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What Makes A Top Storage Startup?
February 21, 2012
IT professionals need to keep an eye on the recent boom in innovative, new storage firms. Here's why.
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Cloud Storage Infrastructures Raise Many Issues
February 13, 2012
Cost, performance, and the ability to scale are among the key issues when considering cloud storage infrastructure.
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The New Storage Bottlenecks
February 10, 2012
To eliminate performance bottlenecks, you have to look past the solid state disk and consider the system as a whole.
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Is Server-Based Storage Tiering Right For You?
February 08, 2012
Maybe we're making the whole job of improving network performance more complicated than it has to be.
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Server-Based Storage Tiering Spells Bottleneck Relief
February 01, 2012
Automated storage tiering and caching makes the most of hard drive and solid-state drive storage systems, but can create new bottlenecks. A server-based tier is one solution.
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Are There Too Many Storage Solutions?
January 30, 2012
It's a challenge to sort through the maze of storage products to find a solution to your problem--but it's better than not having choices.
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Solid State Storage Can Save You Money
January 26, 2012
Solid-state storage is still expensive. Is it worth the benefits?
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Solid State Disk's True Cost
January 20, 2012
IT pros focus on SSD's hefty startup costs, but you must consider other costs when evaluating the storage technology.
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Biggest Storage Trend of 2012
January 18, 2012
Performance management skills--in both software and IT professionals--promises to be the biggest storage story this year.
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Big Data Changes Storage Needs
January 13, 2012
Growth of unstructured data forces IT managers to look for new ways to scale storage capabilities, with cloud storage a leading option.
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2 Storage Management Trends To Watch In 2012
January 10, 2012
Why are consolidated storage and compute infrastructures hot now? Storage management issues can cause virtualization projects to slow down or stall.
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Flash Dependent Storage Systems Take Off In 2012
January 05, 2012
Whether flash-only, or a combination of flash and mechanical storage, the technology is poised for significant gains.
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Will RAID Die In 2012?
December 28, 2011
The time it takes to rebuild a RAID-protected volume makes it unwieldy with today's high-capacity drives.
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Move Data Closer To Apps
December 21, 2011
The future of location-based storage tiering will be dependent on vendors being able to orchestrate movement of active data closer to the application.
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Data Tiering By Storage Location
December 20, 2011
Tiering systems in the future will move data within storage systems, to different storage systems, and even into the server hosting the application.
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Are Storage Vendors Shopping For SSD Companies?
December 15, 2011
This is the beginning of a larger trend where storage systems vendors get serious about integrating solid-state storage companies into their portfolios.
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Will Solid-State Storage Kill Tiering?
December 13, 2011
Even when solid-state storage dominates the data center, mechanical storage and tape will still have a major role to play in your storage infrastructure.
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Hard Drives Get Squeezed
December 09, 2011
A number of developments are speeding the transition to solid-state storage.
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Must-Have Features In Your Next Storage System
December 01, 2011
Storage managers should prioritize capabilities like thin provisioning, snapshots, replication, and cloning--along with price.
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Your Next Storage System
November 29, 2011
IT managers should be making plans to update their storage infrastructure in 2012. Consider these tips to sort through all the new features, capabilities, and options.
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Examine The True Cost Of Storage Performance
November 23, 2011
Boosting performance in a data center involves more than just adding more hard disks. Here are key factors to consider.
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How To Recover Your Data In Minutes
November 21, 2011
One option to speed data recovery: Use a system that can spawn virtual machines and recover the failed host plus its data.
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Storage System Maxed Out? Try Virtualization
November 17, 2011
Storage virtualization can let you use multiple storage systems and manage them as if they were one.
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Data Recovery Needs To Change
November 11, 2011
Current procedures for data recovery take too long, and enterprises should consider new approaches to restore their applications more quickly.
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What Is The True Cost Of Storage?
November 08, 2011
Physical hardware cost is just the start when you're determining the true cost of a storage system. Let's talk application performance.
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Live Migration Vs. Scale Out Storage
November 07, 2011
Live volume migration and scale out storage both improve performance. Which technique is best for your data center?
