Storage

and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and virtual images needed to operate every server. This eBook chapter will help you better understand your data center storage challenges.

Servers play a crucial role in daily enterprise operations. But even the most powerful and resilient servers are useless without adequate storage. Storage solutions contain the operating systems, applications and...

This whitepaper explains how building a smarter storage infrastructure based on the business value of data can enable you to address your data storage requirements efficiently and at the lowest cost.

As file data continues to grow at a rapid pace, businesses are looking for more ways to cut their storage costs and lighten the management burden on IT. But where should you begin? The storage market presents an overwhelming array of choices even to experienced storage veterans...

Access this Storage Magazine Essential Guide to making storage and virtual servers work better together to get a grip on your virtual environment storage management. Access expert articles addressing storage and storage management for virtual servers, troubleshooting Hyper-V storage problems, choosing between Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NAS and more.

Perhaps one of the biggest roadblocks to complete server virtualization success...

In the November 2012 Storage Magazine, find the results of this year’s annual Storage Salary Survey and find expert articles from Rich Castagna, Jon Toigo, Terri McClure and others addressing BYOD, storage clouds, LTFS, NAS upgrades and much more.

Despite tough times - growing capacities, shrinking budgets and long hours - it appears the hard work is paying off, as the results of our 2012 Storage Salary Survey reveal that data storage professionals are...

Virtual data center managers must keep storage capacity and performance within acceptable parameters as business conditions change. Examine the nuances of virtual storage, including provisioning, performance and remote storage methods and ensure that you allocate the right amount of storage for each application.

Provisioning and monitoring are critical factors of virtual storage. Having just enough storage without wasting any of it requires proper...

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 to learn best practices for improving storage management and how to better control NAS data storage systems via data classification, tiering techniques and more.

When considering best practices for improving data storage management, an appropriate...

the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. These systems incorporate an open-systems approach that selects superior general-purpose servers and storage components. Recognizing the need for easy-to-manage, eco-friendly, and scalable storage solutions that deliver exceptional business value, Sun created the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified...

This white paper provides an overview of Sun Open Storage for the Web platform, offering evidence of the business benefits with the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and other Sun Open Storage offerings. Main topics of this paper:

• Trends and Requirements of Web Storage Infrastructure
• Open Storage
• Sun Storage Systems for Web

This paper is intended for IT managers who are responsible for the storage and management of digital assets in a Web delivery environment...

BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range storage requirements - without compromising performance and scalability. The BlueArc Mercury™ Server is a next generation network storage platform that consolidates capacity across multiple applications and simplifies storage management for businesses with mid-range...

growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within tight budgets. This paper explains how Oracle can help by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with HSPs and delivers radical simplification of storage management.

Exponential data growth is challenging today's IT managers to scale their storage capacity while delivering high performance and staying within...

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.

The selection of storage technologies has never been greater. Today's choices range from ultra-high capacity, low cost, low performance storage at one end to highly advanced data management...

virtualization capabilities of the new Hitachi Universal Storage Platform™ V with Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning software which improve storage utilization to new levels... In today's world of unprecedented growth of storage and storage demands, companies are faced with the rapidly increasing size and complexity of storage area networks (SANs). Yet, due to provisioning layouts for optimal application performance along with efforts to streamline storage administration...

needs are driving organizations to rely on modular storage solutions as their primary data storage platform. Read this IDC report to learn more about the modular storage landscape and Hitachi storage solutions. As business and technology needs evolve, businesses must adapt with new ways to organize their data centers and store structured and unstructured information. One result of these changes is the emergence of modular storage systems as the "primary" storage platform...

Managing storage in virtual environments can be awfully complex. In this Storage Decisions University classroom, industry pros and independent consultants examine virtualization from a block storage perspective, highlight Windows Server 2012 storage improvements and provide best practices for fitting virtualization into your storage infrastructure.

Virtualization adds a whole other layer of complexity to the already...

Storage is perhaps the most critical component of a virtual infrastructure. Read this expert e-guide to learn about VMware storage management, storage-related improvements in vSphere 5 and more.

Storage is perhaps the most critical component of a virtual infrastructure. Virtual servers have created plenty of problems for data storage managers, not the least of which is keeping track of the relationships between data...

hardware. By using open technologies, Oracle's Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems avoid the constraints, pitfalls, and costs of traditional storage appliances.

As organizations strive to manage their rapidly expanding storage infrastructure, they face challenges that are technical, managerial, and economic. Traditional NAS appliances have fallen short, due to the proprietary nature of their software and the special-purpose nature of underlying hardware. The Sun...

is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential savings.

In these hard economic times, so much information is already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but none of them describe how the design of a flexible and agile (adaptive) infrastructure actually facilitates these potential...

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer enterprise-class storage features while leveraging open source software and industry standard components to lower costs and provide greater innovation. Read this paper and see how your organization can benefit from Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. Today, businesses are digitized and maintain a large online presence. Protection of data assets is increasingly vital to...

key insights to helping organizations achieve better storage cost-containment, more flexible storage architectures, streamlined storage management, and an overall better storage quality of service to meet current and future needs. Despite the benefits achieved from today's breed of mature networked storage infrastructures, enterprises continue to struggle with exploding data growth, information compliance requirements and storage expenditures that now outpace the...

A virtualized storage environment can greatly simplify storage management. Access this expert e-guide to find out more about the benefits of storage virtualization and the different technologies that you can utilize to increase storage utilization.

A virtualized storage environment can greatly simplify storage management. Access this expert e-guide to find out more about the benefits of storage virtualization and the different...

Virtualization puts new demands on storage, so whether you opt for FC, iSCSI or NAS, storage will be a key factor for your virtual environment. Read this e-book for expert tips and suggestions on managing storage for virtual servers and virtual desktops including, ten things to know about storage for VMs and choosing NAS for virtual machines.

Virtualizing servers and desktops can make maintenance and management a lot easier for system administrators but not so...

at the same time immediately address many of your current storage challenges.

Get ready for the future while solving your storage challenges today!

Cloud storage offers a tremendous opportunity for you to lower the cost and effort of managing data, but it will require changes to the way you do storage management. Whether you are ready to start tiering data to the cloud today or are taking a longer view, there are compelling reasons to get your file storage infrastructure ready now for...

at the same time immediately address many of your current storage challenges.

Get ready for the future while solving your storage challenges today!

Cloud storage offers a tremendous opportunity for you to lower the cost and effort of managing data, but it will require changes to the way you do storage management. Whether you are ready to start tiering data to the cloud today or are taking a longer view, there are compelling reasons to get your file storage infrastructure ready now for...

describes the Ocarina Solution, how it fits in to existing storage infrastructures, and provides an overview in to how Ocarina is able to optimize images for storage without giving up any image quality. Ocarina has created a solution that allows data centers to store as much as four times more image data on their existing storage platforms, without changing applications or storage management processes. The Ocarina solution for digital image storage allows completely...

Each year, new storage challenges come to the surface, and vendors set out on creating solutions to overcome them. In this issue of Storage Magazine, our editors examine the current storage lineup and reveal the offerings that stand out across six critical categories.

For just about every pain point storage professionals face, there are a variety of solutions out there that claim to address it. As such, it can be difficult to narrow down your...