Storage Resource Management Reports

EGUIDE: The benefit of leveraging virtualization is obvious: more virtual servers at DR sites means reduced capital expense for disaster recovery and fewer physical servers that need to be purchased. Download this exclusive guide to learn best practices for strategizing and deploying a sound DR plan.

Posted: 17 Jun 2010 | Published: 17 Jun 2010

EZINE: The June 2010 cover story of Storage magazine provided insights on where solid state makes sense in today’s storage environments. This month’s issue also reveals the winners of our latest Quality Awards survey for backup and recovery software, best practices from W. Curtis Preston for backing up Microsoft SharePoint and much more.

Posted: 07 Jun 2010 | Published: 07 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This document presents important configuration guidelines, best practices, and answers to frequently asked questions that will help you accelerate a successful deployment of VMware vSphere 4 on HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions.

Posted: 04 Jun 2010 | Published: 04 Jun 2010

EZINE: With the number of virtual machines increasing in the data center, backing up servers today has become much more than just copying data files. Take a look at how virtualization technologies have changed traditional backup strategies and examine some of the approaches that protect against issues like accidental file loss and server crashes.

Posted: 01 Jun 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript explores how the high data volume generated by PACS has driven the demand for a vendor neutral archive.  Discover the functional requirements for patient data and storage to accurately measure and address the current state of your health care IT environment.

Posted: 06 May 2010 | Published: 06 May 2010

EGUIDE: RAID has been a mainstay of data protection for decades, but now its days may soon be numbered. In the May 2010 cover story of Storage magazine, Marc Staimer details the various issues of traditional RAID today and highlights how alternative technologies aim to address these problems.  More...

Posted: 05 May 2010 | Published: 05 May 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Your data backup and recovery demands are increasing, yet with today's economy you have less budget and resources to work with. Join a panel of top IT professionals to learn first-hand how they dramatically improved backup times and reliability while also reducing operational burdens, improving IT staff productivity and cutting costs.

Posted: 14 Apr 2010 | Published: 14 Apr 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript covers storage virtualization and it’s place in the storage market. It answers the what, where, who, when, and how’s of storage virtualization.

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

EZINE: Read the April 2010 edition of Storage magazine for details on how and where deduplication and data reduction technologies are being used in primary storage – beyond previous advances in backup systems.

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 | Published: 06 Apr 2010

EBOOK: Your backup application looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. In the March edition of Storage Magazine, see what new capabilities are being built in by backup vendors plus other storage related articles.

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 | Published: 12 Mar 2010

CASE STUDY: When BankWest’s IT department found it more and more difficult to keep up with backup demands using tape, they turned to ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system because of its powerful deduplication technology, its ability to easily scale and low cost.

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 | Published: 09 Mar 2010

CASE STUDY: When 7-Eleven Stores needed a disk-based backup system to streamline its nightly data protection procedures, they turned to a two-site ExaGrid system. Read this case study for the details.

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | Published: 08 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Server virtualisation is a top choice for IT investments in this current economical climate. Learn how it will enable you to reduce cost and maximise utilisation.

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | Published: 08 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: While server virtualisation brings consolidation gains, it increases the impact of a storage failure, compromising the information that makes up the life blood of your organisation’s business. This webcast highlights backup best practices for combating the complexity virtualisation brings to the data center.

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn how midsize businesses or enterprises with regional data centers or remote offices can effectively address data protection challenges by implementing solutions that help store and protect business critical data, cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability.

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 | Published: 17 Feb 2011

DATA SHEET: HP Data Protector software Notebook Extension is a new solution that extends formal backup policies to notebook and desktop PCs. The solution provides continuous and automated protection of information stored locally – even when working off-line. Benefits include reduced risk of information loss, lower operational cost and improved productivity.

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | Published: 05 Feb 2010

VIDEO: In this video, learn how to securely virtualize IT assets into consolidated, easy to manage server and storage resources that can be provisioned as needed to support a wide range of applications and data types from a single, integrated infrastructure that is secure, reliable, scalable, cost-effective and agile in the face of changing demands.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 02 Feb 2010

VIDEO: In this video, David Merrill, Chief Economist of Hitachi Data Systems describes the principles of storage economics, the 33 point calculation used to show you how make your storage infrastructure more efficient and increase your ROI.

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 | Premiered: 02 Feb 2010

ANALYST BRIEF: The Hitachi Content Platform is an intelligent content-based storage solution and provides a single storage platform that supports multiple tiers of storage for a wide range of unstructured content. It enables organizations to securely segregate data and provide different features and levels of service for different datasets.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn the economic benefits of Hitachi’s Intelligent Tiered Storage capability for unified block and file data environments; and how organizations can decrease TCO and gain faster ROI business value using Hitachi storage solutions.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: By providing automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual machines to the physical servers and storage supporting them, virtualization-aware EMC Navisphere Manager software on Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps dramatically increase resource efficiency and simplify storage administration tasks such as problem diagnosis and change management.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Rising energy costs and growing volumes of information mean is a sign to increase the efficiency of storage systems and reduce power consumption. Employing capabilities such as disk drive spin-down, virtual provisioning, and tiered storage design in Dell/EMC CX4 Series storage arrays helps IT organizations keep energy costs under control.

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 | Published: 29 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: IT and business managers who are charged with controlling their budgets while closing infrastructure gaps and extending the benefits of IT virtualization will benefit from this white paper.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 20 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, W. Curtis Preston provides an overview of remote backup. He discusses the challenges related to backing up remote sites, as well as the role of replication and deduplication. He also discusses cloud storage as it relates to remote backup.

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 | Published: 21 Dec 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This presentation transcript reviews current NAS trends including high-availability clustered storage to address growing storage needs and today's media-rich file environments and more.

Posted: 23 Nov 2009 | Published: 23 Nov 2009