Storage Area Networks White Papers

Data center operational efficiency best practices: Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency is an IBM study that developed a data center operational efficiency model for assessing the capability levels of today’s data center and describes the ways IT organizations can progress along the path of data center transformation. The report was written by IDC, which also executed the survey and interviews on behalf of IBM.

As the demand for capacity continues to escalate, companies must be able to effectively and dynamically manage the storage supply, but also the demand for storage resources. The key is to optimize the infrastructure through standardization and virtualization, and replace manual tasks with policy-based automation.

This document aligns the server hypervisor with the storage hypervisor by prescribing the best practices for deploying VMware® vSphere® 5 on clustered Data ONTAP.

This report applies to Microsoft® Exchange Server, SQL Server®, and SharePoint® Server mixed workload on VMware®vSphere™ 4, NetApp®unified storage (FC, iSCSI, and NFS), and Cisco Nexus®unified fabric.

This document describes a solution on a NetApp® shared storage infrastructure that provides system administrators with the ability to quickly copy, clone, and manage SAP® systems.

This solution guide provides guidelines and best practices for architecting, deploying, and managingVMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions on NetApp storage systems.

Cloud services create a compelling case to move application processing and storage out of the data center and onto the network.

Flash Storage For Dummies explores the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From server cache and back-end storage cache to hybrid and all flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures. It also reduces energy and real-estate costs in the data center.

This document provides a summary of how IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center supports the IBM System Storage®SAN Volume Controller.

Taking a more comprehensive, unified approach to managing data—recovering any data from a single console—can not only reduce your capital and operating costs, but can also provide enhanced application availability for improved IT service levels.

This paper outlines the compelling benefits of consolidating networking services, and details why competing efforts pursued by F5® come up short for critical ADC consolidation projects.

Download this paper to learn best practices for Blade environments from Jed Scaramella, research manager of IDC's Services program on behalf of HP's customers.

Featuring Virtualization Best Practices for Reducing Costs

Read this whitepaper to learn how you can build a BladeSystem that fits your organization.

Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers — while taking up a smaller footprint, consuming less power and providing significant advantages in terms of manageability, scalability and flexibility.

Savvy IT professionals are finding that blade servers are less expensive than traditional rack servers for most new deployments, while also delivering improvements in agility, scalability and manageability.

Modern blade solutions are the heart of flexible, cost-effective infrastructures.

End users need the right tools for document collaboration, and in the era of consumerization, they'll find them. with or without you!

In a mobile-centric world, IT has a new challenge on its hands: ensuring that users can access and collaborate on content anytime, anywhere and on any device. Here are the top five challenges, and how to overcome them.

Join us for this hands-on, technical VDI Design Workshop where everything from choosing the right broker to zero clients and multi-site design will be discussed and analyzed.

Join us for this hands-on, technical VDI Design Workshop where everything from choosing the right broker to zero clients and multi-site design will be discussed and analyzed.

The EqualLogic family of virtualized storage solutions from Dell is fundamentally changing the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage.

Today's small and medium-sized businesses have ever-growing needs with respect to storage. Not only do SMBs often need many terabytes of storage, they require a level of high availability typically associated with large-scale, enterprise deployments.

The purpose of this white paper it to describe the validation of a solution for the EMC Greenplum DCA using an EMC VNX SAN storage array.

The report outlines the benefits of using HP StoreOnce with NetBackup's integrated Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup capabilities to enhance administrators' abilities to effectively manage NDMP-enabled NAS server backup and recovery.