Storage Management Software White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage software is the key ingredient that enables Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to deliver unmatched simplicity, ease-of-use, increased storage efficiency, and industry leading price/performance.

Posted: 21 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how Microsoft SharePoint is the platform of choice for organizations to store enterprise-wide content. New features in SharePoint Server 2010 take the platform to the next level by improving the platform’s scalability and usability to further enhance collaboration among knowledge workers.

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 | Published: 21 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining 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.

Posted: 02 Feb 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will provide best practice configuration guidelines for using latest storage and server technology (Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology storage devices along with Oracle's Sun servers) to optimize such simulation management solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business case a large insurance company recently put together to investigate the merits of implementing a storage virtualization solution based on IBM’s SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology. Continue reading to learn how storage virtualization with IBM SVC can help lower overall total cost of ownership.

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 | Published: 17 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines trends and customer requirements in storage regarding data deduplication and details how HP is best positioned to deliver highly efficient deduplication solutions based on its StoreOnce deduplication technology.

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 | Published: 09 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for information on data-generating technologies now available, the emerging applications that are harnessing them, and the desire among business executives across a broad range of industries to mine these applications for competitive advantage in some cases, and for the well-being of humanity in others.

Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Cloud storage reduces the cost of storing less critical files, automating business processes and providing ubiquitous access to employees globally. The deployable Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform is an enterprise-class solution ideal for organizations looking to implement private clouds.

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 | Published: 21 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to demonstrate that by using the deduplication and compression engine within the Veeam Backup and Replication product, it is possible to make a positive impact in the storage environment of any organisation.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 16 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn the economic benefits of Hitachi’s Intelligent Tiered Storage capability for unified block and file data environments; and how organizations can decrease TCO and gain faster ROI business value using Hitachi storage solutions.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: There are six technologies and strategies for economizing your storage in this ebook. Together they can transform your data center into an economically superior storage environment.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 18 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Small and midsize companies with strapped IT budgets and limited IT resources do not have to be limited to inflexible, inefficient IT infrastructures that offer unreliable IT services. Instead, smaller companies can empower their IT environments through virtualization, optimizing assets and realizing new opportunities for efficiency.

Posted: 18 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 20 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from Embarcadero Technologies.

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 | Published: 27 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: The accelerated pace of doing business in today's world puts organizations under tremendous pressure. They need to be fleet and flexible, able to rapidly respond to opportunities, make decisions, and deploy resources. Critical to this is the way information is managed and stored.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: In a relatively short span of time, Network Attached Storage [NAS] has become a popular, widely implemented technology given its many attractive features and benefits. This whitepaper details four techniques for managing network attached storage, including file management simplification and data access without server intervention.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The capacity of storage systems is rising at a breathtaking pace and using storage as efficiently as possible is critical. Read this white paper to learn about a new deduplication technology that can help you improve efficiency and save space - up ...

Posted: 11 Sep 2007 | Published: 01 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: Discover the benefits of Symantec's free new software additions to the Veritas Storage Foundation. In this quick overview, you will be introduced to the benefits, capabilities and overall strategy behind these two new resources.

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2006

WHITE PAPER: IT groups form highly interdependent groups to manage applications, servers, data, and storage. Integrated data management (IDM) is a new approach to simplifying data management and improve IT productivity. Download this white paper to lear...

Posted: 19 Dec 2006 | Published: 01 Apr 2006