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5 Must-Ask Questions for SAN Storage Consolidation Success
To reap the benefits of storage consolidation, you need to do the job right, which means asking the important questions that will help you find the right solution for your business. Monday, 23rd January 2012 |
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4 Often Overlooked Benefits of Managed Video Services
Managed video services can cost effectively replace three shifts of guards, but there are other benefits. Friday, 22nd April 2011 |
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Best-in-Class Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Applications
Access Your Complimentary Copy Today. This $399 Value Offer Expires 10/29/2010. Thursday, 30th September 2010 |
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Extending Virtualization in the Data Center with Application Infrastructure Virtualization
Learn about application infrastructure virtualization and how it can augment and enhance the value of server virtualization. Monday, 20th September 2010 |
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Data Storage Outlook Summary Report
Data Storage Outlook™ recently conducted in-depth, face-to-face interviews with senior IT decision makers such as Chief Information Officers and Vice Presidents of IT. Friday, 17th September 2010 |
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Case Study: TV5MONDE Delivers Programming 24 Hours a Day
Isilon helps TV5MONDE deliver thousands of hours of programming each day across five continents. Tuesday, 14th September 2010 |
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ESG Market Report: The Emergence of Scale-out Storage in the Enterprise
Scale-out 2.0: Simple, Scalable, Services-Oriented Storage. Tuesday, 14th September 2010 |
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Forrester Consulting Report: The Challenges of File-Based Storage
Targeting mission-critical workflows with scale-out file-based storage. Tuesday, 14th September 2010 |
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Isilon IQ Case Study: 2010 Canadian Olympic Broadcast Consortium
Isilon IQ enables CTV to manage more television coverage than any Winter Games in history. Tuesday, 14th September 2010 |
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Isilon IQ Case Study: 3ality Digital Systems
Isilon IQ helps pioneer in digital 3D entertainment accelerate production and reduce costs. Tuesday, 14th September 2010 |
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ESG Report: Discovering Improved Data Protection Strategies for the Virtual World
This report examines the impact that virtualization has on data protection and disaster recovery and the need for highly virtualized servers and storage within this context. Thursday, 9th September 2010 |
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Backup Exec 2010: Archiving Options
Learn how Symantec makes it easier for companies of all sizes to store, manage, protect, and discover Exchange® and Windows® file servers, with Backup Exec's new Archiving Options. Thursday, 2nd September 2010 |
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Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
Discover how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost. Monday, 16th August 2010 |
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A Powerful Platform for Virtualization
As businesses of every size are seeking to lower power and cooling costs, simplify administration, and conserve data center floor space, they are rapidly virtualizing their physical infrastructures. Friday, 9th July 2010 |
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Top 3 Benefits of Rackspace Managed Colocation
Keeping control of your business needs while getting rid of the hosting infrastructure management headaches. Friday, 23rd April 2010 |
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Fluid Data Storage Drives Flexibility in the Data Center
Eight Must Have Technologies for the IT Director. Friday, 12th March 2010 |
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RHWL Architects Gain 5000+ Hours of User Productivity
Learn how RHWL Architects reduced storage as well as storage management costs. Monday, 1st March 2010 |
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Gartner Report: Storage Efficiency Puts SSD on the Map
Certain storage architectures deliver higher SSD utilization rates and lower costs. Thursday, 14th January 2010 |
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Transforming Business Continuity with Virtualized Servers and Storage
How VMware and Compellent virtualization boost data protection. Thursday, 14th January 2010 |
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Network-Based Backup and Data Replication with Riverbed®
One of the greatest challenges today is effectively backing up and protecting the vast amounts of data stored throughout an organization. Thursday, 7th January 2010 |
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The Economic Impact of File Virtualization: Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency for File-Based S
Reduce and control increases in the cost of doing business by boosting storage asset utilization. Thursday, 3rd December 2009 |
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Five reasons why you need Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V now
Explore common challenges associated with server virtualization deployments and the ways Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V together with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations maximize the value of server virtualization. Tuesday, 15th September 2009 |
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How to Buy Storage that's Cost-Effective Over Time - Not Just Cheap for Now
To get the best and the most storage for your dollar, read this online article to consider the ramifications of these three cost-impacting factors: provisioning capabilities, energy efficiency and data reduction features. Wednesday, 29th July 2009 |
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Snapfish Builds a Massive, High-Performing, Scalable Storage Infrastructure with Scalable NAS and St
Learn how Snapfish built and has maintained a highly scalable, affordable, high-performance storage architecture that has kept up with customer demand. Wednesday, 29th July 2009 |
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VMware Best Practices with the Pillar Axiom
Learn how your organization can eliminate the performance and availability issues that can result from virtualization. Friday, 24th July 2009 |
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Solution Brief - Consolidated Backups
Learn how a centralized backup to disk solution can alleviate the risks associated with distributed tape backup solutions and systems that require complete copies of every file during every backup. Tuesday, 14th July 2009 |
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Solution Brief - Disaster Recovery
Discover the type of Disaster Recovery solution that can reduce deployment costs and provide low operational cost of management and scalability. Tuesday, 14th July 2009 |
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Ten Pillars of Oracle
Pillar Data Systems will give you ten good reasons to pair your Oracle Environment with the Pillar Axiom®. Tuesday, 14th July 2009 |
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5 Hidden Costs of Networked Storage
What IT professionals need to consider when buying a storage solution, now and in the future. Thursday, 4th June 2009 |
