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How can organizations manage Microsoft Teams storage limits?
Microsoft Teams storage limits can be complex for organizations to track. Learn the details and how to add Microsoft 365 storage to avoid capacity problems. Continue Reading
What is SAN zoning and what are the different types of zoning?
Zoning can be set up according to server, storage and SAN switch. Discover what type of zoning to use, how zone sets extend SAN segmentation and the various zoning schemas. Continue Reading
Performance, reliability tradeoffs with SLC vs. MLC and more
Learn the important capacity, performance and reliability differences between multilayer flash when it comes to adding SSD storage to your organization. Continue Reading
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Explore the challenges, benefits of provisioned IOPS storage
IT admins who want the flexibility to provision IOPS independently from capacity can turn to certain software-defined storage and cloud services offerings. Continue Reading
Top 5 cloud storage security issues and how to contain them
A handful of major cloud storage security issues, such as insufficient access controls and compliance, remain. Learn how to successfully address them with guidance from IT experts. Continue Reading
9 VDI storage best practices to better connect remote workers
Learn how to plan and deploy VDI storage to make your remote workers more productive and efficient. It's all about knowing your users and picking the right devices.Continue Reading
3 ways to ease the green data storage transition
Energy-efficient storage promises several benefits. Finding the right approach requires carefully assessing available technology, where you keep your data and costs.Continue Reading
Managed SAN services aim to ease storage chores
Offloading SAN management to an MSP partner could free IT admins from an infrastructure component that sometimes gets short shrift among other data center priorities.Continue Reading
COVID-19 stresses healthcare data storage resources
Healthcare organizations face new obstacles to effectively manage and store their data resources. See how they're using cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises storage models.Continue Reading
How to deal with the challenges of cloud storage vs. SAN
Whether you're managing cloud storage or a local SAN, both have issues. Compare 13 areas where SAN and cloud storage challenges can arise and find out how to deal with them.Continue Reading
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Troubleshoot SAN issues to improve performance
Common SAN problems include compatibility issues, hardware failures and sluggish storage response times, but a few proven strategies can easily resolve these issues.Continue Reading
Prevent the storage and data security risks of remote work
Many organizations have employees working from home, but some may not have taken the security and training precautions that remote work requires.Continue Reading
Pay-as-you-go storage consumption and its challenges
Consumption-based storage has benefits, but it also has challenges, including what it is, unknowns about its future, and control and cost issues. Here's what you need to know.Continue Reading
5 signs it's time for a NAS or SAN upgrade
It's easy to tell when it's time to modernize your storage infrastructure if you know the warning signs. Find out what they are and how Liberty Mutual Insurance handled its upgrade.Continue Reading
Data storage security best practices for avoiding cyberattacks
Protecting stored data requires meticulous planning and a well-crafted strategy. Here are steps you need to take today to keep your organization's essential data safe and secure.Continue Reading
The future of storage administration: 4 key questions answered
What are the best career moves a storage professional can make? Learn about the skills, technologies and strategies to focus on now for the most payback in the future.Continue Reading
How key factors in storage performance and cost spur adoption
It may take years, but a storage product's performance, cost and the problems it solves can converge to make its sales take off. See how a storage technology's tipping point is reached.Continue Reading
Beat the software bottleneck by improving storage performance
Find out what vendors are doing to address the storage software bottleneck problem to enable users to extract the full performance potential of the media in their data centers.Continue Reading
5 areas to assess when rethinking storage at the edge
Does your organization have the right edge storage resources? Here's what you need to focus on to ensure your organization keeps pace with changes at the edge.Continue Reading
Boost cloud storage performance for your work-from-home workforce
Optimizing cloud storage security and performance are key to transitioning to a 100% remote workforce. Learn best practices to follow as your organization responds to COVID-19.Continue Reading
Make remote SAN management work in the age of coronavirus
SANs usually aren't configured to allow remote management. Find out what storage admins can do during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure their organization's SAN can be managed remotely.Continue Reading
Fine-tune your storage-as-a-service approach
What you need to know about storage-as-a-service options to make them work for your organization. Service levels, data protection and upgrade schedules can be the differentiators.Continue Reading
4 causes of SSD failure and how to deal with them
Although NVMe SSDs are a highly reliable storage technology, they are still prone to occasional failure. Here are some best practices to keep your SSDs humming along.Continue Reading
High-performance object storage challenges in the modern data center
Object storage works well for long-term backup and archiving. See how high-performance capabilities are expanding it to high-scale, high-capacity workloads.Continue Reading
