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LTO-5 tape and LTFS position format for archiving
Get the specs on the LTO-5 tape format and learn about the implications for VARs of its support for IBM's Linear Tape File System (LTFS) media partitioning technology.Tip
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Licensing problems as Apple halts ZFS development; EMC lays out data archiving and ediscovery plans
Headlines: A post on an Open Solaris mailing list by a Sun executive indicates licensing issues are behind the discontinuation of a ZFS development project by Apple; File and SharePoint archiving for the SourceOne product line is still waiting in the wings, while EMC positions the Kazeon acquisition to take on Autonomy in ediscovery.Article | 28 Oct 2009
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How to improve power efficiency in archive hardware and on primary storage
Learn how to optimize your customer's archive and primary storage environments for maximum power efficiency, through the use of power-managed drives and tools to monitor data access patterns.Tip
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Data reduction for disk archiving: Hardware vs. software approaches
Learn techniques to perform data reduction for disk-based archiving, for customers interested in both archiving data off primary storage and reducing the amount of space it takes once it gets there.Tip
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Data reduction techniques for primary storage
When it comes to data reduction techniques, there are two basic types of data on primary storage: active data and inactive data. Find out which techniques should be used when, for reducing customers' data without a performance penalty.Tip
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Electronic medical records (EMR) push driving storage revenue
Find out how solution provider Laurus Technologies is gaining revenue from the electronic medical records (EMR) effort mandated by the U.S. government's economic stimulus package.Podcast
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Addressing unstructured data growth with primary storage optimization
Your customers have too much unstructured data on primary storage that's not being accessed, and it's growing quickly. To help them address that problem, you can approach them with a primary storage optimization project, which involves applying techniques and tools like compression, deduplication and archiving.Tip
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Addressing unstructured data growth with disk-based archiving
Find out why now is a good time for you to address customers' unstructured data growth with disk-based archiving.Tip
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Email archiving SaaS cuts costly contract disputes for designer
Email archiving Software as a service (SaaS) from MXsense delivered by a solution provider has helped an interior design contractor avoid costly disputes with suppliers and subcontractors.Case Study
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HP resizes scale-out NAS system; next-gen archiving
Headlines: HP's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme Data Storage scale-out NAS system has been resized to target a broader market; emerging data archiving products focus on software-only delivery and grid architecture, latch onto cloud integration.Article | 17 Jun 2009
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'Big data' technologies to address retention, performance and capacity requirements
Read up on how ‘big data’ technologies from companies such as RainStor, GridIron and Quantum are addressing challenges around retention, performance and capacity.Tip
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Hyper-V storage provisioning tools
Hyper-V storage provisioning presents challenges compared with a physical server environment and compared with a VMware environment. Find out what tools are available to help.Tip
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Beyond thin provisioning: The burden of keeping thin volumes thin
While thin provisioning can bring efficiencies in storage capacity, keeping thin-provisioned volumes thin can require considerable memory and CPU resources.Channel Impact
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Thin provisioning driven by technology advances, best practices
Headlines: Thin provisioning gains in popularity as tech advances help alleviate de-allocation and reclamation issues; admins say best practices key to ensuring thin volumes remain thin.Article | 05 Jan 2011
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How to address thin provisioning problems, perceptions during customer evaluation process
Thin provisioning definitely can help customers looking to save money on storage hardware, but it does present problems and perceptions that need to be addressed. Find out about the challenges to thin provisioning and how to tackle them.Tip
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Efficient storage provisioning: Capex and opex savings
Find out how efficient storage provisioning techniques through the use of storage virtualization, thin provisioning and storage domains can cut capital expenses (capex) and operating expenses (opex) for customers.Tip
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VMworld 2009: Vendors showcase new vSphere4 products; Admins grapple with growing VMware deployments
Headlines: Storage vendors are adding support for VMware's new vSphere 4, disaster recovery with Site Recovery Manager, as well as converged data center networks at VMworld 2009; as VMware server virtualization penetrates further into the data center, enterprise data storage managers find storage efficiency is often at odds with virtual machine performance.Article | 02 Sep 2009
