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To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs; this paper provides details on the planning, configuration, and maintenance of a 3 Data Center Replication solution. Friday, 27th June 2008 ITCentrix - HP Continues High-end Storage Innovation This white paper discusses Thin Provisioning on virtualized devices and using SATA disk drives for tiered storage. Friday, 27th June 2008 Remote Replication Best Practices for Oracle 10g using XP Continuous Access This paper provides a comprehensive set of test-proven best practices for properly configuring, deploying, and operating an Oracle 10g database on an HP StorageWorks XP12000 Disk Array (XP12000) in an HP-UX environment using HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software as the remote copy infrastructure. Friday, 27th June 2008 Leveraging Virtualization to Consolidate, Optimize and Protect Your IT Infrastructure Learn about the critical issues of virtualization and some of the ways it can be effectively implemented. Monday, 23rd June 2008 Backup and Recovery Best Practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 To help you choose from among the available configuration options and backup and recovery procedures, HP has conducted extensive laboratory tests to determine best practices. Tuesday, 10th June 2008 The Streamline Guide to Document Management Can Your Organization Benefit from Automating the Management of Paper and Other Document Processes? Wednesday, 16th April 2008 A Detailed Look at Data Replication Options for DR Planning Explore the different approaches for integrating data replication into your DR strategy. Wednesday, 19th March 2008 The Game Has Changed: Disk-based Backup is Now More Viable than Ever Learn about several disk-based backup architectures and the pros and cons of each. Wednesday, 19th March 2008 IT Optimization as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage Learn how infrastructure complexity is increasing as the need for servers and storage continues to grow, posing considerable management challenges to IT staff. Friday, 22nd February 2008 Search VMware Covers all areas of VMware, such as implementing VMware-related virtualization technologies for server consolidation, disaster recovery, lab and test, desktop centralization or other production usage. Thursday, 7th February 2008 Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket Learn how HP's new Blade Servers are changing midsize IT economics by slashing energy bills and increasing efficiency through virtualization. Tuesday, 15th January 2008 IBM Announces Its TotalStorage Resiliency Family With Speedy Asynchronous Mirroring and More Learn more about IBM's enhanced TotalStorage Global Mirror by requesting this White Paper. Wednesday, 19th December 2007 IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Reducing the Complexity and Cost of Managing Storage Networks Learn how ESG Lab found that the IBM SVC is a rock-solid, feature-rich platform that delivers on the promise of network based storage virtualization: SVC reduces the complexity and cost of managing SAN attached storage. Wednesday, 19th December 2007 Real World Disaster Recovery Learn how a disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions. Wednesday, 19th December 2007 Softbank virtualizes its storage environment to achieve low operating cost Learn how Softbank's Information Systems Division has taken notice of the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Wednesday, 19th December 2007 Derive substantial business benefits from IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center Discover how IBM TotalStorage® Productivity Center can manage data from a single interface, allowing you reclaim storage capacity and file systems. Tuesday, 20th November 2007 Server Monitoring, Capacity Planning, and IT Operations Management that Just Works. A must for System Administrators...because downtime is not an option. Monday, 12th November 2007 Availability Solutions with Informix Dynamic Server 11 Learn how thrive in today's on demand business environment with IBM's Informix Dynamic Server. Monday, 1st October 2007 Enterprise Information Integration: Deployment Best Practices for Low-cost Implementation Discover how information integration solutions built on grid technology combined with best practices can spur the growth of new applications and bring about significant enterprise transformations. Monday, 1st October 2007 IBM Tiered Storage Management Helps Reduce Costs and Complexity This paper focuses on IBM storage solutions and a selected list of their integrated capabilities for reducing cost and complexity. Monday, 1st October 2007 Itochu Kenzai reduces printing by 190,000 pages per month with electronic storage solution from IBM Learn how Itochu Kenzai significantly reduced their amount of paperwork and how the electronic storage of documents can save time and money. Monday, 1st October 2007 How to Get Started with Information Lifecycle Management Learn how ILM can manage storage more efficiently, streamline compliance, and implement archiving and retention techniques. Monday, 10th September 2007 IBM Storage Infrastructure Management for Growing Data Needs Use IBM storage management solutions to rapidly recover from errors, protect data in compliance with regulatory requirements and help contain the overall performance of your storage infrastructure. Monday, 10th September 2007 Advanced Virtualization and Workload Management on Itanium® 2-Based Servers Learn how SWsoft's Virtuozzo provides granular control of workloads, along with exceptional performance and scalability—factors that make it ideal for many mission-critical environments. Monday, 9th July 2007 Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology This checklist provides the main considerations and basic differences between the technologies to provide a starting point for technology evaluation. Monday, 9th July 2007 Predicts 2007: Brace Yourself for the Next Wave of Server Technology IT managers