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Coffee Break: Embracing Flash Storage
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores the performance gap between CPUs and hard disk storage over the past 25 years and showcases comprehensive flash storage technology designed to bridge this widening gap by delivering immense performance and economic benefits.
Posted: 18 Oct 2013 | Published: 18 Oct 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
sponsored by Dell India
WHITE PAPER: Access this lab report to uncover the key features of Dell Compellent which separates it from similar technologies, implementation recommendations and much more.
Posted: 25 Feb 2014 | Published: 08 Aug 2013

Dell India

Faster DB2 Performance with IBM FlashSystem
sponsored by CDW and IBM
WHITE PAPER: This IBM® Redbooks® Solution Guide provides an overview of IBM FlashSystem™ running in a DB2® environment with a focus on performance and the benefits gained from running DB2 with Flash storage.
Posted: 09 May 2014 | Published: 09 May 2014

CDW and IBM

Flash Ahead: Leveraging IBM® FlashSystem™ to Dramatically Improve Application Performance and Data Centre Economics
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This exclusive resource explores how you can leverage groundbreaking flash technology to dramatically improve application performance and data center economics. Learn more about flash storage systems, how to use and implement this technology, its economic benefits, and more.
Posted: 09 Dec 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

IBM

Benchmarking Enterprise SSDs
sponsored by sTec | HGST
WHITE PAPER: This paper will demonstrate differ­ences in comparative SSD products. The analysis reconciles instanta­neous benchmark data to actual user performance, over time in a work­ing system under a true enterprise workload.
Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | Published: 25 Feb 2010

sTec | HGST

A Better RAID Strategy for High Capacity Drives in Mainframe Storage
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates that RAID 6 is less capable to prevent data loss with today's large capacity SATA and SAS HDDs. It will also share Oracle's designs to mitigate this risk. The integrity of customers' data is in jeopardy if these large capacity SATA/SAS HDDs are simply packaged into a RAID 6 group without additional mitigation.
Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

How to Find the Best Spot for Solid-State Storage Devices
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: Experts help hash out what solid-state storage solution is right for your organization's needs, including 4 use cases when SSD arrays are the right solution, when using SSD is a bad idea, and more.
Posted: 04 Mar 2014 | Published: 04 Mar 2014

DellEMC and Intel®

Solution Brief: Changing the economics of storage with Dell Compellent Flash-optimized solutions
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you will discover how the economics of storage have changed with deployment of flash-optimized storage strategies designed to enable IT administrators to target specific applications with optimized high-performance, low-latency storage.
Posted: 13 Nov 2013 | Published: 19 Sep 2013

DellEMC and Intel®

The Business Benefits of the QLogic FabricCache Adapter
sponsored by QLogic Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper covers a broad range of business and economic benefits of the QLogic FabricCache 10000 Series Adapters. This solution helps close the I/O performance gap and provide the entire SAN benefits including OPEX and CAPEX savings, getting more out of an existing SAN, and increased revenue.
Posted: 24 May 2013 | Published: 31 Mar 2013

QLogic Corporation

Delivering Customer Value with Enterprise Flash Deployments
sponsored by NetApp
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the growing use of flash technology across the enterprise and how the technology is being deployed to improve performance and efficiency.
Posted: 12 Jun 2013 | Published: 28 Feb 2013

NetApp