PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, Peter Bachner, Site Editor for SearchStorage.com, discusses green storage with Nick Simpson, an analyst with Burton Group, an enterprise IT research firm focused on infrastructure technologies. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers, and system software.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization helps reduce IT costs and increases business agility. Because of this, virtualization technologies are particularly suited to these economic times. This white paper explores the evolution of virtualization, and then gives practical advice on how virtualization can benefit your organization.
Posted: July 22, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Management | ROI | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | TCO

ANALYST BRIEF - This bulletin reviews new storage technologies against the value of retaining, or upgrading, your current tape environment. To do this, it establishes a framework of comparison - using a backup/recovery and archive scenario - between the latest disk technologies and the latest iteration of tape storage, LTO-4 technology.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: February 29, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disk Backups | Disk Drives | Disk Storage Systems | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST BRIEF - Each month many companies, big or small, well known or unknown, experience a data security loss with the potential exposure of thousands to millions of sensitive customer or employee records. This brief examines cryptographic methods, specifically tape data encryption, to combat such security losses.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: July 21, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Encryption Standards | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives

ANALYST REPORT - This ESG Lab report documents the results of hands-on testing of HP StorageWorks Secure Key Manager (SKM) solutions with a focus on ease of deployment, transparent integration with existing backup operations, clustered fault tolerance and strong security.
Posted: July 21, 2009 | Published: April 30, 2008


Topics:  Encryption Standards | Endpoint Security | Storage Best Practices | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Resource Management | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

ANALYST REPORT - Several issues intersect in a broad set of choices and outcomes involving an IT organization's storage requirements. This research highlights some of the most important questions driving Gartner's 2009 research agenda in the storage space.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2009


Topics:  NAS | SLA | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores common challenges associated with server virtualization deployments and the ways Citrix Essentials for Hyper-V together with Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations maximize the value of server virtualization.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Desktop Virtualization | High Availability | HyperWave | Microsoft Hyper-V | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Desktop Infrastructure | Workload Automation

WEBCAST - Server virtualisation is an ever more important tool for reducing costs, increasing availability, and enhancing business agility.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Premiered: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Budgeting | Business Continuity Planning | Data Management | Data Security | Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization | Strategic Planning | Structured Programming

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper explains how HP deduplication technologies work in practice, the pros and cons of each approach, when to choose a particular type, and the type of low-bandwidth replication models HP plans to support.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Deduplication | Data Management | Data Replication | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - With the introduction of HP Dynamic deduplication and low bandwidth replication (LBR) on HP D2D2500, D2D4000 and D2D4100 Backup Systems, the way data protection can be implemented has been transformed. This whitepaper explains the terminology and concepts behind these technologies and establishes some sizing rules through worked examples.
Posted: July 17, 2009 | Published: July 17, 2009


Topics:  Storage Management | Storage Provisioning | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Virtual Tape Libraries

PODCAST - In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Premiered: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Disaster Recovery | Laptop Computers | NAS | PDA | Remote Offices | SAN | Server Virtualization | Smart Phones | Storage Best Practices | Storage Management | Storage Security | Storage Service Providers | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - The BlueArc Filesystem, SiliconFS, is the engine which drives the entire architectural platform forward. The filesystem is the foundation which enables greater performance and scalability for the entire platform. This document describes to the latest version of SiliconFS.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: July 2, 2009


Topics:  Caching | Data Migration | Data Replication | Data Security | FPGA | High Availability | NAS | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage | Virtual Machine

WHITE PAPER - Unparalleled agility is the promise of virtualization. But managing change, staying compliant, and preventing virtual sprawl are just a few of the challenges you could face before you reap the rewards. VMware joined us recently to co-author 7 must-read tips for striking the perfect balance in your virtual environment.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Change Management | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Configuration Management | High Availability | High Performance Computing | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | VMware | VMware Server

ANALYST BRIEF - Even with the addition of a virtual tape library (VTL) solution to the backup environment, performance bottlenecks caused by inefficiencies on the host side of the backup process remain a challenge. This can now be addressed with an add-on to FalconStor VTL that accelerates backups four to eight-fold and reduces impact on production servers.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Recovery | Data Storage | iSCSI SAN | SLA | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Tape Libraries

WEBCAST - Join Dell for a one-hour live presentation and product demonstration of a virtualized server and storage infrastructure based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and the PS Series family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage solutions.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Premiered: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Infrastructure Management | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Hardware | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization