Vendor Research

Recent enhancements made to Symantec's Partner Program show the company's predilection towards specialized and focused expertise from partners, over basic revenue achievement. Current and prospective partners must understand how these changes...

Prevailing wisdom says that networked storage is needed for storage consolidation. So why consider direct attached Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage? It is now possible to achieve many consolidation objectives with direct attached SAS. Don't...

Tool

This tool is designed to help organizations determine top tactics for cost reduction within the server and storage service area. After the questions have been completed, the tool will generate guidance on which cost-saving actions to take, the...

Note

Servers and storage infrastructure make up a significant portion of the budget for most IT organizations. When faced with a mandate to control costs, IT managers must take steps to manage these expenses. Start with these techniques to optimize...

Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) controls the flow of data through a system, managing it from creation, to long-term storage, to eventual destruction. Use ILM to maximize the efficiency of storage resources at the lowest cost, at every...

In-Depth Report

Disaster recovery objectives are a key driver of storage consolidation in a Storage Area Network (SAN). To enable high availability and recoverability, storage replication is a must. As more enterprises move toward consolidated NAS and SAN...

Disaster recovery objectives are a key driver of storage consolidation in a Storage Area Network (SAN). To enable high availability and recoverability, storage replication is a must. As more enterprises move toward consolidated NAS and SAN...

This note is first in a series that explores the backup and recovery software vendor landscape. The latest mainstream vendor product refresh sees new emphasis on the real point of backup: restore. Determine recovery points and compare...

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...

Storage Resource Management (SRM) aspires to help the enterprise achieve critical storage management goals across large and complex storage infrastructures. The critical goals of any storage management solution are the efficient allocation and...

With rampant data growth and pressure for legal and regulatory compliance, failure to act on a storage management strategy exposes the enterprise to wasted investment and increased risk. The term "storage management" encompasses a number of...