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Virtual Infrastructure Storage
Learn how a centralized storage system can satisfy all of the storage demands of a traditional computing infrastructure, as well as provide optimized features and design for today's virtual infrastructure. Thursday, 4th June 2009 |
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5 Hidden Costs of Networked Storage
What IT professionals need to consider when buying a storage solution, now and in the future. Thursday, 4th June 2009 |
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15-Minute Guide to Best Practices in Multichannel Correspondence Management for Insurance
Meeting the challenge of customer experience in the internet age. Wednesday, 20th May 2009 |
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15-Minute Guide to Best Practices in Multichannel Correspondence Management for Insurance
Meeting the challenge of customer experience in the internet age. Wednesday, 20th May 2009 |
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HP Simply StorageWorks Solutions for HP BladeSystem
Explore the challenges of creating the right storage infrastructure, provides an overview of data storage options, and examines a storage solution that combines blade servers and network-attached storage. Thursday, 7th May 2009 |
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Minimizing the Impact of Economic Difficulties by Migrating from DAS to Networked Storage
Learn what it takes to deliver a broad set of network storage solutions that address the ongoing needs of IT managers while accommodating their current business requirements. Thursday, 7th May 2009 |
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Renewable Energy Startup Goes Lean and Green with Shorty
Learn how Cascade Grain Products achieved a planet- and bottom line-friendly six-figure cost avoidance on power, cooling and construction costs and $50,000 annual saving in onsite administration costs. Thursday, 7th May 2009 |
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Actual Storage Utilization and Your IT Bottom Line
Now more than ever, IT managers must spend carefully to keep from negatively impacting the bottom line. Download this paper to learn how you can realize significant savings in storage. Monday, 13th April 2009 |
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QoS: A Better Approach to Storage Explained
The business value of data varies widely and changes over time; therefore, storage systems should flex to accommodate those changes. Monday, 13th April 2009 |
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The Modern Virtualized Data Center
Learn how with storage virtualization you must now change the way you plan for implementation, management, backup, and recovery. Monday, 13th April 2009 |
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Knowing What's Necessary For Energy-Saving Data Centers
Learn how CIOs are redesigning and building energy efficient data centers. Friday, 19th September 2008 |
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Storage Security: Managing Vulnerabilities in the Datacenter
Connect to this special web event to hear from Forester Research and HP on how to address key vulnerabilities in the storage network. Monday, 4th August 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array Performance
The EVA provides virtualized storage enabling capacity pooling, simplified management, automatic performance load balancing, dynamic configuration, and re-configuration. Friday, 1st August 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 and Microsoft: Dynamic Capacity Management
Learn from this Online Video how Dynamic Capacity Manager takes advantage of more Windows features. Friday, 1st August 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 and Oracle: Alternative Thinking About Virtualization
Hear from Oracle how the new HP StorageWorks EVA4400 has been fully tested to be ready for full production loads, and how it is tuned to take particular advantage of Oracle VM. Friday, 1st August 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 and VMWare: Alternative Thinking About Virtualization
VMWare describes their partnership with HP storage and how the HP StorageWorks EVA4400 is a great fit for many small and medium businesses that want the advantages of virutalization. Friday, 1st August 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Challenge
In a first time, head-to-head comparison, HP recently put EVA4400 virtualization capabilities to the test against a traditional disk array from EMC CLARiiON CX3-10. Friday, 1st August 2008 |
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High availability for SQL Server 2005 using array-based replication and host-based mirroring technol
Array-based remote replication solutions for Microsoft SQL Server have existed for years, and SQL Server 2005 provides a built-in, host-based feature called database mirroring as an alternative for disaster-recovery solutions. Monday, 14th July 2008 |
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Implementing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Release Candidate 0 on HP ProLiant servers
This integration note describes the level of support available for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 Virtualization (Hyper-V) Release Candidate 0 (RC0), a new hypervisor-based software platform for running multiple guest operating systems on a single server. Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RC0 released as a part of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and will install on Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter x64 editions. Monday, 14th July 2008 |
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Blade Servers for the Masses: Cost Advantages in Midsize and Enterprise Markets
Learn the cost advantages in midsize and enterprise markets of two different HP BladeSystems models. The HP BladeSystem c3000 is specifically designed to meet the needs of smaller server deployments, while the HP BladeSystem c7000 is aimed at larger installations. Wednesday, 9th July 2008 |
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HP Blade Servers for the Midmarket
Learn how the HP BladeSystem c3000 is "rightsized" to suit the needs of the midmarket. Wednesday, 9th July 2008 |
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Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket
Explore how Blade servers have primarily been useful for enterprise-scale deployments, but are beginning to make inroads into the midmarket business segment. Wednesday, 9th July 2008 |
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HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Streamline Guide to Document Management
Can Your Organization Benefit from Automating the Management of Paper and Other Document Processes? Wednesday, 16th April 2008 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Real World Disaster Recovery
Learn how a disaster like Hurricane Katrina raises important IT questions. Wednesday, 19th December 2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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SearchStorageChannel
Is THE resource for channel pros interested in the storage channel marketplace. Monday, 16th April 2007 |
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SearchServerVirtualization
Offers the information you need to get started with, grow and manage server virtualization. Thursday, 1st March 2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. Wednesday, 31st December 1969 |
