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Creating SANLess Microsoft SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances with SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition and Fusion-io sponsored by SIOS Technology Corp WHITE PAPER: Deploying a failover cluster instance (FCI) architecture for your SQL Server database requires expensive shared storage for data files and backups. This resource introduces an alternative to storage area networks (SANs) that provides the availability benefit of an FCI – without the high price tag. Posted: 11 Feb 2014 \| Published: 31 Dec 2013 TOPICS: Database Administration \| Database Administrators \| Database Management \| Database Management Software \| Database Managers \| Database Performance Management \| Database Security \| Databases \| Disaster Recovery \| SAN \| Security \| Security Management \| SQL Server \| Storage Management

Storage magazine: Special Oceania edition, June 2014 sponsored by TechTarget Storage EZINE: Local businesses share their storage management successes Posted: 03 Jun 2014 \| Published: 03 Jun 2014 TOPICS: Backups \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Storage \| Disk Backups \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Virtualization \| Tape Backups

NetApp Unified Scale-Out/Clustered Storage sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This informative paper explores a new version of one leading vendor's storage operating environment. Find out how this software update eliminates many of the problems associated with typical monolithic or legacy storage systems. Read on to learn more. Posted: 15 Oct 2013 \| Published: 15 Oct 2013 TOPICS: Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Management \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Management \| Storage Management Software \| Storage Systems \| Structured Data \| Unstructured Data

EMC Isilon Storage for KDB+: A use case for historical and near real-time storage for Kdb+/Kx/Q sponsored by EMC Isilon WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to present an overview on the kdb+ workflow and to understand the suitability of Isilon scale-out NAS platform as the storage platform of choice for these workflows. Posted: 28 Jun 2013 \| Published: 31 Jul 2012 TOPICS: Database Administration \| Database Architectures \| Database Management \| Databases \| High Availability \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Management

Best Practices: Dell Compellent Storage Center Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 sponsored by DellEMC and Intel® WHITE PAPER: This comprehensive whitepaper serves as a best practice guideline when configuring and using Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Posted: 22 Oct 2013 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Database Architectures \| Email \| Email Archiving \| Email Archiving Software \| Email Management \| Email Management Services \| Email Management Software \| Email Server Software \| Email Software \| Microsoft Exchange \| Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Best Practices

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3 and 8.2x - An Introduction sponsored by NetApp WHITE PAPER: This technical report provides an overview of NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® 8.3 and 8.2x, including basic components of the hardware and software architecture. Posted: 12 Jun 2013 \| Published: 12 Jun 2013 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Migration \| NAS \| SAN \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Virtual Machine

Maximize IT with an Integrated, Unified, Converged Solution Strategy sponsored by Hitachi Vantara WHITE PAPER: Check out this informative resource to explore three technology enhancements that enable the use of one platform for all of your data. Plus, find out how to simplify the tasks of implementing flash, unified storage with primary dedupe, and converged infrastructure. Read on to learn more. Posted: 09 Sep 2013 \| Published: 10 Jul 2013 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Data Storage \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Virtualization \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for File Virtualization/NAS Virtualization \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Strategy for Virtual Data Centers

10000 Series - Acceleration for VMware ESX Servers sponsored by QLogic Corporation APPLICATION NOTE: Take a look at this concise resource to find out how this flash-based acceleration tool can use your existing SAN infrastructure to increase your storage capacity, while continuing SAN data protection and compliance policies. Posted: 24 Feb 2014 \| Published: 31 Jan 2014 TOPICS: Acceleration Hardware \| Capacity Planning \| Data Storage \| SAN \| SAN and Virtualization \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage for Virtualized Servers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Virtual Machine \| VM

Scale-out Set to Eclipse Scale-up for Enterprise Storage sponsored by Curvature EGUIDE: Scale-up storage has served us well for the last two decades. Now, scale-out is poised to take over. Despite the scale-up market's current strength, the move into hyperscale computing, and the thought of increasingly larger arrays is causing concern. Posted: 30 Aug 2016 \| Published: 25 Aug 2016 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| NAS \| SAN \| Server Management \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management

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 TOPICS: Capacity Planning \| Data Management \| Flash Memory \| Hard Disk Drives \| Performance Testing \| SAN \| Solid State Disks \| Solid State Storage \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization

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