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Live Migration Brings Flexibility To Storage
November 02, 2011
Alternative to replacement or wholesale migration lets you easily add capacity or performance as needed.
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Improve Write Performance With SSD
October 31, 2011
Writes are one of the most resource-consuming things that a storage system has to do. During product selection, carefully consider how a technology deals with write I/O.
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SSD Options: Tier Vs. Cache
October 25, 2011
Solid state storage can be used as a cache or an automated tier. Both approaches will make sure that the most active data is on the fastest tier, but you need to know the differences.
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Storage Administrators Of 2015: Must-Have Skills
October 20, 2011
What's your three-year career plan? Make sure you have the knowledge that will be required to handle storage systems of the future.
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Can Integrated Storage Systems Survive?
October 14, 2011
Storage hardware vendors need to build reliable gear that compliments the services and feature sets being added to hypervisors.
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Do You Need A Storage Performance Manager?
October 12, 2011
It may be time to create a position that that crosses the functional boundaries of applications, servers, hypervisors, and storage to take a holistic view of performance.
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Mixed Vendor Storage Virtualization: Why It Makes Sense
October 06, 2011
Why the time is right for users to abandon turnkey storage solutions for best-of-breed options.
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3 Factors For Successful Backups
October 03, 2011
For backup strategies to be successful the process has to execute in three areas; backup, recovery, and time.
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Load The Right Data On Server SSDs
September 27, 2011
Consider booting from SSD to bring servers back online quickly and using PCIe SSD with caching software to accelerate operating system and application data functions.
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Which Server SSD Should You Choose?
September 22, 2011
Solid-state storage can solve performance problems in the data center. But which form factor is the best to install in your server?
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Storage Virtualization Tour: All About Automated Tiering
September 21, 2011
Leverage a virtualized storage system’s granular understanding of block of data to automatically move data segments to faster or slower storage tiers, based on access patterns.
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Hypervisors May Break Storage Vendor Lock-In
September 16, 2011
All that's needed is to address some of the core storage shortcomings of the hypervisor, like providing solid performance while using thin provisioning, snapshots, and clones.
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The Myth Of Vertically Integrated Storage Systems
September 14, 2011
Vertically integrated storage systems have some benefits, but too many vendors make claims about vertical integration that aren't backed up by their products.
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How To Make Use Of Scale-Out Storage
September 12, 2011
IT managers are increasingly looking at high-capacity storage systems to help with server virtualization infrastructures, Big Data, and online applications.
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Why Storage Performance Metrics Mean Little
September 06, 2011
Storage performance benchmarks only show you what the systems can do if the organization has an unlimited IT budget.
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Can Storage Virtualization Ease Vendor Lock-In?
August 26, 2011
Storage virtualization systems let you use any vendor's hardware and bring it under a single storage services umbrella. It's not nirvana yet--but we're making progress.
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Defending Tape, Once Again
August 25, 2011
Tape and disk both have a role to play, especially in the larger enterprise. Be wary of the vendor that says you only need one or the other.
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Cloud Storage A Good Match For Healthcare
August 19, 2011
Cloud storage can provide transparent access to near limitless volumes of patient data. But doctors also need fast data retrieval.
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What To Look For In PCIe SSD
August 18, 2011
Tips for determining whether you will benefit from solid-state storage and how to pick the right technology for your infrastructure.
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Thin Provisioning Key Feature Of Storage Virtualization
August 12, 2011
Thin provisioning can convince an application that is has more storage available than is actually allocated to the app.
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The Death Of DRAM?
August 10, 2011
SSD increasingly will be used to replace DRAM in everything from laptops to servers. Here's why that makes sense.
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Storage Virtualization Using The Hypervisor
August 03, 2011
Hypervisor storage virtualization lets you buy systems to solve a specific problem, while letting the hypervisor move live virtual machines between storage devices as needed.
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How to Choose A Cloud Storage Provider: Availability
August 01, 2011
Access varies across cloud storage providers. Here's how to make sure you get what you need, when you need it.
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Storage Virtualization Has Several Meanings
July 26, 2011
The definition of storage virtualization depends on who you ask. Here's a look at what it can do for you.
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