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• Essential guide to hybrid flash arrays

  Hybrid flash arrays are growing in popularity, surpassing all-flash. This essential guide dives into hybrid array use cases, tips and precautions. Continue Reading

• What should you consider before deploying an all-flash storage array?

  What is the one hidden gotcha that you'd advise users about if they were shopping for an all-flash storage array? Continue Reading

• How much control do you have over caching in all-flash storage arrays?

  How much control do you have with all-flash storage arrays? How much control do you have over how arrays handle your data? Do you control the caching? Continue Reading

• What you should know about using flash to complement DRAM

  George Crump discusses emerging technology that enables using flash as memory, why it matters and its applicable use cases. Continue Reading

• Maximize hybrid cloud benefits, avoid pitfalls for your organization

  There are several ways to implement hybrid cloud strategy in your organization, and this technical handbook is a practical guide for combining an on-premise, internal cloud and partnering with a public cloud provider. To get the promised benefits of... Continue Reading

• Should traditional data centers start using OpenStack Swift and Cinder?

  If your IT department has the skills set, OpenStack object or block storage might be a good idea, analyst George Crump said.Continue Reading

• What are the best ways to manage multiple cloud providers?

  While using a single cloud provider can leave your data center vulnerable, a multi-cloud plan may require a more complex management strategy.Continue Reading

• How do hardware profiles work in Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager?

  The Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager allows the creation of hardware profiles, which help to provision virtual storage. Brien Posey explains how to use the tool.Continue Reading

• Cloud-based disaster recovery: Just add data for instant recovery

  Cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) is shaping up as a killer app for the cloud. It’s cheaper than other DR arrangements, can be implemented quickly and recoveries can be lightning fast. It’s a pretty direct route to solid data protection, but ...Continue Reading

• EMC, Dell and NetApp top NAS storage systems satisfaction survey

  Our ninth annual survey collected user feedback regarding the service and reliability of NAS storage systems.Continue Reading

• What is Microsoft's storage replication feature?

  The replication feature in the newest version of Windows Server will move to the storage level, eliminating the existing scalability problems with Hyper-V replication.Continue Reading

• Should I consider SSD for enterprise desktops?

  In this answer, expert Brien Posey explains the benefits of using solid-state disks (SSDs) at the desktop level, and when the transition is a good idea.Continue Reading

• What are the most obvious object storage use cases for my system?

  Object storage is latency-prone, making it a bad option for production data, but there are several areas where it's incredibly useful.Continue Reading

• Archiving methods: Smart meta tags, archive in place and FLAPE

  Jon Toigo outlines several archiving techniques, the technologies that make them run smoothly, and explains why data classification is crucial.Continue Reading

• Are there limits to VDI project size from a management standpoint?

  Brian Madden discusses possible limits to desktop virtualization and how you should decide whether to use a provider or do it on your own.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

• Data management should be a go-to cost containment storage strategy

  If you want to exercise some cost containment, forget the hardware for a moment and focus on data management.Continue Reading

• Make sure your flash investment pays off

  Colm Keegan of Storage Switzerland discusses ways to ensure your flash investment meets your needs --now and in the future.Continue Reading

• Allocate virtual desktop hardware resources with proper benchmarking

  Benchmarking is crucial to ensuring VDI performance, but is only effective if spikes in demand are accounted for at the outset.Continue Reading

• Avoid VDI configuration issues by building desktops from scratch

  Expert Brien Posey discusses common problems faced when configuring virtual desktop deployments and how to work through them.Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage market: Fact or fiction

  This Essential Guide examines how innovative software-defined storage is and why the market for the technology continues to grow.Continue Reading

• Configure and manage storage for a virtual desktop environment

  The unique workloads and demands of virtual desktops require a rethinking of the supporting storage systems.Continue Reading

• File storage capacity key to new NAS purchase

  Thinking of making a new NAS purchase? Learn the requirements of your storage peers and the criteria they use to evaluate a storage vendor.Continue Reading

• How much data is too much for cloud gateways?

  Enterprises with up to 50 TB of data may find public cloud storage attractive given the current state of cloud storage gateways, says Gartner analyst.Continue Reading

• How can I perform cloud-to-cloud migration?

