Storage

This solution brief introduces the Smart Archive strategy from IBM, which is a comprehensive approach that combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities to help you drive down costs down and help ensure critical content is properly retained and protected.

This ESG Lab report presents the results of a mixed workload performance benchmark test designed to assess the real world performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers in a VMware-enabled virtual server environment.

Browse this summary for additional information about performance capabilities of an IBM Storwize V7000 storage system and IBM x3850 X5 servers.

Browse the data-sheet for additional information regarding archiving and retention solutions from IBM.

This whitepaper explores the latest challenges and innovations in data protection and retention.

This ESG whitepaper reviews challenges introduced by data growth and focuses on IBM data protection and retention products/technologies that address storage efficiency.

Take a look at this flier for additional information regarding archiving and retention solutions from IBM.

This ESG Lab report examines an innovative high speed data compression appliance from IBM.

Read how Real-time Compression can impact your environment in the ESG Lab Validation Report.

In this white paper Quest's data protection experts offer five tips for effective backup and recovery to help you avoid the challenges that might keep you from fully protecting your virtual assets and infrastructure.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.

This IDC research with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices shows that well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%.

HP's Converged Infrastructure incorporates tools that make remote support and management efficient and effective. HP Insight Control, for example, helps reduce server deployment time from four hours to just 20 minutes, a 12-fold decrease in deployment time.

This IDC research with small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and branch offices shows that well-targeted technology upgrades, coupled with a rigorous program to standardize and improve IT practices at a company's remote locations and headquarters, can deliver substantial business value and could reduce total annual IT costs in the branches by over 30%.

Ephemeral disk storage, also known as local disk devices is an important component in using the IBM® SmartCloud. This article details the layout of the virtual disk drives available to the Linux® and WindowsT operating systems for each choice of instance size in the IBM Cloud.

Are you getting the most you can out of your resource utilization? This technical note features two scenarios designed to illustrate the technical process of monitoring cloud services. Learn more about these time-saving,effective options for monitoring in the IBM Cloud.

Cloud computing doesn't just change where applications are run. It changes the processes used to build, deploy and ultimately manage them. Hear industry experts describe how cloud computing can modernize app development and testing to make your business more dynamic!

Get no nonsense, practical guidance on how to succeed as a cloud provider in the marketplace. Focusing on reality and not hype, this whitepaper addresses how to best evaluate cloud services/offerings, implement operations and approach customer engagement.

This whitepaper features valuable insights pertaining to cloud usage and implementation scenarios for test cloud environments. Includes helpful guidance and scenarios for IT Managers and CIOs alike regarding public, private and hybrid testing clouds.

IT Managers: Reduce costs with enterprise ready environments. Take advantage of easy and flexible onboarding for business-ready virtual servers. Rapidly improve project set up and shorten development times. Find out how.

IT Managers: Help your development team shorten project deadlines and test provisioning cycles, all while reducing capital and licensing expenses, as well operating costs. Don't get left behind. Get serious for cloud for business.

Join Michael Osterman of Osterman Research and GFI Software who will discuss the current state of the dangers of simple Web surfing and what you can do to address these concerns quickly and easily.

Learn why you should keep your software subscription up to date.

This EMA White Paper examines in more detail the building blocks for private cloud computing - automation, virtualization, and cloud service management - and provides EMA's recommendations for a phased approach to cloud computing, based on EMA's maturity model, research data, and enterprise activities, with prescriptive approach and some sample use cases to help get started.

Read this white paper to learn how IT organizations can implement an effective Service Catalog that will enable them to reap the full benefits of self-service in virtualized and cloud computing environments.