EGUIDE: Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.

Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: There are many things to consider when designing storage to support a virtual desktop infrastructure environment. While budgets may limit some of your options, there are a number of creative solutions available that can help you get the performance your virtual desktops will require. Read this guide to learn more.

Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 22 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Server virtualization and virtual desktops can make configuring and managing storage systems a lot tougher. These 10 tips can help ease some of the stress caused by managing storage in a virtual environment.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Fluid data dynamically adapts your data in real time, and enables a single scalable platform that delivers efficiency, agility, and resiliency for virtualized data centers and the cloud. Check out this transcript to learn how to transform your data into fluid data.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Auto tiering is one of the best ways to improve storage efficiency and, in the long term, reduce storage costs through right-sizing your storage infrastructure, leading to greater agility. Check out this transcript featuring storage expert Ashish Nadkarni, of the Taneja Group, to learn more about what tiering can do for your data center.

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 | Published: 20 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: To help data storage professionals make the most of these challenging environments, we've collected our top five tips on managing storage in a virtual server environment. Download this E-Guide to learn how to go about managing your virtual environments more efficiently.

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 | Published: 20 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Server virtualization has many benefits from the disaster recovery standpoint- not having to purchase physical infrastructure for DR being only the tip of the iceberg. Check out this brief, two page transcript of an interview with DR expert Pierre Dorion to learn more about potential benefits and pitfalls of server virtualization in DR.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this transcript of an interview with disaster recovery expert Ray Lucchesi to learn what's new and exciting, including shared recovery site capability, clustering, and the future of region-wide disaster recovery.

Posted: 15 Jun 2011 | Published: 15 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this interview transcript, VMware expert Eric Siebert discusses the best way to use NFS for virtual server environments. Discover the benefits and complications that can arise when implementing network-attached storage (NAS) in your virtual server platform and more.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of a podcast interview, Jeff Boles of the Taneja Group examines some of the business drivers behind storage tiering. He also explores some of the challenges associated with tiered storage, such as data migration, and how effectively addressing these challenges can be the key to tiered storage success.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Fibre Channel remains the technology of choice for most virtual server environments even as iSCSI storage-area networks (SANs) gain traction. Read this SearchStorage.com Special Report to learn how some storage professionals are evaluating 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) iSCSI SANs as they expand their virtual server environments.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Learn about the various approaches to virtual machine disaster recovery in this tutorial.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

EGUIDE: In this tutorial on automated tiering, we outline the sub-LUN offerings the major storage vendors are promoting alongside their SSD options. We also explore five questions users need to consider as they evaluate sub-LUN tiering options, and more.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

EBOOK: Implementing disaster recovery is both time consuming and costly. And as an IT pro, you are constantly on the look out for new strategies that can help make the process more cost-efficient. Learn how turning to virutalization can help simplify your disaster recovery initiatives and more.

Posted: 24 May 2011 | Published: 24 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The implementation of server virtualization has strongly impacted the backup process. Read this transcript of a Q & A with backup expert Mark Bowker to learn more.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Modern file storage with the runaway capacity many organizations are facing, escalating performance demands, and shrinking IT budgets make tiered storage make very appealing solution. Check out this transcript of an expert podcast featuring Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst at the Taneja Group to learn how storage tiers can help your organization.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EGUIDE: Selecting the right storage options for your virtual environment can be a real challenge if you aren’t sure what you are looking for. In this eguide our experts at SearchServerVirtualization.com explore a variety of storage options that support virtualization, including shared storage.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

EGUIDE: Preparing and testing a disaster recovery plan can be very unsettling for IT departments. Save time and money by looking toward cloud and virtualization for portable, simplified solutions. Access this expert e-guide to discover the benefits of a virtual environment, along with suggested approaches for disaster recovery planning and analysis.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

CASE STUDY: Because Appleby operates data centers in several geographic regions, replication for disaster recovery purposes is one of the company’s top concerns. The company’s decentralized storage infrastructure seemed to make multi-site replication prohibitively costly and complex. Check out this case study to learn about the solution Appleby found.

Posted: 09 May 2011 | Published: 09 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Tiered storage solutions are becoming increasingly popular for its ability to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs.  Yet many organizations fail to maximize the potential of tiered storage.  Check out this white paper for some best practices to realize the ultimate potential of a tiered storage solution.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

EGUIDE: With the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more!

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

CASE STUDY: Financial institutions worldwide depend upon the credibility and security of Credit Market Analysis (CMA’s) products and services daily. CMA’s approach to market analysis creates large volumes of highly sensitive data that require secure management and storage. CMA has been running a Dell Compellent enterprise storage solution for over two years.

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 | Published: 29 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: With Dell Compellent, enterprise data is actively, intelligently managed throughout its lifecycle so you can constantly adapt to changing business conditions. This paper discusses eight Dell Compellent technologies that combine to create new levels of efficiency and flexibility while cutting cost now and in the future.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This white paper provides a blueprint for a highly efficient and dynamic datacenter using Microsoft® and Compellent technologies. The solution is enabled by Microsoft Virtualisation and the Compellent® Storage Center SAN™ solution.

Posted: 28 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010