  Utilizing multiple cloud providers can increase reliability and security, but cost and bandwidth limitations need to be taken into account when migrating data.Continue Reading

• The case for cloud storage: Cloud considerations and strategies

  Before deploying your cloud storage project, learn about cloud storage use cases, how to do a cloud cost analysis and keeping data safe in the cloud.Continue Reading

• What are the pros and cons of using BRIC for a redundant cloud architecture?

  Expert Brien Posey explains how using a Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds architecture can protect data, but not without three common hurdles.Continue Reading

• Configuring storage for VMware: Tips and tricks

  This guide to configuring storage for VMware will help data storage administrators maximize the multitude of benefits VMware offers and maintain their storage performance requirements when undertaking a VMware project.
  
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• How can I implement a scale-out architecture for my SMB?

  Learn how different scale-out architectures can be good options for providing high availability and easy growth.Continue Reading

• The path to cloud ROI must be paved with clear expectations

  The first step in charting your cloud ROI strategy is estimating storage consumption for the foreseeable future.Continue Reading

• Given outages, are you concerned with the security of the cloud?

  Service provider outages should be a warning to customers that keeping data safe in the cloud is a shared responsibility.Continue Reading

• What's the best way to implement products from software-defined storage vendors?

  Depending on how you choose to integrate SDS into your system, there are pros and cons to consider.Continue Reading

• Is a hybrid cloud environment a good solution for backup and DR?

  Implementing hybrid clouds for backup and DR is a good place to start to eventually leverage other uses for the cloud, says analyst Greg Schulz.Continue Reading

• Three items for your virtual machine management checklist

  Virtualization expert Howard Marks explains which management, configuration and performance features should be mandatory when you're shopping for virtual machine storage.Continue Reading

• Best practices for persistent VDI storage

  Persistent desktops might be attractive to users, but can be difficult to store. Use these tips to better handle capacity and performance challenges.Continue Reading

• Top features to boost VMware storage performance

  In virtual environments, one VM can negatively impact the performance of others, but using the right resource allocation features can help.Continue Reading

• Big data storage challenges: Speed, capacity and HDFS integration

  Big data infrastructure and analytics are some of the hottest technology topics today, and it can sometimes seem impossible to dissect and digest all the industry information surrounding them. As a revolutionary way of thinking about data and the ...Continue Reading

• How to ensure a high-availability cloud

  High availability and redundancy have always been an important part of local storage, but they're just as important in cloud storage. At first glance, it might seem easy to dismiss these aspects of cloud architecture as beyond your control because ...Continue Reading

• Redundant cloud storage ensures high availability

  Redundant cloud storage gateways and redundant WAN links help companies avoid protection gaps that could result in outages or data loss.Continue Reading

• Keys to a painless data migration process

  Moving data from array to array has always been a difficult process, but new techs and techniques make your data migration process easier than ever.Continue Reading

• How do VMware thin provisioning alerts work?

  VSphere allows users to set up custom alarms to alert them when capacity or memory is low. Learn how they can be especially helpful when using thin provisioning.Continue Reading

• Are there any downsides to using VMware thin provisioning?

  Storage should be monitored carefully when using VMware's thin provisioning feature to avoid slower performance and potentially maxing out capacity.Continue Reading

• Storage systems struggle to provide VDI IOPS

  Factors to be considered when planning storage for VDI include average reads and writes, boot storms and the number of virtual machines. Expert Howard Marks explains how to anticipate VDI IOPS in this video.Continue Reading

• Primary data storage options for the cloud

  With hybrid clouds, gateways and object technology, the cloud can now be considered an effective primary data storage option.Continue Reading

• Hypervisors complicate storage I/O with blender effect

  In this video, expert Howard Marks describes what he calls the I/O blender and noisy neighbor effects of hypervisors and explains why they can be detrimental to storage performance.Continue Reading

• Cloud storage challenges and choices

  Our comprehensive e-book tackles the cloud storage challenges and business decisions that surround cloud storage investments, and breaks them into three areas of concentration: architecture, availability and return on investment.
  
