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Choose an integrated stack for efficiency, easy storage implementation
An integrated stack bundles servers, storage and networking in a preconfigured product and is easy to install and manage. Continue Reading
Configuring SSD storage for virtual desktops
Learn what value can be gained from combining SSD storage with virtual desktop infrastructures in this tip from Mark Peters. Continue Reading
Top 10 enterprise data storage terms from SearchStorage.com
Our list of the top 10 data storage terms allows IT pros to dig deeper into popular storage industry terminology. Continue Reading
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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
2011 Storage Products of the Year
These 18 enterprise data storage products rank as the best of 2011 and stand out because of their innovation, practicality and good value. Continue Reading
Storage magazine's February 2012 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: 2011 Products of the Year, new tape technologies and how storage stacks stack up.Continue Reading
Helluva lot of data
All data isn’t big data, and dealing with it requires a variety of data storage technologies and disciplines.Continue Reading
Coming in the March 2012 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's March 2012 issue: Learn how to leverage solid-state storage, why you should consider virtual I/O and our Quality Awards for enterprise arrays.Continue Reading
VMware Inc. vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 5
vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 is the first hypervisor-level replication product on the market. It can also automatically move virtual machines to a primary site after a failover.Continue Reading
Managing storage in a Citrix environment
In this podcast, find out how Citrix XenServer storage management functionality compares with that of VMware and Hyper-V environments.Continue Reading
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managed storage
Managed storage is the process of offloading an organization’s data storage requirements to an outside managed service provider.Continue Reading
Storage magazine's January 2012 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: choosing the best recovery site setup, backing up remote site data and NAS Quality Awards.Continue Reading
IOPS per what?
Disk capacity has been the sexy specification the majority of us have latched onto, but it’s time to start thinking about performance and power consumption.Continue Reading
Coming in the February 2012 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's Feb. 2012 issue: Learn the results of our 2011 Products of the Year awards, why tape is thriving and if storage stacks are a good deal.Continue Reading
Determining the real cost of storage
Vendors tout dollars per gigabyte per I/O, but figuring out what a data storage system will really cost your company is a much more complicated process.Continue Reading
“Big data” conspiracy theories abound
Could the latest and greatest buzzword in the storage biz be killing off some of the most useful storage technologies around?Continue Reading
Coming in the January 2012 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's Jan. 2012 issue: Explore ROBO backup, get the results of our Quality Awards for NAS systems and learn what kind of DR site is best for your firm.Continue Reading
Storage magazine's December 2011 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: Hot technologies for 2012, mobile backup and Quality Awards for tape libraries.Continue Reading
vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness improve view into arrays in VMware environments
The new vStorage APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) improve visibility into storage arrays that support VMware environments. In this tip, find out how VASA can help admins better manage storage.Continue Reading
storage capacity planning
The goal of storage capacity planning is to predict how much storage an organization will require so that just enough disk space can be purchased to meet the needs of users and applications.Continue Reading
Storage magazine's November 2011 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: Our ninth annual Salary Survey results, NAS systems buying decisions and DR monitoring applications.Continue Reading
Control VDI costs for storage by careful configuration planning
Address virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage issues and costs by focusing on IOPS and configuration.Continue Reading
Coming in the November 2011 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's Nov. 2011 issue: The results of our latest Storage Salary survey, NAS system buying decisions and DR monitoring applications.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
storage stack
A storage stack, also called an integrated stack, is a bundled storage product that include servers, networking components and server virtualization software. Continue Reading
Hyper-V storage: Managing storage for a Hyper-V environment
In this podcast interview, Dennis Martin discusses Hyper-V storage best practices and tools and techniques to support and improve storage management in a Hyper-V environment.Continue Reading
Coming in the October 2011 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's Oct. 2011 issue: The results of our latest Storage Purchasing Intentions survey, storage networking decisions and the state of solid-state.Continue Reading
Best storage for virtual servers: Pros and cons of FC, iSCSI and NAS
Virtual servers need a good shared data storage system. All major networked storage protocols work with virtual machines, but some are better than others in certain environments.Continue Reading
Understanding Big Data analytics
Explore the four technology regions associated with Big Data analytics in our technical report.Continue Reading
VDI best practices: Making VDI cost-effective for SMBs
Learn how to make VDI cost effective for your company and get VDI best practices in this tip.Continue Reading
Storage performance management: 10 storage system performance tips
Need some help with your storage performance management? These 10 effective, but often overlooked, tips will help you get the most out of your storage arrays and networks.Continue Reading
vSphere Storage I/O Control: What it does and how to configure it
vSphere’s Storage I/O Control enables segmentation of I/O demands by data store, to enable finer-grained I/O prioritization. Find out how Storage I/O Controls works.Continue Reading
Coming in the September 2011 issue of Storage magazine
A sneak peek at Storage magazine's Sept. 2011 issue: matching virtualized servers to storage, the results of our midrange arrays Quality Awards survey and backing up the cloud.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
Storage management solutions for efficient data storage
