Features

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Storage optimization

• Beat the software bottleneck by improving storage performance

  Find out what vendors are doing to address the storage software bottleneck problem to enable users to extract the full performance potential of the media in their data centers.  Continue Reading

• Primary storage optimization overcomes a range of challenges

  Enterprises turn to different products, technologies and tools to optimize primary storage, overcome data storage challenges and make networked storage deployments more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Taking the software-defined data center market pulse

  Most organizations understand the benefits of the SDDC by now, but widespread adoption hasn't hit yet. Challenges such as complexity and internal talent could be to blame.  Continue Reading

• Multicloud storage mitigates risk of public cloud lock-in

  Multicloud storage strategy allows for the shifting of data across public clouds so you can avoid lock-in to a single provider, reduce cost and improve workload efficiency.  Continue Reading

• Persistent data storage in containerized environments

  The most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers.  Continue Reading

• Copy data management vendors expand breadth of offerings

  This roundup of copy management systems from the leading vendors shows the distinct categories and implementation models this cost-saving technology can provide.  Continue Reading

• What the leading copy data management vendors offer

  Copy management systems from the leading vendors offer unique features that can help IT departments consolidate their secondary storage into a single product.  Continue Reading

• Hybrid cloud technology gets the most out of primary storage workloads

  Learn what to look for in a hybrid cloud platform so you can take advantage of the scalability, agility and cost benefits it has to offer primary storage.  Continue Reading

• Caching vs. tiering: Comparing storage optimization techniques

  There are many factors to consider when choosing between caching and tiering storage techniques to optimize storage. Knowing how and when to use either can make a big difference.  Continue Reading

• Determine your requirements before buying a copy management system

  Before evaluating copy data management systems, examine the pros and cons of the deployment models, as well as the most important features to look for in a product.  Continue Reading

• Quantifying the benefits of investing in copy management technology

  There are many benefits to implementing copy data storage, including cost reduction and increased operational efficiency while maintaining service-level objectives.  Continue Reading

• Use the cloud to enhance the functions of primary storage

  Learn some of the best ways to leverage public cloud as a storage tier to complement primary storage and make data centers more efficient.  Continue Reading

• Copy management systems reduce data consumption and storage costs

  Copy management systems offer a range of options for reducing excessive storage consumption and improving performance by eliminating the creation of redundant data copies.  Continue Reading

• Smarter storage starts with analytics

  Storage smartens up to keep pace with data-intensive business applications embedding operational analytics capabilities.  Continue Reading

• Flash, cloud top data storage options for storage pros

  Cloud is popular among data storage priorities for primary and backup storage, while most say they will use flash in primary data storage.  Continue Reading

• The data storage capacity growth survival guide

  You can keep your storage investments in place, allow for capacity increases, and solve performance and application problems, while gathering data to plan for new growth.  Continue Reading

• Get the most value out of your SDS systems by making smart choices

  There are many choices you face when looking to implement an SDS infrastructure. Making the right ones will help you get the most value from software-defined storage.  Continue Reading

• How to build a private storage cloud

  Building internal cloud storage must account for elasticity, choosing the right platform, allowing for workflow, and stack deployments and public cloud integration.  Continue Reading

• When buying more primary data storage, applications matter

  Faster storage -- and more of it -- is important, but that wouldn't matter if new SANs didn't boost application performance and efficiency in the process.  Continue Reading

• Hypervisor virtualization manages, supports data storage

  Chris Evans looks at the latest efforts by storage virtualization vendors to handle hypervisor storage and data management functionality.  Continue Reading

• Storage managers seek storage answers with a storage purchase

  Capacity and bandwidth are key reasons for new storage purchases, with SAN arrays that offer flash storage, data reduction and storage virtualization popular among buyers.  Continue Reading

• Smart storage systems smart for business

  Mike Matchett explains how data-aware storage combined with application awareness is leading to a new wave of intelligent data storage.  Continue Reading

• Seven tips to improve data storage efficiency

  Storage networks, server-side flash, network cache, software-defined storage and all-flash or hybrid arrays help storage performance and efficiency.  Continue Reading

• Almost time for SSD flash storage to be used with object storage

  As the price of flash SSD storage continues to fall, it becomes more attractive for object storage, which otherwise counts on big, slow and cheap HDDs.  Continue Reading