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• Switching cloud storage service providers comes at a cost

  Analyst George Crump explains the best way to deal with the upfront costs and security issues that come with switching cloud storage providers.Continue Reading

• Lab adds DDN storage to keep up with supercomputer

  DDN's high-performance computing storage systems provide Department of Energy lab with 75 GBps read/write operations and eliminates bottlenecks.Continue Reading

• A lesson in flash caching

  Solid-state storage is proliferating as a replacement for hard disk drives, where it offers a quick shift into the fast lane of storage processing. But flash can also be used with hard disks for a low-cost solution that delivers nearly equivalent ...Continue Reading

• Three considerations to ensure data storage efficiency

  Vendors often claim their products cut out storage inefficiency, but administrators can make a difference as well with some planning.Continue Reading

• Maintaining safe cloud storage for critical production environments

  According to George Crump, as long as storage professionals understand encryption and authentication, the cloud is just as secure as any data center.Continue Reading

• Effective data management strategies require granularity

  Jon Toigo offers tips to deal with management challenges when it comes to working with different types of data.Continue Reading

• Reap the benefits of multiple hypervisors with backup, replication

  Analyst George Crump explains how to realize the benefits of multi-hypervisor environments, which include cost savings and ease of use.Continue Reading

• Top hybrid cloud deployment use cases include backup, cache

  Analyst George Crump explains the state of hybrid cloud storage and how the most common implementations are being used.Continue Reading

• Zadara Storage helps property firm migrate 800 million images to AWS

  RealtyData dismantled its data center after moving its entire IT operation to the Amazon cloud -- but needed help from Zadara.Continue Reading

• Storage performance management: Ways to maximize your environment

  Making your storage perform to the very best of its ability is an age-old problem with a long list of ways to approach it. But how should you start to fine-tune a storage system and what do you need to know to get started?
  
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• Three cloud storage use cases for primary storage

  In many cases, cloud storage is used as an archive or for backup, but that doesn't mean it isn't useful for primary storage.Continue Reading

• The two faces of file sync and share

  Bring your own device, file sync-and-share technology and an increasingly mobile workforce are changing the requirements for how workers want (and need) to access corporate data, and putting new pressures on storage administrators. IT is no longer ...Continue Reading

• Most valuable storage metrics describe performance, capacity

  Analyst Greg Schulz categorizes some notable storage metrics to help users determine which ones are most beneficial to their environment.Continue Reading

• How big data and Hadoop will change storage management

  Big data analytics creates some challenges for storage managers, but effective integration into a storage environment can make them less daunting.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

• New versions of VMware and Hyper-V add storage features

  Hypervisors from VMware and Hyper-V have new storage capabilities that provide greater configuration flexibility and deliver a performance boost.Continue Reading

• Data deluge could translate into an endless quest for capacity

  The universe of data, according to a recent report, is expanding and if we're not careful we'll all end up in a data black hole.Continue Reading

• Hypervisor vendors up the ante with new storage features

  There's a struggle between doing storage the "old way" and the new demands that virtual servers put on networked storage. Storage vendors have retooled their systems to be virtual machine (VM)-friendlier and startups offer VM-specific arrays, but...Continue Reading

• Weigh private vs. public cloud for cold data storage

  The private cloud versus public cloud decision for cold data storage hinges on data amounts, length of storage and access needs, consultant advises.Continue Reading

• Pure Storage all-flash array touts maturity as market space expands

  Pure Storage's third-generation flash array doubles capacity and continues to hold down costs via data reduction as competition heated up.Continue Reading

• Nimbus Data's Gemini all-flash arrays poised to boost capacity limits

  Nimbus Data pledges enterprise storage features in a new X-series array with a 1 PB clustered configuration and potential to store several petabytes.Continue Reading

• HP tailors CPU, memory for all-flash 3PAR StoreServ 7450

  HP's 3PAR platform has a spinning disk legacy, but the StoreServ 7450 was modified with a different CPU and memory to support flash.Continue Reading

• How do storage scalability and elasticity differ?

  Scalability has long been an important storage characteristic, but elasticity is becoming more significant. Learn how the two vary.Continue Reading

• The critical role of archiving systems

  Archiving data is more important than ever; it ensures proper data retention, saves space and eases the backup burden.Continue Reading

• Next-generation data storage will help IT managers do their jobs

  When storage managers are asked about their challenges, data growth always tops the list. Next-generation storage technology could make a difference.Continue Reading

• Where should the iSCSI initiator run in a Hyper-V environment?

  Learn what Microsoft expert Brien Posey has to say about when and how to use an iSCSI initiator when using Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V.Continue Reading

• Object-oriented storage performance improves to handle primary data

  Consultant Marc Staimer explains how vendors have improved the performance of object storage so it can be considered a viable option for primary data.Continue Reading

• How should I provision storage when using Hyper-V replication?

