In Depth

In Depth

Storage management and strategy

• Server consolidation gains boost trading house’s national business bid

  When Indian financial services company Destimoney struggled with capacity, availability and rapid business growth, server consolidation came to the rescue.  Continue Reading

• Software-defined datacentres demystified

  As datacentre managers increasingly rely on software and automation, what can a software-defined datacentre bring to the enterprise?  Continue Reading

• How IBM researchers hope to change the world

  IBM's Zurich research labs opened its doors to reveal some of the technologies we can expect to be using in 10 to 15 years  Continue Reading

• Tune Raid performance to get the most from your HDDs

  Tune Raid performance at the storage controller to match application I/O demands to optimal hard drive (HDD) performance  Continue Reading

• Is cloud data storage right for your organisation?

  Find out if cloud data storage is a serious option for you with this evaluation of its suitability for primary, nearline, backup and archive data  Continue Reading

• Options in small-business storage for server virtualisation

  SMBs moving to virtualised servers need shared storage to support a new, dynamic environment. We survey the key file- and block-level options in small-business storage.  Continue Reading

• Big vendors tail startups in primary storage deduplication

  Primary storage deduplication can slash disk utilisation rates, but it has yet to gain widespread mainstream product implementation. It’s coming though, and startups lead the way.  Continue Reading

• HPC storage requirements: Massive IOPS and parallel file systems

  We survey the key vendors in HPC storage, where huge amounts of IOPS, clustering, parallel file systems and custom silicon provide storage for massive number crunching operations.  Continue Reading

• Object-based File Systems come of age for HPC

  With HPC raring to enter the exaflop realm, object-based file systems can ensure better I/O performance. We take a look at the leading options.  Continue Reading

• Virtual machine storage optimisation methods explained

  Virtual machine storage for virtual desktops and servers has to deal with heavy and random I/O patterns. We survey the key methods of optimising storage for virtual machines.  Continue Reading

• Object-based storage allows users to tame ballooning data stores

  Object-based storage boots out hierarchical file systems for a flat-file layout, tames massive files stores and overcomes RAID’s inadequacies.  Continue Reading

• vSphere 5 storage features stake a claim in array territory

  vSphere 5 storage features move into traditional array territory, including LUN controls, array monitoring, NAS commands and even a virtual storage appliance.  Continue Reading

• Five types of tape for backup or archive

  There are plenty of tape formats to choose from when you are looking for a backup or archival medium. Here are five of the most common formats to consider.  Continue Reading

• Schiavello drops Symantec, picks up CommVault

  Difficulties backing up remote offices has seen business furniture company Shciavello discard Symantec software in favour of CommVault.  Continue Reading

• Expect weighty issues when installing Atmos

  A new user of EMC’s Atmos cloud storage product had weighty problems – literally and figuratively – when implementing its new systems.  Continue Reading