Tiered Storage

PODCAST: This podcast will discuss the differences between Tier 0, 1 and 2 storage.

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 12 Dec 2008

CASE STUDY: After outgrowing its storage infrastructure, University HealthSystem Consortium partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to deploy a virtualized, tiered storage environment. Learn how UHC achieved such dramatic results by reading this end user case study.

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

PRODUCT LITERATURE: The Service Oriented Storage Solutions platform enables IT to automate processes, simplify management and leverage physical assets without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 | Published: 16 Dec 2008

CASE STUDY: This E-Guide provides Canadian Solutions Providers with a check list that will improve the efficiency and ease of a data deduplication project and consequently support your services margins.

Posted: 10 Dec 2008 | Published: 10 Dec 2008

PRODUCT LITERATURE: This SearchStorage Tech Report examines the use of solid-state drive (SSD) technology in the high-performance storage tier to help storage professionals understand and make better decisions regarding their storage infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WEBCAST: Watch this technical Webcast to learn strategies from experts on how to collapse switching tiers in the data center network with a two-tier switching architecture from Juniper Networks.

Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand

PRESENTATION: A tiered DR plan helps to address this problem by creating different levels of protection that can be applied to different applications and systems, with associated recovery requirements designed to stagger restoration efforts.

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Over the past couple of years, a new DR product category has emerged--disaster recovery testing tools, these applications can scan your storage environment and alert you to any potential gaps in your recovery plan.

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency.

Posted: 19 Nov 2008 | Published: 19 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Archiving is a proven best practice that has helped sites worldwide improve performance, control costs and automate data retention. This whitepaper discusses the major components of an archiving project as part of a full data management strategy.

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 | Published: 17 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: In 2000, 93 new storage companies were launched with a first round of funding and in 2007 just five new storage companies were funded with first-round money, this has had the effect of slowing down the flow of new ideas and invention.

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Published: 11 Nov 2008

JOURNAL ARTICLE: The storage and server cluster installed at The University of Texas at Austin is a lesson in how to do HPC. Storage requirements for HPC go beyond massive capacity, and include the use of high-performance file systems.

Posted: 23 Oct 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2008

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Vendors are starting to add solid-state storage to their arrays, but it isn't as simple as replacing enterprise drives with solid-state memory.

Posted: 02 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008

WHITE PAPER: This IDC White Paper takes a specific look at the business value associated with the movement from a nonvirtualized server infrastructure to a server infrastructure where hypervisor technology is an integral component of the overall system architecture.

Posted: 20 Aug 2008 | Published: 20 Aug 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how organizations can address data growth issues through the power of enterprise data management. As a recognized best practice, database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth.

Posted: 20 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Keep these eight key steps in mind when designing and testing your disaster recovery strategy.

Posted: 26 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at how real-time primary data compression of online active data reduces total costs of storage and energy and improves near-line and secondary storage operations, without compromising performance or changing existing infrastructure.

Posted: 22 Feb 2008 | Published: 11 Feb 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery service levels and how they can be deployed to help ensure that backup storage is used cost-effectively while still maintaining appropriate levels of recoverability.

Posted: 07 Feb 2008 | Published: 01 Nov 2007

JOURNAL ARTICLE: You can achieve considerable cost savings if different tiers of storage are parceled out to business units on a pay-for-use basis.

Posted: 20 Dec 2007 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WEBCAST: In this Webcast, Richard Villars, VP Storage Systems at IDC, shares new IDC analysis on storage growth and explores real world challenges in several key areas.

Posted: 27 Aug 2007 | Premiered: Available On Demand

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Not all data is created equal or is necessary for business continuity, so a tiered data recovery plan can be most effective.

Posted: 15 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007

WHITE PAPER: The white paper provides 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.

Posted: 30 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

JOURNAL ARTICLE: New arrays with a mix of SAS and SATA drives let you set up tiering in a single box. But proceed with caution: Numerous inoperability issues need to be resolved.

Posted: 20 Jul 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

JOURNAL ARTICLE: There may be a slight respite for storage managers who have spent the last few years trying to keep up with runaway storage growth, according to the results of Storage magazine's spring 2007 Purchasing Intentions Survey.

Posted: 18 May 2007 | Published: 01 May 2007

JOURNAL ARTICLE: Most of the emails and phone calls I get from vendors and PR people feature overblown phrases like "industry-leading," and are peppered with the typical tech litany of something being the first, fastest, biggest and so on.

Posted: 14 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007