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Thin provisioning risks vs. rewards
If the risk of running out of space on a thin-provisioned system has turned you off to the technology, it's time to rethink that stance, build expertise in it and add value for your customers.Tip
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Hitachi expands thin provisioning; DataDirect challenges EMC in the cloud
Headlines: Hitachi's thin provisioning now supports midrange disk arrays, an HDS Storage Reclamation Service feature and a new Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning assessment service; DataDirect claims its Web Object Scaler (WOS) object-based scale-out cloud data storage system for Web 2.0 data centers is faster than EMC's Atmos product.Article | 24 Jun 2009
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Matching provisioning tool to customer for greater efficiency
Improving your customers' storage efficiency will bring benefits to both you and them. Find out how you can benefit, as well as how to match customers with the right provisioning tools.Tip
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Top five storage channel tips of 2011
We've compiled our top five storage channel tips in 2011. Learn about Storage vMotion, cloud gateways for primary storage, storage management for virtual servers, vSphere 5’s storage changes and more.AIOG
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Top five storage channel tips of 2011
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How Storage vMotion works and what it can be used for
Learn how to use Storage vMotion to solve customers’ virtualization-related problems with migration, performance load balancing, RAID rebuilds and VM sprawl.Tip
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LSI delivers flash-based PCIe card with 6 Gbps SAS
Headlines: LSI PCIe card -- with Seagate solid-state modules -- will compete with Fusion-io cards in a solid-state storage market moving past its latest hype cycle; LSI also launches 6 Gbps SAS switch for direct attached storage; the startup is offering data migration services to EMC Centera customers.Article | 17 Mar 2010
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How to address thin provisioning problems, perceptions during customer evaluation process
Thin provisioning definitely can help customers looking to save money on storage hardware, but it does present problems and perceptions that need to be addressed. Find out about the challenges to thin provisioning and how to tackle them.Tip
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Using storage tiering to control customers' data growth
Get one consultant's perspective on how data growth caused headaches for a customer during a data migration project and how to control that data growth with storage tiering.Tip
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IBM fills storage system gaps; HP to ship external 6 Gbps SAS array
Headlines: IBM moves to fill gaps in its enterprise storage platforms by adding thin provisioning to the DS8000, and asynchronous mirroring and dual processors to the XIV Storage System; HP's first 6 Gbps SAS enclosure is an update to MSA; analysts expect 6 Gbps SAS to become a viable alternative to FC drives in networked storage.Article | 15 Jul 2009
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Data migration services FAQ
Learn why data migration services are becoming more important to customers, what the biggest problems are in data migration projects and why storage virtualization hasn't eased the data migration challenge.Project FAQs
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Advantages and implementation hurdles of three file virtualization approaches
Storage expert George Crump explains the advantages and ROI proposition of file virtualization and examines the three main approaches, how they differ in cost and the implementation hurdles of each.Podcast
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Top five data migration tools
Today's unprecedented rate of data growth means there's big opportunity for integrators around data migration services. Learn which data migration tools are the best in five different categories.Channel Checklist
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VDI sizing and disk array controller requirements
Find out how to help customers estimate their disk array controller needs around capacity and performance as part of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) sizing exercise.Tip
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Tools for mainframe storage management
Learn about the products that are available to help your customers handle mainframe storage management tasks from companies such as BMC, CA, EMC and IBM.Tip
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VDI storage costs: Beware of customer expectations
It’s important to discuss the reality of VDI storage costs when VARs are planning a VDI project with customers. Find out how to manage VDI expectations and solve performance issues in this tip.Tip
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Understanding the many, varied storage efficiency technologies
There are many paths to higher data storage efficiency and various data reduction techniques. VARs need to understand how they work and how different vendors’ implementations vary.Channel Take
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LSI MegaRAID CacheCade gets write caching capability
LSI updates its MegaRAID CacheCade SSD caching software, adding write caching capabilities.News | 09 Aug 2011
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Associa revamps data storage management for virtual server environment
Headlines: Community management association firm switches to Pillar Data SAN, thin provisioning and QoS to cope with storage challenges after rapid growth and server virtualization project.News | 23 Mar 2011
