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Server Virtualization: Expert Overview of Costs, Trends and More
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®Understanding the costs and trends associated with server virtualization is very important, as well as understanding the role of virtual platforms for your business.
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Virtualization Management and Standardizing The Delivery of VMs
Sponsored by: Dell, Inc. and Intel®This expert presentation transcript describes one organization's approach to virtualization management, its primary drivers, and key components. Discover your various options for reclaiming resources and explore the benefits of standardizing around the delivery of VMs.
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eGuide: Health care network availability can be a matter of life or death
Sponsored by: BeldenPatient care is heavily dependent on not only an up-to-date storage infrastructure, but an environment that will allow for fast and easy data exchange between healthcare providers. In this e-guide, you will be introduced to available options in the networking/storage space and how they might be the right fit for your organization.
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Selecting Storage in a Virtual Data Center
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentWith Fibre Channel, iSCSI and even prepackaged storage-plus-SAN solutions available, figuring out which makes sense for your particular environment can be tricky. Learn provisioning tactics that can help organizations make the most of their storage.
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Presentation Transcript: Three Most Important Enhancements to VMware Site Recovery Manager
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentRead 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
Sponsored by: Dell CompellentIn 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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Storage Manufacturer Virtualizes Data Center Applications
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.This case study reveals common barriers to virtualization adoption. Find out how to choose an effective switch so you can reduce network costs, enable scalability, and more.
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Transforming the Learning Society in Hong Kong
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.This case study describes the approach one company implemented to deploy, monitor, and maintain a growing number of physical servers. Learn how it addressed their top business challenges and find out what efficiency and flexibility benefits they were able to realize.
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State Agency Collaborates Securely with Outside Organizations
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.This case study explains how one organization planned, designed, and implemented a flexible network architecture that enabled them to better collaborate between departments for improved business outcomes.
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The Journey to Unified Computing
Sponsored by: Cisco Systems, Inc.This white paper explains how virtualization has removed many of the data center resource constraints of the past. Find out why management of your IT infrastructure should be integrated and learn how to set your business up for private cloud success.
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E-Guide: Improve your performance and avoid bottlenecks in your storage networks
Sponsored by: PC MallThis e-guide will help you improve your storage-area networks (SANs) and fine-tune your storage networks. Find out what steps you should take to prepare your SAN for the worst, and learn what you can do to improve your storage network performance, efficiency and resiliency. Check out this e-guide today!
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Intel® Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel® Platforms: NetApp* Unified Networking and Storage: 10GbE FCoE and iSCSI
Sponsored by: IntelThis paper is for IT organizations and service providers who are interested in building loud data centers. Read this paper to learn the complete architectural details with step-by-step instructions to set up and evaluate the two most common block-level storage protocols, FCoE and iSCSI, run over 10 GbE from end-to-end.
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Avoiding SAN Performance Problems
Sponsored by: Virtual InstrumentsMaintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): SAN Acceleration Using FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
Sponsored by: FalconStor SoftwareDo you have questions regarding SAN acceleration? Learn more about solid state storage, which solid state technologies are currently on the market, and why your enterprise needs solid state storage. This concise white paper is designed to answer frequently asked questions on these topics and more.
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IBM Upgrades SVC with Solid State Drives - Achieves Better Storage Utilization
Sponsored by: IBMWith the availability of solid-state storage within Version 5 of its SAN Volume Controller, IBM once again delivers outstanding tech-nological innovation to the data center. Read this paper to find out so much more.
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Brocade FCoE Solutions for I/O Convergence
Sponsored by: BrocadeFibre Channel over Ethernet is extending the reliability benefits and service of Fibre Channels to LANs and other Ethernet networks. Learn how this approach enables flexible, scalable, and simplified data center fabrics that support increasingly powerful applications and growing amounts of data.
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Data Center Bridging: Extending Network Standards
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®In this technical brief we provide an overview of the reasons Data Center Bridging (DCB) is being developed and how it can improve networking in the data center for applications, servers, and storage.
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Solid State Drive Applications in Storage and Embedded Systems
Sponsored by: Atrato, Inc.The purpose of this article is to examine the unique benefits of Intel® Solid State Drive (Intel® SSD) over traditional HDDs and competing SSDs, and to explore the benefits one could realize in using these new high performance SSDs in storage and embedded applications.
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10 Gigabit Ethernet: Unifying iSCSI and Fibre Channel in a Single Network Fabric
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®The advent of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE), Data Center Bridging (DCB), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)offers enhanced performance and throughput for connecting networked storage to servers. Whether using the Internet SCSI (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel protocols, organizations have a clear path for unifying a network fabric in 10GbE environments.
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Why SAS Matters - Cost Effective Performance with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Technology from Hitachi
Sponsored by: Hitachi VantaraSerial Attached SCSI (SAS) is replacing Fibre Channel drives in high performance applications such as online transaction processing, real time analytics & streaming media. The key reasons for this transition are that SAS drives have the same or better reliability and data availability characteristics of Fibre Channel drives but are less expensive.
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EMC CLARiiON AX4 Storage System
Sponsored by: EMC CorporationThe EMC® CLARiiON® AX4 is a versatile and cost-effective solution for organizations looking for an alternative to server-based storage. The AX4 delivers performance, scalability, and advanced data management features in one, easy-to-use storage solution.
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Presentation Transcript: Clustered Storage - From SMB, to Scientific, to Social Networking and Web 2.0
Sponsored by: Sun Microsystems, Inc.This Presentation Transcript breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.
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Dell NX4: Advanced File Sharing and Management
Sponsored by: Dell | EMCDell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.
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10GbE, Servers, Storage and Virtualization – Interoperability Review and Highlights
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®Organizations can benefit from the advantages of 10GbE, consolidation on Dell PowerEdge blade servers, and virtualization with VMware. By implementing 10GbE solutions, organizations can enjoy the economies they hoped to obtain by consolidating and virtualizing their server environment, along with increased performance, reliability, and security.
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Dell NX4: Advanced File Sharing and Management
Sponsored by: DellEMC and Intel®Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.