  Windows expert Brien Posey explains the best way for storage to be provisioned with regard to the three-way replication feature in Hyper-V.Continue Reading

• How can I prevent rogue access to an iSCSI Cluster Shared Volume?

  Expert Brien Posey explains how to create a secure connection for iSCSI-attached Cluster Shared Volumes in Hyper-V R2.Continue Reading

• Can hypervisor-aware systems improve virtual server performance?

  Expert Jacob Gsoedl outlines the various techniques hypervisor-aware storage systems use to achieve acceptable performance in virtual environments.Continue Reading

• Deploying VDI: Predicting your storage needs for a successful project

  Storage has a starring role in any virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project, and it's commonly considered the make-or-break factor. How well you understand, manage and predict your storage needs -- and how a VDI will impact them -- is the key to...Continue Reading

• legacy storage

  Legacy storage is traditional storage hardware that is older and sometimes no longer sold by its vendor.Continue Reading

• Public cloud storage options: Determining what data to move

  Analyst Arun Taneja explains how to establish suitable workloads and use cases for a public cloud environment.Continue Reading

• Working with OpenStack storage: Tips on Cinder, Swift and the cloud

  This guide explores the block, object and cloud storage offerings from OpenStack, one of the most sought-after open source storage platforms.Continue Reading

• Tools to manage virtual server storage

  Tools to manage virtual server storageContinue 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

• The yin and yang of data storage technologies

  I feel like that little girl in "The Exorcist" whose head spins around; it's hard to keep an eye on where storage is headed these days.Continue Reading

• Flash storage technology decisions

  Just about as quickly as we learn the merits of a new solid-state form factor, a new one appears. While the use and location of spinning disk storage is limited, solid-state offers a number of deployment and form-factor alternatives, including ...Continue Reading

• The yin and yang of data storage technologies

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• How can Atlantis ILIO USX be used to optimize VMware vSAN storage?

  Atlantis Computing's ILIO USX could be offered as a joint offering with VMware's Virtual SAN. Find out how it can improve capacity and performance.Continue Reading

• How does VMware VDPA work with VMware's vSAN?

  VSphere Data Protection Advanced is currently the primary product for backing up VMs running on VMware's vSAN. Brien Posey explains how it works.Continue Reading

• What hardware should be used in a VMware Virtual SAN environment?

  The compatibility of VMware vSANs with hardware is flexible, but there are some requirements. Find out which hardware to use and which to avoid.Continue Reading

• Planning and management for a software-defined storage architecture

  Jon Toigo offers implementation tips to help users avoid vendor lock-in and get top performance from their software-defined storage environments.Continue Reading

• Three key strategies to allocating a data protection service

  By using these three methods to understand the type of protection your applications need, you'll achieve a more efficient data protection strategy.Continue Reading

• production data

  Production data is data that is persistently stored and essential to completing day-to-day business tasks and processes.Continue Reading

• Six areas your storage SLA should cover

  What's covered in an SLA can vary, but a contract covering these six areas is designed to help both companies and providers meet their service goals.Continue Reading

• Keys to data storage efficiency: Cost, longevity and management

  Data storage efficiency depends on the cost of technology and how it interacts with your environment. But management makes it all come together.Continue Reading

• Examining the future of the RAID volume

  Expert Jon Toigo provides a set of tips to answer key questions regarding RAID's place in today's storage world, and whether it will be replaced.Continue Reading

• Access data more efficiently with automated storage tiering and flash

  Greg Schulz discusses some of the key principles of automated storage tiering and some of the considerations facing IT administrators in this Q&A.Continue Reading

• Managing Storage for Virtual Environments: A Complete Guide

  Managing Storage for Virtual Environments: A Complete GuideContinue Reading

• Top tips for software-defined storage infrastructure management

  While software-defined storage eases management of storage applications, it doesn't do much for the hardware, so effective SRM is still necessary.Continue Reading

• Implementing new technology: Software-defined storage

  Jon Toigo explains how to set up software-defined storage products in an environment so users can achieve the best performance and capacity.Continue Reading

• 2013 Salary Survey Results Member-Exclusive Download

  The 2013 Salary-Survey Results Member-Exclusive Download on SearchStorage.comContinue Reading

• Object storage systems in demand for big data, archiving

  Object storage system use cases are growing, and their unique metadata capabilities are a good match for big data environments.Continue Reading