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whitepaper Virtualized iSCSI SANs: Flexible, Scalable, Enterprise Storage for Virtual Infrastructures2008-02-05 Dell EqualLogic
  This white paper describes a virtualized infrastructure that applies storage and server virtualization technologies to cost-effectively achieve a flexible, high performance, dynamic IT infrastructure that is simple to manage and scale.

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center, SANs, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Improving Storage Expansion for Servers and Applications2008-02-04 Dell EqualLogic
  Call it growth, scaling, or expansion - whatever you call it, increasing your storage resources often strikes fear and loathing in the heart of the IT administrator. It conjures up visions of downtime, extra management tasks, frustrated users, and working nights and weekends. In addition, since capacity and performance are intimately connected, increasing storage resources can require balancing changes that affects the entire the SAN. This paper describes a solution that can scale storage completely - online, without downtime or disruption - and makes growth painless and eliminates the need for over-provisioning.

Tags: Data Center, SANs, High Performance Computing, x86-standard Servers		   
whitepaper Microsoft Online Services Customer Story: Bryant University2008-02-02 Microsoft Tips
  Bryant University heard from many alumni that they wanted to keep using the same Microsoft Exchange Server-based messaging solution that they had used on campus. Unfortunately, maintaining this service for graduates wasn't economically feasible for the university. Bryant students and faculty unanimously chose Microsoft Live@edu, a free, Microsoft-hosted messaging and collaboration solution for universities. The centerpiece of the solution is Windows Live Hotmail that includes five gigabytes of storage space per account, as well as features like calendar sharing, contact management, access to e-mail through mobile phones and POP, and improved spam filtering.

Tags: Email, Mobile - Wireless Communications		   
whitepaper DON'T USE: Inside the EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI Storage Arrays2008-02-01 Dell
  Storage management is at the center of an increasingly complex IT problem. Applications continually demand more from their storage systems - as performance, capacity, availability, backup, and disaster recovery needs intensify, so do expectations of the servers and storage that support them. As a result, IT professionals need a storage solution that integrates a full complement of high-end management capabilities, includes data protection, and operates intelligently. They need a reliable storage system that expands transparently and provides consistent data availability regardless of the server configuration, OS, or application. The EqualLogic PS Series of Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage arrays offers a fundamental change in the way enterprises think about purchasing and managing storage.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper 8 Phases of a Successful Consolidation Initiative2007-08-20 PlateSpin
  As organizations look to reduce the physical and environmental footprint of their IT operations, consolidation is a logical first step. However, a poorly planned or executed consolidation effort can result in complex configurations and increased IT overhead. In some cases, physical server sprawl is merely replaced with virtual sprawl where virtual machines are allowed to proliferate in an ad hoc fashion. This white paper provides best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. Find out why data centers are beginning to view server consolidation as an ongoing IT strategy with long-term benefits for the organization, and learn about emerging technologies and approaches that are improving the speed and quality of server and data center consolidation initiatives.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Data Center, Blades, Storage Consolidation, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Solving 9 Common IT Challenges Through Workload Profiling and Portability2007-07-06 PlateSpin
  By helping to dissolve the bonds between software and hardware, virtualization encourages organizations to see the data center in a different way -- not as a heterogeneous mix of different servers, operating systems, applications and data, but as a set of portable workload units. At the most basic level, a workload encapsulates the data, applications and operating systems that reside on a physical or virtual host. The ability to profile, move, copy, protect and replicate these aggregated workload units between physical and virtual hosts is rapidly emerging as a key enabler for operational and business success. Find out how new workload profiling and portability technologies are helping organizations achieve new operational efficiencies and cost savings, and why your organization should consider adopting a unified approach to managing workloads in the data center.

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Knowledge and Data Management, Data Center, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Information Management: Discovering the Business Value of Archived Information2008-02-01 Sun Microsystems
  The value of archived information (and even the definition of "archived" information) eludes many of today's IT decision makers. Unless driven by specific mandates or by defined applications (and hence clear business needs), most IT shops are missing opportunities to provide competitive advantage through the repurposing of historical information stored in archives. This paper explores the potential business value of information contained in the 30-plus exabytes of data stored in archives today.

Tags: Storage Management		   
whitepaper Best Practices for Microsoft Exchange 2007 with HP Server and Storage in Mid-range Environments (MSA60, MSA70, MSA1500)2008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper provides configuration and performance data, best practices and recommendations to help system administrators deploy Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on several of the HP MSA family of products. The results presented here are derived from extensive testing. They are intended to help you perform pre-deployment planning and ensure adequate hardware and predictable performance for your specific business requirements.

Co-Sponsored by:
 Intel

Tags: Storage Management, Data Center, Email, x86-standard Servers		   
whitepaper Best Practices for HP Servers and HP Enterprise Virtual Array 8100 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment of 20,000 Users2008-02-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  The Customer Focused Teating (CFT) team at HP previously published the Best Practices for HP Servers and HP StorageWorks EVA8000 in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Environment paper, which presented the results of testing a user environment of 5,000 users with both 100-MB and 1-GB mailboxes. This paper builds upon those results by demonstrating the actual effects of a larger enterprise environment of 20,000 users with 1-GB mailboxes.

This paper provides technical information and best practices for sizing and configuring Exchange Server 2007 on HP server blades with HP EVA storage arrays for the 20,000-user environment.

Co-Sponsored by:
 Intel

Tags: Storage Management, Blades, Email, x86-standard Servers, Virtualization		   
whitepaper Dell Case Study: Ryerson University2008-02-01 Dell
  The ever-increasing demand for IT services at the university put significant stress on IT staff and data center capacity. Ryerson University wanted to speed server provisioning; reduce space, power, and cooling needs; and implement rapid disaster recovery. As a solution Dell Infrastructure Consulting Services led a project to identify underutilized servers and consolidate onto Dell PowerEdge blade servers running VMware Infrastructure 3 and mirrored Dell/EMC storage area networks.

Tags: SANs, Server Consolidation		   


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