Storage Efficiency and Data Protection

Sponsor: NetApp

This paper will show how NetApp storage efficiency and data protection features allow for a higher level of protection without compromise on risk or cost.

A Case Study on Gateway Health Plan

Sponsor: NetApp

Gateway Health Plan realized the need to make major changes in its storage environment to support business growth and customer demands. The primary objective was to improve the reliability of its production database environment to support customers during disasters.

To determine the optimal solution, Gateway Health Plan estimated that it could quadruple its data capacity, migrate its primary site to a NetApp filer, and add a second backup site using NetApp for roughly the same costs as expanding its current environment, which would only double capacity. This case study examines Gateway's implementation of NetApp's solution and discusses the specific benefits that were attained.

Cut Costs, Reduce Downtime, and Increase Revenue

Sponsor: NetApp

Tier 3 is a cloud storage provider that deployed NetApp in 2008. The company employs just over 40 people, half of whom are IT technicians. Given that bulk storage is the company's primary offering, efficient management of that storage is essential to the business. The deployment has helped generate revenue and improve customer satisfaction.

Improve Storage Infrastructure Performance

Sponsor: NetApp

TruWest Credit - faced with 25% growth and a drive to maintain efficient operations - deployed the NetApp storage solution in October 2008 to improve the performance, efficiency, flexibility, and manageability of its storage infrastructure and to facilitate server virtualization.

Bloor - Storage Thin Provisioning Explained

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Independent consulting firm, Bloor Research, explains what is meant by storage thin provisioning, how it works, and the problems it addresses. Read about the benefits of thin provisioning potential benefits as well as a few pitfalls users should watch out for.

Forrester - Ramp Up Your Virtualization Benefits

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Virtualization is a top priority for SMBs. This Forrester research examines the four stages of virtualization deployment. Forrester highlights their key findings and makes concrete recommendations on how SMBs can accelerate successful virtualization adoption and avoid common mistakes.

IT Pain Relief for Midmarket Businesses

Sponsor: HP & Intel

This white paper is intended for midsize organizations that have realized benefits from virtualization, but are suffering from complications of an incremental approach of virtualizing individual components. Lean how to achieve end-to-end infrastructure virtualization and gain better insight into management of both virtual and physical servers.

Forrester - Increase Resiliency and Flexibility with Virtualization

Sponsor: HP & Intel

This Forrester report examines how small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) can take virtualization to the next level of maturity and realize gains beyond consolidation. It offers recommendations on how SMBs should approach the server and network infrastructure and explains how to build a virtualization roadmap.

ESG - HP P4000 SAN: Affordable, Scalable, Reliable Storage

Sponsor: HP & Intel

This ESG lab review documents the pay as you grow scalability and availability of the HP P4000 SAN. ESG explains how to get started with a Virtual SAN Appliance (VSA), online upgrades to physical appliances, proven support for more than 150,000 Microsoft users, and hyper-redundant fault tolerance.

ESG - The Business Value of Reservationless Storage

Sponsor: HP & Intel

Reservationless storage streamlines the delivery of block-based storage capacity that is used for thin provisioning and snapshots. It requires less capacity over the life of the storage system and dramatically reduces stranded storage. This ESG report explains how reservationless storage works and details three varied deployment scenarios