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StorageVirtualization and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise WHITE PAPER: Virtualization allows companies to respond quickly to changing storage capacity requirements and much more. This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualization technology and highlights an innovative new virtualization solution. Posted: 05 Mar 2008 \| Published: 01 Feb 2008 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Replication \| SAN \| Storage Network \| Storage Virtualization \| Tiered Storage

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

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 TOPICS: Data Centers \| High Availability \| IT Managers \| Service Level Agreements \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

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

A Guide to Virtualizing Your Information Infrastructure sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is top priority for CIOs and data center managers. Download this guide on virtualization and discover an approach that distributes intelligence across all levels, while centralizing the control and management of your entire environment. Posted: 12 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Oct 2007 TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Migration \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| Tiered Storage \| VMware

Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3.0 Backup on NetApp sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This document discusses how Network Appliance and VMware ESX Server 3.0 work together to provide an effective backup solution in the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) environment. The goal of the VMware/NetApp solution is to provide a crash-consistent process that takes advantage of snapshot-based backups. Posted: 30 Jan 2009 \| Published: 30 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Backups \| Best Practices \| Disaster Recovery \| iSCSI SAN \| Server Virtualization \| SLA \| SQL Server \| Storage Virtualization \| VMware

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

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

Optimizing SAN Connectivity for Microsoft Virtual Server with VMPilot sponsored by Emulex Corporation, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization is an important new technology that enables you to reduce data center costs and improve IT's business responsiveness. Download this white paper to learn how one solution can create SAN-enabled virtual machines for your dat... Posted: 07 Jun 2007 \| Published: 01 Nov 2006 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| Host Adapters \| Server Virtualization \| Server Virtualization Software \| Storage Virtualization

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