One of the seemingly endless tasks of today’s IT infrastructure planner is finding more ways to squeeze costs out of the data center environment. With data growth soaring across all industries, it is not surprising that storage is often at…
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Lowering the Cost of Deleting Data
While the cost of raw data storage keeps dropping, the cost of deleting obsolete or inappropriate data can be prohibitive. No one wants to delete the file that might be needed someday. This results in the accumulation of data that has both cost and compliance ramifications. The key is to lower that risk by identifying good candidates for deletion. In this article Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack details the cost associated with file deletion and how to lower them through comprehensive file analysis.
Tagged with: Backup, File Analysis, File Storage, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, SolarWinds
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An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data
Catalogic ECX – Enterprise Catalog Management Software Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore-up data…
Is QoS Enough to Ensure Virtualized Application Performance?
An increasing number of vendors are offering quality of service (QoS) capabilities for their storage systems. But the ability for these system to assure storage performance quality to mission critical applications is suspect at best. Guaranteeing virtualized application performance requires more than QoS, it requires a scalable storage infrastructure that understands specific virtual machine performance requirements.
In this article Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst, Colm Keegan provides the details on how a storage system has to go beyond QoS to provide complete application performance.
Is it Time to Upgrade Your Storage Evaluation Process?
In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…
The Requirements for Cloud Storage Infrastructure
Cloud storage is becoming a ubiquitous term, subject to a wide variety of definitions. In the context of this article cloud storage will refer to a storage service that’s provided by an organization to storage users. That organization can be…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Object, Object Storage, Protection
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Using Replication to Eliminate Virtualization Stall
Virtualization stall usually occurs in a server virtualization project when business-important or mission-critical servers are targeted for virtualization. There is risk associated with virtualizing these servers and this risk can cause IT managers to move slowly or put off their…
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