Capacity Requirements Planning Reports

Case Study: University of Connecticut School of Business
sponsored by DellEMC and Intel®
WHITE PAPER: This case study profiles a Connecticut university's data center migration to virtualization optimized servers and storage solutions. Check it out to learn how this school realized a 20% reduction in cooling and power costs, 30% savings in storage costs and a 97% reduction in downtime. Read on to see if you too can double your processing capacity.
Posted: 18 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

DellEMC and Intel®

IBM SAN Volume Controller and IBM FlashSystem 820: Best Practices and Performance Capabilities
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper documents best practice configurations for integrating flash with a block storage virtualization appliance. It also details the potential performance gains that such systems can provide and information about your options for cache usage and real-time compression.
Posted: 26 Sep 2013 | Published: 24 Jul 2013

IBM

Storage Resource Management and SAN Management Software
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This resource provides you with a detailed analysis of SRM and SAN tools enabling ease-of-use to manage shared storage environments. These fully featured, integrated and user-friendly tools are offered as solutions ranging from the holistic to the specialist, delivering a broad range of maturity levels and requirements.
Posted: 14 Jun 2013 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

IBM

Effective Storage Management and Data Protection for Cloud Computing
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: IBM reduces the complexity of managing cloud environments by offering a complete portfolio of automated solutions for managing data and storage infrastructure, enabling better efficiency for business resiliency, and helping to reduce costs and improve security.
Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

IBM

Flash Storage Caching Boosts Application Performance—but Requires Balance
sponsored by Pure Storage
EGUIDE: Use this guide as a comprehensive resource for evaluating flash caching benefits, trade-offs, 3 main implementation models, and determine where to cache in order to leverage faster media and improve I/O performance.
Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

Pure Storage

E-Guide: Recovering from IT disaster: What’s really causing your outage?
sponsored by Dell Compellent
EGUIDE: Most IT disasters have nothing to do with the hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods that can wipe out a facility. In fact, studies show that hardware failure is the number one reason for DR declarations.  This e-guide describes common DR misconceptions and consequences, and provides backup and testing suggestions for optimal recovery.
Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

Dell Compellent

Data Center Consolidation and Storage Trends
sponsored by Turbonomic an IBM company
EGUIDE: This expert e-guide explores best practices for consolidating your data center architecture and examines the benefits of this process.
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 | Published: 23 Sep 2014

Turbonomic an IBM company

Why IT Is Slowly Embracing Composable Infrastructure
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise
EGUIDE: In this guide, you'll discover how to simplify IT orchestration and improve dynamic resource allocation with a combined composable infrastructure and OpenStack-based hybrid cloud platform. Read on to both meet expanding workload demands and improve access to on-premises IT resources.
Posted: 09 Feb 2017 | Published: 06 Feb 2017

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

How a transition to the cloud reshapes capacity planning, DR and more
sponsored by Colospace Inc.
EGUIDE: Before transitioning to the cloud, admins often need to address many questions related to everything from SaaS apps to DR and capacity planning. In this e-guide compare the pros and cons of SaaS vs. IaaS and find tips for transitioning workloads to the cloud.
Posted: 13 Sep 2017 | Published: 13 Sep 2017

Colospace Inc.

Case Study - Stomo
sponsored by Riverbed Technology, Inc.
CASE STUDY: When STOMO underwent expansion, the additional data traffic generated put pressure on the company's wide area network. By deploying Steelhead appliances, STOMO has achieved annual savings of $13,000 by avoiding bandwidth upgrades, increased its optimized bandwidth capacity three-fold, and reduced network traffic by more than 70%.
Posted: 20 Jan 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

Riverbed Technology, Inc.