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Storage management requires better collaboration in virtual world
Headlines: The rise of server virtualization in the data center impacts the way storage is managed, and requires greater cooperation between storage and server teams.News | 16 Feb 2011
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Managing storage for virtual servers: Customer best practices
Find out how to help customers develop best practices and policies for managing storage for virtual servers, to prevent capacity shortages and storage performance problems.Tip
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Object storage: Object-based storage devices challenge file systems for unstructured data sets
For large unstructured data sets, object storage and object-based storage devices carry several advantages over a traditional file system architecture. Learn about the scalability and data protection characteristics of object storage.Tip
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How to address data storage management problems caused by virtual desktop software
Find out why virtual desktop software systems cause data storage management problems – including capacity surprises and boot storms -- and learn techniques to resolve them.Tip
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Helping storage administrators save money: Telling both sides of the story, Part 2
There are many ways your storage administrator customers can save money, but make sure they understand the pros and cons of each technology, in this second of a two-part series.Tip
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Hardware lifecycle management: How to decommission storage hardware
Hardware lifecycle management has become a critical aspect of responsible storage management. Resellers must learn how to safely and securely decommission storage hardware so that customers' confidential data is not exposed.Tip
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Information lifecycle management for resellers
Information lifecycle management is all about making storage resources more efficient. In this podcast, Paul Franco of Zibiz Data Management explains how to determine if ILM is a good fit for your customers and how to approach an ILM project at those companies that are well-suited for the technology.Podcasts
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Data deduplication's impact for customers
There are a number of factors to consider when determining whether data deduplication makes sense for your customer. Learn what the key considerations are.FAQ
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Data lifecycle management: What are the things organizations need to consider?
This excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage" outlines the storage problems that organizations face today and considerations businesses need to make when assessing solutions.Chapter Excerpt
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Real problems and real solutions: Using ILM to address compliance
This excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage" details the storage problems that come with new compliance regulations. In a nutshell, these companies have to store more data, for longer periods, and have an efficient system in place that allows for easy access to it, should the need arise. Information Lifecycle Management tools offer solutions – read more to get started.Chapter Excerpt
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New storage management with utility computing
This excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage" discusses how to use DLM and ILM to address current storage management challenges.Chapter Excerpt
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Why is IT lifecycle management important?
This chapter excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage" makes a case for why ILM/DLM should be implemented, for reasons ranging from security to smart business practice to compliance. It also projects storage trends through 2010.Chapter Excerpt
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What does data lifecycle management mean?
IT lifecycle management is a policy-based approach to managing data that automates processes and organizes data into tiers. This excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantage" provides a comprehensive description of the technology and describes DLM tools.Chapter Excerpt
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Introducing Utility Computing
Utility computing enables a service provider to make computing resources and infrastructure management available to customers as needed. This excerpt from "Data Lifecycles: Managing Data for Strategic Advantages," discusses how to use utility computing to improve administration efficiencies and apply best practices uniformly across all resources. Read this chapter to learn how utility computing can save your customers time and money, while providing important compliance tools.Chapter Excerpt
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Selling customers on enterprise cloud backup services benefits
To sell enterprise cloud backup services, storage VARs and MSPs need to focus on the business benefits -- mainly, risk mitigation and cost reduction -- rather than the technology itself.Tip
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The pros and cons of cloud backups for storage resellers
In this interview, see the pros and cons of cloud backup compared with tape backup, as well as how storage VARs can take advantage of that to guide their customers in the move to the cloud.Podcast
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HIPAA-compliant cloud storage services: Due diligence is key to survival
