Storage Budget Strategy

Develop a better approach to reining in expanding storage needs without draining your coffers.
Talk about fighting a tough battle. As data center managers continue to seek ways to work within increasingly shrinking budgets...
Talk about fighting a tough battle. As data center managers continue to seek ways to work within increasingly shrinking budgets...
Have You Looked at Tape Lately?

If you haven't, you should look again. Did you know that 70% of companies currently use a combination of tape and disk for interim backup, and 58% of companies that only use disk for backup are planning to add tape for interim storage? Learn why companies are coming back to tape.
2010 Storage Predictions

Despite technologies designed to increase storage efficiency, enterprise data continues to expand at more than 40% per year.
Enhanced performance requirements, coupled with the need to reduce power and capacity costs, will drive the creation of new storage technologies and services.
Enhanced performance requirements, coupled with the need to reduce power and capacity costs, will drive the creation of new storage technologies and services.
What Part of "Value Add" Don't You Understand?

by Dan Tanner
former Technical Analyst
ProgresSmart
A rich, new, and complex market is growing around data protection. At the market’s edges, technologies are becoming standardized and storage devices are becoming commoditized.
former Technical Analyst
ProgresSmart
A rich, new, and complex market is growing around data protection. At the market’s edges, technologies are becoming standardized and storage devices are becoming commoditized.
Customer Case Study

iSCSI vs. FC SANs: Three Reasons Not to Choose Sides

In the on-going war between storage technologies, Fibre Channel and iSCSI continue to battle it out. Fibre Channel provides low-latency and high availability, making it the ideal storage platform for business critical applications.
Commodity based Clustered Storage

Scale Computing’s core offering is Commodity‐based Clustered Storage, or CCS. CCS functions as an independently controlled mass data storage device, similar in function to a Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.
Chargeback Storage Explained

Chargeback applies real values to actual storage utilization. How much does your storage actually cost? This question has vexed IT departments and storage managers for decades.
by Stephen J. Bigelow, Features Writer, searchstorage.com
by Stephen J. Bigelow, Features Writer, searchstorage.com
Taking an ILM Approach to Managing Unstructured Electronic Information

In this era of worldwide electronic communication and fantastic new business applications, the amount of unstructured, electronic information generated by enterprises is exploding.
(by Bob Spurzem and T.M. Ravi of Mimosa Systems.)
(by Bob Spurzem and T.M. Ravi of Mimosa Systems.)
7 Ways to Make Backup and Recovery Easier, by Logan G. Harbaugh

As data growth spirals, getting a handle on your backup and recovery processes becomes even more crucial. Without a proper strategy in place for maintaining and securing stored data, and for reproducing data on demand, you could lose business or incur huge legal penalties.