can learn exciting new predictions about server technology, including OS virtualization technology. Monday, 30th April 2007 Migrating From Tape to Disk Backups Learn how small and medium sized businesses can migrate to products with features designed for large enterprises but in a footprint of an appliance compatible with the SMB budget. Wednesday, 25th April 2007 SearchStorageChannel Is THE resource for channel pros interested in the storage channel marketplace. Monday, 16th April 2007 SearchServerVirtualization Offers the information you need to get started with, grow and manage server virtualization. Thursday, 1st March 2007 Enterprise Server Failover Are claims of “Dead Metal to Live Data Center in 5 minutes” software valid? Learn about server repurposing with a software solution to gain speed and agility and increase performance while lowering costs. Monday, 15th January 2007 Server, Storage Access and Network Virtualization for Business Continuity, IT Consolidation, and Tes Learn how to improve business continuity (high availability, server failover and disaster recovery), IT consolidation, utilization, containment efficiency, by using next generation virtualization. It's not just about hypervisors anymore; network and storage access virtualization are also essential. Monday, 15th January 2007 Automating Paper and Other Document Processes: Solutions and Benefits Determine your company's needs for electronic document storage and retrieval and the key considerations you need for implementation. Friday, 12th January 2007 Benefits for Fibre Channel (FC) SANs Learn about advantages of an efficient, scalable solution for making data available to servers, applications and users across the enterprise. Tuesday, 2nd January 2007 Storage Solutions in Enterprise Database Environments: Total Cost Comparison Learn about different enterprise database storage solutions, how to select the right one, and manage costs over time. Tuesday, 2nd January 2007 Total Cost Comparison: Storage Solutions in Microsoft Exchange Environments Learn about different Exchange storage solutions, how to select the right one and manage costs over time. Tuesday, 2nd January 2007 Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on IPMI Learn how IPMI can help your IT department better manage more infrastructure with fewer resources. Monday, 18th December 2006 Out-of-Band Management: A New Approach to Remote IT Infrastructure Management Learn about traditional approaches to monitoring, maintaining and restoring IT assets and how out-of-band management is a more efficient solution. Monday, 18th December 2006 A Detailed Look at Data Replication Options for Disaster Recovery Planning Data Replication Options for Disaster Recovery Planning Provides a technical overview and high level considerations for IT professionals to think about when considering a replication strategy. Friday, 15th December 2006 Storage Management: How to Simplify, Centralize and Optimize Your Environment Learn how to effectively manage today's storage environments to make better decisions for your organization. Friday, 15th December 2006 IT Consolidation: Maximizing the Potential of Your Windows Environment Learn how to have a more flexible, efficient and responsive IT model that will provide a clear competitive advantage to your business. Friday, 8th December 2006 Console Management in the Data Center With the current shift to decentralized, dispersed networks, efficient and cost-effective network management, remote or local, is critical to business success. Tuesday, 14th November 2006 Case Study: T-Systems - With their integrated quality - management processes and HP automated change T-Systems, a global information and communications technology solutions provider, delivers quality services to logistics giant Deutsche Post World Net, managing over 3,500 servers and 63,800 PCs for its client. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 Case Study: Edward Jones' customer-centric model requires high system availability, especially in it To meet their business needs, Edward Jones turned to HP for automated change and configuration management. Tuesday, 10th October 2006 Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery For many years, most IT professionals thought of disaster recovery as file recovery in the event of a computer or disk failure. Until recently, most companies were satisfied with a recovery plan that consisted of a nightly backup, usually to a tape device. Things are changing. Businesses must maintain continuous access to applications and data for employees, partners, and customers. Downtime has become unacceptable, and disaster recovery means maintaining availability without downtime. Monday, 17th July 2006 Recent Lessons in Disaster Recovery: The Path from Catastrophic Failure to Elegant Failure to Peace Recent events have turned disaster recovery planning from theory into reality for many businesses, including law firms. Fundamental assumptions have been challenged. You can no longer assume that your building or even your city will survive a disaster. The New Orleans example not makes it clear that downtime might be weeks or even months. Monday, 17th July 2006 True High Availability for Microsoft Windows-based Applications In this whitepaper, we present the central concepts of the Neverfail software suite through both a product overview and a detailed description. This whitepaper is primarily useful to those wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the Neverfail technology, while remaining a valuable reference guide. Monday, 17th July 2006 Five Reasons Every IT Organization Needs to Capitalize on IPMI How IPMI can help you better manage more infrastructure with fewer resources. Friday, 23rd June 2006 Storage Security: Key Steps for Assessing and Mitigating Your Risk New requirements for securing data is putting pressure on IT organizations to protect the security of their data. This paper details storage security issues and solutions including data encryption. Tuesday, 30th November 1999 |