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: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Keep these eight key steps in mind when designing and testing your disaster recovery strategy.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Tiered Storage

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: December 20, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  IT Utility Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management Services | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

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: August 15, 2007 | Published: August 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Recovery | Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Tiered Storage

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: July 20, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Disk Drives | SCSI Devices | Serial ATA | Storage Capacity | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

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: May 18, 2007 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Disk Storage Systems | iSCSI SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Switches | Surveys | Tape Libraries | Tiered Storage

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: March 14, 2007 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Industry | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage | WAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - EMC and Hitachi use very different architectures for their top-of-the-line arrays. Here's how they measure up.
Posted: January 15, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Controllers | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Following sound SAN design strategies allows you to reduce the number of SAN islands, strengthen your primary SAN, make storage easier to manage and provide more data protection.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Data Migration | SAN | Storage Consolidation | Storage Switches | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage