Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Dealing with backup server instability
Rick Cook outlines common causes of backup failure and suggests tips for avoiding backup server instability.
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Five must-have storage security testing tools
You know that your storage systems need to be secured and there are plenty of tools to find general security vulnerabilities. But, what about tools that look specifically at storage security vulner...
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Five ways to add capacity to a NAS system
NAS expert Randy Kerns offers some actions to take in order to find more space on your NAS system.
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Email archiving implementation: What you need to consid
Selecting an email archiving application based solely on functionality may result in unexpected administration costs. Considering the following 10 points before deploying an email archive can help ...
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How to improve SAN utilization
Improve the utilization of your SAN in terms of performance, capacity and availability. These tips can be applied in principal to FC, iSCSI or InfiniBand block-based SANs, as well as NFS or CIFS fi...
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Records retention: How to avoid recovery headaches
Traditional backups are rarely adequate for records retention, but many are still relying on them. Rick Cook outlines four things to consider when setting up a records retention policy that can sav...
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Five musts for NetBackup restores
Five tips for successful NetBackup restores are outlined in this tip.
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Multipath I/O and failover: The differences
Storage expert Rick Cook discusses the major differences between failover and multipath I/O and clears up common misconceptions about each.
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Network disaster recovery checklist
This checklist, broken down into four topical areas -- general network considerations, LAN, WAN, and network infrastructure applications -- can help you focus your disaster recovery planning effort.
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The rising cost of cheap storage
The commoditization of storage has been driving acquisition cost down for quite some time. However, hidden costs are now starting to surface as organizations struggle to manage hundreds of terabyte...
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How SMBs can select a NAS system
The key factors an SMB should consider for making a NAS system selection and some of usage areas that may have an effect on the choice are outlined in this tip.
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Backup your LAN without the performance impact
Learn how to perform LAN-based backups without placing a burden on your network and reduce the impact of poor network performance on your backups.
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ISCSI network configuration, design and optimization
It's a must to consider more than just cabling when designing an iSCSI-based storage network. Learn to look at the bigger picture when configuring or optimizing an iSCSI-based storage network.
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The problem with unstructured information
Information security expert Kevin Beaver highlights the problem of managing unstructured information and what you can do to keep your organization on the right track to storage security and out of ...
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Cost-effective legacy data protection
For business, legal, regulatory and compliance reasons it is often important to protect data that is a decade old or more. Learn what you can do to cut data protection costs on older data.
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SAN performance: Five tips in five minutes
Answers to frequently asked questions about how to improve SAN performance.
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Managing data migration among storage tiers
Rick Cook outlines a number of approaches to tiered data migration.
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Kerberos and its place in NAS authentication
Kerberos security has been around since the 1980s, but many people are still unfamiliar with how it works. Storage expert Christopher Poelker explains how NAS environments can benefit from the use ...
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Archives and data protection: The important differences
While the two are both equally important, it's vital that one doesn't confuse archiving with data protection. Marc Staimer explains their differences.
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Testing iSCSI SAN performance with Iometer
Iometer, a performance test tool for tuning Windows environments, can also be used to tune performance in iSCSI SANs. The tool lets you simulate the SAN's performance by setting many of the paramet...
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Overcoming flash-based storage limitations
Storage expert Jon Toigo explains why flash storage isn't a cure-all and how users can avoid some of the downfalls associated with the technology.
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How to maximize tiered storage efficiency
Storage expert Jon Toigo explains how to effectively use storage tiering to boost efficiency and ultimately cut storage costs.
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Will erasure coding replace RAID?
Learn why the reliability of RAID technologies could be related to the increased use of erasure coding by both new and established storage vendors.
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PowerShell tutorial: Managing Windows Storage Spaces
This PowerShell tutorial shows users how to fully interact with Windows Storage Spaces, which will help them script the storage provisioning process.