Storage Virtualisation 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

It is important to understand the security and performance risks associated with a public cloud and costly implications of a private cloud so it is imperative you know everything there is to know. Read this paper for the 3 questions to ask when planning to move in to the cloud. VIEW SUMMARY

Virtualisation technology and cloud computing have changed the world of IT completely. The new virtual data center is much more complex. This video explains the need to change the way you think about capacity and how to take control over your data center’s capacity requirements. VIEW SUMMARY

Server Capacity Defrag refers to an approach to server optimisation through strategic workload placement to maximize VM density on hosts. This paper outlines how to leverage analytics to match workloads together so users can increase density and fit more workloads into environments. VIEW SUMMARY

Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host-level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common — they are fiction. In this paper we explore six fairy tales of VMware and Hyper-V backup. VIEW SUMMARY

This paper addresses two keys areas; storage replication and host based replication, and identifies key differences between them. It also highlights the benefits of choosing a host-based solution. 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

Many organisations are looking to rapidly scale out their virtual infrastructure to encompass most, if not their entire data centre with data protection and management of the virtual environment continuing to be a challenge for most organisations. Read to find out how to overcome these challenges. VIEW SUMMARY

Solid state disks (SSDs) are lightning fast, but they remain significantly more expensive than hard disk drives (HDDs) especially at the upper end of the size scale. This white paper shows you how the gap can be bridged, allowing super-fast I/O to reduce latency to a minimum. VIEW SUMMARY