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Four Critical Imperatives for Data Protection and Recovery: BEX Innovative Architecture Delivers Holistic Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 20 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper describes an innovative, unified data protection model – developed by Syncsort – that not only supports each of these imperatives, but leverages them to provide actual return on your business investments.
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Virtualization, Deduplication, and the Data Protection Connection: Reinventing IT Infrastructure Consolidation with Efficient Data Protection
sponsored by Syncsort
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 20 Oct 2009 | |
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As data center resource consolidation gains traction, many organizations are missing the big picture. For reducing primary storage footprints, they're looking at virtualization in isolation; for reducing secondary backup storage, they're focusing on deduplication in isolation. To consolidate optimally, they must consider the full landscape.
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Windows Server Virtualization in Windows Server 2008 Product Overview
sponsored by SHI
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 19 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper introduces Windows Server virtualization as a key component of the Microsoft datacenter-to-desktop virtualization strategy.
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The Acid Test for the On-Demand Data Center: A CIO's Evaluation and Selection Guide
sponsored by NetSuite
| White Paper: | Posted: 13 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2009 | |
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This paper sets out a framework for evaluating a data center. It considers the special factors that apply to an on-demand infrastructure, many of which go well beyond the standards applicable to the average enterprise data center.
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Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth
sponsored by Syncsort
| White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 12 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.
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Sun™ Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2009 | |
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In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beats Microsoft Windows Server 2008 in Value
sponsored by Red Hat
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 08 Oct 2009 | |
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In this whitepaper, Enterprise Linux and Windows Server 2008 are compared over a six-year period, with various e-commerce configurations covering small, medium, and large business scenarios.
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Leading Virtualization 2.0: How Intel is Driving Virtualization Beyond Consolidation Into a Solution for Maximizing Business Agility Within the Enterprise
sponsored by Insight & Intel
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2008 | |
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Virtualization is one of the hottest technologies in IT infrastructure today. Intel is helping enable the next generation of virtualization usage efficiently. Virtualization 2.0 focuses on increasing service efficiency through flexible resource management. In the near future, this usage model will become absolutely critical to data centers.
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PlateSpin Forge®: Plug In and Protect Server Workload
sponsored by Novell Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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In the event of downtime, workloads can be rapidly powered on in the PlateSpin Forge recovery environment and continue to run as normal until the production environment is restored. PlateSpin Forge® ships with everything you need to begin protecting your servers straight out-of-the-box.
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PlateSpin® Recon: Virtual Capacity Management and Consolidation Planning
sponsored by Novell Inc.
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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PlateSpin® Recon from Novell is a sophisticated workload analysis, planning and management solution that provides new levels of intelligence, visual analysis and forecasting for optimizing the data center.
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Which UPS is Right for the Job?
Considerations in Choosing Standby, Line-Interactive, Double-Conversion Designs - and New High-Efficiency, Multi-Mode Capabilities - for Your Data Center
sponsored by Eaton Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 01 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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This white paper describes how various UPS topologies work and looks at the impact of operating mode on five key factors of UPS performance
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Executive Guide: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Sep 2008 | |
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This IDC Workbook discusses consolidation at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualisation. This paper also discusses how deduplication can help improve consolidation of resources and reduce storage footprint, as well as improve data protection and disaster recovery under heavy workload conditions.
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Techniques to Avoiding Disk Bottleneck in the DataDomain File System
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 29 Sep 2009 | |
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This paper presents a set of techniques to substantially reduce disk I/Os in high-throughput deduplication storage systems. These techniques are general methods to improve throughput performance of deduplication storage systems.
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Optimizing the Data Center for Cost and Efficiency
sponsored by Dell India
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 14 Apr 2009 | |
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The current state of the datacenter demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Read this report to learn how your organization can optimize data center efficiency and lower costs.
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Backup and Deduplication Storage
sponsored by Data Domain
| White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2008 | |
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Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
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