Numerous techs promise more efficient use of storage resources. This guide highlights storage management solutions you can use in your environment.Continue Reading
Storage management for virtualized servers
Storage and virtual server management can now go hand-in-hand with new tools that offer single-console control of both storage and virtual servers.Continue Reading
How to build an efficient data storage environment
Explore the areas you should consider when it comes to building an efficient data storage environment and learn the latest developments in storage efficiency tools.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
Storage magazine's July 2011 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: alternatives to ease virtual server backup headaches, building a private cloud and boosting storage performance.Continue Reading
10 quick and easy ways to boost storage performance
Don't let capacity concerns or virtualized servers bog down the performance of your storage systems. Here are 10 ways to pump up the performance of your storage arrays and networksContinue Reading
SAN virtualization: Products and best practices for storage virtualization
Learn how to best implement SAN virtualization in our collection of top articles on storage virtualization products and best practices.Continue Reading
Storage magazine's June 2011 PDF
Download Storage magazine's all-digital issue. This month: Managing storage for virtual environments, paring down primary storage, and backup and recovery software Quality Awards.Continue Reading
SAN booting alternatives for data storage managers
SAN booting and server virtualization are fueling the trend toward diskless servers. Learn about the move from internal to external storage, as well as other booting alternatives.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
Data migration best practices for SMBs
Learn about the data migration tools, techniques, and services available to small- and medium-sized organizations.Continue Reading
NAS best practices: Tips on small business NAS devices
We’ve gathered our top tips and articles to highlight some NAS best practices SMBs should keep in mind before decided to implement a NAS system.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
Virtual server tutorial: Managing a server virtualization environment
This virtual server tutorial evaluates network storage options for virtual servers, describes the VMware vStorage APIs and discusses VMware virtual servers.Continue 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
SAN performance best practices: More ways to avoid bottlenecks
There are several ways you can fine-tune and improve your SAN performance. Follow our five tips to avoid data storage bottlenecks and improve SAN efficiencyContinue Reading
ATA over Ethernet protocol overview for data storage managers
The ATA over Ethernet (AoE) protocol, backed by Coraid, is used by some data storage managers for low-cost, high-volume storage. Learn 10 AoE protocol factsContinue Reading
Five ways to improve your storage networks
These five tips will help you fine-tune your storage networks. Learn what you can do to improve your storage network performance, efficiency and resiliency.Continue Reading
Top five tips for managing storage in a virtual server environment
Server virtualization and virtual desktops can make managing data in a virtual server environment hard. These five tips can help you manage virtual servers.Continue Reading
Hybrid cloud storage
Hybrid cloud storage products provide the best of both worlds -- local storage that's tightly integrated with off-site cloud storage services.Continue Reading
Data storage best practices: Top five storage management answers
We've collected our top five Ask the Expert answers of 2010 to help you learn about data storage best practices for data storage management.Continue Reading
Data storage trends 2011: Predictions of hot data storage technologies
Explore this expert FAQ as three analysts weight in and tell us what they think are the hottest data storage technologies and data storage trends for 2011.Continue Reading
iSCSI SAN best practices for small businesses
New to the world of iSCSI SAN storage or buying your first iSCSI SAN? Learn iSCSI SAN best practices in this guide for small businesses.Continue Reading
Six tips for buying a used storage system
Are you thinking of buying second-hand data storage equipment to save money? Read these six tips before you buy a used storage system.Continue Reading
Records retention management: Arm yourself against regulatory scrutiny
Learn how to build a records retention management system that protects you against regulatory scrutiny, satisfies e-discovery requests and manages capacity.Continue Reading
Implementing ITIL: Getting started with ITIL v3 service management
Are you implementing ITIL v3 service management? Discover five phases of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library process and the benefits of ITIL.Continue Reading
Understanding storage performance metrics
Learn how to accurately measure storage performance metrics in your data storage system, and discover why your results may differ from vendor benchmark numbers.Continue Reading
Managing data storage in small businesses: A data storage strategy tutorial
In this tutorial on managing data storage in small businesses, learn about how to choose the best data storage strategy, what your networked storage options are, and the pros and cons of working with a VAR.Continue Reading
Top 10 tips for tuning your storage network
Storage performance issues are often not related to the storage system at all, but rather to the storage network that links servers to disk arrays. These 10 tips will help you find and fix the bottlenecks in your storage network infrastructure.Continue Reading
Data migration process best practices
A data migration process can be challenging and complicated. Check out these best practices before you begin a data migration process in your SMB.Continue Reading
Clustered NAS: How to choose the right clustered NAS system
Finding the right clustered NAS (or scale-out NAS) system means knowing your storage needs. Learn the questions to ask when evaluating your requirements and the latest offerings.Continue Reading
data lifecycle management
Data life cycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an information system's data throughout its life cycle: from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading
data life cycle management
Data life cycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an information system's data throughout its life cycle: from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading
data life cycle management (DLM)
Data life cycle management (DLM) is a policy-based approach to managing the flow of an information system's data throughout its life cycle: from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.Continue Reading
Create a storage service for your company
