Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - HP offers a scalable, modular, high performance NAS solution for Oracle 10g RAC and non RAC with no single point of failure. Using NAS storage for Oracle makes provisioning and managing storage much easier than using SAN storage.
Posted: July 16, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Databases | High Availability | Linux | NAS | SAN | Standards | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Management Software

WHITE PAPER - By implementing the best practices provided in this white paper, HP has reduced the baseline response time of the SAP workload by 67% with basic buffer tuning.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | ERP | Memory Management | SAN | SAP (Product) | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper demonstrates storage administrator efficiencies which can positively affect ownership costs for SAN arrays in the midmarket.
Posted: July 2, 2008 | Published: February 11, 2008


Topics:  SAN | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper describes the business motivations for using storage virtualization and the benefits it can deliver. Basic storage virtualization approaches are described and their benefits and limitations are compared.
Posted: July 1, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Applications Management | Data Migration | IT Industry | Network Management | Productivity | SAN | Storage Management | Vendors

PRODUCT LITERATURE - HP StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays are enterprise-class storage systems that deliver dependable performance for environments where downtime is not an option.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | Disk Storage Systems | Mainframe Computers | NAS | NAS Software | Regulatory Compliance | SAN | Security | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This ESG Lab Validation analysis is focused on verifying thin provisioning of internal and external storage, creating large logical pools of capacity and the improved performance of the XP24000.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Storage | Disaster Recovery | High Availability | NAS | NAS Software | SAN | Storage Virtualization | Testing | VMware

WHITE PAPER - IT Centrix believes that the XP24000 and XP20000 represent the most advanced and flexible storage platform in the industry, with heterogeneous virtualization and cross-array heterogeneous tiered storage.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  RAID | SAN | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | VMware

WHITE PAPER - The test results and information presented in this paper explain how to properly plan for and successfully deploy a remote copy infrastructure for an Oracle 10g database using HP XP12000 Disk Arrays and HP StorageWorks XP Continuous Access Software.
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Disk Storage Systems | OLTP | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides guidance on planning a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment based on HP server, storage, and management products.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: November 2, 2007


Topics:  SAN | Server Consolidation | Storage Management | Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes two deployment types of a VMware tolerant solution, based on coupling key VMware features with disaster tolerance functionality of HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: February 4, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | SAN | Servers | Virtualization | VMware

PRODUCT LITERATURE - The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 with HP BladeSystem provides an ideal platform for virtualization, with hardware and software that have been certified for VMware ESX Server.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Centers | SAN | Servers | Virtualization | VMware

WHITE PAPER - This IDC white paper describes the growing need for data backup and recovery solutions, the advantages of disk-based systems and the software required to manage these systems. Read this white paper to learn more.
Posted: April 2, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disk Backups | Indexing (Information Management) | NAS | RPO | RTO | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Tape Backups | Tiered Storage | Virtual Tape Libraries

CASE STUDY - This white paper presents a case study on how one leading IT services provider was able to improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data by using a virtualized SAN infrastructure and other backup method
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Business Continuity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | NAS | RAID | SAN | Serial ATA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - Advancements in technology and price reductions have recently made it possible to use disk together with tape to improve data protection. This white paper discusses the benefits of this technology.
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Published: September 1, 2006


Topics:  Continuous Data Protection | Continuous Data Protection Software | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Consolidation | Tape Backups

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides an in-depth understanding on how to integrate innovative data protection solutions with a VTL. Discover the benefits that can be achieved from doing so and learn how VTLs provide many more rewards than standard tape libraries.
Posted: March 31, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Software | Backup Software | Continuous Data Protection | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Disk Backups | GUI | RAID | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Devices | Storage Security | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries