This document provides guidance on how to design and architect a scalable Microsoft applications mixed workload solution.

Magna International implemented NetApp storage to drive innovation while achieving enterprise IT efficiencies and agility. Read on to find out more.

DCI implemented NetApp storage to complement VMware for cost savings, data/business protection, plus cloud-enabled IT service delivery.

This study provides an overview of current virtualization trends, including plans to deploy and virtualize IT infrastructure.

Mware host level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. In this paper we explore 6 fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup.

Working with CVSI to deploy IBM Tivoli, BladeCenter and System Storage technologies

This study provides the market size and initial five-year forecast for the worldwide PBBA market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage.

Read this whitepaper to learn about solutions like the EMC Data Domain Archiver and how it addresses many challenges organizations are struggling with

This paper will discuss how the GDA enables several levels of consolidation from local backup to multi-site DR.

Read how to speed up storage provisioning, automatically fine-tune data placement, minimize disk capacity and integrate storage with SRM by implementing Fluid Data storage.

This white paper describes how Fluid Data storage reduces the capacity required to support VMware and maximizes system performance and efficiency.

The VMware® vCenter Plug-In for Dell PowerVault MD Series storage arrays enables VMware administrators to perform a wide range of storage provisioning and management tasks themselves - without having to rely on external IT resources.

This white paper discusses Unisphere for VNXe. It describes the Unisphere for VNXe interface, and explains how an IT generalist can easily complete storage-related tasks using this intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

This white paper introduces the EMC Fast VP technology and describes its features, functions, and management.

This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.

Rapid changes in the current market have put new demands on IT at a time when financial resources are strained. However, forward-thinking companies are turning this challenge into an opportunity by leveraging IBM's Smarter Systems. With IBM's future-ready innovations, companies can take advantage of unprecedented workload optimizing capability, virtualization without limits, resiliency without downtime, management with automation, dynamic energy optimization, and new levels of price performance. Join us as our team of thought leaders from IBM and featured analysts from IDC, discuss how the next wave of IBM's Power SystemsT delivers capabilities that are generations beyond competitive UNIX and x86 alternatives.

Five critical success factors in overcoming workforce disruption. Just because workforce disruptions are unexpected doesn't mean you can't plan for them. If workers were unable to perform their jobs, if the work place is unable to facilitate its workers, a plan must be in place to maintain business continuity. Read this study and learn the five critical areas of your business continuity plan where IBM can help you.

This white paper demonstrates how power, cooling, and real estate requirements are finally combining-to form a perfect storm for expensive, locked-in, proprietary hardware. Is there a way out?

The experts at IDC predict that external disk storage capacity will grow 50% through 2010. In this free white paper, they'll show you how to simplify managing all that extra data while lowering costs, by implementing unified storage.

With the advent of iSCSI as the standard for networked storage, businesses can leverage existing skills and network infrastructure to create Ethernet-based SANs that deliver the performance of Fibre Channel—but at a fraction of the cost. iSCSI enables block-level data to be transported between a server and a storage device over an IP network. An iSCSI initiator is hardware or software that runs on a host and initiates I/O to an iSCSI target, which is a storage device (usually, a logical volume) that responds to read/write requests.

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.

Most storage devices support multiple SAN connections for performance and reliability, but in many configurations servers use only a single storage connection. This creates a single point of failure and potential performance bottleneck for I/O. Multipath Input/Output (MPIO) is server software that extends redundancy to the entire I/O pathway in a SAN, delivering fault tolerance, high availability, and better performance.

System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. Even in completely redundant systems, controllers can fail, fans can stop operating, power supplies can burn out, and disk drives can degrade or fail.

Storage consolidation was a launching point for various new technologies delivering advanced functionality. The next generational shift that is in process will free storage administrators from handling storage provisioning for applications – instead, applications will be able to request and provision storage for themselves. While today multiple tools are required to add storage to your database, soon the database will be able to take care of that itself.

On-Demand Managed Hosting ranges from simple Managed Servers with one or two processors to the design of complex computing environments, which typically include multiple servers, storage, networking, security, backup, load balancing, and more.