Tips
Tips
Storage management and strategy
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Guide to Windows Azure: Part 3 - How to configure local storage resources
Our Windows Azure tutorial series continues with an explanation of usage of local storage in Azure cloud services. Learn how to best configure local storage. Continue Reading
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Big data storage management challenges and how to deal with them
Big data storage management is becoming an important concern. This tip will help you deal with your big data storage management challenges. Continue Reading
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Performance metrics: Evaluating your data storage efficiency
Learn how performance metrics can evaluate the efficiency of your enterprise data storage resources in terms of capacity utilization, performance and data protection. Continue Reading
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Green storage best practices control costs, increase energy efficiency
Green storage best practices control power and cooling costs, and increase energy efficiency in your data center. Tiered storage, consolidating storage arrays, solid-state drives (SSDs) and MAID can help. Continue Reading
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Tape encryption purchases Part Two: LTO-4 considerations
This chapter covers specific considerations for LTO-4 tape drives. After that, you'll find a series of specifications to help compare vendor products. Continue Reading
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Capacity planning: Reclaim orphaned storage
This tip takes a look at how to maximize your storage capacity utilization by finding orphaned data and storage that can in turn be re-allocated for another productive use. Continue Reading
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Remote backup: What are the alternatives to tape?
Archiving expert Bill Tolson offers advice to a reader looking for alternatives to shipping tape offsite, including a graphical representation of the remote replication backup process. Continue Reading
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Archiving unstructured data
Companies must find ways to automate and simplify the process of archiving files and e-mail messages. ECM software addresses this large pool of unstructured data. Continue Reading
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Capacity planning in the enterprise
Capacity planning is becoming an increasingly important way to balance future hardware costs with computing needs. Continue Reading