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Organizations of all sizes are creating more information than ever before, and struggling with how best to store it. Continually growing onsite storage capacity requires an unsustainable investment and introduces unnecessary risk. Prominent cloud service providers present an appealing alternative with their vast amounts of storage, pay-for-use pricing , high availability, and built-in redundancy. The Riverbed® Whitewater® family of cloud storage...

The reasons that many companies have no disaster recovery (DR) plan, or one that’s inadequate to their needs, include lack of time or budget and the belief that DR planning is too complex to implement. Riverbed® Whitewater® cloud storage gateways eliminate these concerns. Whitewater streamlines data protection in an IT infrastructure and delivers a cost-effective, fast, and robust DR capability. Whitewater eliminates tape, reduces data pr...

Storing data in the cloud using a Whitewaterâ„¢ cloud storage gateway from Riverbed Technology overcomes what is becoming a serious challenge for IT departments: how to manage the vast, and ever-growing, amount of data that must be protected. Whitewater eliminates concerns about data security, data transmission speeds over the Internet, and data availability, while providing great flexibility and a favorable return on investment. Moving data to th...

'Flash Storage for Virtualization For Dummies', introduces you to the options flash technology offers to meet the increasing demands on storage created by virtualization. This book is about solving your organization’s storage needs without putting up with poorer performance and greatly increased operational costs induced by legacy hard drive–based systems. In these pages, you discover how to get more bang for your buck by applying flash...

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (also known as VDI) is a growing trend among companies in an effort to reduce costs and administrative overhead while improving reliability and security of users desktops. The three primary vendors with desktop virtualization software are Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Successful implementations require several factors, including reasonable costs and good performance from desktop users’ perspective. Bringing the d...

Server Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Shared Databases and File Services not only demand high capacity storage, they also demand high performance storage that can handle high volume transitions and a larger number of concurrent users. Advances in data reliability, protection and efficiency, such as RAID, compressions and de-duplication, also demand better performance. As a result, IT managers need to rebalance the seven key requirements for ...

Your virtual infrastructure needs shared storage. You must have it to be able to use advanced virtualization features like high availability and distributed resource scheduling. Up until now, the only storage available was shared storage that knew nothing about virtualization. Similarly, the virtual infrastructure knows little about the storage, other than the basics (LUN, filesystem, space available, space used). Since the storage and virtual infrast...

Do you struggle with managing storage growth? Managing unstructured data is a huge problem for organizations right now and many are looking for solutions to help them manage. Read on to learn how HP StoreEasy Storage adapts to your organizational needs. Regardless of the size of your organization, HP StoreEasy Storage enables you to control explosive file growth while reducing costs and simplifying data management. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xe...

This report documents the results of ESG Lab’s hands-on testing and validation of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 storage array, with a focus on autonomic simplicity, efficient unified storage, application performance, and resilience for mid-range enterprises. Intel, the Intel logo, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. ...

How Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility. This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection between enterprise data center management and agility goals and blade server use. It reveals that blade servers are highly associated with core infrastructure consolidation and optimization efforts and offer high value to users as a virtualization platform a...