Cloud Storage Strategy

WHITE PAPER: Before an effective transition to cloud storage can be made, businesses need an effective strategy for addressing the inefficiency, underutilization, and lack of visibility in today's physical and virtual storage environments. Read this white paper to find strategies for controlling costs, managing virtualization, and preparing for the cloud.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 31 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how implementing cloud storage metrics can help you choose the right technology for increasing IT productivity and capacity management in your enterprise.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: Ovum analyses data growth, big data, disk shortages, public cloud storage, flash memory, and other storage trends.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

IT BRIEFING: This research from management consultants, Xantus, shows that while there is still a lack of clarity and a reluctance to fully commit to the cloud, there is a general acceptance from CIOs of the benefits and a growing commitment to develop those benefits.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EZINE: Hybrid cloud services have emerged as a combined solution for business looking to switch the cloud. Learn what you should know before deploying a hybrid cloud.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

PRODUCT LITERATURE: View the helpful blog post to learn how to build the most cost-effective applications using Windows Azure Storage (WAS) by understanding how bandwidth, transactions, and capacity are billed.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 08 Jul 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: View this post to learn about the four types of data abstractions that Windows Azure Storage (WAS) offers for applications developers: blobs, tables, queues, and drives. Then learn about how they are partitioned, the URIs for each, and their scalability targets.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 10 May 2010

VIDEO: View this helpful video to get an introduction to the architecture and data abstraction capabilities of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a highly scalable and accessible cloud storage service. 

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the architecture, data model, resource provisioning, load balancing, and replication systems of Windows Azure Storage (WAS), a scalable cloud storage system that provides customers with seemingly limitless data storage, access from anywhere at any time, and the ability to only pay for what they use.

Posted: 25 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Featuring a virtualized, enterprise storage architecture and tight integration with VMware software, the Dell Compellent Storage Center SAN helps boost IT agility by efficiently scaling to meet the needs of growing private cloud deployments. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 | Published: 01 Apr 2012

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide lays out the 9 key cloud storage criteria -- the essential elements that define a true cloud storage offering.

Posted: 30 Mar 2012 | Published: 30 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this SearchCloudStorage.com E-Guide to learn about the different cloud storage advantages and how this technology solves 5 common IT problems.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012 | Published: 27 Mar 2012

EZINE: Check out this special European edition of Storage magazine for expert analyses and forecasts about where storage is heading and how you can get ahead of the curve.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 19 Mar 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript aims to teach you the drivers of the cloud, the current trends in cloud computing, and the 2012 predictions for cloud adoption.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This expert E-Guide explores each of these issues and provides implementation guidelines and best practices, as well as real-world case studies of companies that have successfully implemented hybrid cloud storage environments.

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

CASE STUDY: Learn how Expedient Communications expanded from a managed service provider into cloud computing, with a focus on auditability and security. Gain insight into best practices for building private clouds and evaluating external cloud services from Alex Rodriguez, Expedient’s Vice President of Systems Engineering and Product Development.

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 | Published: 23 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Recovery in the cloud is offering businsses a cost-effective alternative to traditional disaster recovery options. Learn more about outsourcing disaster recovery to cloud, including what questions to consider.

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: IBM reduces the complexity of managing cloud environments by offering a complete portfolio of automated solutions for managing data and storage infrastructure, enabling better efficiency for business resiliency, and helping to reduce costs and improve security.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide was designed to get the facts straight on cloud as it defines cloud storage and lists Chief Dragon Slayer of Dragon Slayer Consulting, Marc Staimer’s top cloud storage requirements. Also in this guide – discussion around the recent cloud washing phenomenon created by marketers and vendors.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to explore 3 critical steps every organization must take in order to make the transformation necessary to support the specific changes required to grow a successful Cloud practice.

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 | Published: 20 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The right way to evaluate the quality of your system and data protection is to evaluate the Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective. These metrics define how long you think it will take you to get back online and how current the data has to be. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this expert E-Guide, Andrew Reichman, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, offers advice to users who are comparing different cloud options.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this white paper discover geospatial cloud computing and how it can help define and execute optimal business decisions in real-time.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this white paper to learn how implementing cloud storage metrics can help you choose the right technology for increasing IT productivity and capacity management in your enterprise.

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Read this E-Guide from SearchCloudStorage.com to learn four steps you should take when looking for a potential cloud service provider and how to keep your compliance data safe when using cloud archiving.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011