Illustrated guide to containerization security
Container security concerns are keeping IT pros up at night. Discover why and what they're doing to secure containers as well as the applications and data that run within them.Continue Reading
The best enterprise storage products of 2019
Predictive storage analytics and AI make storage smarter
Intelligent storage is all the rage. Discover how predictive analytics for storage, AI and machine learning makes storage infrastructure more flexible and cost effective.Continue Reading
Compliance analytics helps data storage meet PII standards
Organizations are using predictive analytics and AI to sift through large data sets to ensure that any data stored is compliant with all personally identifiable information rules.Continue Reading
Composable infrastructure platform pros and cons
Navigate PII data protection and GDPR to meet privacy mandates
Know the commonalities surrounding personally identifiable information to better navigate and comply with the regulations and penalties IT managers must contend with today.Continue Reading
Worried about storing unstructured data? You're not alone
Most data being created today is unstructured, and storage pros often find themselves struggling to keep up. Luckily, efficient unstructured data storage is still possible.Continue Reading
Debunking 5 common myths about data storage containers
Storage containers can hold a lot of things, including misconceptions. Here are five common container storage myths that need to vanish.Continue Reading
How blockchain sharding solves the blockchain scalability issue
Sharding is the answer to the scalability problem inherent in blockchain technology. Find out the advantages of sharding and the four problems associated with it.Continue Reading
Storing predictive analytics data can be tricky: Avoid these 5 errors
Looking into the future is getting easier with predictive analytics, but only when your storage resources are able to meet the demanding needs of the data those tools generate.Continue Reading
3 key unstructured data storage challenges and how to resolve them
Volume, variety and value make storing unstructured data difficult. We look at how some vendors are helping enterprises get control of their burgeoning data stores.Continue Reading
Machine learning for data storage optimizes data analysis
6 multi-cloud storage challenges that affect strategic plans
Using multiple cloud storage providers can affect more than just how and where your data is stored. Discover the areas you need to consider to improve performance and costs.Continue Reading
The realities of unstructured data management revealed
Managing and gleaning business value from unstructured data is of utmost importance to enterprises today. Our infographic outlines the challenges respondents face.Continue Reading
3 key problems computational storage devices can solve
This emerging technology brings stored data closer to compute processes, solving latency and performance issues. Discover the three potential advantages of computational storage.Continue Reading
5 advantages of cloud storage
Unlimited capacity, multi-tenancy and built-in disaster recovery are a few of the cloud storage benefits administrators can use to help solve data storage challenges.Continue Reading
How to manage storage for Kubernetes challenges
The Kubernetes container orchestration platform has undergone changes to resolve storage challenges, including adding plugins for persistent data. However, some issues remain.Continue Reading
NVMe performance challenges expose the CPU chokepoint
NVMe systems have diminishing marginal performance gains when hardware is added and storage software consumes more CPU resources. Discover how to address this problem.Continue Reading
Understanding the NVMe performance problem
Storage software is a primary performance concern when using NVMe. Discover three workarounds vendors use to fix the problem that exists between NVMe flash and storage software.Continue Reading
5 multi-cloud storage management mistakes to avoid
When using multiple clouds for storage, don't let common issues, such as inadequate security or vendor lock-in, negate the many benefits you stand to reap.Continue Reading
4 NVMe storage problems you can prevent before they happen
Implementing NVMe storage is complicated, from knowing what to ask when buying NVMe SSDs and arrays to what type of file system to use. Here's how to deal with four NVMe issues.Continue Reading
Key QLC NAND challenges in the enterprise and how to tackle them
Limited durability and degrading performance are issues with QLC NAND. These challenges limit where the technology can be used, making it best for read-intensive workloads.Continue Reading
Data migration checklist: 6 steps to ease migration stress
Following a detailed data migration strategy with extensive upfront planning can simplify complicated and labor-intensive SAN data migration projects.Continue Reading
7 NVMe storage gotchas to avoid
Avoiding common deployment errors when implementing NVMe technology will save you time, money and professional embarrassment. Here's what to look out for.Continue Reading
The top 5 data storage questions we answered in 2018
As storage continues to evolve, many readers still are curious about the basics. In 2018, common data storage concerns included RAID, capacity and different storage architectures.Continue Reading
How to prevent swap usage from hurting your NVMe devices
Overuse of swap files can cut into the life span of your organization's NVMe-based drives. Find out how to monitor and limit swapping on your Linux systems.Continue Reading
8 multi-cloud storage strategies that target performance
Performance is an important aspect of using multiple clouds for storage but may take a back seat to the technology's other benefits. Are you missing out?Continue Reading
NFS vs. CIFS/SMB: What are the differences?
