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Tiered storage
Why storage tiering is necessary now more than ever
Tiered storage is making a comeback by incorporating AI machine learning to take advantage of the cost and performance benefits of new SSD and storage class memory technologies. Continue Reading
2 storage tiering strategies for modern media
Storage tiering makes a comeback as businesses aim to get the most out of their storage systems. Discover the rules for optimizing both intrasystem and intersystem tiering. Continue Reading
volume manager
A volume manager is software within an operating system (OS) that controls capacity allocation for storage arrays. Continue Reading
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A cure for secondary data storage services blues
Effective user-centric data storage management eases copy data management and object storage uptake while enabling secondary storage services to evolve. 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
Flash storage caching, tiering or both? Consider the workload
If you're using a flash-based storage system, you're familiar with caching and tiering to accelerate data. Storage tiering is used in hybrid flash storage systems to separate active and inactive data. Active data is kept on the flash tier, while ...Continue Reading
Improve storage I/O with caching, tiering technology
Storage systems are often perceived as performance bottlenecks, with virtualized environments contributing to higher I/O demands and with high-end apps that cannot tolerate latency. To a great degree, solid-state storage devices address many of ...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
Data archiving system selection dependent on features, capabilities
Once you've determined the specific data archiving needs of your organization, you'll have to sift through existing products to find the best fit.Continue Reading
How to create a successful data archiving strategy
A good archiving process provides the automation needed to deliver the necessary application granularity while minimizing the impact to IT operations.Continue Reading
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Is there a difference between traditional tiering and sub-LUN tiering?
Sub-LUN tiering can help with performance in some environments, but according to analyst Jon Toigo, it can also get complicated with growing capacity.Continue Reading
How Windows Server 2012 R2 will change storage management
Microsoft MVP Brien Posey explains how new features in Windows Server 2012 R2, such as native tiering and deduplication, affect storage management.Continue Reading
Tiering storage: Best practices to promote efficiency
Storage expert Jon Toigo explains how to effectively use storage tiering to boost efficiency and ultimately cut storage costs.Continue Reading
Will your disaster recovery plan work?
Ignore the information lifecycle management hype
Information lifecycle management
Forging a long-term retention plan
Backup best practices are always evolving
Automated storage tiering: Higher performance AND lower cost?
Why don't storage managers consider renting storage?
Creating a comprehensive data storage automation plan
Jon Toigo's top tips on IOPS performance in the data center
Jon Toigo suggests IOPS performance boosts through the use of SSD technology, automated storage tiering and virtualization components.Continue Reading
Hospital system addresses IBM SVC performance, stability problems with alternative configuration
Spectrum Health breaks up IBM SVC eight-node cluster, taking uncommon tiered approach to improve stability and performance of storage virtualization system.Continue Reading
New trends in storage
Storage technologies may sometimes seem a little stodgy and out of date, but there’s plenty of technical development going on at both the big storage vendors and smaller upstarts.Continue Reading
Tips for implementing an automated storage tiering strategy
Learn about the different vendors that offer inter-array tiering in their products, and determine if it is the right automated storage tiering strategy for your environment.Continue Reading
Automated tiering primer: How to implement auto tiering
In this podcast, Ashish Nadkarni discusses the ins and outs of automated storage tiering. Learn how to choose between manual tiering and auto tiering in your storage environment.Continue Reading
Automated storage tiering: Higher performance AND lower cost?
