EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE - Storage virtualization can bring many benefits to an organization including reduced costs, higher capacity, and greater data protection. This SearchStorage E-Guide was developed to give storage managers practical guidelines and best practices to consider when evaluating how to best leverage virtualization in their storage infrastructure.
Posted: August 21, 2009 | Published: August 20, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Continuous Data Protection | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Thin provisioning is not new, but there is still confusion about how it works and how to best use it in the data center. In this presentation transcript, Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group and Christine Taylor, Analyst, Tenaja Group, outline the various approaches and technologies behind thin provisioning.
Posted: August 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Physical Security | Data Center Power Management | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Management | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - In this presentation transcript, Marc Staimer, Founder and CDS, Dragon Slayer Consulting, will explain the practical benefits of storage virtualization, including how to assess your environment to determine the cost-effectiveness of virtualization.
Posted: August 18, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2009


Topics:  Cluster Management | Clustering | IP Networks | NAS | SAN | Storage Architectures | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - With the launch of vSphere 4, VMware introduces a new version of the hypervisor, ESX 4.0 and the management interface, vCenter. Some key benefits offered by this release are greater resource efficiency, management control and freedom of choice for virtual datacenter storage resources and connectivity options.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 6, 2009


Topics:  RAID | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Storage Virtualization | Virtualization Security | VMware | VMware ESX

CASE STUDY - The once reliable email management system that had been used by the Boston Celtics front office staff began to experience downtime and hang-ups as the infrastructure grew more complex. This case study documents how the Celtics IT administration team performed the cutover to Mimecast's unified email management system in the cloud.
Posted: August 6, 2009 | Published: August 6, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Cloud Computing | Email Archiving | Email Management | Email Management Software | IT Management | Microsoft Exchange | Software as a Service | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management

VIDEO - This four-part webcast demonstrates the necessity for a proper storage management solution, such as Northern Storage Suite, in an organization's storage infrastructure. They'll review how NSS can reclaim wasted capacity, control user behavior, getting your end-users on-board with saving capacity and how to properly plan for future storage needs.
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Premiered: August 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Deduplication | Data Management | NAS | Network Performance | Reporting Software | SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Resource Management | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will provide an overview of the benefits of Storage Resource Management as a "front end" to data deduplication. We will demonstrate how an SRM tool such as Northern Storage Suite can work in concert with data de-duplication technologies to efficiently streamline data and assure optimal performance of an organization's storage inf...
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Published: January 5, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Management | IT Best Practices | NAS | Network Performance | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - The Northern Storage Suite is a management solution by Northern Parklife Inc. that will help reclaim, reduce and maximize your current infrastructure. This article provides four real-world examples dealing with reclaiming capacity, reducing data growth, maximizing storage resources, and involving users while minimizing administration.
Posted: August 3, 2009 | Published: August 3, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Centers | Data Management | NAS | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Management Software | Storage Resource Management | Tiered Storage

ANALYST REPORT - To evaluate the performance of its solutions, FalconStor commissioned Demartek to validate the performance of the FalconStor VTL solution and its deduplication solutions - as they come from the factory, without any special tuning adjustments. The sustained performance of these solutions is impressive and was measured using conservative data.
Posted: July 27, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Disk Backups | Disk Storage Systems | RPO | RTO | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Replication | Virtual Tape Libraries

ANALYST REPORT - Rather than just physically adding solid state disk to its hardware offerings, Compellent has integrated SSD into its existing block-level tiered storage management system, overcoming the major challenge of solid state adoption: ensuring easy and optimum usage of the premium IO capabilities of SSD.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Flash Memory | Memory | Solid State Disks | Storage Appliances | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

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 - Download this ESG whitepaper to learn how BlueArc's new storage platform, BlueArc Mercury(TM), scales in fixed increments that make it easy to install and deploy. It also scales up to an eight node cluster and 2 PB - making it a forceful consolidation solution.
Posted: July 2, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Content Management | IT Management | NAS | SMBs | Storage Consolidation | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | TCO | Tiered Storage

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how continuous data protection (CDP) technology can bridge various DR methodologies to help organizations overcome the challenges of tape and achieve maximum benefits from their IT investments.
Posted: June 16, 2009 | Published: June 16, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection | Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | IT Spending | Remote Backups | RPO | SLA | Storage Infrastructure | Tape Backups | Virtual Tape Libraries | WAN

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