Tiered Storage Reports

EBOOK: In Storage Tiering for Dummies, you will find out what storage tiering means, how it works, and why it makes sense.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this transcript of a podcast interview, Jeff Boles of the Taneja Group examines some of the business drivers behind storage tiering. He also explores some of the challenges associated with tiered storage, such as data migration, and how effectively addressing these challenges can be the key to tiered storage success.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Til Stimberg, HP's Storage Product Marketing Manager, will discuss the various technologies that can optimize data storage efficiency and address performance and capacity - without impacting availability in a cost-effective manner. Read this presentation transcript to see how your organization can start increasing your storage efficiency now.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: In this tutorial on automated tiering, we outline the sub-LUN offerings the major storage vendors are promoting alongside their SSD options. We also explore five questions users need to consider as they evaluate sub-LUN tiering options, and more.

Posted: 27 May 2011 | Published: 27 May 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Modern file storage with the runaway capacity many organizations are facing, escalating performance demands, and shrinking IT budgets make tiered storage make very appealing solution. Check out this transcript of an expert podcast featuring Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst at the Taneja Group to learn how storage tiers can help your organization.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

EGUIDE: Big data is a term often used in the storage industry today. As companies accumulate more and more data, they must find more efficient ways to manage and store it. But the media and entertainment industry has been managing this big data for years. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 13 May 2011 | Published: 13 May 2011

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Customers demand the highest efficiency and performance in their VMware infrastructure, while keeping costs under control. The HP 3PAR Storage System is designed to enable business success while driving down the cost of ownership through its key features – thin provisioning, autonomic storage tiering and disaster recovery solutions.

Posted: 12 May 2011 | Published: 12 May 2011

DATA SHEET: From start to finish, Dell Services can help you realize the full potential of a data archiving solution, helping you match the right technology with your specific business requirements.

Posted: 01 May 2011 | Published: 27 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: In recent years, we have witnessed great technology leaps from all of the leading VDI software vendors. In this part of our series, we take a close look at a recent performance benchmark to evaluate in detail how Dell’s innovations reduce complexity, improve performance and lower the cost of VDI.

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 | Published: 26 Apr 2011

WEBCAST: Tiered storage can help alleviate data management burdens as well as provide operational efficiencies and cost savings. Watch this webcast and find out how Oracle's extensive range of Flash, disk, and tape storage solutions can help you.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 17, 2011

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Report describes the concepts and benefits of tiered storage, and describes how to take advantage of storage pools and other features of EqualLogic PS Series Firmware to implement tiered storage in a PS Series SAN.

Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: In this case study, learn about Xtium's upgrade to Dell EqualLogic Firmware 5.0 which enabled the use of thin clones—thin-provisioned, writeable copies of data volumes—and leveraged direct integration with their VMware vSphere 4.1 environment with vStorage APIs.

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: What if there was a complete storage solution that could help DBAs stop worrying about day-to-day disk performance and database protection? Learn how EMC Unified Storage can accomplish this task, making it a popular choice among customers deploying Microsoft SQL Server.

Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity.

Posted: 27 Dec 2010 | Published: 27 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how tiered storage, as a storage initiative, has been proven to significantly reduce acquisition and operating costs for medium and large scale storage enterprises. Read this paper to learn more about how tiered storage is taking center stage.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the benefits of Data Migration Facility (DMF) for streamlining data management for the most data-intensive environments. Usage scenarios are discussed along with the core technologies that have made DMF so successful.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: 76 of the Fortune 100 trust their data to Hitachi Data Systems, shouldn’t you? The following e-guide showcases how easy it can be to implement virtualization, tiered storage and software to deliver significant economic benefits to the organization.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: Have you ever wished that you could consolidate the management of file, content and block data onto one storage platform for incredible cost efficiency, simplified management and a real solution to your long-term data challenges? View this E-Guide to understand how to reduce your costs and simplify management of file, object and block data.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

ASSESSMENT TOOL: Provisioning storage from a virtual pool not only reduces administration costs by cutting the time to provision new storage, but also improves application availability by reducing the downtime needed for storage provisioning. Enter a few details about your storage environment to calculate your potential savings now.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The latest technologies innovations provide a big, evolutionary stride in economically superior storage designed to swiftly address mounting data challenges and changing business demands. With 3D scaling and dynamic tiering, IT leaders can dynamically scale up, scale out and scale deep for increased performance and scalability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

CASE STUDY: To adeptly meet new business conditions and reduce total cost of ownership, Overstock.com recently implemented a virtualized, multitiered storage solution. Read this case study to learn about the dramatic cost reductions and operational efficiencies Overstock.com has realized.

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 | Published: 02 Dec 2010

EGUIDE: With the massive amounts of data that companies are storing, intelligent tiered storage isn't a luxury - it's quickly becoming a necessity. These articles will provide you with three reasons why you should deploy dynamic storage tiering and how to go about organizing your strategy. Download this informative guide to learn more!

Posted: 30 Nov 2010 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the systems they run on require a higher level of availability. The trade off with increasing application availability is an additional cost in terms of redundant hardware and complexity.

Posted: 15 Nov 2010 | Published: 15 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs. Yet most solutions fail to maximize the potential benefits of tiered storage. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Desktop virtualization is bringing a new approach to enterprise-wide desktop deployments aimed at providing a better end user and administrator experience than physical desktop deployments, by lowering acquisition and management cost, and offering a highly scalable, easy to deploy and fully protected desktop environment.

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Oct 2010