Regan Resource Library

Tools & Info to Help Maximize Your Data Center

Welcome to the Regan 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.

Technology Whitepapers

Desktop Virtualization:  The key to embracing the consumerization of IT

It’s no surprise that workers are continually looking to leverage their consumer-oriented devices to manage both personal and business functions on a single device, these devices often being their personal laptop, smartphone or tablet.  Citrix looks at how organizations can be proactive and accommodate the consumerization of IT.  By doing so, they can maximize productivity, alleviate the IT burden of managing many different devices and give their workers the flexibility they desire.

Why Choose VMware for Server Virtualization

Server virtualization improves the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications.  The market is expanding quickly given the cost savings from reduced hardware requirements and improved server efficiency.  But there are multiple virtualization platforms available and considerable differences.  For new and experienced virtualization customers, this whitepaper will outline the distinct advantages to implementing a VMware solution.

Desktop Virtualization:  Colleges and Universities Reach a New Horizon as They Cut Infrastructure Spending and Improve Computer Services

Interest in desktop virtualization is growing on college campuses due to the growing number of implementations that have cut costs, improved end-user PC services, and streamlined computer maintenance.  In this whitepaper, IDC Government Insights explores the potential advantages of using desktop virtualization for PCs rather than taking the traditional approach where every computer in an educational institution has its own operating system, resident applications, memory, processing power and storage.

Oracle – A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is an easy to deploy solution for hosting the Oracle Database that delivers the highest levels of database performance available.  It delivers outstanding I/O and SQL processing performance for online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (DW) and consolidation of mixed workloads.  Database Machine and Exadata storage delivers breakthrough performance with linear I/O scalability, is simple to use and manage, and delivers mission-critical availability and reliability.

Oracle – Backup and Recovery with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances and Oracle Recovery Manager

Unceasing data growth is posing a number of challenges for organizations. Not only are storage costs skyrocketing due to the need to store and manage more data, but protecting the enterprise’s critical data also is becoming increasingly difficult. Databases are widely deployed and are typically cited as having the most challenging data protection requirements.  To meet these challenges, an efficient and effective backup and recovery strategy is of paramount importance. Oracle Recovery Manager is the preferred backup solution for Oracle database environments and is engineered to work together with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances to meet today’s challenging backup requirements.

Oracle – Why Operating Systems Matter

Performance-hungry applications and shifting business priorities challenge your datacenter.  It’s not only important to consider the servers you deploy but the choice of operating system matters too.  In this whitepaper you’ll learn about the significant technical, administrative, and cost benefits of upgrading from Solaris 8 or 9 to Oracle Solaris 10 and how to gain immediate access to advanced capabilities including optimization
solutions, virtualization, powerful administrative and troubleshooting tools, record performance benchmarks, security, and more.

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.

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.

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