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• Martin: Future nonvolatile memory technologies

  In this segment of his Storage Decisions presentation, Dennis Martin of Demartek discusses future nonvolatile memory technologies. Continue Reading

• Data storage systems: 2013 Storage Products of the Year finalists

  These 52 data storage systems products are finalists for the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2013 Products of the Year awards. Continue Reading

• How to avoid wasted disk storage capacity

  Jon Toigo explains how hierarchal storage management and other technologies can help make the most of disk capacity. Continue Reading

• Alternatives to RESTful API for accessing object storage

  This tip examines other options for connecting to object storage when an application isn't compatible with the RESTful API. Continue Reading

• 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

• Four SSD best practices for efficient virtual machine storage

  Learn how server-side implementations of SSD differ from storage-side, and how to get the ultimate performance boost in virtual environments.Continue Reading

• Top considerations for deep archive design

  Jon Toigo explains how to determine what data should be archived and the most efficient way to migrate it for long-term storage.Continue Reading

• Tackling long-term data archiving: Three crucial factors

  Jon Toigo offers insights on storage options for deep archives, and the ways they affect data integrity and potential technology 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

• hard zoning

  Hard zoning is used to allocate resources and control access in a storage-area network (SAN).Continue Reading

• Storage infrastructure management is still elusive

  There's more to managing storage than ensuring performance and scalability. New architectures are doing a better job of managing storage resources.Continue Reading

• Target audience to determine big data storage solutions in M&E area

  Wikibon CTO predicts object-based systems will be popular as big data storage solutions; advises tape for long-form video files, disk for short clips.Continue Reading

• Five questions to ask when choosing a data archiving technology

  Many factors need to be considered when determining what the right archiving platform is for you. Jon Toigo highlights the most important in this tip.Continue Reading

• read cache

  A read cache is a computer storage component that temporarily keeps a copy of data from a slower permanent storage location in order to accelerate the fulfillment of future requests for the data.Continue Reading

• Get ready for the 12 Gbps SAS drive

  New 12 Gbps SAS technology will usher in SSDs, HDDs and HBAs according to the SCSI Trade Association president.Continue Reading

• Big data storage challenges associated with rich media files

  Scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is the primary technology to handle big data needs in the media and entertainment (M&E) space. Using scale-out NAS for rich media files can provide crucial advantages such as scalability, data protection and ...Continue Reading

• HA storage (high-availability storage)

  High-availability storage (HA storage) is a storage system that is continuously operational or provides at least 99% uptime.Continue Reading

• Big data storage and analytics

  There are two basic types of big data analytics—synchronous and asynchronous—but both have big data storage appetites and specialized needs.Continue Reading

• Big data storage challenges eased by metadata, caching and compression

  Systems that provide fast access to metadata, caching and heavy compression help ease media-rich big data storage challenges, Wikibon CTO says.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

• Hyper-V storage best practices to optimize your virtual environment

  Microsoft expert Brien Posey walks through the best storage tips and features to make the most out of a Hyper-V environment.Continue Reading

• How OpenStack Storage fits in the larger open source OpenStack picture

  IDC analyst Ashish Nadkarni explains how OpenStack Storage's Swift and Cinder fit into the larger open source OpenStack cloud computing platform.Continue Reading

• How OpenStack Block Storage differs from traditional block storage

  OpenStack Block Storage differs from integrated stacks of traditional block storage, says IDC analyst; it's more akin to storage virtualization.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

• Networking server-based storage

  Direct-attached or server-based storage is gaining renewed attention as emerging techs offer ways to pool and share this scalable storage resource.Continue Reading

• Complete guide to Hadoop technology and storage

  Learn how Apache Hadoop works, some of its benefits and drawbacks, and what it means for big data and cloud storage.Continue Reading

• Using an object storage system as a traditional array alternative

  Storage expert Phil Goodwin discusses how object-based storage provides better flexibility and scalability than traditional shared storage.Continue Reading

