Storage Optimization Reports

EGUIDE: As corporate data continues to grow, data storage management is getting a much needed makeover. This e-guide covers the pros and cons of compression, archiving, deduplication, and continuous data protection, along with suggestions for optimal, integrated use of all four.

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 | Published: 17 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com interview, W. Curtis Preston, independent analyst and executive editor in TechTarget's Storage Media Group, discusses the basics of data compression – one of the most popular search terms on SearchStorage.com this year.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Check out this expert E-Guide as the founder of ESG, Steve Duplessie discusses how data storage optimization is the first step for data center efficiency.

Posted: 15 Aug 2011 | Published: 15 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This Eguide will help health care providers create and implement an effective disaster recovery plan.

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s most popular backup storage targets featuring deduplication, however, don’t address the long-term operational issues that are sure to arise as secondary storage environments expand.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript supplements information presented during the Backup School seminar series and virtual seminar in 2011. Regardless of your involvement in the series, any IT pro evaluating deduplication technology will find this content to be useful.

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 | Published: 04 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com Special Report features an editorial piece from storage guru Rich Castagna about backup technologies today that contribute to achieving tremendous storage efficiency in your IT infrastructure.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This tutorial discusses the expanding tiered storage model and the additional paybacks you can see from adding SSDs and cloud into the mix.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Virtual implementation comes with a caveat: You must choose the right storage for your virtual server environment – which involves a few careful considerations and steps. This tutorial will walk you through these considerations and also discusses different storage options for your virtual environment.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide provides a checklist of deployment concerns, along with strategy benchmarks for effective storage and data center virtualization. Gain a high-level virtual environment framework for improved efficiency and data management, seamless migrations, and immediate ROI.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

EGUIDE: This tutorial from SearchStorage.com explores different backup tools that can improve the efficiency and utilization of your IT infrastructure by getting the most out of your storage capacity. Backup methods discussed in this tutorial include SRM tools, tiered storage models, classification and migration tools, thin provisioning and more.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 29 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: To cut costs while continuing to meet service level objectives, organizations of all sizes are initiating projects based on strategies to simplify IT, consolidate resources, and increase energy efficiency. One of the technologies many organizations are leveraging to meet these goals is virtualization.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center's capabilities focus on storage configuration management and provide analysis of current storage utilization and best practice recommendations to provide the storage administrator with analytical input that will provide significant assistance.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Jun 2011

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: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 30 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s business environment requires a more optimized approach to IT sprawl. EMC’s new VNXe series storage system in conjunction with the company’s Unisphere storage management address IT staff’s demand for improved “usability” in storage solutions.

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 | Published: 23 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This E-Guide from SearchStorage.com is designed to help you determine what you’re trying to solve with deduplication technology. It then outlines the advantages and disadvantages of dedupe backup, dedupe misconceptions, and how dedupe and compression on primary storage can reduce your data footprint.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com E-Guide answers these questions and more around deduplication ratios to help your business better understand why they’re important and how to estimate your own.

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 | Published: 21 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many organizations to recognize that capital and operating expenses for datacenters have become an increasing part of their budgets. Read this paper to learn about the range of technologies that can help you drive more efficiency in your datacenter.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: The creation of the Dell Services Oracle Practice builds on the long and successful relationship between Dell and Oracle - a collaboration that can offer significant benefits to organizations running Oracle software on Dell hardware. Read this article for more.

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011