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How Eliminating SAN from your Oracle Data Warehouse can Increase Performance sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Fusion-io CASE STUDY: In this paper, a business intelligence provider for the semiconductor industry eliminated SAN from its Oracle data warehouse to increase their average performance 5 to 10 fold. Posted: 29 May 2014 \| Published: 29 May 2014 TOPICS: Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses \| Database Performance Management \| Disk Drives \| Flash Memory \| Oracle (Product) \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Optimization

NetApp Unified Scale-Out/Clustered Storage sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a new version of one leading vendor's storage operating environment. Find out how this software update eliminates many of the problems associated with typical monolithic or legacy storage systems. Read on to learn more. Posted: 15 Oct 2013 \| Published: 15 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Systems \| Structured Data \| Unstructured Data

Overcoming the Weaknesses of Server-Side Flash sponsored by QLogic Corporation WEBCAST: Watch George Crump demonstrate how you can move to a shared cache environment and eliminate infrastructure complexities. Posted: 27 Feb 2014 \| Premiered: Apr 5, 2013 TOPICS: Cache Server Hardware \| Cache Server Software \| Caching \| SAN \| Server Accelerators \| Server Hardware \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure

NetApp FAS2220 - Raising the Bar for the Entry Level sponsored by NetApp PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This article takes an inside look at the unique design features of the NetApp FAS2240, including: Integration of controllers within NetApp SAS disk shelves; I/O and performance enhancements; New resiliency and availability features. Read on to learn more. Posted: 10 Oct 2013 \| Published: 10 Oct 2013 TOPICS: High Availability \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Devices \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Virtual Machine \| Virtual Machine Backups \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

Best Practices for VMware vSphere Implementation sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper details a set of best practices for configuring storage in a virtual environment. Posted: 13 Nov 2013 \| Published: 13 Nov 2013 TOPICS: SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Virtual Machine \| VMware

Optimizing the Private Cloud with EMC VSPEX sponsored by Extreme Networks WHITE PAPER: Learn about a scalable, on-demand infrastructure that leverages Ethernet and a powerful switching platform to help you achieve the most from your private cloud. Posted: 26 Aug 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Computing \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Networking \| Ethernet Networks \| Ethernet Switches \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| Private Cloud \| Private cloud computing \| SAN \| Switched Ethernet \| Switches \| Switching

Configuring Windows Server 2012 for iSCSI SAN Boot with EqualLogic Storage sponsored by Dell and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates Dell best practices for implementing iSCSI boot from SAN with Dell EqualLogic storage arrays and the 12th generation (12G) PowerEdge servers running Windows Server 2012. Posted: 29 Aug 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

Storage magazine: Storage Purchasing Intentions Revealed sponsored by TechTarget Storage EZINE: In this May 2014 issue of Storage magazine, Rich Castagna shares the results of our 2014 Storage Purchasing Intentions survey. Other stories in this month's issue explore the confusion – and truth – amongst today's server-attached storage technologies, looks at how backup is evolving and more! Posted: 02 May 2014 \| Published: 02 May 2014 TOPICS: Cloud Backup \| Cloud Disaster Recovery \| Cloud Storage \| DAS \| Disk Backups \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management Software \| Tape Backups

AccuWeather Case Study: Keeping cool about custom weather forecasts sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel® CASE STUDY: This informative paper explores how one company consolidated its legacy servers onto a combination of new servers and processors supported by a next-generation SAN built for today's VMware environments. Read on to discover how they were able to save space, power and a lot of IT staff time. Posted: 08 Nov 2013 \| Published: 31 Oct 2012 TOPICS: SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Virtual Machine \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphere Video sponsored by Hitachi Vantara VIDEO: Check out this short video to explore a complete solution for all the elements in your environment. This technology is a turnkey private cloud infrastructure solution with unified management to enable administrators to quickly provision their data center and manage all the components from a single user interface. View now to learn more. Posted: 10 Sep 2013 \| Premiered: 12 Oct 2012 TOPICS: NAS \| Private Cloud \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Devices \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for File Virtualization/NAS Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

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