Storage Best Practices Reports

EGUIDE: To learn more about the new vSAN 6.7 release—which boasts an HTML5 interface—read this e-guide, as consultant for SearchVirtualDesktop.com Alastair Cooke breaks down the new release feature by feature.

Posted: 30 Nov 2018 | Published: 28 Nov 2018

EGUIDE: Startup Hammerspace is taking aim at data silos to give companies access to their unstructured data whenever and wherever they need it across on-premises and public cloud sites. Download this e-book to learn more about Hammerspace, their product, and competitors.

Posted: 30 Oct 2018 | Published: 26 Oct 2018

EGUIDE: From the experts at SearchStorage.com, this e-guide examines the importance of factoring your primary storage tier into your organization's backup and DR plan. Download here for the details, as well as a glance at the cloud's role in the recovery process.

Posted: 16 Oct 2018 | Published: 15 Oct 2018

EGUIDE: Storage vendors are now inserting intelligent algorithms into the storage layer directly to produce near real-time feedback to the business. To that end, there are a few trends converging on storage that are enabling this evolution. Read this e-guide to view the 5 trends evolving intelligent storage and AI.

Posted: 24 Sep 2018 | Published: 20 Sep 2018

EGUIDE: This guide was designed to help you shorten your data storage problem list using hyper-converged infrastructure (with 4 pertinent problems highlighted), and also includes an HCI supplier roundup from TechTarget's 2018 HCI technology and market survey. Read on to jump-start your infrastructure improvements now.

Posted: 26 Jul 2018 | Published: 23 Jul 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide learn why only 12% of IT decision makers expect storage to remain a distinct discipline in the wake of digital transformation, and what you can do to rethink your role in IT to make yourself invaluable to management, and catapult your career forward.

Posted: 29 Jun 2018 | Published: 28 Jun 2018

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, learn how you can properly architect your flash storage to ramp-up for NVMe, as well as how you can overcome the risk you'd take by consolidating your storage for use with NVMe.

Posted: 13 Jun 2018 | Published: 07 Jun 2018

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide to explore how NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics came about to provide the access speeds new flash arrays demanded, as well as gain a deeper look into how NVMe may supplant iSCSI and Fibre Channel and the options you have to implement this technology in your own array.

Posted: 13 Jun 2018 | Published: 07 Jun 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide by 30-year industry veteran Dennis Martin, learn all the ways that you can improve your storage networking and interfacing performance,

Posted: 13 Jun 2018 | Published: 07 Jun 2018

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, our experts take a closer look at vSAN, specifically how you can secure VMware environments with vSAN encryption, how to test your vSAN knowledge, and details on vSAN 6.7 hyper-converged software's tighter management integration. Download your copy here.

Posted: 09 May 2018 | Published: 04 May 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide, learn why the market is trending towards interactive, online, secondary storage architectures by converging backup and archiving. Read on to discover what these new architectures can offer you, as well as what features vendors are offering to support massively scalable secondary storage

Posted: 23 Apr 2018 | Published: 09 Apr 2018

EGUIDE: In this e-guide, Senior Analyst Mike Matchett walks you through how to use smarter storage infrastructure with embedded analytical intelligence to harvest the desired value from your data. Read on to learn the top 5 benefits of storage analytics, how to utilize storage-hosted lambda functionality, and more.

Posted: 21 Mar 2018 | Published: 19 Mar 2018

EBOOK: It's important for IT buyers and administrators to understand NAND flash technology. Layers, bits per cell and durability are all concerns.

Posted: 19 Mar 2018 | Published: 19 Mar 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, 20-year industry veteran Rich Castagna dives into "the holy grail of storage": data classification. Read on to delve into the definition of data classification, and how you can put it to use simplifying storage metadata and improving the speed of your arrays.

Posted: 12 Mar 2018 | Published: 08 Mar 2018

EGUIDE: This e-guide illustrates how scale-out NAS and object storage work, their relative strengths and weaknesses, how easy or difficult they are to manage, and how well they integrate with existing infrastructure. Access now for SearchStorage.com's full comparison of scale-out NAS vs. object storage.

Posted: 09 Mar 2018 | Published: 09 Mar 2018

EGUIDE: This guide from SearchStorage.com serves as your go-to resource on object storage, with details on how it can improve data protection and availability. Read on to view additional info on an object vs. file vs. block bake off, the pros and cons object storage, a market overview, and more.

Posted: 09 Mar 2018 | Published: 09 Mar 2018

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide, explore how the EFS market has evolved, and why we need a new definition of the term. Then learn about how consumer-grade sync-and-share services puts your corporate data at risk, and 3 other options that could give your users the same experience in a much safer environment.

Posted: 09 Mar 2018 | Published: 09 Mar 2018

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