Small and midsize businesses grapple with the same massive data growth that’s challenging larger organizations, yet they have fewer resources to devote to managing the deluge. A new option from Dell EMC, powered by an Intel® Xeon® processor, is finally giving SMBs access to storage area network technology that’s affordable and easy to manage. Read this white paper to learn more now, including what this technology can offer in terms of benefits, performance, and more.

The most successful businesses are greater than the sum of their parts. When individuals work together well, they fill in each other's blind spots and build on each other's great ideas. These conversations ultimately help teams be more productive, reduce time-to-market and come up with more innovative ideas. But if your teams are spread across different offices, or working from home, can you create the same collaborative magic? Web-based collaboration tools claim to break down the collaboration barriers that distance can build. Everyone agrees they can reduce the time and cost of travel. And yes, these tools can stream your colleagues' voices, facial expressions, and slide decks into your meeting room, so you can get a clearer picture of verbal and behavioral signals. But if you're researching collaboration platforms, you'll hear skepticism, too. Naysayers declare that: People won’t participate because they’re afraid of digital change. You just can’t trust the security of collaborati

Although humor is featured in many of the most memorable ads of all time, it is still seldom seen in the world of business-to-business. Why? B-to-B professionals are afraid humorous ads may fall flat or — worse — damage brand image. In the first study of its kind, gyro and Research Now SSI have discovered that humor can be a powerful tactic for capturing attention and even prompting purchase consideration.

For several years, Dell Compellent Storage Center arrays with Intel® Xeon® processors have leveraged a unique application of RAID and tiering methods to optimize storage performance and capacity. With the emergence of higher performing controllers, as well as the rapid adoption of SSDs, Dell has a new level of Data Progression optimized for flash drives. The combination of write- and read-intensive SSDs and Flash-optimized Data Progression enables Storage Center arrays to deliver large amounts of high-performance solid-state storage at a fraction of the cost compared to other storage solutions. To introduce Flash-optimized Data Progression, this white paper summarizes Dell's current Data Progression techniques, gives a high-level description of SSDs, and describes the implementation of Flash-optimized Data Progression.

The business case for why IT Executives are making a strategic shift from RAID to Information Dispersal

Cloud applications and web-based services, such photo sharing sites, create some monumental challenges for a storage infrastructure.

Scalability has always been an important characteristic of enterprise storage systems, maybe the most important, since the rationale of consolidating storage assumes that the system can easily grow with aggregate demand.

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

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.

This paper provides a detailed review of the best practices clients should consider before embarking on their big data integration projects.

Are you sure that employees are only using IT-sanctioned ways of transferring data? If the answer is “no,” then your sensitive data may be vulnerable. In this guide from Globalscape, you’ll learn: • What shadow IT is and the drawbacks • Signs of a shadow IT problem • How to reduce shadow IT

The NetApp EF550 all-flash array provides a robust platform for delivering exceptional performance to mission-critical applications. The EF550 flash array leverages the latest in solid-state disk technologies along with a strong heritage of handling diverse workloads and providing superior business value through the acceleration of latency-sensitive and high-I/O applications.

Database users are increasingly interested in using Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) to speed up application performance. For many database administrators (DBAs), increased database performance directly impacts their user experience and bottom lines. Accelerating a single MySQL instance may allow DBAs to avoid painful sharding exercises, with all their attendant administration, application changes, and high capital and ongoing costs. With the wide range of SSDs available today, choosing any one can be difficult. This paper aims to answer the question, “Is it better to use slower SATA SSDs in RAID or a faster PCIe SSD to scale up MySQL database performance?"

The NetApp EF550 all-flash array provides a robust platform for delivering exceptional performance to mission-critical applications. The EF550 flash array leverages the latest in solid-state disk technologies along with a strong heritage of handling diverse workloads and providing superior business value through the acceleration of latency-sensitive and high-I/O applications. This technical report provides an overview of workload characterizations performed on NetApp EF-series all-flash arrays across a wide variety of I/O types - with best practices and observations based on extensive test data. Characterizations include IOPS, throughput, and latency under varying block loads and RAID levels, SSD rebuild times, EF540 and EF550 performance comparison, and usable capacity sizing guidelines for various protection levels. If you are considering deploying an EF-series flash storage array in your environment, this is an essential technical resource to insure proper configuration and maxim

Survive the big data storm by getting ahead of integration and governance functional requirements

Today data volumes are exploding in every facet of our lives. Business leaders are eager to harness the power of big data but before setting out into the big data world it is important to understand that as opportunities increase ensuring that source information is trustworthy and protected becomes exponentially more difficult. This paper provides a detailed review of the best practices clients should consider before embarking on their big data integration projects.

Who's afraid of the big (data) bad wolf? Survive the big data storm by getting ahead of integration and governance functional requirements Today data volumes are exploding in every facet of our lives. Business leaders are eager to harness the power of big data but before setting out into the big data world it is important to understand that as opportunities increase ensuring that source information is trustworthy and protected becomes exponentially more difficult. This paper provides a detailed review of the best practices clients should consider before embarking on their big data integration projects.

Migrating to a modern ITSM solution offers a myriad of benefits. So why aren’t more companies doing it? This white paper explores the fear of legacy suite change and how to overcome it, including: How choosing the right partner can smooth the transition Best practices for each phase of legacy migration A first-hand look at how one company migrated successfully Download the white paper to understand why modernizing your legacy ITSM is the right choice.

Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp direct-to-tape technology can reduce the number of media servers required to support a solution, which can reduce hardware, software, and management costs by utilizing the VTL to perform tape exports.

Download this exclusive report to learn how NetApp deduplication can be applied to all storage tiers, including primary application data.

Download this exclusive article to gain insight on why a NetApp SnapVault backup system is 54% less expensive than a similar tape-based backup solution over a typical backup product lifecycle.

Millennials are officially becoming the dominant demographic in the workforce. This younger generation is looking for more from their company and they're not afraid to jump ship to find it. How can your company meet the demand of a millennial generation and retain top talent? Download our brief and read about 7 practical ideas to help your company boost retention and drive growth.

Companies of all sizes, including enterprise and midsize, are seeing an increased dependency on technology that is significantly increasing the amount of data generated.

The IBM System x 3350 is a rack server designed for single-application hosting. This datasheet explains the details and benefits of the x3350, including its energy efficiency, high availability and outstanding performance, as well as the integrated systems management tools that help you manage complexity.

System reliability is a vital component in Storage Area Network (SAN) design that keeps your production environment operating and avoids data loss and downtime. But since SANs are built using both mechanical and electronic parts, component failures due to usage, environmental factors, or manufacturing defects are not uncommon. Even in completely redundant systems, controllers can fail, fans can stop operating, power supplies can burn out, and disk drives can degrade or fail.