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Virtualizing Tier 1 Applications: A Critical Step on the Journey Toward the Private Cloud
sponsored by VMware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This IDC white paper explains how much of the Enterprise IT community is at a crossroads in extending their journey to the private cloud: Companies must virtualize their business critical applications in order to reap the benefits of cloud computing.
Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2010

VMware, Inc.

Dell Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Reference Architecture
sponsored by Dell EMC and Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: This paper proposes several sample virtualisation architectures based on Dell's server and storage products. Architectures are divided into three main categories: Small, Medium, and Large. These categories are based on the features and capacity of each product, as well as the complexity of the overall architecture.
Posted: 22 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

Dell EMC and Microsoft

VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery
sponsored by Dell and VMware
WHITE PAPER: Affordable high availability and disaster recovery solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building on years of helping SMBs protect their information, VMware and Dell provide cost-effective and robust data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.
Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 2010

Dell and VMware

How Virtualization Cuts CDP Costs by 80%
sponsored by Veeam Software
WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares 3 different options of implementing CDP (continuous data protection) and shows how virtualization-enabled CDP - or Near-CDP - becomes the most affordable and most logical disaster recovery choice for businesses of all sizes.
Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2010

Veeam Software

Extending the Lifecycle and Lowering the TCO of your SAN
sponsored by D-Link
WHITE PAPER: If you are in charge of IT at a mid-size enterprise, you’re probably about to bite the bullet to add a new Storage Area Network (SAN). Why? The simple answer is that it’s a combination of challenges and opportunities. Read this paper to learn why any organization that runs more than one business server application should consider a SAN.
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | Published: 26 Apr 2010

D-Link

Mimecast Unifies Email Security, Archiving, and Continuity Services in the Cloud
sponsored by Mimecast
WHITE PAPER: The market for cloud-based IT infrastructure services delivered in a software-as-a-service model continues to grow. IDC research indicates this model of IT delivery is disrupting traditional licensed software markets and changing how archiving, backup, recovery, and security technologies are procured. Read this whitepaper to learn more.
Posted: 17 Aug 2010 | Published: 17 Aug 2010

Mimecast

Data Deduplication: An Essential Component of your Data Protection Strategy
sponsored by arcserve
WHITE PAPER: Data Deduplication is a technology that helps organizations balance opposing demands. Disk based backups can be rolled out in order to reduce the backup window and improve recovery time, and deduplication means the investment in those disk based targets is maximized. Continue reading this white paper to learn more.
Posted: 19 Aug 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2010

arcserve

Emerson Network Power Rack PDU Solutions: Rack Power Distribution for Critical IT Equipment
sponsored by Emerson Network Power
WHITE PAPER: Today's successful businesses depend on adaptable technologies to help them respond quickly to market demands. Emerson Network Power's portfolio of products provide innovative, flexible solutions that ensure reliability and efficiency.
Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010

Emerson Network Power

Disaster Got You Down?
sponsored by CDW Corporation
WHITE PAPER: The risks attached to not having a BC or DR plan are neither small nor cheap. Every good plan employs certain technologies and methodologies to limit the disruptiveness of an outage. CDW offers storage, power and networking specialists to assist with disaster recovery needs.
Posted: 27 Jan 2010 | Published: 27 Jan 2010

CDW Corporation

Cray Sonexion™ Data Storage System
sponsored by Cray
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the features and benefits of the Cray Sonexion Lustre appliance approach while comparing and contrasting it to traditional component-based approaches.
Posted: 25 Apr 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

Cray