• Data storage options: Exploring clustering, pooling, unified systems

  Storage expert Phil Goodwin discusses several different options for storing large data sets on traditional storage systems.Continue Reading

• Erasure coding tradeoffs include additional storage, disk update needs

  Erasure coding tradeoffs include requirement for additional data storage, need to update extra disks for redundancy purposes, UC professor cautions.Continue Reading

• Future of data storage: Addressing traditional architecture problems

  Storage expert Phil Goodwin discusses the main issues with traditional primary storage options and how those issues are being addressed.Continue Reading

• Erasure coding brings trade-off of resilience vs. performance

  IT's decision on using erasure coding in storage rests on data importance, durability more than amount of data, says storage consultant Marc Staimer.Continue Reading

• Wikibon CTO: Erasure coding can help reduce data backup costs

  Erasure coding can help reduce the data needed for backups and lower the cost of backup and recovery over the traditional approach, Wikibon CTO says.Continue Reading

• Accelerate the performance of virtual machines with flash technology

  Learn where to implement flash in your environment to tackle virtual machine performance issues.Continue Reading

• Understanding storage options for big data projects

  Ben Woo discusses why some storage options are better for big data than others, and what to consider when carrying out a big data project.Continue Reading

• How essential is a Hadoop infrastructure to a big data environment?

  Expert Jon Toigo explains why Hadoop and big data are frequently used together, but argues that Hadoop has a number of downfalls.Continue Reading

• Storage considerations for a big data infrastructure

  Jon Toigo discusses what big data is, the popularity of object storage and how to determine the best storage for a big data infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Big data storage architecture: Categories, strengths and use cases

  We explore distributed nodes, scale-out NAS, all-SSD arrays and object storage as choices for a storage architecture for big data.Continue Reading

• Managing storage for virtual environments: A complete guide

  Find best practices, top tips and the most effective tools for managing storage in virtual environments in this essential guide.Continue Reading

• How to allocate and configure virtual machine storage

  Two key tasks of a virtual server implementation are determining how much storage will be needed to support the system, and how to handle the initial provisioning and configuration of the virtual storage. The complexity of shared storage, ...Continue Reading

• Configuring Hyper-V storage

  New storage features in Windows Server and Hyper-V make storage configuration and maintenance easier for Microsoft–based virtual environments.Continue Reading

• Windows Storage Spaces

  Windows Storage Spaces is a feature in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 that is used to virtualize and provision storage.Continue Reading

• Best practices for SSD technologies

  No longer a luxury item for well-heeled data centers, SSD technologies are more affordable than ever and come in a variety of form factors with a choice of deployment options.Continue Reading

• Virtual data protection: Seeing is believing

  Virtual data protection is hard, but could be easier if you had a better view into what's going on. Learn how to increase visibility into your virtualization protection solution.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

• Hadoop clusters: Benefits and challenges for big data analytics

  Brien Posey explains how Hadoop clusters can be extremely beneficial to large amounts of unstructured data, but aren't ideal for all environments.Continue Reading

• FlexPod architecture: Top five things you should know

  FlexPods may seem like an easy way to implement storage and a hypervisor at once, but Brien Posey explains there are several things to consider first.Continue Reading

• Does RAID have a place in object-oriented storage environments?

  Expert Brien Posey explains whether RAID technology can bring any benefits to an object storage environment.Continue Reading

• Top tips for OpenStack Swift object storage use

  Senior cloud architect Beth Cohen offers tips on how to use OpenStack Swift object storage in the most efficient and economical ways.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

• RAID alternatives: Will erasure codes rule?

  Learn why the reliability of RAID technologies could be related to the increased use of erasure coding by both new and established storage vendors.Continue Reading

• Can object storage systems be used with file-based apps?

