Storage Best Practices Reports

EGUIDE: We walk you through the key storage metrics you need to know about, look at how storage array makers present them in their product literature, and how to decode IOPS, latency and read/write performance figures.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 16 Nov 2016

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This guide offers a comprehensive survey of the hybrid flash storage market. We give the lowdown on hybrid flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we take a look at what's best for virtual desktops: All-flash or hybrid?

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 10 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: This guide offers a comprehensive survey of the all-flash array market. We look at all-flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we give the lowdown on all-flash vs hybrid flash arrays and all-flash vs server-side PCIe SSD.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 19 Aug 2016

EGUIDE: This guide offers a collection of our most popular articles on storage-related issues from the first few months of 2016.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 18 Apr 2016

ANALYST REPORT: In this report from Quocirca, analyst Clive Longbottom explains why you don't always get what you think you're getting with flash storage.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 14 Mar 2016

ANALYST REPORT: The dread of any IT manager is in making a significant purchase of hardware or software to then find that they are 'locked in' to one supplier. But analyst Clive Longbottom asks, is this still the case?

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 14 Mar 2016

WHITE PAPER: This resource demonstrates how Carestream Health created a powerful, scalable data center platform able to accommodate more users without sacrificing service quality. Learn how they improved processing power, allowing them to meet the challenges of serving more users while handling more data-intensive workloads.

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 | Published: 29 Oct 2012

EBOOK: In Chapter 5 of this E-book, you'll learn how storage virtualization can improve utilization rates, keep resource costs low and boost network performance for real-world and future applications.

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Aug 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses how Enterprise Flash Drives on Dell | EMC CX4 storage arrays can help tackle these challenges in the context of Oracle database deployments.

Posted: 29 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 29, 2009

WHITE PAPER: IT systems are vulnerable to a variety of disruptions. This paper will focus on common processes and procedures that should be part of any effective enterprise backup/restore system.

Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this eSeminar transcript from Sun Microsystems, hosted by Tech Target, leading technical experts will discuss Flash technology and it's effect in the HPC environment.

Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Email archiving is a burgeoning market at a time when many storage pros are faced with increasing ediscovery requests and compliance regulations. Listen to this podcast to find out the latest developments in email archiving.

Posted: 29 Jun 2009 | Published: 29 Jun 2009

DATA SHEET: Proactive archiving reduces business risks, lower costs and increases efficiency. This quide has five strategies recommended by Symantec for building the case for an archive and rationalizing your requirements of an email archiving system.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jan 2008

DATA SHEET: Organizations are increasingly being ordered to produce email messages and other files relevant to electronic discovery - and the penalties for noncompliance with a court's discovery order can be severe. Thus it is vital that every organization manage its electronic data for fast, easy, accurate retrieval when required.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 21 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Though network-attached storage (NAS) offers a number of benefits, it also presents some challenges. Ashish Nadkarni, Principal Consultant with GlassHouse Technologies Inc., discusses the pros and cons of using NAS in an SMB environment and offers some best practices.

Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: The presentation transcript will introduce new research on the topic of virtual Infrastructure optimization (VIO). VIO is a new storage solution that is designed to significantly improve the performance of virtualized applications and to help optimize the utilization of both storage and server resources.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Download this presentation transcript to learn how virtualization has been a major key to the success of everyone's favorite discount travel site as Priceline.com has continued to grow its competitive edge in the face of lean economic times.

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 27 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009

EZINE: A trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...

Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: FalconStor Software provides solutions that can dramatically improve backup speeds while working with your current backup technology and operations. Management can be streamlined even while performance improves.

Posted: 27 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This podcast transcript examines the pros and cons traditional Fibre Channel SAN and a slightly newer iSCSI SAN.

Posted: 18 May 2009 | Published: 13 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs help to reduce the cost and complexity of IT Consolidation and uniquely integrate with VMware® Infrastructure to enable the fully virtualized IT environment.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 14 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell EqualLogic Auto- Snapshot Manager / VMware Edition enables administrators to quickly and easily create hypervisor-aware snapshots of VMs-helping simplify data management, enhance scalability of data protection and recovery, and increase application performance.

Posted: 14 May 2009 | Published: 01 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Internet SCSI (iSCSI) offers a scalable, simplified, and cost-effective way to implement storage area networks (SANs) using Ethernet components.

Posted: 13 May 2009 | Published: 13 May 2009

WHITE PAPER: In many companies, Microsoft Exchange is now commonly viewed as a mission-critical application. Protecting Exchange information is critical and backup is still the primary method used. This paper focuses on the traditional backup and recovery practices for Microsoft Exchange Server along with solutions from Data Domain.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 08 May 2009