Network File System and Common Internet File System/Server Message Block were designed to work with any operating system, but NFS remains dominant in Linux and SMB in Windows.Continue Reading
Public cloud workload success requires IT leadership
IT must change with the times and adapt to the reality that others within the organization can now procure and provision cloud resources without their input.Continue Reading
Maximize cloud storage benefits with cloud-native data
A cloud storage strategy must acknowledge that storage is but one part of cloud use and involves storage and compute, as well as data that's accessible to all cloud resources.Continue Reading
New memory technologies challenge NAND flash dominance
Cost and scaling limits mean planar NAND flash as we know it will slowly cede its pre-eminent place in the memory hierarchy to emerging technologies such as 3D XPoint.Continue Reading
What is a LUN and why do we need one?
Logical unit numbers are a logical abstraction between a physical disk device and applications. Learn more about LUN use cases and LUN security features.Continue Reading
Are flash workloads suited to handling unstructured data?
The storage of unstructured data is a hurdle for many organizations. Object storage keeps it organized but lacks speed thanks to hard disks. Luckily, a better way is on the rise.Continue Reading
Is there an alternative to error correction and detection codes?
Errors in NAND flash memory can be corrected, but that becomes more difficult as NAND reaches the end of its life. Are you utilizing every available error correction tool?Continue Reading
NVMe compatibility is key when transitioning SAS and SATA SSDs
Getting ahead of the SSD interface performance curve requires foresight and careful planning. As NVMe technology evolves, new adopters are looking for ways to ease the changeover.Continue Reading
How to mitigate SSD vulnerabilities
SSDs could pose a security risk for organizations that aren't careful when they decommission drives. Learn what you need to know about keeping data stored on SSDs safe.Continue Reading
Ten ways to protect intellectual property and trade secrets
Industrial espionage is on the rise, and more data means more risk. Find out how to control the growth of data stores and secure your organization's most valuable assets.Continue Reading
The future of flash storage: Is NVMe right for your enterprise?
Cracks in the SAS and SATA protocols started to appear with the rise of SSDs and the exponential performance improvements they delivered over HDD technology. This led to the development of the nonvolatile memory express protocol to exploit flash's ...Continue Reading
Six software-defined storage architecture mistakes to avoid
SDS architecture is beneficial for many companies, but organizations making the switch can miss important steps, such as capacity and migration planning.Continue Reading
Cloud migration planning tips: How to move data out of the cloud
Most people know how to move data and files to the cloud, but what happens when you decide you want your files back? Getting that data back is no easy task.Continue Reading
The best enterprise storage systems and services of 2017
For 16 years, Storage magazine and SearchStorage have recognized the best enterprise storage systems with our annual Products of the Year awards. For this year's competition, vendors submitted new and upgraded products from the past year ...Continue Reading
SDS, HCI and CDP are key to dream enterprise storage system
Easy to implement and manage may be the buzzwords of the day for enterprise data storage systems, but too often daily experiences of IT professionals belie that rosy scenario.Continue Reading
NVMe-oF and storage class memory set to disrupt storage
NVM Express over Fabrics and storage class memory may disrupt traditional storage over the next half decade in much the same way NAND flash did over the last five years.Continue Reading
Explosion in unstructured data storage drives modernization
Increasing amounts of unstructured data are a key part of modern secondary storage environments with their distributed file systems and a scale-out object storage design.Continue Reading
Is there a Ceph client to connect Windows machines?
Integrating Ceph and Windows isn't as straightforward as connecting Ceph to Linux machines. You'll need a Ceph Gateway or SUSE Enterprise Storage to get the job done.Continue Reading
How do I enable file sharing on Ceph object storage?
