Storage Area Networks

Most organizations are still buying storage based on outmoded ways of thinking. Find out why it's time to modernize your approach and the key criteria you need to consider before making your next IT investment.

You can't make the best storage decisions for your business if you're not asking the right questions. This new RFP template makes it easy. It reflects today's IT reality and includes the key criteria to consider so you can position your organization for the future.

Get past the hype and focus on simply, reliably, and cost-effectively protecting your systems and data.

This document showcases EMC's portfolio of backup and recovery products and describes how they provide the flexibility and scalability to meet the data protection needs of enterprises of all sizes.

The purpose of deduplication is to provide more storage, particularly backup storage, for less money, right? Then wouldn't it be ridiculous if deduplication vendors were demanding that their customers pay more per terabyte of storage? Or if they were simply pushing the task of integrating, monitoring, and managing deduplication back onto their users?

Clouds are all the rage right now. And the truth is that cloud-based computing can be a tremendous value. Cloud-based computing is not just an opportunity for a bunch of venture capitalists hanging out at Sand Hill Road, it's a wonderful chance for small and medium businesses to take a step toward aligning their information technology spend to increase their focus on revenue-generating opportunities.

Backup, despite the breathless hyperbole of many in the industry, is simply a form of insurance. What's important about your backup strategy is getting your systems and data protected in the most effective and affordable manner possible. Speaking plainly - you must be careful that you are in control of your backup strategy rather than your backup strategy (and vendor) being in control of you.

Double-Take for Hyper-V allows customers to quickly recover virtual machines after any type of outage without the expense and complexity of clustering or shared storage.

Lowering Storage Management Costs with Automatic Storage Management.

Data profile assessments will let us help you determine the best match for your situation, the data you are looking to protect, your service level agreements, and the specifics of your current challenges and environment.

Close collaboration between NetApp, Cisco, and VMware has resulted in the industry's first secure multi-tenancy solution to partition shared IT infrastructure that delivers performance, availability, and responsiveness while maintaining cost efficiencies. Download this exclusive report from analyst firm ESG to learn more.

This paper discusses how the IBM XIV Storage System's revolutionary built-in virtualization architecture provides a way to drastically reduce the costs of managing storage systems.

Clipper Group's Analyst, David Reine, reviews the role of tape in a modern data center and the importance of LTO-5 technology. He also discusses the advantages of the Scalar i6000 tape library, iLayer technology as well as iLayer MeDIA (Media Data Integrity Analysis) - an exclusive Quantum feature.

Download this white paper to learn the key benefits of VTL.

Download this white paper to learn how to avoid over-provisioning your storage so you can avoid additional capital expenditure and increase your ROI.

In this brief 23-minute on-demand Webinar, opinion leaders from Pillar Data Systems and industry experts from featured analyst firm, Gartner, Inc., break down the challenges that today's organizations face and help them to select a flexible storage platform that will adapt to changing business and application requirements while minimizing risks and reducing management complexity.

This Windows IT Pro Technical Advisor reviews the key components of a successful storage optimization strategy for SharePoint.

Guidelines for transforming your ECM system to ECM 2.0 with SharePoint 2007 and DocAve.

This white paper describes how HP LeftHand SANs can help you deploy VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) software more effectively through volume snapshots, SmartClone volumes, volume migration, and high-availability features. With HP LeftHand SAN and VI3, organizations can reclaim valuable data center space and reduce their power and cooling requirements.

This paper is intended for IT and business managers who are concerned about controlling budget while closing infrastructure gaps and extending the benefits of IT virtualization. Discussion includes identifying your storage virtualization strategy, four critical IT infrastructure gaps, introducing HP's approach to storage virtualization, and quantifying the benefits of end-to-end storage virtualization.

This paper focuses on the power of virtualization in general and the value of HP's Virtualized Storage Infrastructure in particular. HP's response to data growth and IT sprawl challenges and even broader economic impacts is far more comprehensive and holds the potential for a step-change in the provisioning of corporate IT resources.

Forward looking IT vendors are developing reservationless storage capabilities -- instead of having to reserve and purchase storage capacity up front, capacity is provided on demand to meet the needs of the business. As a result, upfront capital equipment costs are reduced due to an increase in storage utilization. This paper discusses how Reservationless storage streamlines the delivery of block-based storage capacity that is used for storage volumes (thin provisioning) and point in time images (snapshots).

For IT managers in midsize organizations, the rapid adoption of server virtualization has had a fundamental impact on the way server and storage resources are managed. What started simply as an effective tool for server consolidation has matured, for many, into a new way of managing IT that is significantly more dynamic and responsive to business needs.

HP SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) for storage virtualization takes you closer to a truly virtualized and Converged Infrastructure by increasing utilization by 300% and managing 3 times more storage per administrator.

This paper outlines the considerations for architecting an efficient SAN data storage infrastructure with a focus on the NetApp solutions for increased utilization, improved performance and streamlined protection to reduce operational costs.