Storage Virtualization Reports

WHITE PAPER: Highlighted in this custom white paper is a storage solution that offers the simplicity of NAS coupled with the scalability, performance, and simplified management that machine learning, AI, and analytics workloads require.

Posted: 03 May 2019 | Published: 30 Apr 2019

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: 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 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

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

EGUIDE: As hyper-converged systems continue to grow in popularity, VMware has incorporated updates to their Virtual SAN storage to support adoption. Use this expert guide to explore vSAN 6.5's updates and features

Posted: 13 Oct 2017 | Published: 09 Oct 2017

EGUIDE: Click inside this expert-guide to learn how, as software-defined storage systems mature, the line between storage and data-processing platform is eroding, and why you should remain cautious about new technologies for the time being.

Posted: 03 Aug 2017 | Published: 31 Jul 2017

EGUIDE: Our experts compiled this guide to determining the most suitable AFA vendor for your enterprise—ensuring you choose one that not only provides snapshots and thin provisioning, but also active-active controllers and replication, and QoS. Read on to also gain access to instruction for a three-phase AFA implementation.

Posted: 26 Jun 2017 | Published: 19 Jun 2017

EGUIDE: This expert resource serves as your full guide to object storage implementation, with cloud workload, sync-and-share, API-accessible storage, and more use cases examined. Download now to gain full access, learning how object storage maintains the unstructured data deluge, and view an object vs. file vs. block storage bake off.

Posted: 21 Jun 2017 | Published: 15 Jun 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: "How can I simplify storage allocation for virtual desktops?" You asked the question, we have the answer. Read on to discover how to address storage allocation requirements of both the operating system and apps, and VDI user data, in this expert guide.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 guide, SearchCloudStorage joins Avinash Lakshman, CEO and founder of Hedvig Inc, to demonstrate the flexibility achieved by employing a self-service public cloud provider that uses replication- and erasure coding-based storage. Read on to learn if replication-based SDS is more affordable than traditional storage.

Posted: 02 Mar 2017 | Published: 27 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: 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: 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: 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: 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