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Hitachi Unified Compute Platform sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores one market-leading integrated compute platform that can help you minimize interaction in terms of testing and technology integration, reduce overall complexity, streamline IT operations and much more. Posted: 08 Nov 2013 \| Published: 30 Aug 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers \| Storage Systems \| Virtual Machine \| VMware \| VMware Disaster Recovery

Flash in the SAN – Panacea or Placebo? sponsored by PernixData WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the benefits of deploying flash storage in the SAN. These benefits include lower storage costs, improved scalability and more. Posted: 02 Jun 2014 \| Published: 02 Jun 2014 TOPICS: Disk Drives \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Virtual Machine \| VM

Top 7 Business Reasons for Tapping Your Fibre Channel SAN sponsored by Virtual Instruments WHITE PAPER: Rapid increases in both the operating speeds and general complexity of SAN technologies, exacerbated by the high change rates demanded of enterprise IT organizations, significantly increase demands on the fiber optic physical layer. Check out this white paper to learn more. Posted: 01 Jun 2011 \| Published: 27 May 2011 TOPICS: Downtime \| Fibre Channel SAN \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Infrastructure

Forrester Thought Leadership White Paper: Exploring the Potential Benefits of End-to-End Convergence of Data Center Networks sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discloses the results of an evaluation of end-to-end storage area network/local area network (SAN/LAN) networking issues including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) adoption. Posted: 14 Feb 2012 \| Published: 14 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Converged Networks \| Data Center Networking \| Data Centers \| Ethernet Networks \| Fibre Channel \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| LAN \| LAN Hardware \| Network Architectures \| Network Design \| Network Infrastructure \| Network Management \| Network Performance \| Network Traffic Analysis \| Network Traffic Management \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN

Configuring Windows Server 2012 for iSCSI SAN Boot with EqualLogic Storage sponsored by Dell and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This paper demonstrates Dell best practices for implementing iSCSI boot from SAN with Dell EqualLogic storage arrays and the 12th generation (12G) PowerEdge servers running Windows Server 2012. Posted: 29 Aug 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: iSCSI Protocol \| iSCSI SAN \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Server Accelerators \| Server Management \| Server Virtualization \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

NetApp FAS2240 - An Inside Look sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This article takes an inside look at the unique design features of the NetApp FAS2240, including: Integration of controllers within NetApp SAS disk shelves; I/O and performance enhancements; New resiliency and availability features. Posted: 10 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Fibre Channel SAN \| iSCSI SAN \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Optimization \| Storage Systems

Symantec Storage Foundation 6.1: Flexible Storage Sharing sponsored by Symantec Corporation WHITE PAPER: This brief resource explores a storage virtualization solution that combines shared and direct-attached storage together without the complexity, cost, or siloed appraoches to typical SAN management. Posted: 03 Mar 2014 \| Published: 31 Dec 2013 TOPICS: DAS \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Appliances \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Services \| Storage Virtualization

NetApp Unified Scale-Out/Clustered Storage sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a new version of one leading vendor's storage operating environment. Find out how this software update eliminates many of the problems associated with typical monolithic or legacy storage systems. Read on to learn more. Posted: 15 Oct 2013 \| Published: 15 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Systems \| Structured Data \| Unstructured Data

Optimizing VDI data management with unified virtualized storage sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper explores how optimizing VDI helps simplify user data management and enables device – and location – independent data access. Find out how a unified virtualized storage technology helps boost IT flexibility. Posted: 28 Oct 2013 \| Published: 31 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| VDI \| Virtual Desktop Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine \| VM

The Value of Shared Cached in Enterprise Computing sponsored by QLogic Corporation WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to uncover the key design features of this I/O accelerating technology. Posted: 27 Feb 2014 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Cache Server Hardware \| Cache Server Software \| Caching \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management