Storage area networks (SAN) deliver consolidated storage and advanced storage management features. One advanced SAN configuration involves booting servers directly from the SAN, eliminating all locally attached storage, and improving server operations. Several server boot options are available. To select the right boot option for your environment, you should weigh the benefits and drawbacks of each.

Download this exclusive article to gain insight on why a NetApp SnapVault backup system is 54% less expensive than a similar tape-based backup solution over a typical backup product lifecycle.

In this paper, the SMB Group examines different cloud computing models, discusses the types of requirements that each can best address, and consider what midmarket businesses should look for in a cloud solutions provider.

Read this guide for three critical steps to maximize all-flash performance for your applications.

Successful businesses are nimble and built to scale. At times you might need to grow your sales capacity by bringing more people on board. Other times you might simply need them to get more active, boosting performance. Sometimes you need to do both. To support the ebb and flow of your business your storage should be capable of scaling up capacity while increasing performance. Yet you might be surprised to know that only one All-flash vendor can do so, while keeping costs predictable. Read on to learn about 3 scalabity benefits that will transform your storage purchasing experienc

One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center.

This whitepaper illustrates how Storage technology has developed rapidly over the course of the last five years providing enterprises with an expanding range of solutions to meet ever-evolving storage requirements.

Today's IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. We found that one of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems.

This is the Key technical support considerations for smart IT infrastructures White Paper

Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants prides itself on the personalized connection between hotel staff and guests. In order to be successful, their IT infrastructure needs to be agile, secure, and reliable. After deploying EMC converged infrastructure from VCE, Kimpton achieved a 25 percent reduction in operating expenses, and they can now stand up virtual machines (VMs) in minutes to capitalize on business opportunities, compared to days or weeks with the old infrastructure. Read this customer case study to find out more about how Kimpton was able to reduce their costs while improving the performance of their IT environment.

Optimizing SQL Server Clusters with End-to-end Flash Hybrid Storage

Sponsored by: NEC and Intel® Xeon® processor The goal of ESG Lab reports is to educate IT professionals about emerging technologies and products in the storage, data management and information security industries. ESG Lab reports are not meant to replace the evaluation process that should be conducted before making purchasing decisions, but rather to provide insight into these emerging technologies. Our objective is to go over some of the more valuable feature/functions of products, show how they can be used to solve real customer problems and identify any areas needing improvement. ESG Lab's expert third-party perspective is based on our own hands-on testing as well as on interviews with customers who use these products in production environments. This ESG Lab report was sponsored by NEC Corporation of America. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.

This ESG Lab report examines an innovative high speed data compression appliance from IBM.

This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment.

Insider threats continue to challenge organizations, particularly as BYOD brings complexity to enterprise risk management. The latest Ponemon research highlights recent trends, risk factors and what organizations need to do now to reduce risk.

VPs of Infrastructure and Operations are under constant pressure to more rapidly provision infrastructure to support applications, hit cost reduction targets, and maintain or improve application availability for network attached storage. To meet these goals, they are the directors of a carefully orchestrated dance of network, server, storage and datacenter operation teams.

Discover the top five distinctions of this solution from other hardware, and learn how it can help you reduce costs.

Cloud computing is gaining widespread adoption, and for good reason. This paper highlights companies' confidence level in deploying custom Java applications in the cloud. Learn how to accelerate application deployment now!

Data conversations continue to change as all businesses are trying to figure out today's reality of the move to the cloud, anywhere/anytime computing, and the explosive growth of data. These trends have drastically reshaped the IT industry and data management forever. With continued market innovations in storage, cloud, and hyper-converged infrastructures, there are six key modern IT needs that are increasingly the focus of CIO and technology leaders.

LMN ARCHITECTS USES IOCONTROL HYBRID STORAGE TO GET THE CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE ITS GRAPHICALLY-INTENSIVE ENVIRONMENT NEEDS IN A SMALL FOOTPRINT.

This technology brief provides 5 topics to think about as you design your long-term data retention plans.

This report examines the issues that are driving organizations to replace older archive and backup-and restore systems with business continuity and always-available solutions that can scale to handle extreme data growth while leveraging a cloud-based pricing model. The report also looks at the role of Storiant and its long-term storage services solution in the strategically important long-term storage market.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

HP Simply StoreIT takes the stress out of storage. HP and our network of over 200,000 channel partners worldwide can help you choose the right solutions to fit your biggest business challenges. We can help you overcome obstacles including too little time for managing IT, budgets for upgrading infrastructure, and too many business risks and threats. Now you can take charge of virtualization, storage for business solutions such as Exchange and SQL Server, growing file shares, and data protection for business continuity. Improve your operational efficiency, reduce your risks, and lower storage costs. See how.