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Machine Data eBook (Security)

Organizations must use every available resource to protect against the latest cyberattacks, the persistent nature of advanced threats, and the ease with which malware can cripple an entire network. One of the most important—and often overlooked—resources that organizations can tap into is machine data. This e-book showcases how three companies are leveraging machine data to […]

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HP Thin Technologies: A Competitive Comparison

As the drive to “do more with less” becomes a mantra for many organizations, optimizing space utilization is a key goal of many IT departments.  Storage continues to be one of the major cost components of today’s infrastructure deployments.  Thin technology, including thin provisioning, offers efficiency benefits that can significantly reduce both capital and operational […]

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Best of Breed Private Cloud with NetApp and Windows Server 2012

Many organizations have adopted virtualization as a standard for server workloads. But virtualization has not proven to be the “game changer” many organizations had envisioned. IT departments face huge challenges related to server sprawl, which has actually increased with virtualization. Although virtualization has brought benefits beyond the physical paradigm of one operating system per server, […]

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Why Storage Convergence? Why Now?

As business purposes have changed over the years, IT approaches and infrastructures have had to change in lock-step to serve them optimally.  IT professionals are now combining the best of the centralized approach – via virtualization, federation, and clouds of all sorts – with the best of the decentralized model – via mobile and localized […]

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Defining Data Services for Virtualizing and Automating IT

To respond to rapid business environmental changes, enterprises are now adopting a more agile and services-oriented model for centralized IT, often characterized as “private cloud.”  Public cloud service providers have become adept at adding new customers, new applications, and more compute-intensive workloads with minimal delay.  While traditional enterprise IT may not be able to fully […]

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Email Is A Key Workload For Storage Strategy

Email has been a mission-critical application for years and at the heart of organizations’ communications and business practices.  From an architecture perspective, email has frequently been walled off, sitting on separate servers and using separate back-end storage systems.  With advances in server hardware and the rise of virtualization, this appears to be changing.  Read this […]

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Virtualizing Your Infrastructure with a Path to the Cloud: 5 Reasons Why Your IT Infrastructure Should Run on Blade Servers

Blades allow for small hardware footprints, eliminate the cable clutter typically found in data centers, and streamline setup and maintenance over the server’s life cycle. They are designed to enable IT organizations to scale out the infrastructure for efficient service provisioning and to meet fluctuating demand levels. This whitepaper discusses five compelling reasons to deploy […]

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