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Get help with specific problems with your technologies, process and projects.
A handy list of data transfer rates
A beginners guide to iSCSI
SearchStorage.com contributor Simon Gordon answers FAQs about iSCSI. Continue Reading
Outsourcing storage management
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Is it SMB or CIFS for NAS
SANs and controller failover
Configuring the SAN: Zoning, HBAs and switches
Bits & Bytes: SearchStorage.com's newest contributor Arthur Scrimo offers expert advice on working with switches, HBAs and zoning in a SAN.Continue Reading
Deal with those saturated links
This tip explains what saturated links are, how they affect performance and how you can handle them.Continue Reading
Replication between different vendors' arrays
DAS, NAS and SAN replication solution
SAN or NAS to consolidate storage in SAP?
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MB/s or IO/s: Which to measure?
There are two common methods of measuring performance in a storage network, but which do you measure? According to this tip, it depends on what you're doing.Continue Reading
The importance of medium access control
Servers and switches 101
So you wanna be a storage architect?
What are the pros/cons of implementing storage management in an online services industry company?
The difference between SCSI and FC protocols
Get the most from a storage RFP
Considerations for a good RFP.Continue Reading
How much storage is utilized with RAID-5?
Fibre Channel, part 2: Calculating data speed over distance
An overview of the basic components of Fibre Channel, how it works and some basic math for running FC over long distances.Continue Reading
Know the performance impacts of replication
Bits & Bytes: Availability Maven Evan Marcus describes three replication techniques and the level of protection and performance impacts you can expect from each.Continue Reading
Fibre Channel, part 1: Going the distance with SANs
Techniques for establishing fast, long-distance storage area networks.Continue Reading
Best principles for storage security
Best principles for storage securityContinue Reading
The price per managed GB/month for a SAN
Looking at the cost of purchasing SAN/NAS storage
How to save money on SAN backup
How to efficiently back up your SANContinue Reading
Brocade vs. McData: Who's really winning in switch technology?
Brocade vs. McData: Who's really winning in switch technology?Continue Reading
No easy formula to calculate storage capacity
What is NAS and why would it be implemented in a SAN environment?
Next-generation NAS
Next-generation NASContinue Reading
Different types of disasters and how to protect your data
SAN topologies, part 2: How to design your SAN
How to build a SAN using various topologies.Continue Reading
Seven steps to data replication
Seven steps to data replicationContinue Reading
The truth about synchronous replication
The obvious and not-so-obvious issues with synchronous replication.Continue Reading
What's the purpose of gatekeeper volumes in EMC Symmetrix?
SAN topologies, part 1: Know your switch options
What size switch to use when designing a SAN.Continue Reading
Looking at two-way replication methods
The best way to identify SAN partition settings
How many HBA adapters are required in a SAN environment for backup and restore policies?
How to split a single fabric SAN and provide a fully redundant solution
Reap the benefits of intelligent storage
Defines intelligent operating environments, business benefits they will deliver and key features to look for.Continue Reading
How to calculate the availability of an entire network?
What's a native Fibre Channel and it's benefits?
Figuring the number of IP addresses for a two-node cluster
Five backup options to consider when implementing a SAN/NAS solution - Part 1
Sorting out the OEM SAN switch market
Sorting out the OEM SAN switch marketContinue Reading
SLAs, SLOs and policies
Understand the differences.Continue Reading
How many TBs can be managed per FTE?
Connecting an IBM mainframe to a SAN
The real world difference between F_port and FL_port protocols, Part 1
What's the best way to do a server availability calculation?
A discussion on the efficacy of predicting site/environment availability.Continue Reading
How does RAID5/parity really work?
Reactive/proactive intrusion detection measures
Can you use normal LAN IP switches as the SAN layer using iSCSI?
Some of the benefits of data consolidation
Blue light storage specials
Blue light storage specialsContinue Reading
FC/iSCSI differences
Storage subsystem failure
How does a hard disk organize data?
Single vs. dual SAN fabrics
Advantages, disadvantages of servers and mainframes
Understand disk performance numbers in Windows
What disk performance numbers mean in Windows.Continue Reading
Evaluating hard disk drives
SCSI and IDE differences
Solid-state disk gives SANs performance
Why you can use them somewhat cost-effictively.Continue Reading
Zone with zone sets
A discussion of zone sets.Continue Reading
DSS drives
RAID reliability
Setting policies/procedures into business goals
Looking for an alternative to clustering
Symmetrical and asymmetrical SANs
The differences and what each is good for.Continue Reading
The data density dilemma
Find out about the dilemma of rapidly increasing disk densities combined with slower increases in disk speed.Continue Reading
Issues/benefits of offline, online and Nearline® storage
Graham Irving shares on some of the considerations involved in offline, nearline and online storage.Continue Reading
Who are the key players?
Using hard zoning
Mixing arbitrated loop and fabric
Why you would want to do it, and how.Continue Reading
Fibre Channel advantages
File server policies
Implementing a storage-management policy
Important considerations on implementing a storage-management policy.Continue Reading
EMC introduces Centera to the fixed content market
EMC introduces Centera to the fixed content marketContinue Reading
Using SAN or NAS for data warehousing
Masking and zoning for SAN security
How they work to enhance security.Continue Reading
Point-to-point connections
Configuring a Fibre Channel SAN for RAID5
Comparing bandwidth with capacity - Part I
Availability, Part 1: The availability index
Part one of a series on storage availability.Continue Reading
The different NFS versions
Block and file I/O
RAID 1 requirements
A brief history of storage management
An amusing look at the history of storage with Jon William Toigo.Continue Reading
Top 10 business continuity elements
This tip is the first of a series that analyzes disaster recovery and BC technologies.Continue Reading
Maximum mailbox sizes in Exchange
Why you should set them, and how to do it.Continue Reading
SAN approaches to LUN security
Different ways to help manage security of data on a SAN.Continue Reading
Common tasks for a storage administrator
What's the difference between a bridge and a gateway?
Explore the differences between a gateway and a bridge, and get advice from storage expert Marc Farley.Continue Reading
Ports and ASIC on switches
CD/DVD jukebox
Explaining a NAS gateway and SAN appliance
LAN-free backup vs. server-free backup in a SAN: Part 1
Functional benefits of LAN-free versus server-free backup implementations using a storage area network (SAN).Continue Reading
Differential and single ended
NAS and DFS