Storage Best Practices

EGUIDE: SQL Server performance is highly dependent on how you configure your server's storage subsystems. With that in mind, this e-guide dives into a benefit/cost comparison of the increasingly popular solid-state drive (SSD) trend and explains some of the top mistakes people make when purchasing hardware for SQL Server.

Posted: 09 Feb 2012 | Published: 09 Feb 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: The Colonial Company, a diversified holding company in Montgomery, Alabama, was in need of a reliable data storage system that required less maintenance, less manual interaction and more automated features. Read this case study to learn how Colonial adopted a modern expandable storage platform and the benefits they realized.

Posted: 27 Jan 2012 | Published: 27 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

WHITE PAPER: Data Progression and Data Instant Replay can hold their own, but together the automated tiered storage and continuous snapshot technologies bring storage efficiency and performance to a new level. Check out this brief presentation transcript to learn more.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the relevance and value of a Storage Hypervisor, and focuses on what users need to get started building and implementing a storage hypervisor vision. It summarizes market dynamics which are driving to more organizations implementing a Storage Hypervisor strategy.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: IBM storage management solutions help organizations not only manage the enormous volumes of data, but also optimize performance and reduce expenditures. In this white paper, you will learn more about 4 key, integrated solutions that can help you accomplish these goals.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 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

EGUIDE: VDI storage presents a slew of new challenges to data storage professionals. Read this expert E-Guide to explore how to address VDI storage challenges with data dedupe and NAS systems.

Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Check out this expert E-Guide to learn more about unified storage including why the adoption rate is rising among users, how it works and the top advantages of this type of storage.

Posted: 30 Dec 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com E-Guide, Rich Castagna discusses the current landscape of the tape market and its role in the data center today. Read on to learn the latest trends in tape systems, advanced drives life the T10000C and where the future of tape lies.

Posted: 22 Dec 2011 | Published: 22 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: EMC's new VNXe series storage systems in conjunction with the company's Unisphere storage management are designed to address IT staff's demand for substantially improved "usability" in storage solutions for small and medium sized business. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

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

WHITE PAPER: Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 storage system delivers unmatched capacity utilization, ease of use and an integrated dynamic management of I/O prioritization to make sure critical applications perform optimally under any load condition. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Pillar Axiom 600 system delivers business-critical, deterministic Quality of Service consistent with the business value of the application and its data. It eliminates the requirement to overbuy and under-utilize storage to buffer against application interference in a multi-tenancy shared storage system. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: TGen has been a pioneer in the cluster computing industry for over 5 years. By deploying the DDN EXAScaler, TGen eliminated I/O bottlenecks and now fully has in place a storage solution for today’s and tomorrows’ sequence alignment. Read this case study to learn more.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Published: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Columbus Finance Inc. needed to safeguard sensitive client information and assure secure backup to protect, recover and ensure business continuity. They chose Autonomy’s Live Vault service, a cloud-based server and application backup solution delivers comprehensive data protection with redundancy for reliable data backup and recovery.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: An independent study by ITG has found that the IBM XIV can save an organization 69% on TCO over a 3 year period. This white paper explains how the system’s unique architecture enable it to accomplish this feat.

Posted: 29 Nov 2011 | Published: 29 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Gartner Note: Improve agility, lower costs with intelligent storage technologies

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, you'll learn about some of the most common pitfalls associated with backups and how to avoid them. You'll learn about the repercussions of poor/failed backups, and learn how to establish a backup strategy that can ensure minimal downtime during a disaster. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 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

EZINE: Firms of all sizes are struggling to cope with the mounting volume of storage they generate and it's getting larger with video and voice adding to the streams of traditional data. For resellers this customer challenge poses an opportunity to pitch a range of products and service that can store, manage and provide analysis of that vital information.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This technical whitepaper provides performance and scalability metrics of the Dell EqualLogic FS7500 storage system as a file sharing solution in different operational scenarios.

Posted: 16 Nov 2011 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Health care is quite different from other sectors and, as such, backup and disaster recovery need to be considered in a different way. Access this resource to better understand the storage factors that must be considered when preparing for disaster recovery in a health care setting.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to find out how the University of Maryland Medical Center was able to migrate to a new PACS system that enabled improvements in areas such as collaboration, availability and business intelligence.

Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011