Storage Infrastructure Reports

EGUIDE: PCIe SSD cards fit straight into PCIe slots in servers and array hardware and often brings much higher performance than traditional HDD-format flash drives..

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 01 Feb 2017

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

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Jagat Paudel addresses key management in cloud computing storage in this thesis from our Royal Holloway security series.

Posted: 08 Feb 2021 | Published: 04 May 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: 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

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

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

VIDEO: This four-part webcast demonstrates the necessity for a proper storage management solution, such as Northern Storage Suite, in an organization's storage infrastructure. They'll review how NSS can reclaim wasted capacity, control user behavior, getting your end-users on-board with saving capacity and how to properly plan for future storage needs.

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 03 Aug 2009

EBOOK: In this tutorial on cloud backup, you will learn the pros and cons cloud backup, how cloud storage is changing data protection and disaster recovery and the differences in the cost of cloud backup vs. traditional backup.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Dell NX4 offers a variety of advanced features that can help organizations achieve storage efficiency and lower TCO, including data deduplication that can reduce required storage capacity and an open API that works with third-party policy engines to enable tiered storage access.

Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

EZINE: This e-zine contains useful articles and expert advice for organizations navigating the stormy seas of virtual data centers.

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 20 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss High performance, space-efficient hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshot and replication support, backup and recovery, IT infrastructure, as well as virtual security.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

EBOOK: This eBook provides comprehensive information about servers and server implementation to help IT managers choose the best option for their storage needs.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

EBOOK: This eBook will walk you through some of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators.

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Companies are now at a juncture where they have a unique opportunity to put in place an underlying backup and archive disk infrastructure that eliminates today's silos of deduped data and islands of underutilized capacity resulting from scalability and scope limitations.

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 | Published: 11 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell and VMware have partnered to offer a cost-effective, high-availability architecture based on Dell™ server and storage clusters and VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) - one designed to minimize scheduled and unscheduled downtime.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Mar 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: 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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript is the first of a two-part ESG e-Seminar Series on data de-duplication. In part one, Tony Asaro, ESG Senior Analyst, and Heidi Biggar, ESG analyst, will discuss the various technology considerations when applying data deduplication technology to disk backup.

Posted: 08 May 2009 | Published: 28 Jan 2008

EZINE: In this month's Storage Magazine Online cover story, our resident backup expert, W. Curtis Preston, shows how to test various systems against your data so you can make the right decisions. Plus, check out features on recession-proof storage tips, four-tier storage design, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP).

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 01 May 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript features speaker Evan Levy, partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting, a professional services firm concentrating on enterprise data issues. This discussion is about data quality and some of the challenges and pitfalls that are seen during data quality implementation.

Posted: 05 May 2009 | Published: 03 Mar 2008

IT BRIEFING: To gain full value of virtualization, you need servers that are built to handle the heavy and ever-changing demands of a virtualized and consolidated computing environment. To help you get maximum benefits from virtualization, Intel has built a better physical server platform with unique hardware-assist features to enhance the virtual data center.

Posted: 20 Apr 2009 | Published: 20 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components.

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 | Published: 16 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights two new additions to the Cisco Small Business Network Storage System (NSS) line of products. The Cisco NSS2000 Series is a 2-bay network attached storage (NAS) system, and the Cisco NSS3000 Series is a 4-bay system.

Posted: 25 Mar 2009 | Published: 25 Mar 2009