• Storage purchase intentions rise with new techs in sight

  Our annual storage purchasing survey finds that storage managers will have a bigger data storage budget to spend this year.  Continue Reading

• Virtual server bottlenecks among data storage problems

  Though virtual server performance bottlenecks remain among data storage problems, there are fixes available, but beware, each fix has side effects.  Continue Reading

• Take a deep dive into cloud archive

  Though cloud archive is seen as an essential piece of cloud storage, there are issues to consider before taking flight.  Continue Reading

• Parallel I/O technology boosts data storage performance

  DataCore Software's use of parallel I/O has caught the data storage industry's attention as a low-cost option for fast performance with existing hardware.  Continue Reading

• VDI performance issues begin at storage infrastructure

  VDI performance issues which can be traced back to storage infrastructure are limiting user adoption of virtual desktop implementation.  Continue Reading

• Hot data storage technology trends for 2016

  Find out what's hot and what's not-so-hot on our list of data storage technology trends for the coming year.  Continue Reading

• Video storage takes its turn in the spotlight

  While organizations create high-definition video for a variety of uses, they turn to today's storage systems to house and protect it.  Continue Reading

• Deal with data capacity challenges

  Data capacity challenges -- and the anxiety they bring -- result from the rapid explosion of data growth combined with barely increasing budgets.  Continue Reading

• VMware vSphere 6 release good news for storage admins

  VMware's vSphere 6 release shows that the vendor is aiming for a completely software-defined data center with a fully virtualized infrastructure.  Continue Reading

• Big data analytics applications impact storage systems

  Analytics applications for big data have placed extensive demands on storage systems, which Mike Matchett says often requires new or modified storage structures.  Continue Reading

• Data storage capacity pitfalls and how to avoid them

  Organizations waste a staggering amount of data storage capacity, much of which can be attributed to improper capacity management.  Continue Reading

• RAID systems yield to erasure coding for data protection

  RAID systems and backup are struggling with today's high-capacity systems and data growth, leading some to look toward erasure coding as a possible solution.  Continue Reading

• The capabilities and benefits of storage virtualization

  Andrew Reichman provides insight into what storage virtualization is, how it works and the different types of storage virtualization used today.  Continue Reading

• Storage purchase plans move to cloud with rising budgets

  Our annual Purchasing Intentions survey paints a rosier picture than last year for managers stretching their budgets to cover capacity storage purchase plans.  Continue Reading

• Storage purchase process grows more complicated

  Unified storage systems that can host block and file are an increasingly popular alternative to NAS, and one more decision to make in the storage purchase process.  Continue Reading

• Object stores, metadata create smart storage systems

  Storage systems get smarter thanks to object stores and metadata, which are enhancing intelligence of scale-out storage systems.  Continue Reading

• VMware VVOLs poised to shake up storage offerings

  The benefits of VMware VVOLs are vast and unquestioned. But most IT shops are struggling to deal with how they are changing today's storage products.  Continue Reading

• Still some pain when it comes to storage for virtual machines

  We've come a long way, baby, but we still haven't worked out all the kinks in configuring and provisioning VM storage.  Continue Reading

• Virtual flash caching increases SSD efficiency for VMware, Hyper-V

  To get the greatest benefit from virtual flash caching, you need to understand how your hypervisor uses the cache and then add flash storage.  Continue Reading

• Six things that can wreck storage system performance

  Performance bottlenecks can occur in different places in a storage system. Here's how to identify and eliminate them.  Continue Reading

• Five top new Windows Server 2012 R2 features for storage management

  The latest version of Microsoft's flagship server OS offers a bevy of new storage management features.  Continue Reading

• Hyper-V deployment: Focus on scalability and storage clarification

  Expert Brien Posey says to use private cloud strategy decisions when working with Hyper-V to focus on scalability and storage classification issues.  Continue Reading

• Data storage performance tips: Best ways to improve your data center

  Find out which of the most talked about performance tips of 2013 are the best ways to improve your data center.  Continue Reading

• The fundamentals of troubleshooting VMware performance

  Storage expert George Crump outlines the major VMware performance tuning points, from the network to switches, controllers and devices.  Continue Reading

