WHITE PAPER - This analysis looks at the positive business impact of networked storage virtualisation solutions that improve storage asset utilisation, reduce the administrative costs of provisioning new storage systems, and improve application availability.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 19, 2009


Topics:  SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - This white paper presents an overview of storage virtualisation at the controller level of a storage system. It describes how HP defines virtualisation technology and how it applies to the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: February 14, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | Network Performance | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | TCO | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - The most powerful application of virtualization today is at the storage system level. With the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array and HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services platform, organizations can take advantage of the many benefits of virtualization with a solution designed specifically for open systems.
Posted: September 24, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  NAS | RAID | SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Architectures | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

WHITE PAPER - Many companies that have deployed server virtualization are still struggling with massive data growth, rising storage maintenance cost, and underutilized storage assets from a multitude of vendors. A virtual storage infrastructure from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: September 21, 2009


Topics:  NAS | NAS Software | RAID | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Management | Storage Standards | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - When the U.S. Air force needed a more powerful storage infrastructure, they turned to HP for a system that allowed them to meet business demands more flexibly, manage data more simply and efficiently and mitigate the risk of lost data with a storage area network (SAN) that pools, shares and centrally manages storage resources.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: July 23, 2009


Topics:  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Management | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the powerful combination of HP StorageWorks SVSP storage virtualization solution with server virtualization products to produce a more dynamic IT infrastructure that improves efficiencies and simplifies operations.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: May 20, 2009


Topics:  SAN | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - If you are looking to improve the efficiency of your storage infrastructure, consider the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP). It allows you to provision virtual volumes to meet the requirements of your standard and virtual servers. It delivers improved storage resource utilization along with comprehensive data protection.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Storage | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Server virtualization offers a tremendous opportunity for cost savings in the data center. This paper will give three steps you can take to dramatically improve your cost savings from server virtualization as well as show how companies are using Marathon's everRun software to implement those steps.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | IT Best Practices | IT Management | Network Performance | ROI | SAN | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Management

EGUIDE - This Essential Guide offers a collection of tips, tools and techniques that you can use to back up your virtual servers more efficiently. Find out about the intricacies of using VMware's Consolidate Backup (VCB) application, get tips on how to fine-tune your current backup app for virtual servers, and read about the common problems and solutions.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: September 9, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | SAN | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups | Virtualization Security | VMware | VMware Server

WHITE PAPER - This paper addresses the challenges and drawbacks of in-the-cloud storage, addressing such issues as control, security, compliance, data availability, and overall management. It also shows how storage can work within a private or internal cloud framework.
Posted: August 31, 2009 | Published: August 25, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cloud Computing | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - If you’re an administrator who’s planning to build a high performance, highly available IP network using HP SAN/iQ Software, you should read this document in its entirety. You’ll find important configuration guidelines, best practices, and frequently asked questions that will help you to accelerate a successful deployment.
Posted: August 27, 2009 | Published: August 13, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Management | Clustering | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | NAS | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - The white paper explains the benefits of matching server virtualization with advanced storage virtualization using HP LeftHand SAN and VMware Infrastructure.
Posted: August 26, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | VMware

PODCAST - This podcast will define tiered storage and explain how tiered storage can drive efficiency in your IT operations. Listen to this podcast to find out what you should consider before implementing a tiered storage solution.
Posted: August 25, 2009 | Premiered: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Recovery | High Availability | SAN | SLA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Tiered Storage

TECHNICAL ARTICLE - This Technical Report focuses on the installation, configuration and usage of Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware™ Edition to obtain hypervisor aware snapshots and provide an additional layer of data protection for the Virtual Environment.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection Software | SAN | Virtual Machine | Virtual Machine Backups | VMware | VMware Infrastructure 3

PRODUCT DEMO - View this step-by-step product demonstration to see how to implement a high performance, highly available, and easily scaled SAN without impacting applications or limiting performance as workloads change and grow.
Posted: August 24, 2009 | Published: August 24, 2009


Topics:  Data Recovery | High Availability | iSCSI SAN | SAN | Storage Hardware | VMware | VMware ESX | VMware Infrastructure 3