To provide HIPAA-compliant cloud storage services, storage VARs and MSPs face many, grave regulatory requirements. Learn about the risks and get advice for performing due diligence.Tip
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Storage Guardian integrates cloud backup with ConnectWise PSA software
In our channel news roundup, Storage Guardian integrates its cloud backup with ConnectWise, and Ctera launches a mobile app for cloud file access.News | 24 Apr 2012
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Midmarket cloud storage won't be rip-and-replace
Ever since the rise of cloud storage, integrators and storage resellers have become concerned about it replacing the need for on-site infrastructure and stealing their business.blog post
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EMC gets in the cloud-building game
Headlines: EMC wants to build your cloud and has put together cloud-building services going beyond storage. The services target cloud infrastructure, applications and desktop computing.News | 26 Mar 2012
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Online data storage services can still be profitable, providers say
Solution providers can use online data storage services as the first step toward selling more valuable IT services to customers.Feature
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Cloud storage prices drop, but experts and users say hidden fees remain
Headlines: Amazon, Google and Microsoft have announced drops in public cloud pricing, but users and experts agree that hidden costs do exist.News | 14 Mar 2012
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AWS Storage Gateway creates 'co-opetition' with cloud appliances
Headlines: Amazon’s AWS Storage Gateway may be creating 'co-opetition' with other cloud appliances, but appears to be lacking in enterprise features.News | 01 Feb 2012
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Sundance skips the SAN, installs StorSimple cloud storage gateway
Headlines: To deal with growing data, the Sundance Institute moved its primary storage, archives and backups to the cloud with a StorSimple public storage cloud gateway.News | 11 Jan 2012
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IBM adds Storwize V7000 Unified array for multiprotocol storage
Headlines: With the Storwize V7000 Unified array, IBM enters the multiprotocol storage market; Big Blue also improves its auto-tiering software capabilities across arrays and data centers.News | 12 Oct 2011
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Automatic storage tiering making its mark
Headlines: Automatic storage tiering has been around for a while now, but now the technology seems to be hitting its stride.News | 14 Sep 2011
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Automated storage tiering for VARs: Intra-array vs. inter-array
Learn about the differences between intra-array and inter-array automated storage tiering products and find out which one holds more opportunity for VARs.Channel Impact
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Storage array-based automated tiered storage products: Pros and cons
Find out how implementing an automated tiered storage system in a storage arrays can cut costs, how it works and what the advantages and disadvantages are.Tip
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Symantec merges SRM products; Dell EqualLogic adds automated tiered storage
Headlines: Symantec set to merge storage resource management (SRM) products and work more closely with VMware; SSDs and SAS drives can now be combined within EqualLogic's PS6000XVS, with greater VMware integration.Article | 10 Jun 2010
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Enterprise hard drives: Will new drive technologies relegate them to the middle tier?
Find out about the mechanical limitations of enterprise hard drive technology, how solid-state storage is pushing hard drives out of their Tier 1 position and why high-capacity SATA drives will be the dominant enterprise hard drive of the future.Tip
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NetApp customers and tiered storage; Neuxpower releases primary storage data reduction software
Headlines: NetApp customers say the company's arrays are still vital to their tiered storage strategies; Neuxpower releases a server version of its primary storage data reduction software that cuts the size of JPEG and Office files.Article | 19 May 2010
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EMC releases FAST for automated tiered storage; Symantec has solid-state drive auto-discovery
Headlines: EMC's FAST automates the migration of LUNs between tiers of Flash, Fibre Channel and SATA disk, but sub-LUN level migration and support for thin provisioning are at least six months out; Symantec Veritas Storage Foundation V5.1 includes solid-state drive auto-discovery, thin provisioning auto-reclamation, Hyper-V integration and accelerated application recovery with Veritas Cluster File System.Article | 10 Dec 2009
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Using storage tiering to control customers' data growth
Get one consultant's perspective on how data growth caused headaches for a customer during a data migration project and how to control that data growth with storage tiering.Tip
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IBM to replicate data for disaster recovery; Managing enterprise data storage more efficiently
Headlines: IBM ProtectTier data deduplication customers can now replicate deduplicated data across the WAN to remote sites for disaster recovery- a feature commonly found in other deduplication devices; Storage managers must learn to improve storage efficiency though smarter spending, while taking steps to reduce operating expenditures during budget crunches.Article | 30 Jul 2009
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