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In selecting consolidated storage, the goal is to meet strategic business requirements while getting the most for your dollar. Find the best fit for your needs in an increasing consolidated vendor landscape.

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The Storage Vendor Shortlist Tool allows enterprises to profile their storage solution requirements and generate a rank ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors.

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Organizations embarking on the selection process for a storage vendor may select to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) after determining their final selection criteria.

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For organizations that have issued a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) to evaluate consolidated storage vendors, gathering and scoring the various responses can be difficult and time consuming. This tool enables enterprises to evaluate and...

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This script provides questions that you can explore with a reseller to clarify the specific value add that the reseller brings to the engagement. Use this interview to help solidify your vendor choice.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to help vendors and solution providers understand the market dynamics surrounding consolidated storage. The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing consolidated storage solutions.

Vendor Research

This report will help vendors and solution providers understand the marketplace dynamics surrounding data center consolidation purchases.

Vendor Research

This report is designed to aid vendors and solution providers in understanding the market dynamics surrounding Storage Area Networks (SAN). The analysis and guidance provided will help in selling and marketing SAN solutions.

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Consolidated network storage is a strategic enabler that forms the foundation for server consolidation and a unified approach to data and system availability and recovery.

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This is the Storage Vendor RFP Scoring Tool populated with actual evaluation scores created by Ken Juneau and others at TM4.

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In storage acquisition strategy it is ideal to balance the most storage capacity and performance with the lowest cost per unit of storage. Some solutions have a lower overall price tag, but have a higher TCO per Terabyte because of a lack of...

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One way to implement virtualization is simply to keep virtualizing until something breaks and performance suffers. Greater success occurs when implementers anticipate potential limitations and how to mitigate them. Avoid the pain of hitting the...

The success of iSCSI storage products from EqualLogic (now part of Dell) and LeftHand Networks (acquired by HP) is largely seen as a sign of the progress of iSCSI. However, iSCSI alone is not the whole story. It is a cluster storage approach...

Tiered storage is often thought of as a storage asset management issue with each storage tier composed of different storage hardware. More meaningful to the business, however, is to view tiered storage in terms of service tiers. An efficient...

Storage network vendors are hyping Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for managing storage on converged high speed Ethernet networks. Alternatively, FCoE can merely be seen as Fibre Channel vendors fighting the inevitable advance of iSCSI on 10...

Cost conscious small enterprises that find market leading VMware's licensing costs steep should consider rival Virtual Iron. The Xen-based virtualization provider has been focusing on a functional me-too feature set at lower price points than...

Server virtualization and iSCSI networked storage are emerging as a natural match particularly for small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) buying their first storage area network. Info-Tech recommends that enterprises considering a storage area...

With Storage VMotion, it is now possible to non-disruptively move storage volumes used by VMware virtual machines from one storage device to another. VMware users should take a careful and planned approach to using this technology to...

Ethernet technology continues to evolve, supporting higher speeds, reduced latency, and distances ranging from blade server mid-plane connections through world-wide WAN connectivity. 10G Ethernet is the current iteration. The migration to 10G...

A Microsoft Windows-based IP SAN requires iSCSI initiator software on the server end and iSCSI targeting software on the storage end. Nimbus Data Systems, a small IP SAN storage company, has released free iSCSI targeting software. MySAN can be...