In Depth

In Depth

Storage management and strategy

• Storage solution providers: Their pros and cons, and how to manage them

  Storage solution providers can be vital in implementing and supporting storage systems through sickness and health. But be careful how you choose a potential storage reseller partner.  Continue Reading

• Dealing with data storage resellers: Top 10 tips

  Data storage resellers can range from box shifters to vendor-specific accredited partners. These top 10 tips will help you get what you need from the storage reseller relationship.  Continue Reading

• Green storage technologies let data centres enable energy-efficient storage

  Learn what is driving green storage initiatives, as well as why technologies like server virtualization, spin down and MAID can bring greater energy efficiency to your data centre.  Continue Reading

• Data storage technology brings data center power consumption benefits

  As data center power consumption rises, some IT shops find unexpected benefits in more efficient data storage technology. Find out how two firms saved money on power.  Continue Reading

• Data migration projects: Avoid data migration errors with automation, orphaned storage remediation

  Learn the top three things users should do when planning a data migration project, what data migration tools you should have, describe some of the most common data migration errors, and describe some storage environment challenges when migrating ...  Continue Reading

• Tiered storage matches storage performance to media costs

  Tiered storage matches the cost of storage media to the value of the data and how frequently it is accessed. Automated tiered storage requires data to be categorised according to specific requirements and business policies.  Continue Reading

• MAID 2.0 systems, disk spin down can help users achieve green storagereen storage

  Learn the benefits, limitations and best use cases for MAID 2.0 technology and disk spin down. Discover how to achieve green storage goals by leveraging disk spin down and MAID.  Continue Reading

• Hard drive capacity emphasized over performance for future enterprise hard drives

  An enterprise hard drive can't beat SSDs for performance, so future trends in hard drive technology are focused on higher hard drive capacity using bit-patterned media and heat-assisted magnetic recording.  Continue Reading

• Explaining RAID levels and RAID data protection

  We've compiled our RAID content to help storage pros determine where to implement RAID, decide which levels address their particular needs and how to increase RAID data protection.  Continue Reading

• Making the most of your storage resources: Improving storage utilisation

  Learn about data storage utilisation and ways to improve storage utilisation rates using good design, good policies and good capacity management processes.  Continue Reading

• UK data storage management case studies

  Keep up-to-date with our latest UK case studies on data storage management, data backup and recovery, storage infrastructure management and more.  Continue Reading

• Unified Storage FAQ

  Unified storage is a storage system that's defined as being able to provide storage access at block level and file level. Check out this FAQ interview to find out more. Our UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead talks with Andrew White, senior consultant ...  Continue Reading

• Learn all about LUNs

  A LUN is the unique address for a SCSI device or a virtual hard disk partition in a RAID configuration. This handbook tells how to manage and partition LUNs.  Continue Reading