Regan Resource Library
Tools & Info to Help Maximize Your Data Center
Welcome to the Regan Technology Resource Library. Here you can access and download the latest information supporting data center optimization. View and download industry white papers and solution guides, as well as Regan customer case studies. We’ve also collected the latest third-party-produced information from analyst firms and industry leaders that may be helpful to you and your organization.
On-Demand Webinars
The Business Value of Upgrading to Oracle 11g
Recorded June 22, 2010: Listen-in as Oracle’s Solomon Morungu provides an in-depth overview of the business values created by the abundance of new features in Oracle Database 11g – the the primary justification for any and all organizations to upgrade.
Extreme Data Warehouse Performance with Oracle Exadata
Recorded April 8, 2010: Join Oracle’s Eric Frank as he provides an in-depth overview of how Oracle’s Exadata Storage Servers and industry standard Sun hardware deliver the highest database storage performance using a massive parallel architecture to dramatically increase data bandwidth between your database server and storage.
Cut Costs & Complexity with Oracle 11g for Sun Servers
Recorded February 25th, 2010: Architecting cost-effective, fast, reliable, and scalable data warehouse environments can be a time-consuming task. To stay on top of the game, IT managers need cost-effective, powerful solutions that can be quickly implemented to provide value and a competitive edge to the business.
Technology Whitepapers
Citrix – The End of Application Deployment
Hundreds, even thousands, of applications serve as the lifeblood of each of today’s distributed global enterprises—at use in more places and in more ways than ever before. To deal with the growing complexity and cost of application deployment, maintenance and performance, organizations are looking for solutions to streamline, secure and manage delivery of their most business critical applications.
Compellent – Designing a Persistent Hardware Architecture
Many enterprises looking to increase the flexibility, improve the scalability, enhance the availability and reduce the costs of data storage have turned to storage area networks (SANs). Yet traditional hardware vendors have failed to deliver on the promise of SANs. By relying on proprietary hardware designs, imposing restrictions
on the types of technology that can be used and prohibiting customers from mixing and matching different drive and interconnect technologies, these vendors doom their products to early obsolescence and force their customers into costly forklift upgrades.
Compellent – 7 Ways to Optimize VMware Server Virtualization
Increasingly, enterprises are turning to server virtualization to enhance IT flexibility while reducing costs. Server virtualization solutions such as VMware® Infrastructure software help to achieve those goals by abstracting applications from physical resources. With VMware, administrators can run multiple applications on the same physical machine. As a result, VMware helps increase resource utilization, accelerate the provisioning of new applications, simplify server management and improve disaster recovery.
Data Domain – VMware Data Backup & Recovery
VMware offers extraordinary benefits, but it can come at the cost of extra storage, backup resources and administrative challenges. Data Domain deduplication storage offers a way out by reducing redundant data across VMware data backups, operating at disk speeds, and providing cost-effective replication for fast DR using backup images. This paper reviews the best practices for architecting a backup/recovery/DR approach
for VMware using Data Domain storage, regardless of which backup software or scripts are involved.
Hitachi – Oracle Databases on Hitachi High-Performance Platforms
The Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, delivers a highperformance, intelligent and scalable multiprotocol solution. This document describes best practices for using Oracle databases on Linux with NAS connectivity provided by the High-performance NAS Platform through the NFS protocol. The document discusses baseline configuration recommendations for both Oracle and High-performance NAS Platform heads.
Oracle – Lowering Your IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2
This white paper identifies the key capabilities in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 that enable IT professionals to successfully deliver more information, with higher quality of service, and at much lower cost, than they have ever been able to do so in the past.
Oracle – A Technical Overview of the Sun/Oracle Exadata Storage Server & Database Machine
The Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server (Exadata) is a storage product optimized for use with Oracle Database applications and is the storage building block of the Sun Oracle Database Machine. Exadata delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and consolidation of mixed workloads. Extreme performance is delivered for all types of database applications by leveraging a massively parallel grid architecture and Exadata Smart Flash Cache to dramatically accelerate Oracle Database processing and speed I/O operations.
VMware – What’s New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage
With the launch of vSphere 4, VMware introduces a new version of the hypervisor, ESX™ 4.0 and the management interface, vCenter. Some key benefits offered by this release are greater resource efficiency, management control and freedom of choice for virtual datacenter storage resources and connectivity options. VMware has added many new storage management capabilities that increase disk utilization rate, provide greater control of these storage resources and enable increased options for datastore protocol support and format of virtual disk format. These storage features provide new levels of flexibility and improved management agility for virtualization environments that run vSphere.
XIV – Host-Based Concurrent Multipath Software and the IBM XIV Advantage
When only one physical path exists between a computer system’s CPU and mass storage devices, a failure in any component along the I/O path will shut down the entire storage system and the applications that rely on it. To prevent this kind of catastrophic and costly event, hardware vendors have provided more than one physical path for I/O, and storage vendors have provided multipath software to take advantage of the alternate routes available. If hardware, such as a controller, port, or switch, should fail, the multipath software immediately and transparently reroutes I/O to the application.
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