - Choosing Storage for Dell Database Solutions with Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell/EMC Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides a guide for choosing an appropriate storage architecture for Dell Database Solutions deployed on Dell PowerEdge servers with Dell PowerVault and Dell/EMC storage.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

DellEMC and Intel®

Dell PowerVault MD3000 1000 Mailbox Local Continuous Replication Microsoft Exchange 2007 Storage Solution
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes a tested and validated storage solution for a 1000 mailbox Exchange Server 2007 environment with Local Continuous Replication (LCR) feature.
Posted: 27 Aug 2008 | Published: 27 Aug 2008

DellEMC and Intel®