Storage Systems Reports

EBOOK: Where there are instances when either all-flash or hybrid arrays work well—that is where the battle for dominance occurs. In this issue of Storage Handbook, our experts deconstruct the hybrid vs. AFA debate, digging into cost, network connectivity, and which arrays are more pertinent for primary storage workloads.

Posted: 27 Apr 2017 | Published: 27 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: In this essential guide, discover why DevOps requirements are shifting how enterprises consume and deploy storage resources to a more-cloud focused approach. Download now to gain guidance on storage technologies most appropriate for Agile development, including VM-aware secondary storage, hyper-convergence, and more.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Download this guide as Tom Fenton, Senior Validation Engineer at the Taneja Group, illustrates several critical factors to consider when deciding to use an all-flash or hybrid array in your virtual desktop environments. Here, you'll evaluate hybrid vs. all-flash on cost, ability access to cold data, compression and deduplication, and more.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 20 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Use this guide as a comprehensive resource for evaluating flash caching benefits, trade-offs, 3 main implementation models, and determine where to cache in order to leverage faster media and improve I/O performance.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Access this e-guide to clue into exactly why SSD is emerging as a solid storage choice for SQL Server. Our experts highlight how SSD's embedded controller ensures the integrity of the data stored in the drive, and address your concerns centered on drive reliability and longevity.

Posted: 20 Apr 2017 | Published: 17 Apr 2017

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: 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: This e-guide serves as your essential resource for choosing a cloud provider with integrated flash storage to maximize your cloud app performance. Read on to learn why object storage just doesn't deliver the scale and performance cloud apps demand, and instead see how SSD steps in to deliver potentially unlimited scale.

Posted: 19 Apr 2017 | Published: 18 Apr 2017

EGUIDE: Use this guide to help you decide if your storage system is up to the challenge the unstructured data boom poses. In addition, learn how scale-out NAS & object storage each handle big data, the ideal design of a scalable NAS system, and how a modern scientific research institute uses their NAS system to analyze terabytes of data.

Posted: 10 Apr 2017 | Published: 07 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: 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

EGUIDE: In this expert-guide, delve deeper into server-based solid state storage. Inside, discover 6 forms of flash, 5 typical interfaces used for connecting storage devices, the essentials of server-side caching, and more.

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 | Published: 10 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: NVMe programs are the "new kid on the block" when it comes to transferring data between hosts and target storage devices. Use this expert-guide to learn how new products supporting NVMe are being received, why this system might merit your consideration, and 2 new flash offerings that support NVMe adoption.

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 | Published: 08 Feb 2017

EGUIDE: In this expert guide, George Crump, President of Storage Switzerland discusses several strategies for making storage expansion easy and affordable. Inside, discover a plan for implementing flash storage in hyper-converged architecture, a guide for making a storage capacity plan in-line with your budget, and 7 tips to improve data storage efficiency

Posted: 31 Jan 2017 | Published: 31 Jan 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: 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: Flash storage is heralded for its superior performance and high capacity compared to hard disk drives (HDDs) but is all of this really necessary for general-purpose storage systems? In this eGuide, find out why it may be worth holding off on adopting flash storage.

Posted: 13 Sep 2016 | Published: 09 Sep 2016