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CIO strategies for DR planning in virtual environments
Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.
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E-Guide: Best Practices for Managing Virtual Machines
There are many things to consider when designing storage to support a virtual desktop infrastructure environment. While budgets may limit some of your options, there are a number of creative solutions available that can help you get the performance your virtual desktops will require. Read this guide to learn more.
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E-Guide: 10 Tips for Managing Storage for Virtual Servers and Virtual Desktops
Server virtualization and virtual desktops can make configuring and managing storage systems a lot tougher. These 10 tips can help ease some of the stress caused by managing storage in a virtual environment.
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Presentation Transcript: Virtual Storage for VMware Virtual Servers
Fluid data dynamically adapts your data in real time, and enables a single scalable platform that delivers efficiency, agility, and resiliency for virtualized data centers and the cloud. Check out this transcript to learn how to transform your data into fluid data.
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Presentation Transcript: Automated Storage Tiering
Auto tiering is one of the best ways to improve storage efficiency and, in the long term, reduce storage costs through right-sizing your storage infrastructure, leading to greater agility. Check out this transcript featuring storage expert Ashish Nadkarni, of the Taneja Group, to learn more about what tiering can do for your data center.
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E-Guide: Top 5 Tips for Managing Virtual Server Environments
To help data storage professionals make the most of these challenging environments, we've collected our top five tips on managing storage in a virtual server environment. Download this E-Guide to learn how to go about managing your virtual environments more efficiently.
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Presentation Transcript: Server Virtualization Disaster Recovery
Server virtualization has many benefits from the disaster recovery standpoint- not having to purchase physical infrastructure for DR being only the tip of the iceberg. Check out this brief, two page transcript of an interview with DR expert Pierre Dorion to learn more about potential benefits and pitfalls of server virtualization in DR.
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Presentation Transcript: Three Most Important Enhancements to VMware Site Recovery Manager
Read this transcript of an interview with disaster recovery expert Ray Lucchesi to learn what's new and exciting, including shared recovery site capability, clustering, and the future of region-wide disaster recovery.
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Presentation Transcript: NFS for Virtual Servers
In this interview transcript, VMware expert Eric Siebert discusses the best way to use NFS for virtual server environments. Discover the benefits and complications that can arise when implementing network-attached storage (NAS) in your virtual server platform and more.
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Presentation Transcript: Automated Storage Tiering
In this transcript of a podcast interview, Jeff Boles of the Taneja Group examines some of the business drivers behind storage tiering. He also explores some of the challenges associated with tiered storage, such as data migration, and how effectively addressing these challenges can be the key to tiered storage success.
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E-Guide: Data Storage Management in Virtual Server Environments
Fibre Channel remains the technology of choice for most virtual server environments even as iSCSI storage-area networks (SANs) gain traction. Read this SearchStorage.com Special Report to learn how some storage professionals are evaluating 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) iSCSI SANs as they expand their virtual server environments.
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E-Guide: Developing a Disaster Recovery Plan for Virtual Machines
Learn about the various approaches to virtual machine disaster recovery in this tutorial.
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E-Guide: New Wave of Automated Tiering Software Eases Migration, Adds Control
In this tutorial on automated tiering, we outline the sub-LUN offerings the major storage vendors are promoting alongside their SSD options. We also explore five questions users need to consider as they evaluate sub-LUN tiering options, and more.
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Achieving Disaster Recovery with Virtualization
Implementing disaster recovery is both time consuming and costly. And as an IT pro, you are constantly on the look out for new strategies that can help make the process more cost-efficient. Learn how turning to virutalization can help simplify your disaster recovery initiatives and more.
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Presentation Transcript: Backing Up Virtual Servers
The implementation of server virtualization has strongly impacted the backup process. Read this transcript of a Q & A with backup expert Mark Bowker to learn more.
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Presentation Transcript: Tiered Storage Tools for File Storage
Modern file storage with the runaway capacity many organizations are facing, escalating performance demands, and shrinking IT budgets make tiered storage make very appealing solution. Check out this transcript of an expert podcast featuring Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst at the Taneja Group to learn how storage tiers can help your organization.
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E-Guide: Expert Guide to Virtualization Storage Options
Selecting the right storage options for your virtual environment can be a real challenge if you aren’t sure what you are looking for. In this eguide our experts at SearchServerVirtualization.com explore a variety of storage options that support virtualization, including shared storage.
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E-guide: A Guide to Disaster Recovery through Cloud and Virtualization
Preparing and testing a disaster recovery plan can be very unsettling for IT departments. Save time and money by looking toward cloud and virtualization for portable, simplified solutions. Access this expert e-guide to discover the benefits of a virtual environment, along with suggested approaches for disaster recovery planning and analysis.
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Case Study: Appleby Simplifies Global Disaster Recovery with Fluid Data Technology
Because Appleby operates data centers in several geographic regions, replication for disaster recovery purposes is one of the company’s top concerns. The company’s decentralized storage infrastructure seemed to make multi-site replication prohibitively costly and complex. Check out this case study to learn about the solution Appleby found.
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The Architectural Advantages of Dell Compellent Automated Tiered Storage
Tiered storage solutions are becoming increasingly popular for its ability to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet many organizations fail to maximize the potential of tiered storage. Check out this white paper for some best practices to realize the ultimate potential of a tiered storage solution.
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E-Guide: Dynamic and Effective Storage Tiering
With the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more!
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The Architectural Advantages of Compellent Automated Tiered Storage
With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.
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A Fluid Data Architecture Pays Off for CMA
Financial institutions worldwide depend upon the credibility and security of Credit Market Analysis (CMA’s) products and services daily. CMA’s approach to market analysis creates large volumes of highly sensitive data that require secure management and storage. CMA has been running a Dell Compellent enterprise storage solution for over two years.
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Fluid Data Storage: Driving Flexibility in the Data Center - Eight Must Have Technologies for the IT Director
With Dell Compellent, enterprise data is actively, intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. This paper discusses eight Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.
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Increasing IT Efficiency in a Dynamic Data Center
This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft® and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft Virtualisation and the Compellent® Storage Center SAN™ solution.