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.

The Oracle Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure offers a much simpler approach that speeds deployment and reduces risk. It is a single-vendor solution for the entire hardware and software stack from application to disk and can be deployed in hours rather than weeks. Find out more

The Exadata Database Machine is an easy to deploy system that includes all the hardware needed for running the Oracle Database. Learn more