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How to overcome flash-based storage limitations to ensure efficiency

Storage expert Jon Toigo explains why flash storage isn't a cure-all and how users can avoid some of the downfalls associated with the technology. 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 storage hypervisors bring high availability to the cloud?

Learn how the advanced functionality of a storage hypervisor provides a cloud infrastructure with high availability. Continue Reading

Is there any popular software that allows me to share PCIe SSD cards?

Learn the different methods to share PCIe SSD cards among multiple servers to improve performance and still keep costs down. 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

Synchronous mirroring with DataCore boosts telecom's DR strategy

Great Plains Communications discovered DataCore SANsymphony-V storage and received the synch mirroring needed to beef up its DR strategy.Continue Reading

Which devices do I need for I/O virtualization?

Jon Toigo explains how I/O virtualization can simplify the server configuration used to host VMs and its role as an enabling technology for I/O processing.Continue Reading

2013 shaping up to be a 'decent' year for IT data storage spending

IT data storage is always a struggle, but storage managers should have a little more money in 2013 to spend on techs that can help ease the crunch of growing capacity demands.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

Dell Foglight management tools upgraded, rebranded

Dell rebrands and upgrades its Foglight data center management tools, which include VMware View support and virtual-to-physical landscape.Continue Reading

Storage Holy Grail: End bifurcated storage infrastructure management

Storage virtualization and other storage "uber-controllers" are a step toward better storage infrastructure management, but it's still not an integrated process.Continue Reading

How to improve your virtual server storage setups

One of the biggest challenges of building a virtual server infrastructure is fine-tuning the storage that supports the virtual machines. Having multiple server OSes running on a single physical server can easily overload a storage network and ...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

Denver Broncos score with NetApp filers for primary storage

By purchasing two FAS2240s from NetApp, the Denver Broncos' small IT staff was able to improve manageability, performance and scalability.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

NTP Software taps into cloud for secure file management

NTP Software branches into secure file management, but says its Universal File Access technology isn't a sync-and-share service.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

Increase capacity and performance without a rip-and-replace approach

Marc Staimer of Dragon Slayer Consulting outlines six technologies that increase capacity and performance without invalidating your current hardware.Continue Reading

Astute makes flash appliance less expensive with MLC, adds replication

Astute Networks says giving its ViSX flash appliance MLC drives lowers the price to $5 per gigabyte, and to even less if you buy its deduplication.Continue Reading

Expert video: Cloud strategies evolving

Enterprise Strategy Group senior analyst Wayne Pauley discusses the current cloud storage market and evolving cloud storage strategies.Continue Reading

2013 shaping up to be a 'decent' year for IT data storage spending

Storage Holy Grail: End bifurcated storage infrastructure management

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

Storage virtualization vendors look beyond VMware support

Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining market share, but support for Hyper-V and other non-VMware hypervisors is slow for VM storage software vendors.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

Virtual server value still outweighs virtual storage

Storage admins and vendors say they want virtual storage to act more like virtual machines, but is that possible?Continue Reading

New storage capacity management tools can make efficiency a reality

Poor provisioning and a lack of effective capacity management tools leads to underused storage systems. New tools and improved processes can make storage efficiency a reality.Continue Reading

Emerging storage architectures may make storage arrays obsolete

Cloud storage, virtualization and the relentless growth of unstructured data have all contributed to a rethinking of the way storage architectures are packaged and presented.Continue Reading

Not-so-open systems make managing data storage tough

With few standards and storage array vendors not inclined to give up their proprietary ways, managing data storage has become tougher than it should be.Continue Reading

Evolution of data storage industry accelerates

Storage technology may not seem to be moving very quickly when measured by old criteria. But a new perspective shows the data storage industry is developing quite briskly.Continue Reading

Rethinking the way storage architectures are packaged and presented

Cloud storage, virtualization and the growth of unstructured data have contributed to the way storage architectures are built and used. Virtual storage appliances and server-based shared storage are two concepts that have emerged as viable ...Continue Reading

How a virtualized storage infrastructure improves performance

Jon Toigo compares methods for improving performance in virtual environments and explains why a virtualized storage infrastructure is a good option.Continue Reading

New storage technologies will focus on performance in 2013

Storage professionals building out their infrastructures have more new storage technologies to choose from than ever before, but the choices are becoming more complex.Continue Reading

Prevent data storage anarchy with centralized storage management

Without centralized storage management and administration, storage can devolve into an exercise in anarchy.Continue Reading

New storage technologies will focus on performance in 2013

Prevent data storage anarchy with centralized storage management

Dell SAN strategy examined after move to go private

Even before the company decided to go private, the Dell SAN business was in transition as it integrated technologies collected through acquisition.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 state of network storage technologies

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

SearchStorage's best data storage products of 2012

The Storage magazine/SearchStorage Products of the Year singles out the best new/enhanced storage products from 2012. Our judges rate products in six categories: backup and DR software and services, backup hardware, storage networking ...Continue Reading

The dangers of 3-D printing

How sector alignment improves deduplication for virtual machines

Storage expert Brien Posey explains how proper sector alignment in various types of virtual environments can optimize deduplication.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

Podcast: Hadoop vendors progress toward enterprise-ready solutions

Storage expert John Webster discusses how Hadoop vendors are faring when faced with the challenge of meeting enterprise 'big data' demands.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

State-of-the-art data backup applications

Cloud backup and disaster recovery are slowly gaining traction in the data protection space, particularly as many organizations leverage the hybrid on-premises/cloud approaches vendors rolled out in 2012. Other new backup techs are on the rise, as ...Continue Reading

Storage hypervisor solves city's VM management and performance problem

The city of San Luis Obispo used Virsto Software's VM management software to increase storage performance after it implemented server virtualization.Continue Reading

Toigo: A brief history of storage management systems

Jon Toigo gives a brief history of storage management systems, from mainframe storage to the virtualized environments of today.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

Storage management tools: 2012 Products of the Year finalists

Find out the four product finalists in the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com storage management tools category.Continue Reading

StorSimple set to boost Microsoft cloud strategy

SSD installation tips

If you want to do your solid-state drive installation yourself, following these six tips will make the process smoother.Continue Reading

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

Data management strategies: Toigo's 5 quick tips for clearing clutter

Jon Toigo talks about the advantages of being proactive with your data management strategies in this 2012 Storage Decisions Chicago presentation.Continue Reading

Storage Radio: Cloud storage trends that matter

Senior News Editor Dave Raffo helps data storage pros decipher the cloud storage trends that fogged the cloud landscape in 2012.Continue Reading

Five developments we need in the data storage market in 2013

Rich Castagna offers a list of five developments we all want to see in the data storage market in 2013 but probably won't. Why? Because vendors continue to drag their heels.Continue Reading

Five developments we need in the data storage market in 2013

Virsto upgrades virtual machine storage management SW for HA

Virsto updated its virtual machine storage application with high-availability (HA) tools and increased support for XenDesktop VDI deployments.Continue Reading

Join us in 2013 for Storage Decisions Seminars

Storage Decisions Seminars brings the best speakers to your city to discuss the latest trends and tools. Sign up to stay informed.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

Hot data storage technologies for 2013

Are black holes slowing the evolution of storage technology?

Not-so-heavenly bodies are scooping up smaller data storage companies threatening innovation in the storage universe.Continue Reading

Which data storage technologies will reshape storage shops in 2013?

Each year, our editors pick the hottest new storage technologies that are likely to appear in data centers in the coming year. We skip the "gee whiz" science project type of technologies and focus on those that, while still new, have developed ...Continue Reading