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Virtualization Is Key to Storage Consolidation
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations have consolidated their storage infrastructures and a growing number see storage virtualization as an essential part of an effective consolidation strategy. Read this white paper to learn the benefits delivered from this strategy.
Posted: 01 Nov 2007 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Software Defined Storage - The Missing Link for Cloud and the Software Defined Datacenter
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource provides the results from the Enterprise Management Associates research and analyzes the pain points when it comes to implementing cloud and an innovative software that can enhance VMware environments for increased cloud ROI.
Posted: 10 Sep 2013 | Published: 02 Apr 2013

IBM

vSphere Storage Appliance Technical White Paper
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper covers the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management.  Discover that VSA is resilient and easy to deploy, while enabling you to use advanced vSphere features like vSphere HA, vMotion®, and vSphere DRS.
Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

VMware, Inc.

Supercharge Your Infrastructure: Fusion ioControl Hybrid Architecture
sponsored by Fusion-io
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find out how one vendor has created a solution for common virtualization challenges.
Posted: 10 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2013

Fusion-io

Unified Storage Comparison Guide
sponsored by Hitachi Vantara
WHITE PAPER: This useful comparative guide will help you understand the current entry-level enterprise unified storage landscape. Read on to compare the benefits of different offerings, and find a solution that meets your current and future storage requirements.
Posted: 13 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Jan 2014

Hitachi Vantara

A Perfect Fit: IBM XIV Storage System with VMWare for Optimized Storage-Server Virtualization
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the many challenges of a total virtualized solution in light of the integration of virtualized servers and virtualized storage.
Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

IBM

Advantages of Amanda over Proprietary Backup
sponsored by Zmanda Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how Amanda compares to other backup products. It will help you understand some key Amanda differences and how to evaluate and transition to Amanda.
Posted: 09 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008

Zmanda Inc.

Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Enterprises of all sizes are building flexible storage infrastructures using iSCSI and advanced virtualization technologies to achieve a flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 20 Sep 2007 | Published: 20 Sep 2007

DellEMC and Intel®

3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware vSphere
sponsored by 3PAR
WHITE PAPER: Protecting virtual machines is not an easy task. Existing agent-based and proxy server-based approaches to backup and recovery for VMware vSphere environments can be disruptive or limit recovery point service levels. These often require downtime to perform backups - a completely unacceptable condition in today’s 24x7 virtual datacenters.
Posted: 11 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

3PAR

Data Protection in a Hyper-V Environment
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This document provides information about planning your backup and restore strategies using Microsoft Hyper-V technology and the Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array or the MD3000i storage array. Hyper-V provides the software infrastructure and management tools in Windows Server 2008 to create and manage a virtualized server computing environment.
Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010

DellEMC and Intel®