Storage Best Practices Reports

EGUIDE: In this e-guide we give you a complete run-through of the main choices in data storage for containers, look at the essentials of virtual servers storage, plus all you need to know about storage performance in virtual server and desktop environments.

Posted: 20 Nov 2017 | Published: 20 Nov 2017

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, read about how Australian organisations are coping with the storage challenges of big data, why flash storage is still too expensive for some companies and how NetApp is evolving to keep up with changes in the industry.

Posted: 05 Nov 2017 | Published: 06 Nov 2017

EGUIDE: This expert guide from the team at SearchStorage.com will grant you access to a hand-curated list of their top 10 cloud storage platform tips, with additional research content on how your peers are weighing cloud costs and capacity considerations. Access your copy here.

Posted: 09 Mar 2018 | Published: 09 Mar 2018

EGUIDE: Download this expert guide to learn the history of hyper-converged infrastructure—including its evolution, benefits, and alternatives—and how it has evolved to take the place of RAID arrays. Additionally, you'll discover the role HCI plays in the hyper-converged cloud.

Posted: 16 Feb 2018 | Published: 08 Feb 2018

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, George Crump demonstrates how to use emerging flash innovations, like NVMe and DIMM, to stay apace with app requirements and users' expectations. Read on to also get a glimpse at new flash use cases, and learn why calculating flash pricing is key in making the AFA vs. disk decision.

Posted: 12 Feb 2018 | Published: 05 Feb 2018

EZINE: Storage magazine reveals the winners of its annual enterprise storage systems Products of the Year competition. Also get ready for the EU's GDPR requirements.

Posted: 09 Feb 2018 | Published: 09 Feb 2018

EGUIDE: This expert guide examines flash storage caching's benefits, tradeoffs, where to cache, and more. Read on for the rundown; additionally, Brien Posey, Microsoft MVP, dishes on the state of the SSD caching market and on which vendors are caching in.

Posted: 06 Feb 2018 | Published: 05 Feb 2018

EGUIDE: Read this expert-guide to learn how you can optimize your flash storage, without relying on it entirely using a "flash-first" approach, where you'll learn what makes a hybrid storage arrays so uniquely powerful, 5 steps to assess the capabilities of these devices, and more.

Posted: 31 Jan 2018 | Published: 24 Jan 2018

EBOOK: This e-book from the experts at SearchConvergedInfrastructure.com helps you make the case for converged and hyper-converged in your organization. Read on to access a package of articles that will help you sell HCI to upper management, prep your environment for HCI platform installation, and more.

Posted: 17 Jan 2018 | Published: 17 Jan 2018

EZINE: This edition of Storage Magazine provides an opportunity to look back at the hottest data storage technologies predicted for 2018—including predictive storage analytics, converged secondary storage, and multicloud—to see if they made the anticipated impact. Downloading your copy now.

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 | Published: 05 Dec 2017

EBOOK: This handbook from the experts at SearchStorage.com offers a bird's eye view of the converged data protection market today. Download now to view 3 considerations for evaluating platforms, the challenges and benefits associated with converged data protection in the cloud, and more.

Posted: 05 Dec 2017 | Published: 05 Dec 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, read on to learn how VMware's VSAN became flash-friendly in their 6.2 hyper-converged software update, how customers are beginning to use all-flash on VSAN for high-performance workloads, and more.

Posted: 12 Oct 2017 | Published: 09 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, learn why technologies such as software-defined storage, flash-first, and hyper-converged infrastructure are muscling out traditional offerings. Then, read on to discover how analytics just might be the key to saving traditional storage architecture.

Posted: 12 Oct 2017 | Published: 09 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide by 30-year industry veteran Jon Toigo, learn about the history of NVMe, and how vendors are marketing it today. Then break down the reality of NVMe can do for your business.

Posted: 10 Oct 2017 | Published: 06 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: 2017 certainly was a big year for flash storage, but did its innovation and adoption play out as predicted? In this expert guide, read what 12 experts predicted would change in flash technologies in 2017, and judge for yourself how right they were in their predictions

Posted: 05 Oct 2017 | Published: 05 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, learn about the innovations in flash like NVMe, Flash DIMM, and more that are just over the horizon and can help your all-flash systems stay ahead of the curve.

Posted: 05 Oct 2017 | Published: 04 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide by consultant Jim O'Reilly, learn about the rise of NVMe, how it as replaced the long-term need for SATA, what technologies it will do battle with next, and more.

Posted: 05 Oct 2017 | Published: 04 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, learn 4 ways you can optimize SSD performance and longevity. For example, you'll discover which files are best suited for SSDs, find out why defragmentation may actually detrimental, and more.

Posted: 27 Sep 2017 | Published: 25 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide from Marc Staimer, founder and senior analyst at Dragon Slayer Consulting, learn 7 ways flash storage can outperform HDDs for all your workloads. Download now to determine flash's compatibility with non-critical workloads, as well.

Posted: 21 Sep 2017 | Published: 18 Sep 2017

EGUIDE: What's to be expected from HPE's purchase of SimpliVity? Download this guide by searchConvergedInfrastructure.com editors, as SimpliVity customers react to the move. The info inside will help you keep an eye on HPE's support of SimpliVity products, how and if SimpliVity becomes part of HPE's multicloud strategy, and more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: The days of cobbling together makeshift data center systems are fast waning. This e-guide illustrates the difference between converged and hyper-converged infrastructures. Read on to leverage CI and HCI to accelerate server and data center consolidation projects, support VDI deployments, and more.

Posted: 21 Aug 2017 | Published: 15 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: This SearchStorage.com pocket guide will assist you in not only selecting an all-flash array vendor, but also illustrates how to choose an AFA based on an examination of three AFA product categories— high-end enterprise arrays, midrange systems, and NAS appliances.

Posted: 17 Aug 2017 | Published: 14 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Inside this expert guide, Clive Longbottom, co-founder and service director at Quocirca, identifies which application workloads are best suited for HCI—like ROBO and VDI—and explains why. Read on to gain cautionary advice, as well, with regards to HCI being a main component of cloud platforms.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 11 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: A handful of startups and top-tier players have introduced container-driven bundles that could determine a new delivery and support approach for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). Read this expert guide to see highlighted several HCI appliances built for containerized apps that should be on your radar.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 11 Aug 2017

EGUIDE: Download this guide as our experts reveal the top 10 reasons to consider a hyper-converged data center, including its suitability for scale-out VDI workloads, ROBO support, hardware refresh, and more. Inside, you'll discover which workloads apply to your needs, and determine if HCI should be implemented.

Posted: 16 Aug 2017 | Published: 14 Aug 2017