-
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.
-
Tape archiving: Which customers are a good fit?
Find out why tape archiving -- for both large customers and small ones -- is worth another look by VARs who might have lost interest in tape in favor of disk-based or cloud-based archiving.
-
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.
-
SMB SAN solutions: Storage networking options
Find out which SMB SAN solutions might be a good fit for your customers. Storage networking options examined include Fibre Channel, FCoE, InfiniBand, iSCSI, AoE and SAS.
-
Scale-out storage options increasing
Scale-out storage overcomes some of the limitations of traditional NAS, and software-based scale-out NAS is lowering the entry costs for smaller customers.
-
VSA vs. traditional shared storage
A virtual storage appliance can be a viable way to allocate storage for their virtual server infrastructure; it offers cost and complexity benefits compared with traditional shared storage.
-
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.
-
VDI storage costs and 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.
-
Fixing disk array controller performance problems
Find out how storage vendors are addressing bottlenecks in disk array controllers, as well as the benefits and downsides of these approaches for your customers.
-
Which applications should move to the cloud?
While nonstrategic applications are the most likely candidates for a customer’s first steps into cloud-based storage, a closer look at a specific environment might yield a different choice.
-
Diagnosing disk array controller performance problems
Learn about the components in a disk array controller and find out how to determine whether a customer’s performance problem originates with the controller as well as what’s causing the problem.
-
Cloud storage: Four points of entry with customers
Storage solution providers can find four customer conversation starters in cloud storage solutions and cloud computing. Find out how they can help you open the door to new business.
-
vSphere storage changes bring opportunities for VARs
Find out the changes to vSphere storage that VMware introduced in Version 5 of the server virtualization platform, as well as what they mean for your SMB and enterprise customers’ storage systems.
-
Understanding the many, varied storage efficiency techs
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.
-
How to perform storage network performance analysis
Learn how to conduct storage network performance analysis to troubleshoot and fix storage network problems relating to network capacity, adapters, cabling and switches.
-
Cloud storage comparison for VARs
In this cloud storage comparison, learn about the advantages and disadvantages for VARs in three cloud storage options: public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud storage.
-
How to diagnose storage systems performance problems
Learn how to pinpoint a performance problem in your customers’ storage systems via storage performance monitoring, as well as how to fix the problems once you’ve found them.
-
Automated storage tiering: 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.
-
Ensuring NAS access from Windows and Unix clients
In many large and complex computing environments, administrators need to supply access to a NAS device from both Windows and Unix clients. Find out how to configure your systems for this requirement.
-
Exchange 2010: Customers need a SAN now more than ever
Find out why Exchange 2010’s storage changes mean your customers would fare better with a SAN instead of DAS to support their Exchange environment.
-
HIPAA-compliant cloud storage: Due diligence how-to
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.
-
'Big data' tools handle retention and performance
Read up on how ‘big data’ technologies from companies such as RainStor, GridIron and Quantum are addressing challenges around retention, performance and capacity.
-
Reducing VDI storage costs
Learn how to cut the VDI cost related to storage using storage efficiency techniques such as thin provisioning, linked clones and deduplication as well as software from Virsto.
-
Isilon, BlueArc scalable NAS coexist at Ancestry.com
Find out how Ancestry.com ended up with scalable NAS systems from competing companies Isilon and BlueArc -- and what lessons its use case offers to storage VARs.