Storage refers to computer components, devices and recording media that retain data for some interval of time. Storage provides one of the core functions of the modern computer, that of information retention. Topics include Storage Area Networks, NAS, and Virtualization.
White Paper Published By: Fusion-io, Inc.
Published Date: May 27, 2014
Fusion---iodelivers the world's data faster. From e---commerce retailers to the world’s social media leaders and Fortune Global 500 companies, companies are improving the performance and efficiency of their data centers with Fusion---io technology. ioControl Hybrid Storage from Fusion---io is ideal for customers seeking to virtualize mission---critical workloads, deliver high performance VDI, and control efficient application acceleration across shared storage environments.
Data in branch and remote offices is subject to a variety of threats. Data centers are built to secure data, but remote offices lack the same level defenses. It’s now possible to eliminate the risks of branch office IT, consolidating servers and storage into the datacenter without sacrificing the benefits of having servers at the edge close to users.
HP ProLiant Gen8 servers support automated management and proactive monitoring— and HP is offering financial terms for purchase or lease to SMBs deploying them.
For these reasons, HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can play an important role in supporting business continuity and can serve as a key element of business protection programs that are designed to reduce operational costs in today's midsize and large businesses.
HP's Gen8 servers are the flagship products bringing new technologies and capabilities to market. Delivering advances in performance, serviceability, and lifecycle automation, they address the demands of today's IT environments. Learn how these servers increase provisioning and uptime, and reduce the time and resources spent on server deployment and management
White Paper Published By: Logicalis
Published Date: Mar 12, 2014
Where’s the data center going? Industry analysts are
pointing to modular computing. Designed for rapid
deployment, energy efficiency and high-density
computing, modular data centers deliver capacity at a
lower cost than traditional construction methods. With
significantly reduced construction time—from years to just
a matter of months—and industry-standard components
that are designed to meet immediate needs and slightly
more, modular technology offers economies of scale that
are particularly important in the new global economy. Learn more about modular computing in this whitepaper from Logicalis.
White Paper Published By: Smarsh
Published Date: Feb 27, 2014
Financial Services firms are moving into a new phase in the evolution of communications oversight and face challenges ranging from new and changing regulations to employee privacy. Learn how legal, compliance and IT professionals are managing compliance and e-discovery for email, Web, IM, social media, enterprise social networks, corporate issued mobile devices and the bring your own device (BYOD) trend.
White Paper Published By: Smarsh
Published Date: Feb 27, 2014
More organizations are deploying and migrating their information archiving to the cloud. In this report, The Radicati Group provides an overall market evaluation of 10 leading Cloud archiving providers, tips for selecting an information archiving solution and the opportunities and challenges that compliance, IT and legal professionals experience when choosing an information archiving platform.
White Paper Published By: Smarsh
Published Date: Feb 27, 2014
Recent Microsoft® Exchange editions have basic archiving functionality, but highly regulated and publicly-held companies are likely to require more sophisticated third-party archiving solutions with advanced compliance, e-discovery and legal hold capabilities. Read this report to learn why content should be archived, what native archiving functionality in Exchange can (and cannot) do and recommendations for defining your archiving practices.
White Paper Published By: NetApp
Published Date: Jan 21, 2014
When your industry’s revenue projections flatten, how can you break away and continue to grow? Learn how Orange Business Services leveraged NetApp storage to reinvent their company by becoming a cloud services provider and exceeded their revenue goals of zero to €500 million by 2015.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 10, 2014
The IBM PureFlex System TCO Analysis Tool was developed independently by leading ROI developer Alinean, Inc. This Analysis tool compares the total cost of ownership for the IBM PureFlex Solution versus a traditional dedicated or virtualized IT infrastructure by collecting information about the current computing needs and then projects the TCO for the two alternatives.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
Simply put, software defined storage is the abstraction of storage services from storage hardware. This term is more than just marketing hype, it’s the logical evolution of storage virtualization from simply being a storage aggregator to the end goal of storage as a service. To achieve this goal, software defined storage needs a platform from which to centralize.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
How can your midsize business meet new demands for data storage with limited resources? In this eguide, you’ll find out that this innovative solution can radically improve storage performance—while minimizing expenses
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
The SUSE Enterprise Linux Server, now on the IBM PureFlex System, provides an open, reliable and secure IT environment with faster deployment, better business agility, lower power consumption, better hardware utilization and lower total cost of ownership.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
With the architecture, operating system and virtualization technologies you need supported by built-in patterns of expertise, an IBM PureFlex System infrastructure offers an integrated, flexible, efficient foundation for your SAP business applications.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
The IBM PureFlex System - a completely integrated hardware and software solution - optimized with Red Hat Enterprise Linux can improve business responsiveness, making it easier to take advantage of the power of open standards while driving efficiency with integrated management.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
This IDC analyst white paper discusses an important sea change happening in IT: the development of expert integrated systems. Converged systems are becoming increasingly important in the systems market. Similarly, convergence is occurring in middleware core runtime services for application development and deployment that are being unified as an enterprise application platform. Given the similarity in derived value propositions, converged systems and platforms are coming together as integrated systems; with the addition of capabilities focused on deployment, management, and optimization, integrated systems become expert integrated systems.
White Paper Published By: IBM
Published Date: Jan 09, 2014
IBM Flex System is quite simply the best blade offering on the market. The rest of this document explains briefly how and why IBM Flex System outperforms mere blade systems IBM Flex. It illustrates the combination of capabilities that Flex System solutions offer and blade systems from HP, Dell, Cisco and, yes, even IBM BladeCenter®, can’t.
White Paper Published By: Red Hat
Published Date: Jan 08, 2014
OpenStack is an open source cloud system software project that has broad participation from the IT Industry. IDC evaluates the current situation and provides a future outlook evaluating the deployment and support model and addressing OpenStack enterprise features and support.