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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

Virtualizing Business-Critical Applications With Confidence
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity.
Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

Symantec Corporation

Transparent Application Scaling with IBM DB2 PureScale
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: With IBM DB2 pureScale transparent application scaling, you can transparently add capacity to your network to handle fluctuations in demand without changing the application. pureScale technology also helps to deliver active-active high availability. Find out how these features work. 
Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

IBM

Virtual Fabrics Provide Administrative Flexibility in a Shared Storage Environment
sponsored by Brocade
WHITE PAPER: Learn about a technology that enables you to better manage your SAN assets by creating logical groups of separately managed devices, ports, and switches within your SAN - all without disrupting existing environments.
Posted: 21 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Jan 2009

Brocade

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

IDC Technology Spotlight - Continuous Operations for Applications with Multiple Storage Array Access
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a distributed storage approach within your data center. Read on to discover how this technology can help you, minimize downtime with continuous operations, reduce application complexity and achieve higher storage utilization with increased availability.
Posted: 25 Sep 2013 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

EMC Corporation

DreamWorks Animation Utilizes the Red Hat Portfolio to Build a Private Cloud
sponsored by Red Hat - HPE
WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to discover how one leading animation studio uses Linux to enable rapid and cost-efficient scalability of computing and resources for high-performance compute (HPC) workloads. Learn how your organization can reduce your data center footprint and enhance reliability by using this Linux platform.
Posted: 16 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Jul 2012

Red Hat - HPE

Neverfail Heartbeat Failover Engine
sponsored by Neverfail
WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to explore a business continuity solution that continuously keeps your applications up in the face of any threat to system availability.
Posted: 24 Jun 2013 | Published: 24 Jun 2013

Neverfail

Oracle Real Application Clusters One Node: Better Virtualization for Databases
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.
Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

Oracle Corporation

IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller Technology Gives Nexans Optimum Storage Flexibility
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to learn how Nexans Euromold expired (HP msa1000), André Fouquart, Information Systems Manager at Nexans, went looking for a new storage platform. It soon became clear that an IBM SVC solution combined with IBM System Storage™ DS3400 arrays was the best solution, read more now.
Posted: 20 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

IBM