  Learn how to use applications such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server with object storage systems on the back end.Continue Reading

• Storage considerations for a Hadoop implementation

  Storage Switzerland analyst Colm Keegan explains how to determine whether a SAN or NAS should be used as primary storage with Hadoop.Continue Reading

• 10 ways to improve virtual server storage

  Virtual server storage operations can have a profound effect on the storage network. Here are 10 ways to help ensure that your storage yields its best I/O for the VMs it supports.Continue Reading

• Software-defined storage: Answering frequently asked questions

  Russ Fellows, a senior analyst at Evaluator Group, breaks down the concept of software-defined storage, its benefits and the vendors who offer it.Continue Reading

• Manufacturing NAND flash chips

  NAND flash chips are made in fabrication plants known as fabs. Market oversupply or undersupply can cause manufacturers to alter production plans.Continue Reading

• 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.Continue Reading

• I/O contention (input/output contention)

  I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a limited storage bandwidth.Continue Reading

• Five LUN management basics

  IT expert Brien Posey discusses five fundamental ideas storage professionals must understand when dealing with LUN management.Continue Reading

• Streaming large video files in today's big data environments

  Solid-state drives are a good choice for streaming large video files. Other factors to consider include cost and how often video will be accessed.Continue Reading

• Expert offers top tips on Amazon S3 vs. Azure storage

  Consultant Marc Staimer offers practical advice on comparing Amazon S3 and Windows Azure Storage with use cases for enterprise IT shops in mind.Continue Reading

• IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud plans expansion

  IBM SmartCloud Enterprise–Object Storage cloud service plans to expand and offer customers 99.999% availability with three or more copies of data.Continue Reading

• The state of network storage technologies

  While often overlooked, there's a lot happening with network storage technologies to keep up with the ever-increasing I/O demands coming from virtualized servers and storage.Continue Reading

• The dangers of 3-D printing

  Use 3-D printing to build your own storage array. Or get a 3-D printer and watch your storage array fill up with data.Continue Reading

• How is Hadoop infrastructure improving?

  John Webster describes how changes to HDFS and the NameNode can help to improve Hadoop infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Can shared storage be used with Hadoop architecture?

  Storage expert John Webster discusses three ways to use shared storage together with Hadoop architecture in this Ask the Expert answer.Continue Reading

• Top tips for doing a cloud storage cost analysis

  Arun Taneja breaks the cloud storage cost analysis process into three categories: monthly storage pricing, transaction charges and cost of bandwidth.Continue Reading

• StorSimple set to boost Microsoft cloud strategy

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• Should you believe vendors’ jaw-dropping solid-state performance specs?

  The benefits of solid-state storage are clear -- cool running, space-saving and blistering performance. But just how “blistering” is that performance? Data storage vendors toss previously unheard of numbers around, like millions of IOPS, to show the...Continue Reading

• Jon Toigo suggests SSD, tape for reeling in data center power costs

  Storage expert Jon Toigo suggests ways data storage managers can bring down data center power costs and retain high IOPS.Continue Reading

• Download Storage Decisions 2012: Resource Guide

  Conquer 2013 with our most educational articles from 2012 including advice from expert Storage Decisions Seminars speakers.Continue Reading

• Hot data storage technologies for 2013

  These six storage technologies will play pivotal roles in transforming data centers in 2013.Continue Reading

• VDI image management: Combating performance and capacity problems

  Managing one VDI image makes sense, but unless the desktops are locked down, it creates capacity and performance problems over time.Continue Reading

• How will 10 GbE impact iSCSI speed?

