Storage Architectures Reports

EGUIDE: Which types of flash make the most sense for a virtualized environment? In this expert guide, George Crump evaluates the durability of three types of flash—single-level, multi-level, and triple-level cell. Read on to also delve into three flash form factors to consider when implementing it on virtual workloads.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 19 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Performance monitoring for virtual storage is very difficult due to the hypervisor lacking the insight into what's happening with that storage. This expert guide illustrates how to improve the performance of your virtual server storage with 10 proven methods.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, discover how women's health website Lifescript implemented a revenue-boosting DevOps strategy with all-flash storage and copy data management. Read on to see how this SSD/CDM duo succeeds, with built-in data deduplication and more.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Because the demand for storage capacity is so insatiable, storage media suppliers have had to look for new ways to increase the capacity of their flash products. Discover how to do so here with 3D-Nand-powered SSD, achieving higher densities at a lower cost per bit.

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 | Published: 05 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Read this expert guide to flesh out flash implementation, and discover why I/O performance lags, capacity concerns, and server virtualization are fueling SSD appliance adoption. Additionally, learn the top 3 apps storage admins indicate are in most need of flash.

Posted: 07 Apr 2017 | Published: 05 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to delve into the AFA essentials, and learn which apps will best benefit from implementation. Read on to take advantage of AFA deduplication and compression for virtual apps, as well as learn how HDDs compare to SSDs, how to accommodate apps that require more IOPS, and more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2017 | Published: 30 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: Whether physical servers or VMs, there are any number of places where data can be held up. Download this e-guide to learn how to troubleshoot server bottlenecks created by running multiple VMs, and solve NAS and software-defined storage performance problems.

Posted: 21 Mar 2017 | Published: 14 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to gain a foothold in the hyper-converged market, and discover why all-flash storage is now an integral component in converged infrastructure. Read on to learn how to apply flash-based HCI to high-performance databases, VDI workloads, and more.

Posted: 15 Mar 2017 | Published: 10 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: Learn how to plot out effective software-defined storage implementation by delving into the SDS market. Read on to weigh the pros and cons of SDS integration, and take into consideration SDS's role in the overall context of software-defined enterprise architecture and hyper-converged infrastructure.

Posted: 07 Mar 2017 | Published: 02 Mar 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert-eguide, learn how you can conquer your unstructured data by moving from a scale-out NAS to an object storage system, as well as how easy or difficult these systems are to manage. Then, find out why many have already made this change, and why object storage is beginning to edge into what was traditionally a NAS dominated market.

Posted: 01 Mar 2017 | Published: 24 Feb 2017

EBOOK: Download this handbook to discover how to extract the most value from the software-defined storage market—and obtain the best ROI from your virtual storage—with this deep dive into SDS technologies, including hypervisor-based SDS, object SDS, and more.

Posted: 18 Jan 2017 | Published: 18 Jan 2017

EGUIDE: Discover how LOB managers are leveraging all-flash storage to drive better decision-making by boosting the performance, reliability, and development of Oracle apps and analytics. Access this expert guide to see the essentials, as well as 5 key reasons why all-flash on Oracle is essential for app owners.

Posted: 09 Dec 2016 | Published: 02 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Hyper-converged platforms have grown to include secondary storage space; however secondary-storage still faces a plethora of issues. Discover how to best address the problems facing secondary storage and how vendors are promising to make life easier for storage administrators.

Posted: 08 Dec 2016 | Published: 05 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide takes a closer look at SSD caching, how caching and tiering are alike, and some caching and tiering challenges.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 | Published: 05 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide discusses how SSD could increase object storage performance by as much as 100 times what it delivers today without compromising scalability or durability. Learn how to get more out of your object storage.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 | Published: 05 Dec 2016

EBOOK: Object storage is rapidly gaining popularity. In this exclusive buyer's guide, explore what makes it an attractive option, the big six supplier's products, what startups have to offer, and more.

Posted: 07 Dec 2016 | Published: 07 Dec 2016

EGUIDE: Sleek and redesigned, NAS is making a comeback – rivaling object storage's ability to meet enterprise performance requirements. Vendors are also claiming that SDS is increasing efficiency of SAN/NAS but are they full of hot air? Find out more about the sleek, scale-out NAS design and the truth behind these claims.

Posted: 02 Dec 2016 | Published: 30 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: This featured e-Guide will help you recognize if your capacity and performance requirements figure into deciding to upgrade to a flash backup solution, as well as offers information about other alternative storage solutions that may be a better option for your enterprise.

Posted: 01 Dec 2016 | Published: 27 Nov 2016

EGUIDE: Access the latest on converged, data-aware storage architectures, which seek to improve performance optimization through smart deduplication and compression schemes, app-aligned caching and tiering, policy-definable QoS, and data protection schemes. Additionally, discover why flash is crucial to convergence.

Posted: 03 Nov 2016 | Published: 27 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Fast flash storage and the growing use of virtual apps carry larger amounts of data than ever before—placing pressure on networks that carry storage traffic. This guide illustrates how to keep storage traffic from becoming the bottleneck in your data center, revealing key improvements to 2016 storage networking technologies.

Posted: 02 Nov 2016 | Published: 26 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Learn how to formulate a storage capacity plan that won't bust the IT budget; here, you will also find guidance on how to reduce component complexity with the adoption of now-affordable SSDs, all-flash arrays, and storage as a service, so as to accommodate unstructured data growth.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 25 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Offering off-site storage easily accessible from a single point, software-defined storage may be what's needed to wrangle in the data sprawl. In this eGuide, learn about a new software-defined storage system that provides data management across all clouds and 3rd parties.

Posted: 26 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: Some shops have yet to establish a corporate DR plan they know they can rely on. This exclusive e-guide brings together a group of trusted data protection experts to share their must-haves in any corporate disaster recovery plan and discover benefits and drawbacks of three data replication technologies.

Posted: 25 Oct 2016 | Published: 24 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, learn the difference between hyperconverged and converged infrastructure, four common data problems that can be solved with hyperconvergence as well as how to avoid vendor lock-in.

Posted: 03 Oct 2016 | Published: 03 Oct 2016

EGUIDE: See how London Capital Group cut deployment times and datacenter footprint by ditching server-plus-SAN architecture for hyper-converged server/storage boxes.

Posted: 27 Sep 2016 | Published: 23 Sep 2016