White Papers: storage

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, intelligent and instrumented, data centre managers today often find themselves struggling to accommodate exponential data growth while maintaining high levels of service and availability. Learn more on how to optimise storage service delivery.

Today’s data centre is changing rapidly. Many enterprises are integrating new technology solutions to modernise and evolve their organisations. Most are pursuing a path to ensure appropriate levels of IT service delivery and cost efficiency and alignment to business goals. Read more.

The benefits of virtualisation, from accelerated service delivery and resource optimisation to reduced costs for IT resources, have spurred many organisations to move toward a virtual infrastructure. However, the nature of the virtual environment, which calls for a vast network of shared resources, has created a new set of management complexities that can impede business service delivery—and that are best handled by adding cloud-computing capabilities to the virtualised infrastructure. This white paper details the IBM open standards-based offerings for VMware and other virtual environments, focusing on key capabilities for discovery, monitoring, capacity planning, provisioning, storage, security and financial management. Read on.

Oracle’s Aaron Newcomb, principal product manager, goes on a fact-finding mission and discovers that it is possible to simplify your storage with the advanced analytics and management user interface of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance.

This IDC White Paper takes a close look at the Oracle Solaris operating system and the initiatives coming from Oracle that are continuing to enhance this product offering. Read about it now