White Papers

When IT administrators are looking for networked storage solutions, they often look to NAS. Unfortunately, traditional NAS doesn't scale and administrators often find themselves having to add NAS platforms to keep up with growing storage demands. As a result, many administrators have started looking for alternative solutions. According to Illuminata's recently conducted customer study, HP's next-generation Scalable NAS offers advantages over traditional NAS architectures including massive scalability, inherent availability, high performance and ease of management. This white paper explores relevant user experiences and common themes gathered from customer interviews.

In many organizations Windows file services are spread among a series of servers. These servers often originate from different vendors with diverse maintenance requirements and result in server sprawl - a storage landscape cluttered with various NAS servers. Server sprawl presents numerous challenges for IT organizations in terms of management, cost and performance.

With file-based data growing at an exponential rate as richer file types and storage requirements continue to increase, stress is placed on already fatigued storage environments.

This white paper explores consolidation as a solution for better utilization and management of storage infrastructures. Learn how consolidation can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing overall hardware and administrative time.

Download this white paper and learn how HP StorageWorks' Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA File Services) approach to consolidation offers the scalability, high availability and ease of management many organizations demand from their storage infrastructure.

Businesses with remote locations face unique challenges when it comes to a storage solution. Some storage vendors offer low-end systems that may be fine for a small branch office, while others offer large, enterprise-class systems that are really only suitable for the central office. In reality, provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the local needs of each location, while ensuring that the storage can be managed and protected from a central site, requires a comprehensive approach with a scalable storage solution. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators looking to install a Distributed NAS solution.

Are you taking the right steps, or could you reduce your backup window further? Compare the 5 steps in our Free Guide to what you're doing now. You'll find answers to some of today's toughest questions on meeting backup window requirements:

• 1. Are you setting the right data protection goals?
• 2. Have you established the best benchmarks?
• 3. How can you optimize your backup model to meet your SLAs?
• 4. Have you projected your data growth accurately?
• 5. Will your technology fit all your needs?

How long would your company function without access to its CRM, ERP, or messaging data? For many, the answer is, not long. For some, even downtime of a few minutes could have enormous impact. This new white paper addresses the mission critical issues that are fast making data protection an extreme sport you have to win. Play-by-play, it outlines the Tiered Data Protection Strategy that many organizations are implementing to stay competitive - and cost-efficient.

IT never stands still - this report proves 2008 will not be an exception! Excillio Group surveyed more than 135 IT professionals to understand the top goals, challenges, and trends in data protection in 2008. Learn what your peers are thinking and planning this year, including:

• Most cited data protection challenges and solutions
• Anticipated change with greatest impact
• Top data protection priority

When IT administrators are looking for networked storage solutions, they often look to NAS. Unfortunately, traditional NAS doesn't scale and administrators often find themselves having to add NAS platforms to keep up with growing storage demands. As a result, many administrators have started looking for alternative solutions. According to Illuminata's recently conducted customer study, HP's next-generation Scalable NAS offers advantages over traditional NAS architectures including massive scalability, inherent availability, high performance and ease of management. This white paper explores relevant user experiences and common themes gathered from customer interviews.

The advancement of the Internet and its capabilities has had a major impact on enterprises. The new Web 2.0 business model, where the data is the business, utilizes the Internet to disseminate information in many different ways. Streaming media files -- video clips, music videos, audio, and live broadcast streams -- are being delivered faster and in greater volume than ever.

The efficiency with which content is stored and the speed at which stored content is delivered to end-users are imperative to successfully deploying streaming media. Learn how HP's next generation of Scalable NAS enables companies to host media applications and distribute the content seamlessly with scalable performance and inherent high availability.

This paper presents the architecture to deliver superior performance for streaming media and also discusses best practices for deploying HP scalable NAS.

For several years NAS has been evolving as a storage alternative for Oracle databases, and for good reason: NAS is quite often the simplest, most cost-effective storage approach for Oracle.

This evolution is driven in part by the emergence of scalable NAS technologies. Scalable NAS improves on traditional NAS in its ability to scale capacity and performance well beyond the limits of a single filer and provide the cost effective, built-in high availability required for enterprise Oracle environments. This step, along with the release of Direct NFS from Oracle and the simplicity of NAS, is ushering in a massive increase in the adoption of NAS for Oracle.

Learn about the benefits of HP's clustered NAS solutions in a comprehensive white paper. The benefits include improvements in scalability, availability, simplicity and standards.

In many organizations Windows file services are spread among a series of servers. These servers often originate from different vendors with diverse maintenance requirements and result in server sprawl - a storage landscape cluttered with various NAS servers. Server sprawl presents numerous challenges for IT organizations in terms of management, cost and performance.

With file-based data growing at an exponential rate as richer file types and storage requirements continue to increase, stress is placed on already fatigued storage environments.

This white paper explores consolidation as a solution for better utilization and management of storage infrastructures. Learn how consolidation can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by reducing overall hardware and administrative time.

Download this white paper and learn how HP StorageWorks' Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA File Services) approach to consolidation offers the scalability, high availability and ease of management many organizations demand from their storage infrastructure.

Ensuring that the company's data is protected is one of the most essential elements to any storage administrator's responsibilities. Businesses with remote locations face the challenge of protecting mission-critical data that resides on geographically dispersed systems--often with no local IT personnel to ensure that proper backup and recovery policies are employed. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators who need to protect the company's business-critical data that is located in branch offices.

Businesses with remote locations face unique challenges when it comes to a storage solution. Some storage vendors offer low-end systems that may be fine for a small branch office, while others offer large, enterprise-class systems that are really only suitable for the central office. In reality, provisioning multiple sites with storage to meet the local needs of each location, while ensuring that the storage can be managed and protected from a central site, requires a comprehensive approach with a scalable storage solution. This paper provides practical advice and guidance for administrators looking to install a Distributed NAS solution.