Storage Best Practices

CASE STUDY: This resource examines how on health care facility was able to develop a paper-to-digital workflow that creates electronic versions of select information on an as-needed basis.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 | Published: 08 Mar 2012

EZINE: Using solid-state storage technology requires you to make choices, such as primary storage vs. performance cache, storage array vs. PCIe card and MLC vs. SLC. This Essential Guide offers insight into the variety of SSD technologies and implementations today to help you decide what is right for your needs.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

EZINE: Storage Online Magazine December 2011

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

CASE STUDY: This case study outlines the Maria Parham Medical Center's selection for its scalability, cost-efficiency and comprehensive management of all aspects of storage, maintenance and data restoration. They now have the peace of mind that all medical images in its PACS are safely archived and easily recoverable.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 07 Mar 2012

VIDEO: Automated tiered storage and continuous snapshot technologies bring storage efficiency and performance to a new level. Watch now to see how combining the two features optimizes data placement and hear best practices for configuring tiering profiles and snapshot schedules for long-term results.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Premiered: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Selecting the right storage system is crucial to the success of any virtualised server environment, especially as these environments evolve to hundreds of virtual machines and critical applications. Access this resource to learn how Hitachi Enterprise Storage solutions can improve the performance, management and efficiency of your storage systems.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Storage virtualization has gained traction in IT departments as an effective means by which to improve utilization for significant cost savings and efficiency gains. Access this resource for expert advice around maintaining capacity efficiencies and savings across virtual environments.

Posted: 01 Mar 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: Managing data in a virtual server environment can be challenging for data storage managers. This E-Guide explores the top five tips to help you better manage storage in a virtual server environment.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 27 Feb 2012

ANALYST REPORT: Today’s IT pros are increasing data centre efficiency through the flexibility and consolidation unleashed by virtualisation. Yet storage hasn’t always come along for the ride. To maximise IT efficiency, storage resources must be consolidated. This resource explores top strategies on how to increase storage, management, and SAN efficiency.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 24 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Download this presentation transcript to discover how to free yourself from vendor lock-in by expensive proprietary storage hardware companies, and learn how you can take advantage of today's new wave of storage buying. Find out how you can do more with your existing storage and spend less time and money to accommodate changing workloads.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 23 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: While IT managers wrestle with budget concerns and IT purchasing decisions, data continues to grow day by day, causing data proliferation. This resource presents best practices you can use to your advantage in order to attack the problems related to data proliferation.

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 21 Feb 2012

EGUIDE: This E-Guide discusses the most important considerations for health care facilities exploring cloud data backup solutions. Within, you'll get essential advice on choosing the best provider based on your needs and your budget.

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 | Published: 17 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: As unstructured data continues to grow, organizations are searching for new ways to increase the value of their storage resources. This resource explores a set of intelligent, object-based storage solutions able to support diverse use cases, from a single cluster, simultaneously, to enabling more efficient operations while increasing IT agility.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

EBOOK: This informative guide presents how you can transform your traditional data centres into information data centres in order to solve your most pressing challenges such as increasing data growth, unstructured files, and growing business demands.

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 | Published: 16 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Inside, discover how a unified, integrated storage approach can help you manage all block, file and content data. Learn about its benefits, including significant cost savings, operational efficiencies and risk mitigation for legal discovery.

Posted: 15 Feb 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to learn why consolidating your storage may be the answer to your content management and security challenges. In this paper, learn about the changing requirements of today's storage landscape and receive best practices to help you manage performance, capacity, reliability and cost of your organization's storage.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 13 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper serves as a guide to help you navigate the increasingly-technical realm of virtualization. In this paper, learn today's best practices to help you start building a smarter storage infrastructure capable of meeting today's data growth and management challenges as well as preparing for future success

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

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: 30 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: 09 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Managing server and application sprawl on a shoestring budget? The NetApp FAS2000 series is not only affordable but provides a more powerful platform than other systems in its class. Read now to learn more.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Automated storage tiering has become the must-have feature for all new storage arrays over the last two years. This presentation transcript discusses the ins and outs of automated storage tiering, and the 4 key ways it can boost your data center efficiency.

Posted: 28 Dec 2011 | Published: 28 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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Bring efficiency and lasting value to your high-end computing environment with the Dell PowerEdge C6105. This AMD processor-based server offers exceptional work-per-watt performance for scale-out Web 2.0 environments, hosters and cloud builders.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Get fast answers to tough problems with the PowerEdge C6145; the only server in its class with two four-socket AMD Opteron 6100 processor-based servers in 2U. Featuring up to 96 cores, up to 1TB memory and up to 40Gbps I/O per card, it helps satisfy your need for speed and efficiency.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011