• File storage and management issues growing, but mostly under control

  Our latest survey finds the biggest problem with file storage and management is backup. Learn how respondents are managing file storage.  Continue Reading

• Performance considerations for efficient data storage

  Data storage administrators can achieve efficient data storage by checking performance acceleration expectations at the door.  Continue Reading

• Capacity allocation efficiency explained

  Jon Toigo provides tips on how to improve capacity allocation efficiency. Successful allocation prevents storage-related downtime and associated costs.  Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of using data reduction systems

  Analyst Stephen Foskett outlines the pros and cons of using data reduction systems to slim down your data center footprint.  Continue Reading

• Calculating ROI for storage virtualization is tricky

  Calculating ROI for storage virtualization is difficult because it’s tough to determine soft costs associated with migrating data and managing disk arrays.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization solutions at the array or in the network

  Storage virtualization adoption quickens as early barriers are overcome. There are mature solutions available for deploying storage virtualization at the array or in the network.  Continue Reading

• Managing storage in a VDI environment

  The success of a VDI environment is dependent on user experience, and storage may be the area that has the biggest impact on users. Find out what steps to take to properly manage your VDI environment.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization products: An important niche

  Storage virtualization products help IT shops in need of non-disruptive data migration, tech refreshes and life support for aging storage assets.  Continue Reading

• Data storage optimization: The first step for data efficiency

  Now that we've made storage, networks and servers more efficient by virtualizing them, it's time to focus on data storage optimization for greater data efficiency. Read storage industry expert and SearchStorage.com contributor Steve Duplessie for ...  Continue Reading

• VDI project plan: Start with right applications and use pilot program

  Experts say a VDI project plan demands different type of infrastructure; learn why you should start slow and use specific apps to gauge VDI storage results.  Continue Reading

• Reduce storage power consumption via higher IOPS and capacity per watt

  Boost IOPS and capacity per watt to reduce storage power consumption; powering off disk drives and reducing data may not be enough to reduce power, cooling.  Continue Reading

• Disk spin-down: Power savings with a catch

  Disk spin-down and MAID can reduce power consumption, but spin-up latency and time-outs are drawbacks. Read about one firm's experience with disk spin-down.  Continue Reading

• Data reduction techniques for better storage efficiency

  Improve storage efficiency through data reduction techniques and capacity optimization using data deduplication, compression, snapshots and thin provisioning.  Continue Reading

• SAS and SATA, solid-state storage lower data center power consumption

  Learn why energy-efficient disk such as SAS and SATA will take on a greater role and lower data center power consumption, and why solid-state storage can be cost-effective.  Continue Reading

• Storage virtualization projects: Factors to consider when implementing storage virtualization

  Storage virtualization projects are complex. Learn the various factors to consider when implementing storage virtualization and when to consult professionals.  Continue Reading

• An introduction to data compression

  Learn the basics of data compression: how to do it, what data should be compressed, the differences between deduplication and compression, and how to define a compression ratio.  Continue Reading

• Leverage existing network-attached storage and block storage for better data storage management

  Learn data storage management practices to better leverage your existing NAS and block storage and improve access to both types of storage.  Continue Reading

• Tools and techniques for reducing your enterprise data storage footprint

  Find out how storage managers can reduce their enterprise data management footprint. Learn about the importance of managing your data and the various tools for doing so, including data archiving, thin provisioning and data deduplication.  Continue Reading

• How to select a storage resource management (SRM) tool

  SRM tools can help you evaluate and leverage your storage infrastructure. Learn the best practices for selecting an SRM tool and how SRM technology can reclaim orphaned storage.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• A guide to storage virtualization

  Few technologies are more confusing than storage virtualization. Without a guide to explain the different storage virtualization solutions, storage administrators who want to deploy this technology will be lost.  Continue Reading

• 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.  Continue Reading

• Where are some of the biggest sources of unstructured data in the enterprise?

  There are actually many sources of unstructured data, which accounts for much of the data growth that we've seen in the enterprise.  Continue Reading

• What is the difference between virtualization switches and virtual SANs?

  The word "virtualization" is thrown around so much that it's hard to always know what it means...  Continue Reading