  The adoption of 10 gigabit Ethernet has ramped up iSCSI speed and resulted in a smaller performance gap between iSCSI and Fibre Channel.Continue Reading

• Brian Madden: Why VDI performance improvements don’t rest on SSD alone

  VDI expert Brian Madden argues that SSD alone is not a panacea for VDI performance issues and that sharing images to save capacity is a bad idea.Continue Reading

• What to expect when using HDFS in Hadoop architecture

  Analyst John Webster details issues with Hadoop architecture and what users can expect from Hadoop Version 2.0.Continue Reading

• Understanding big data analytics and data warehousing

  Understanding big data analytics, and how it differs from data warehousing, depends on time to information, content complexity and cost.Continue Reading

• Comparing scale-out and object-based storage systems

  Scale-out and object-based storage systems are both built for scaling, but metadata characteristics are the difference maker.Continue Reading

• A friction theory of storage clouds

  Applying the economic theories of a Nobel laureate suggests that storage may be heading to the cloud … or maybe not.Continue Reading

• Data management techniques more important than ever

  In this Storage Decisions Chicago 2012 video, Jon Toigo discusses data management techniques that can help you control the data in your environment.Continue Reading

• How are FCoE switches used in the data center?

  Adoption of FCoE switches is dependent on Data Center Bridging Capability Exchange Protocol (DCBx) switch technology, says storage expert Marc Staimer.Continue Reading

• How Hyper-V storage migration has improved in version 3.0

  Storage expert Brien Posey compares VMware Storage vMotion and Hyper-V Live Storage Migration, with a look at how they work.Continue Reading

• Storage magazine's October 2012 PDF

  Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: Data reduction technologies, virtualization and DR, and caching software that adds IOPS to solid-state storage.Continue Reading

• I/O virtualization video: SR-IOV, MR-IOV, NICs and more

  Dennis Martin discusses the advantages of using the SR-IOV and MR-IOV specifications for I/O virtualization in this expert video.Continue Reading

• The storage-for-VDI equation: Capacity, IOPS, TCO, ROI and persistency

  A virtual desktop project can bring savings and efficiency to IT operations, but storage for VDI is a complex issue, and the wrong choices can hobble the project.Continue Reading

• Fiber optic cabling and copper options for data storage pros

  Dennis Martin advises data storage managers on fiber optic and copper cabling choices, and how changing requirements can affect their choices.Continue Reading

• Storage magazine's August 2012 PDF

  Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: All-solid-state arrays, efficient storage and disaster recovery in the cloud.Continue Reading

• Server virtualization and storage management: Better integration, specialized tools

  Virtualization and storage management still presents challenges, but nowadays it provides tighter integration and more effective management tools.Continue Reading

• I/O performance, storage infrastructure lead big data issues list

  ESG senior analyst Terri McClure looks at the latest big data issues relating to I/O, Hadoop and storage sprawl.Continue Reading

• Storage magazine's July 2012 PDF

  Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: Solid-state storage adds "vroom" to desktops, tuning storage for database apps and building a 10 GigE network.Continue Reading

• Data storage management in a virtual data center

  In this video, expert Ben Woo discusses key steps in managing storage in a virtual data center and how this will impact the administrator’s role.Continue Reading

• How to manage storage in a VMware environment

  Read up on how VMware servers are communicating with your storage and how administration in this environment is becoming easier.Continue Reading

• Scalable storage systems: Examining scale-out NAS

  Scale-out NAS systems can accommodate data growth simply by adding more capacity and processing power.Continue Reading

• Understanding storage in the Hadoop cluster

  Of all the ways to handle the storage requirements of 'big data' analytics, the Hadoop cluster is receiving the most attention. Find out why.Continue Reading

• Managing big data: Petabytes, exabytes and analytics

  Learn the differences between managing big data and traditional data warehousing. We'll also explore big data analytics, MapReduce and Hadoop.Continue Reading

• Storage magazine's May 2012 PDF

  Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: archiving to the cloud, direct-attached storage and our Storage Purchasing Intentions survey.Continue Reading

• Cloud Data Management Interface

  Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) industry standard that defines the interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and delete data elements from the cloud.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

• Five data protection guidelines for business continuity

  Storage expert Jon Toigo offers data protection guidelines to help storage admins achieve the best possible results when protecting data in their care.Continue Reading

• Storage magazine's April 2012 PDF

  Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: integrating cloud backup, storage for virtual servers and coping with big data.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