The open source Ceph project prioritizes efficient data storage over easy access, so companies that want to set up file sharing on their object stores must do a little extra work.Continue Reading
Persistent data storage in containerized environments
The most significant challenge to the rise of containerized applications is quickly and easily providing enterprise-class persistent storage for containers.Continue Reading
Wasabi Technologies takes on Amazon S3 pricing, performance
Wasabi secures more cash for data center expansion after cloud storage launch entices trial users on claims of significantly lower prices, higher performance than Amazon S3.Continue Reading
The data storage industry will turn upside down in 2017, or will it?
Rich Castagna reviews the prognostications offered by data storage vendors on the future of data storage technology in 2017.Continue Reading
A look at the future of data storage careers
Thanks to virtualization, the cloud and solid-state technology, data storage professionals and those who want to pursue a career in it face an uncertain future.Continue Reading
Hadoop data analysis: Common concerns with the HDFS platform
Using HDFS technology as a data analysis platform may be insufficient for your storage needs. Explore the challenges storage administrators may encounter and find out how to address them.Continue Reading
Five types of storage virtualization: Pros and cons
Expert Brien Posey discusses five ways to virtualize storage in an organization. Review the pros and cons of each approach to find the best fit for your data center.Continue Reading
How to configure a rack-mounted NAS in 10 easy steps
Get the most out of your rack-mount NAS appliance by enabling permissions, network access and other advanced options.Continue Reading
Understanding data storage requirements in a virtual environment
Even though virtualization has become commonplace in today's data centers, provisioning storage for applications on virtual machines (VMs) often remains a pain point for IT professionals. Random I/O processes unique to virtual environments often put...Continue Reading
Five ways VDI technology is affected by storage
Managing storage for your VDI infrastructure has progressed, but there are still some snags. Here are five ways to avoid VDI environment issues.Continue Reading
The struggle between virtual machine performance and storage
Storage has been painted as the cause of sluggish VM performance, but it might be your hypervisor's fault.Continue Reading
What complications can arise when thin provisioning VMware storage?
Brien Posey dives into the complications users might run into with thinly provisioned VMware data stores and how to address them.Continue Reading
How do I increase cache memory?
Increasing cache memory in your environment might help allocate CPU processes, but it doesn't necessarily result in better performance.Continue Reading
Are more than five nines of availability really possible?
When cloud durability is added to the mix, cloud providers are able to tout a high number of nines of availability.Continue Reading
What are some cloud migration challenges or limitations?
It's not uncommon to run into challenges when migrating data to the cloud. Here are some roadblocks to keep an eye out for.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
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
Why isn't Windows Server allowing me to create a storage tier?
Microsoft expert and SearchStorage.com contributor Brien Posey addresses key challenges to creating storage tiers in Windows Server 2012 R2.Continue Reading
Hypervisor comparison: VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Red Hat
VMware has had the dominant enterprise-class hypervisor, but there are others worth reviewing. This tip details how Microsoft and Red Hat compete.Continue Reading
How does a scale-out NAS environment affect storage management?
Phil Goodwin explains how scale-out NAS systems simplify storage management through a single point of control and by combating performance problems.Continue Reading
Are SSDs necessary to perform analytics on big data efficiently?
Storage expert Phil Goodwin explains how SSDs can speed up analytics, but solid-state technology is only needed in certain types of environments.Continue Reading
Pros and cons of file- and block-based flash caching
George Crump of Storage Switzerland discusses pros and cons of file and block flash caching and how they can be implemented in this Expert Answer.Continue Reading
Three key strategies to prevent RAID failure
In this tip, analyst Jon Toigo shares several ways storage admins can proactively prevent the failure of RAID arrays.Continue Reading
What is the top storage challenge with in-memory databases?
Wikibon CTO David Floyer said the greatest challenge with an in-memory database from a storage perspective is recovery in the event of a problem.Continue Reading
Comparing performance and cost of DRAM vs. NAND
George Crump of Storage Switzerland compares the performance and cost of DRAM to NAND flash in this Expert Answer.Continue Reading
How DRAM or NVRAM cache can reduce flash SSD write amplification
DRAM/NVRAM caching provides SSD systems with better performance while reducing flash SSD write amplification.Continue Reading
Comparing write-through, write-back and write-around caching
George Crump of Storage Switzerland compares three common types of caching -- write-through, write-back and write-around -- in this Expert Answer.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
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
Using the RESTful API as an onramp to object storage
RESTful APIs are essential in moving data on and off of object storage systems. Expert Marc Staimer describes the three options currently available.Continue Reading