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Best Practices for Configuring your Virtual Environment with VMware sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper details a set of best practices for configuring a virtual environment. Posted: 22 Oct 2013 \| Published: 22 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Storage Standards \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Virtualization

Fidelity Information Services and IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM System Storage Easy Tier sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the benchmark results of a leading server/storage configuration. Obtain detailed information on the unique configuration that was tested as well as the specific architectural components. Posted: 14 Nov 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Software \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Virtualization

Make the Smart Storage Decision for your Business sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper details innovative, affordable, easy-to-use, scalable storage systems for small and midsized businesses that offer IT efficiency, business agility, and simplified management to enterprise data centers. Posted: 09 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Data Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM FlashSystem 820: Best Practices and Performance Capabilities sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper documents best practice configurations for integrating flash with a block storage virtualization appliance. It also details the potential performance gains that such systems can provide and information about your options for cache usage and real-time compression. Posted: 26 Sep 2013 \| Published: 24 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Management \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Performance Testing \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Storage User Demand Study: Many Uses of Internal Storage sponsored by EMC Corporation WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores this new generation of virtual storage and examines the current state of this emerging technology. Read on to learn more. Posted: 27 Sep 2013 \| Published: 28 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Disaster Recovery \| Disaster Recovery Planning for Virtual Environments \| Server Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Backups \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

IBM Smarter Storage, an integral part of IBM Smarter Computing sponsored by CDW and IBM WHITE PAPER: This guide gives information on a strategic approach to storage that allows for greater storage capabilities and greater efficiency over traditional approaches to storage. It also talks about the benefits of storage virtualization. Posted: 28 Mar 2014 \| Published: 30 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Backup \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Storage Services \| Cloud Storage Strategy \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Security \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Virtualization

Solution Impact Analysis: SMBs Leverage EMC VSPEX for Rapid ROI sponsored by EMC WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores how three different organizations transformed their environments with a simple, efficient and flexible virtualization platform. Posted: 30 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Private Cloud \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

Simplifying virtual desktop deployments with EqualLogic PS-M4110 blade storage arrays sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This short solution brief showcases innovative blade storage arrays that enable a fully virtualized architecture that integrates storage, servers and networking within one blade chassis. Posted: 18 Oct 2013 \| Published: 02 Sep 2013 TOPICS: SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| VDI \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine \| VMware

Oracle Solaris and Oracle SPARC T4 Servers— Engineered Together for Enterprise Cloud Deployments sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Solaris and the SPARC T4 processor can help you manage your costs for existing infrastructures or for new enterprise cloud infrastructure design. Discover how Solaris works cohesively with SPARC T4 systems and other Oracle software to enable a handful of cloud-ready solutions. Posted: 05 Jul 2012 \| Published: 25 Jun 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Cloud Storage \| Data Analytics \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Oracle (Product) \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtualization Security

Supercharge Your Infrastructure: Fusion ioControl Hybrid Architecture sponsored by Fusion-io WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find out how one vendor has created a solution for common virtualization challenges. Posted: 10 Jan 2014 \| Published: 31 Jan 2013 TOPICS: Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Storage Virtualization Software \| VDI