Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Learn all about primary storage optimization
This handbook will show storage administrators how they can reduce their companies' primary storage footprint in order to leverage the capacity and cost savings provided by data reduction throughout the data lifecycle. Data Storage Handbook
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Learning to make the most of primary storage optimization
Experts offer their thoughts on primary storage optimization; how to select, set up and use primary storage optimization tools. Feature
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Six requirements for deploying primary storage optimization solutions
With companies starting to perform data reduction on primary storage, it's important for them to understand the requirements that primary storage optimization demands. Feature
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Adding archive storage can be easier than expanding primary storage
Despite what many storage managers believe, it can be faster, simpler, cheaper and more effective to add archive storage than primary storage. Learning Center
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Product roundup: Primary storage capacity optimization offerings
Data reduction isn't restricted to backup anymore. Right now, the approaches to capacity optimization for primary and nearline storage are varied and address different use cases. Special Report
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What's the relationship between storage capacity, storage utilization and storage performance?
There's a lot of focus on storage capacity rather than storage performance. One of the marketing pitches behind storage virtualization is to increase storage utilization so that you don't need to buy so many drives. FAQ
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Are SAS disks a good investment?
In the near term, SAS won't make much of a dent in the high-end Fibre Channel drive market, but SAS may displace Fibre Channel deployments in the mid- and entry-market price bands. FAQ
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Capacity planning software specifications
Gauging storage needs over time is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT administrators, and a new generation of capacity planning tools is emerging to help forecast growth and utilization of storage resources, and even perform predictive modelin... Buying Guide
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Capacity planning tools require serious purchase consideration
Capacity costs money, and new disk acquisitions stand out as a notable part of every IT budget. The trick is to match new capacity with actual storage needs. Gauging storage needs over time is one of the biggest challenges faced by IT administrators,... Buying Guide
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SRM software specifications
SRM tools help administrators understand and control their evolving storage landscape, optimize utilization and performance, automate some of the most routine and error-prone management processes, and make informed decisions about future storage expe... Buying Guide