Often maligned (but more often misunderstood), the ITIL framework can help transform your storage environment into an efficient storage service organization.Continue Reading
10 Gigabit Ethernet for iSCSI storage, NAS storage still hinges on cost
While 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) offers greater bandwidth for iSCSI storage or NAS storage, IT shops still have to justify upgrade costs with their needs.Continue Reading
NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol)
NDMP (Network Data Management Protocol) is an open protocol used to control data backup and recovery communications between primary and secondary storage in a heterogeneous network environment.Continue Reading
Improving storage efficiency in data storage equipment a complex task, but getting easier
The process of improving the storage efficiency and power consumption of data storage equipment is a complicated one, with a variety of factors to consider.Continue Reading
SRM tools: Choosing the right storage resource management tool for storage provisioning
SRM tools offer capacity reporting, including change management and chargeback, but can be pricey and complicated. Here's what you should know before you invest in SRM tools.Continue Reading
storage management
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Management (ADSM) is a collective term for IBM's family of high-end software that helps a customer manage the storage devices (such as mainframe storage, PC disk drives, and Zip drives) that are scattered around the ...Continue Reading
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Management (ADSM)
ADSTAR Distributed Storage Management (ADSM) is a collective term for IBM's family of high-end software that helps a customer manage the storage devices (such as mainframe storage, PC disk drives, and Zip drives) that are scattered around the ...Continue Reading
iSCSI storage: How to leverage RAID and ensure server uptime
Learn how RAID can be used with iSCSI storage, as well as how iSCSI storage systems can be configured for high availability to eliminate single points of failure.Continue Reading
Mastering NAS management: A network-attached storage case study
Simply having a series of NAS devices is not an efficient way to manage your data. Find out how some companies are mastering NAS management.Continue Reading
NAS management improves with scale-out NAS, file virtualization and cloud storage services
NAS management can be difficult due to huge migrations and downtime. Learn how to control NAS sprawl with scale-out NAS, file virtualization and information classification tools, and cloud storage services.Continue Reading
Data storage capacity planning: How to estimate your storage requirements
SMBs should ask themselves these five questions to help them get started with their data storage capacity planning.Continue Reading
Getting started with cloud archiving: Tips for smaller businesses
Data archiving should be implemented into all data storage environments, and cloud archiving may be the best cost-effective ways for SMBs to go about doing this.Continue Reading
Data storage management strategies: Managing logical unit numbers (LUNs)
This tip explores the background of LUNs in an SMB data storage environment, the different LUN features vendors have to offer and how to determine what type of LUN is best for you.Continue Reading
iSCSI SANs in a virtual server environment: Five best practices
Storage experts offer best practices on how to maximize iSCSI SAN performance and efficiency in virtual server environments, where the protocol has found its biggest audience.Continue Reading
RAID data storage tutorial: RAID strategies for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)
In this tutorial on RAID data storage for SMBs, learn about RAID data protection is changing, how to choose the correct RAID level, and optimizing RAID storage for your business.Continue Reading
Creating a data center migration plan
Your five-step data center migration plan should include an IT assessment, relocation analysis and design, a data migration plan, risk identification and a relocation strategy.Continue Reading
EDRM: Best practices when preparing for an e-discovery request
We list the nine stages of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), and tell you why the preservation and collection stage is so important to data storage pros.Continue Reading
Building a private storage cloud: Essential components
A NAS cluster, commodity servers and an object/metadata management layer are just some of the essential components needed to build your own private storage cloud.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
Avoid data migration project failure: Five best practices
Learn why data migration projects can fail, and how five best practices, such as deduplicating data and documenting the process, can help you avoid cost overruns or delays.Continue Reading
Data migration strategies and best practices
Data migration can be a complicated process. Learn how to make your data migrations seamless.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
Network-attached storage (NAS) performance issues with SMBs can be avoided with proper planning
SMBs often run into NAS performance issues and unexpected problems, which can often be avoided with proper planning.Continue Reading
Common places for data storage bottlenecks in your IT infrastructure
While easing enterprise data storage performance bottlenecks can require a mix of storage tools and IT expertise, identifying the most common areas for storage bottlenecks can be the first step in troubleshooting them.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
Enterprise data storage configuration tools: Trends and best practices
Data storage configuration tools are getting easier to use as vendors improve the built-in element managers of storage devices, their storage resource management software and other tools.Continue Reading
Tips for an effective data deduplication implementation
When implementing data deduplication into a storage environment, users need to know their data, test vendor dedupe claims with their actual data and avoid deduping compressed data.Continue Reading
How to select a storage automation product
Features to look for include a configuration management database with a scalable data collection mechanism, operationally focused reporting, a service portal and task automation.Continue Reading
Best practices for solid-state drive storage technology
SSD best practices center on identifying I/O-intensive applications so that data storage technology can provide the greatest benefit to IT organizations.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
Best practices for effective thin provisioning
Thin provisioning allows storage capacity that has been allocated to various apps or servers, but not actually consumed, to be shared. This allows you to use less disk capacity.Continue Reading