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SAN System Buying Guide sponsored by Icomm Technologies EGUIDE: In this e-guide, discover expert tips on how to determine if a SAN system is right for your enterprise's storage environment with comparisons to NAS and DAS systems. You will also learn how to sift through the SAN array market so that you can choose the right solution for your enterprise. Posted: 23 Feb 2016 \| Published: 17 Feb 2016 TOPICS: DAS \| NAS \| SAN \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

Best Practices for Windows Server 2012 and SAN Integration sponsored by Dell and Microsoft WHITE PAPER: This document provides an overview of Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and introduces best practice guidelines when integrating Windows Server 2012 with the Dell Compellent Storage Center. Posted: 29 Aug 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Cloud Storage \| Data Recovery \| Data Replication \| High Availability \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Tiered Storage \| Windows Server Software

Tiered Storage: Definitions, Deployment, Options, and Guidelines for Getting Started sponsored by SageCloud EGUIDE: This expert e-guide examines various definitions and interpretations of tiered storage and presents an overview of its key benefits, challenges, and deployment options. Posted: 21 Oct 2013 \| Published: 21 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Storage \| Disk Drives \| RAID \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Tape Drives \| Tiered Storage

The Benefits of and Critical Buying Criteria for Clustered Storage Solutions sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at the adoption and benefits of clustered storage across a variety of enterprises. Discover what these storage users consider to be the most important attributes for a clustered storage system. Posted: 12 Jun 2013 \| Published: 31 Mar 2013 TOPICS: NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

EMC Isilon Storage for KDB+: A use case for historical and near real-time storage for Kdb+/Kx/Q sponsored by EMC Isilon WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to present an overview on the kdb+ workflow and to understand the suitability of Isilon scale-out NAS platform as the storage platform of choice for these workflows. Posted: 28 Jun 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Database Administration \| Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Databases \| High Availability \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

Virtualizing Business Critical Apps. Clearing the Performance Hurdle sponsored by DataCore Software Corporation WHITE PAPER: In this paper, the root cause behind the unacceptable behavior is considered and a practical, proven solution is offered. Posted: 30 Aug 2013 \| Published: 30 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Applications Management \| Business Continuity Planning \| Disk Drives \| Hard Disk Drives \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems \| Storage Virtualization

Affordable High Availability (HA) Delivers Convenience, Value and Improved Response Time to Retail Branches sponsored by LSI Corporation. WHITE PAPER: Need to minimize the risk of server failures and optimize your inventory database? LSI shows why deploying HA servers at your retail branch locations is critical to adding value to your business. Posted: 19 Jul 2013 \| Published: 30 Nov 2012 TOPICS: Business Continuity Planning \| Clustering \| DAS \| Disaster Recovery \| High Availability \| NAS \| Remote Office Connectivity \| Remote Offices \| SAN \| Server Accelerators \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Storage Systems

Solid State Drives are Changing the Future of NAS Apps sponsored by Dell EMC and Intel® EGUIDE: Access this eGuide to learn how solid state drives (SSD) will affect the future of primary and secondary network attached storage (NAS) applications. Posted: 12 Dec 2016 \| Published: 06 Dec 2016 TOPICS: Flash Memory \| NAS \| Network Applications Software \| Network Performance \| Networking \| Networking Hardware \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage

From Hours to Seconds: QuestPoint Accelerates Time to Business Intelligence with ioMemory sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Fusion-io CASE STUDY: This case study highlights how a global marketing and intelligence agency moved mission-critical OLTP and OLAP databases off the SAN and onto an innovative system in the database servers. This eliminated I/O delays in the transactional databases and accelerated reporting times in its data warehouse. Posted: 29 May 2014 \| Published: 31 Dec 2013 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Database Performance Management \| Databases \| OLAP \| OLTP \| SAN \| Server Hardware

Kareo’s SaaS Performance Gets Healthy with Pure Storage sponsored by Pure Storage WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper presents a case study in which a medical supply company was able to upgrade legacy SAN with a Tier 1 storage solution for high capacity, high throughput and low latency, creating a 80% performance gain and invigorating customer service. Posted: 19 Jun 2014 \| Published: 19 Jun 2014 TOPICS: SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Tiered Storage

SAN Architecture Reports