Storage Best Practices

VIRTUAL SEMINAR: In this Storage Decisions University classroom, we dissect the “big” issues surrounding “big data” and offer technical solutions to address these challenges.

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 31 Jan 2012

WEBCAST: This expert webcast featuring Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst with StorageIO, explores the benefits, challenges, and best practices for implementing SANs in your small to midsize company. Watch now to learn more.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 20 Jan 2012

PODCAST: Data protection and disaster recovery solutions that were cutting edge a few years ago are not capable of keeping up with the explosion of data and the tightening of business service level requirements. IT managers need to find smarter approaches to protecting storage environment.  This session will attempt to address these challenges effectively.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 10 Jan 2012

VIDEO: This webcast explores today's best practices with regard to backup and data protection for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 in small businesses. You'll learn about the different types of storage architectures currently available in this market space, and discover how to ensure reliable and responsive storage for your Exchange data.

Posted: 06 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 06 Dec 2011

WEBCAST: Download this exclusive Autonomy webcast and learn best practices and trends in data protection, how to protect your mobile users with cloud back up, and receive tips on separating your backup and archive.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 22 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: Health care facilities require flexible, reliable storage for ever increasing patient data. This webcast covers the benefits of a converged medical infrastructure, including cost reductions and improvements in scalability and flexibility.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 14 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: Whether the ultimate mission is to consolidate data, virtualize the infrastructure, or improve application performance, the key to efficient storage is virtualized storage. This interactive online tutorial defines storage virtualization and explains how its benefits extend well beyond the data center.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2011

WEBCAST: To benefit from the opportunities and overcome the challenges brought with the virtual era, organizations need to adopt efficient storage approaches that help simplify the way technology is deployed, integrated, and maintained in today's data centers. Watch this webcast to learn how to optimize storage through data management.

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 | Premiered: 11 Nov 2011

PODCAST: In this podcast, Greg Shulz, founder and senior analyst at Stillwater, Minn.-based StorageIO Group, discusses how storage managers can reduce their data footprint, and the various tools for managing your data footprint which include - data archiving, thin provisioning and data deduplication.

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2011

VIDEO: Unstructured data continues to grow at an alarming rate, with the cost to maintain the data only continuing to grow. How can you reduce your storage costs, protect your data and find it quickly? This two-minute video highlights Dell and Symantec's archiving solution to help you store, manage and discover your unstructured data.

Posted: 14 Jul 2011 | Premiered: 14 Jul 2011

PODCAST: Virtual desktop infrastructures is an initiative that many IT pros are familiar with, but when it comes to designing a system, many are not prepared for the decision making that is involved with the process. This podcast highlights industry expert Gabe Knuth as he takes a look at the challenges of designing VDI and more.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2011

VIDEO: IT pros have a general understanding of virtual desktop infrastructures. But when it comes to designing a system, many are not prepared for the decision making that is involved with the process. This webcast highlights industry expert Gabe Knuth as he takes a look at the challenges of designing VDI and more.

Posted: 17 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 17 Jun 2011

WEBCAST: Watch this Dell webcast series and help your organization get on the right track to storage efficiency now!

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 | Premiered: 06 Jun 2011

VIDEO: Introduced with the HIT 3.5.0 Microsoft Edition, the PowerShell Tools provide a powerful and comprehensive set of CMDLETs for managing one or many PS Series groups. Check out this step-by-step video to as Lance Boley from Dell demonstrates a brief set of basic commands that will allow you to automate routine management tasks.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Premiered: 16 May 2011

VIDEO: The Dell EqualLogic PS Series SAN has a ton of amazing built in all inclusive features. Snapshots, virtualized storage, clones, replicas and a host of software integration. Watch this brief videocast now to learn about Thin Clones and how they can be used to create space efficient copies of environments and when they could be used.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Premiered: 16 May 2011

WEBCAST: Tiered storage can help alleviate data management burdens as well as provide operational efficiencies and cost savings. Watch this webcast and find out how Oracle's extensive range of Flash, disk, and tape storage solutions can help you.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 18 Mar 2011

TRIAL SOFTWARE: IT administrators estimate that close to half of all corporate data is held on employee laptops. However, data on laptops are normally the least protected corporate asset. To solve this, PeerSync provides centralized IT control for laptop backup. Download this trial software to experience this data solution.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Premiered: 22 Oct 2010

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Storing files centrally at HQ causes slow file access performance for branch office users. Synchronized (mirrored) file servers with version conflict control is an ideal solution to enable fast LAN speed file access for all employees. Try out this free trial software to learn more about your data solutions.

Posted: 22 Oct 2010 | Premiered: 22 Oct 2010

PODCAST: SMBs using virtualization often face additional challenges in managing and protecting their data.  This instructor-led mediacast addresses the importance of data protection and the best ways to integrate this type of software into your virtualization initiatives.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 04 Mar 2010

WEBCAST: SMBs using virtualization often face additional challenges in managing and protecting their data.  This instructor-led mediacast addresses the importance of data protection and the best ways to integrate this type of software into your virtualization initiatives.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Premiered: 04 Mar 2010

PODCAST: W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the various options available today for backing up virtual machines including VMware's VCB, third-party products, and the ways that backup software products are evolving to ease virtual machine backups.

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 02 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: In this expert webcast, learn how to recognize and deal with common RAID issues in storage arrays.

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 27 Aug 2009

PODCAST: W. Curtis Preston, executive editor of the Storage Media Group and independent backup expert, discusses the options currently available for performing replication as part of a backup strategy for virtual machines, benefits and drawbacks of using replication in a virtualized environment.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2009

PODCAST: Kevin Beaver, information security consultant with Principle Logic LLC, outlines security issues to consider when deploying cloud or online backup.

Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2009

PODCAST: Kevin Beaver, information security consultant with Principle Logic LLC, discusses the importance of proper data deletion/destruction for backup media, data deletion options in the market today, and who really needs to be worried about data destruction in this recording.

Posted: 20 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 20 Aug 2009