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Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Apr 2009 | |
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This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-- cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance,
and management-- and illustrate how iSCSI SANs, particularly the HP LeftHand SANs, provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
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Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2009 | |
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This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control.
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SEPATON Architecture: Designed for Data-Intensive Enterprises sponsored by SEPATON
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 May 2009
| | Published: | 20 May 2009 | |
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This paper describes the innovative architecture that SEPATON has designed specifically to meet the data protection challenges of data-intensive enterprises while achieving optimal cost savings and measurable ROI.
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Microsoft SQL Server in a VMware Environment on Dell PowerEdge Blades and Dell EqualLogic Storage sponsored by Dell and VMware
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 May 2009
| | Published: | 30 Apr 2009 | |
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This white paper provides an overview for deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 (U4) running on the latest PowerEdge M610 and M710 blade servers and EqualLogic PS6000XV iSCSI storage arrays.
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Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure sponsored by Datalink.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 22 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 06 Nov 2008 | |
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This paper addresses some of the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented to help organizations utilize resources more efficiently, reduce costs, manage data across the entire enterprise.
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NAND Flash Storage in Enterprise Applications sponsored by Fusion-IO
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 18 Mar 2009 | |
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Flash storage is now a top contender for new enterprise storage applications. The I/O randomization caused by widespread virtual machine adoption demands higher I/O performance. Faster than disks, cheaper than DRAM, flash is occupying a new layer in the storage pyramid. Read this paper to further investigate flash storage.
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Using Deduplication Storage to Backup Virtual Machines Deployed with (VI3) sponsored by Data Domain
 | White Paper: | Posted: 14 Mar 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2008 | |
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This paper provides general information for using Data Domain deduplication storage systems to backup virtual machines deployed with VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Topics include an overview of VI3 components and various methods of backing up data in VMDK images and Guest OS files for discrete recovery - either locally or remotely in a DR site.
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Northern Storage Suite V8 sponsored by Northern Parklife
 | White Paper: | Posted: 12 Feb 2009
| | Published: | 12 Feb 2009 | |
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Northern Storage Suite V8, Northern's latest release, meets the central challenge of designing practical storage strategies. It's highly customizable and can be tailored to fit any environment. With a better user experience, increased administrative efficiency and decreased costs, it's exactly what an SRM solution should offer.
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Dell Storage Solutions Guide for Microsoft Hyper-V sponsored by Dell and Microsoft
 | White Paper: | Posted: 11 Dec 2008
| | Published: | 11 Dec 2008 | |
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This guide primarily focused on storage arrays based on their support for key virtualization features, such as high availability and virtual machine migration.
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IDC Technology Spotlight: Optimizing Storage to Reduce Data Footprint and Lower Costs sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
 | White Paper: | Posted: 10 Dec 2008
| | Published: | 10 Dec 2008 | |
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This white paper examines data deduplication technologies supported by the latest Storage Solutions from HP. Data deduplication is a hot topic in data protection and therefore, also a relevant topic for HP Data Protector software.
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VMware Data Backup and Recovery -- Deduplication Storage Best Practices Guide sponsored by Data Domain
 | White Paper: | Posted: 19 Jun 2008
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2008 | |
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VMware offers benefits, but it can cost you extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach for VMware using Data Domain storage.
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Why Virtualization Matters to the Enterprise Today sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 08 May 2008
| | Published: | 01 Dec 2007 | |
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This IBM white paper discusses how virtualization tools can help you build an infrastructure that is simpler, more cost efficient and more flexible.
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SQL Server Advanced Protection and Fast Recovery sponsored by Dell, Inc.
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Sep 2007
| | Published: | 20 Sep 2007 | |
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It is critical that SQL Server environments are well protected and maintain integrity. This white paper highlights how iSCSI SAN solutions can simplify management and protect this data, while retaining flexibility in SQL Server environments.
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