A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network designed to attach computer storage devices such as disk array controllers and tape libraries to servers. As of 2006, SANs are most commonly found in enterprise storage. A SAN allows a machine to connect to remote targets such as disks and tape drives on a network for block level I/O.
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 13, 2011
Ephemeral disk storage, also known as local disk devices is an important component in using the IBM® SmartCloud. This article details the layout of the virtual disk drives available to the Linux® and WindowsT operating systems for each choice of instance size in the IBM Cloud.
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 13, 2011
Are you getting the most you can out of your resource utilization? This technical note features two scenarios designed to illustrate the technical process of monitoring cloud services. Learn more about these time-saving,effective options for monitoring in the IBM Cloud.
Cloud computing doesn't just change where applications are run. It changes the processes used to build, deploy and ultimately manage them. Hear industry experts describe how cloud computing can modernize app development and testing to make your business more dynamic!
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 12, 2011
Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud services/offerings, implement operations and approach customer engagement.
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 12, 2011
This whitepaper features valuable insights pertaining to cloud usage and implementation scenarios for test cloud environments. Includes helpful guidance and scenarios for IT Managers and CIOs alike regarding public, private and hybrid testing clouds.
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 12, 2011
IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind. Get serious for cloud for business.
White Paper Published By: IBM Cloud Business
Published Date: Jul 12, 2011
IT Managers: Reduce costs with enterprise ready environments. Take advantage of easy and flexible onboarding for business-ready virtual servers. Rapidly improve project set up and shorten development times. Find out how.
An Outlook Report from Storage Strategies NOW. This study is a comprehensive report on the state of the cloud storage market and of the storage services that are layered atop of it.
White Paper Published By: Acronis
Published Date: Apr 26, 2011
In this paper we introduce initiatives you can put into effect to survive and thrive in our virtualized world. Then we show how Acronis virtual solutions can save administration time, lower IT expenses and improve your ability to meet both RTO and RPO goals.
White Paper Published By: Dell Storage
Published Date: Apr 21, 2011
This white paper describes how Fluid Data storage reduces the capacity required to support VMware, maximizes system performance and efficiency, accelerates storage provisioning, simplifies resource management and streamlines disaster recovery.
White Paper Published By: Dell Storage
Published Date: Apr 21, 2011
Read how to speed up storage provisioning, automatically fine-tune data placement, minimize disk capacity and integrate storage with SRM by implementing Fluid Data storage.
White Paper Published By: EMC
Published Date: Apr 15, 2011
This white paper discusses Unisphere for VNXe. It describes the Unisphere for VNXe interface, and explains how an IT generalist can easily complete storage-related tasks using this intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
White Paper Published By: EMC
Published Date: Apr 15, 2011
Why should you deploy Microsoft applications with VMware vSphere Essentials on EMC's new VNXe? We have 10 good reasons and you can read them all in this information handout.
White Paper Published By: EMC
Published Date: Apr 15, 2011
This handout outlines how EMC integrates with VMware more than any other vendor, how EMC VNX is built with virtual environments in mind and how EMC does the most to enable customers to properly implement and maximize the benefits for VMware virtualization.
White Paper Published By: VMware
Published Date: Apr 11, 2011
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
White Paper Published By: VMware
Published Date: Apr 11, 2011
Maximize the return on your VMware virtualization investment. With HP and VMware solutions, you can simplify, optimize, and save in your VMware environment with the right infrastructure to store, protect, and manage your virtual servers, desktops, and data.
White Paper Published By: PC Mall
Published Date: Mar 21, 2011
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas-cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management-and illustrates how SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
White Paper Published By: Gluster
Published Date: Mar 17, 2011
This paper discusses Gluster's approach to performance, the factors that impact performance, and the results that customers should expect when adjusting those factors. The paper includes detailed performance results from both on-premise storage and Amazon Web Services cloud configurations.