Automated storage tiering is an effective way to make efficient use of installed data storage resources, and to take advantage of the high performance of solid-state storage.Continue Reading
Tiered data storage strategies for your IT shop
Tiered data storage has many benefits, but you need to examine your options before implementing it in your storage system. These four articles help you understand storage tiering.Continue Reading
Efficient data storage: A guide for storage managers
Our efficient data storage guide offers storage managers tips they can use to save money, reduce their data footprint and get more out of their data storageContinue Reading
Data management guidelines: Four records retention issues to address
These data management guidelines will help you to determine what you should keep when implementing records retention for e-discovery and litigation purposes.Continue Reading
Radiology firm uses Compellent Data Progression to cut disk costs
Compellent Data Progression automated tiering software expands data storage through cheaper tier 3 SATA disks; offers tiering and sub-tiering level options.Continue Reading
Storage Roundup: 3PAR adds autonomic policy management for storage arrays
3PAR Policy Advisor for Dynamic Optimization automates volume distribution; EMC to resell Axxana 'Black Box'; Verari Systems ships Emulex OneConnect universal adapters.Continue Reading
Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity: Improve efficiency and utilization
Learn how to maximize your enterprise data storage capacity by improving efficiency and increasing utilization of storage systems using a tiered storage approach; storage resource management (SRM), data classification and data migration tools; and ...Continue Reading
Data classification best practices for tiered storage
Classifying data for tiered storage may sound simple, but it's not. Learn best practices for effective tiered storage, including capacity planning and data archiving technology.Continue Reading
Green storage best practices control costs, increase energy efficiency
Green storage best practices control power and cooling costs, and increase energy efficiency in your data center. Tiered storage, consolidating storage arrays, solid-state drives (SSDs) and MAID can help.Continue Reading
Tiered data storage strategies for SMBs
The goal of tiered storage is to get data on the appropriate storage system. For SMBs, three tiers typically suffice: primary, which is generally a midrange Fibre Channel or NAS option; secondary, such as SATA disk; and tape.Continue Reading
Forging a long-term retention plan
Change that stands the test of time: Best Practices
We're embarking on a period of significant market segmentation, with vendors creating offerings to target price points and specific feature-set combinations for various audiences.Continue Reading
How to create Tier 0 storage by leveraging solid-state drive technology
With prices of solid-state drive (SSD) technology dropping, companies are starting to use SSD technology in a high-performance tier of storage called Tier 0.Continue Reading
How to purchase an email archiving tool
This chapter of the Tiered Storage Buying Guide focuses on the purchase considerations for email archiving tools.Continue Reading
Top 10 tips for capacity management
How to write an archiving program RFP
With so many archiving systems on the market, putting together a request for proposal (RFP) for an archiving program for structured, semistructured or unstructured data is a key step. It's equally important that your team is well-prepared to ...Continue Reading
What is unstructured data and how is it different from structured data in the enterprise?
Expert Pierre Dorion talks about unstructured data and its impact on the data enterprise.Continue Reading
Data storage management overview: Chapter 3 - Tiered storage
This chapter of the All-In-One Guide explains the basic concepts and strategies of tiered storage. You'll also learn about the costs and implementation issues involved in tiering, see how data classification fits into the scheme of storage tiers, ...Continue Reading
What is Information lifecycle security management?
Information lifecycle security (ILS) is a new approach to securing data based on the value of the content. ILS defenses change over time as information ages and its value decreases.Continue Reading
Deploying Intelligent Information Management applications
By deploying Intelligent Information Management applications, organizations can improve resource management by eliminating the storage of duplicate data, reduce risk by quickly responding to discovery requests, comply with record-retention and ...Continue Reading
Five tips in five minutes: Tiered storage and ILM
This article offers a collection of expert responses to recent reader queries about tiered storage and ILM.Continue Reading
Why storage managers are turning to tiered storage
Using top-shelf storage for all data assets is no longer a cost-efficient solution. Organizations must now account for what data they have, where it is located and who is accessing it -- details that cannot be determined by just adding hard drives. ...Continue Reading
information life cycle management (ILM)
Information life cycle management (ILM) is a comprehensive approach to managing the flow of an information system's data and associated metadata from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading
Lesson 4: Justify your tiered storage strategy to management
You know a tiered storage architecture is the right way to go, but how can you make sure management buys into your vision? Lesson four of Tiered Storage School will help you make your case to management.Continue Reading
How can I set up a cost-effective tiered storage strategy?
A reader asks: "I'm looking to set up a cost-effective tiered storage strategy in my data center. How can I go about starting to plan this out?"Continue Reading
HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management)
HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) is policy-based management of file backup and archiving in a way that uses storage devices economically and without the user needing to be aware of when files are being retrieved from backup storage media.Continue Reading
Strategic Storage: Smart planning moves many to tiers
One-third are doing it, one-third want to, and the rest of you are most likely keeping an eye on it. The gradual movement to tiers is bringing cost-savings, simplified data management, sharper resourcing and some common sense to storage ...Continue Reading
Data storage trends: Information lifecycle management
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Adding low-cost tiers to conserve storage costs
Storage managers like Nielsen's Robert Stevenson are adding low-cost tiers to conserve pricey storage, and improve backup and disaster recovery. In addition, get tips on how to shorten backup windows and helping end users recover their own files.Continue Reading
Creating a comprehensive data storage automation plan
Vendors keep creating new acronyms, but are they doing you any good? Ignore the hype and develop a methodical plan toward a comprehensive storage automation plan to ensure success.Continue Reading
Sharing tapes and disks over the same HBA not a best practice
Determining how long your tape drives might last
Simple ways to figure out how long your drives might last.Continue Reading