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Presentation Transcript: Best Practices for Leveraging Existing Storage Systems by Dell, Inc.
Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Read this transcript ...
How to leverage existing NAS, block storage by Dell, Inc.
Improving your storage management and better leveraging your network-attached storage (NAS) data or block storage data is a challenge for many IT organizations. Listen to this podcast to...
Storage: Taming TCO while Optimizing Service by CDW Corporation
requirements. E-mail, databases and other block-oriented data keeps getting bigger. Fortunately, new storage management technologies, products and strategies can help businesses regain control of storage performance and costs.

IT departments are struggling with ever...
Use 10 Best Practices to Improve Your Storage Management by 3PAR
on ensuring that the storage team is effective and efficient - ultimately resulting in better storage management.

CIOs need to control storage costs while staying competitive simultaneously. This Gartner research paper will provide you with 10 best...
Storage Magazine * February 2010: Products of the Year winners and more by SearchStorage.com
Backup and DR Hardware, Backup and DR Software and Services, Disks and Disk Subsystems, Storage Management Tools and Storage Networking Equipment.

The February 2010 issue of Storage magazine online unveils the 2009 Storage Products of the Year. 3 winners are...
IDC Improving File System Storage Efficiency with Unified Storage by Dell, Inc.
Unified storage is one of the technologies that IT managers are using to improve their storage efficiency as well as to improve business flexibility and lower the total...
Optimizing and Protecting Storage with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 by Oracle Corporation
and availability that today's businesses require.

Many IT organizations today use inefficient storage management techniques underneath their Oracle Databases that are based on traditional practices that are no longer the industry's best operating procedure. Given...
IDC Report: An ROI Analysis of FalconStor Storage Management Solutions by FalconStor Software
FalconStor customers that had deployed at least one or a combination of the following FalconStor storage management solutions: Virtual Tape Library (VTL), Network Storage Server (NSS), and Continuous Data Protector (CDP).

IDC interviewed eight FalconStor customers that had...
3PAR Cloud-Agile Program Case Study: Freudenberg's Hosting Transforms IT From Cost Center to Profit Center by 3PAR
platform that would offer greater performance, reliability, and improved scalability while making storage management simpler and more efficient.

The 3PAR® InServ® E200 Storage Server was the perfect solution for FIT’s requirements for more performance, reliability...
Dell™ EqualLogic® PS Series Architecture by Dell, Inc.
To solve the business problems associated with storage configuration, scaling and management, the EqualLogic PS Series was architected to provide a cost-effective, self-managing alternative to expensive and...
Storage Management Article
businesses (SMBs), the importance of a value-added reseller (VAR), or channel partner, is that data storage vendors "simply can't get enough feet on the street to serve SMBs and VARs fill that gap," said Mike Karp, vice president and principal analyst at Ptak Noel Associates, a...
Jul 12, 2010
NAS Tips
Network-attached storage (NAS) appliances are more frequently being used by small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to simplify their growing network storage. Most NAS...
Jun 21, 2010
to your servers. It is possible that network interface cards (NIC) are used to transfer your data over a network to network-attached storage (NAS) devices, as well. In either case, the configuration parameters for these devices are set to factory defaults, which are almost never suitable for...
Mar 22, 2010
For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) considering leaving behind their file servers and making the jump to network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, the decision is not as clear-cut as it is for large-scale enterprises with file servers tucked in every nook and cranny across the...
Feb 22, 2010
Small Business Tips
Data storage virtualization benefits for small businesses by Marc Staimer
products aren't just for large businesses. There are a variety of data storage virtualization solutions that are easy to set up and are priced right for small- and medium-sized businesses.

With EMC Corp.'s recent VPlex announcements, data storage virtualization is suddenly hot again. But as...

Jul 19, 2010
Self-healing systems and RAID technology by Marc Staimer
a journal of all writes to each HDD showing behavior aberrations and then attempts recovery operations. When recovery operations succeed, only a small portion of the HDD requires rebuilding using the journaled information so rebuild times are reduced and a service call may be...
Jul 6, 2010
Affordable shared storage options for VMware vSphere by Eric Siebert
features in VMware vSphere, you need a shared storage device. This tip offers a list of the most common and affordable shared storage options for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from different vendors.

You can use VMware vSphere without a shared storage device, but it limits...

Jul 5, 2010
Storage Management Info
Infortrend adds SSDs from STEC; and other data storage news by David Schneider, Contributor
and 146 GB ZeusIOPS SSDs with SAS interfaces, as well as 147 GB, 300 GB, 450 GB and 600 GB 15,000 rpm SAS, and 1 TB and 2 TB 7,200 rpm SATA drives.

LaCie ships faster 8 Gbps storage

LaCie has launched the fastest addition to its 12big Rack portfolio – the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre 8. LaCie...

Jul 23, 2010
EMC sales up; vendor will add new midrange storage array by Dave Raffo, Senior News Director
last quarter, as the vendor had better-than-expected revenue and raised its forecast for the year. Executives also said they will add a new lower-end, midtier storage array platform next year, and are on track with software enhancements previewed in May for its Clariion and...
Jul 22, 2010
Fusion-io drives I/O solid-state storage and memory to the operating system by Todd Erickson, News and Features Writer
Fusion-io today introduced its newest generation solid-state storage software stack, the ioMemory Virtual Storage Layer (VSL). Fusion-io characterizes the ioMemory VSL as a hybrid...
Jul 21, 2010
SAN Advice
What are multiprotocol storage arrays and how can they benefit SMBs? by Greg Schulz
mixed modes of access or operations for either storage area network (SAN) blocks or network-attached storage (NAS) files without the need for external or third-party gateways, bridges or routers. Multiprotocol storage arrays are available for large-scale enterprises and upper midmarket environments, but it's a good...
May 14, 2010