Storage Management White Papers

The new 2013 Infrastructure E-Guide is designed to help you ensure you're up to date with the most current infrastructure trends, best practices and innovations so you can make the right infrastructure decisions for your organisation. VIEW SUMMARY

This case study follows a Chinese university that deployed high performance computing servers to cope with their demands. But, it was difficult to manage the scattered computing resources, and they also wanted greater utilisation of these resources. Read this case study to find out how they did so. VIEW SUMMARY

Hangzhou Trustway Technology wanted to manage traffic in a Chinese city. However, with vast amounts of information from digital monitoring devices, they needed lots of reliable storage and the ability to efficiently analyse this data, in real time if necessary. Read this case study to find out more. VIEW SUMMARY

Transforming IT from a bottleneck into a competitive asset starts with a smart decision regarding your storage strategy. This midsize business portfolio document is designed to help you make the smart storage decision for your business. VIEW SUMMARY

Legacy storage solutions cannot keep up with the rapidly expanding datacentres with increasing application numbers and which demand higher performance. Throwing hardware at this problem is not the answer. Read this paper for a discussion about performance of applications in the datacentre. VIEW SUMMARY

Within shared storage, there is a constant struggle for resources – noisy neighbours. Performance becomes an issue due to the competition between workloads, reducing quality of service. Read this paper for limitations of legacy solutions and challenges in hosting performance-sensitive applications. VIEW SUMMARY

PST elimination is not a simple IT project. Using figures provided from observations of various customer experiences with creating and managing a PST elimination project, this report is meant to guide you as you work to define a project that fits your organisation’s needs and expectations. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper looks at laws governing data retention as well as the duty an organisation has to present information in a timely fashion if challenged as a result of an investigation or court case. Read this paper to learn about the dangers of not addressing the data VIEW SUMMARY

This report by the Info-Tech research group evaluates 8 competitors in the storage market and is a useful independent resource for organisations planning or considering purchasing consolidated network storage, such as a SAN or unified storage solution. VIEW SUMMARY

Big Data is one of the transformative forces that are impacting the IT industry today. It will transform the way we architect and use IT and change the way business decisions are taken. This paper discusses how the emergence of Big Data use cases will transform storage infrastructure requirements. VIEW SUMMARY