Storage Best Practices Research
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Differentiating All-flash Array Vendors from their Counterparts
Sponsored by: Western DigitalOur experts compiled this guide to determining the most suitable AFA vendor for your enterprise—ensuring you choose one that not only provides snapshots and thin provisioning, but also active-active controllers and replication, and QoS. Read on to also gain access to instruction for a three-phase AFA implementation.
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Flashing Towards the Future of NVMe-Enabled Storage
Sponsored by: Western DigitalIn this guide, read an interview with the CEO of one major flash storage distributor as he talks about NVMe, how customers are using SSDs, and plans for the future. Then, read more about an all-flash offering that's already prepped for NVMe capabilities as soon as the demand arises.
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A Guide to Making a Business Case for All-Flash Arrays
Sponsored by: Tegile, a Western Digital brandUse this expert-guide to figure out if your workloads are right for flash storage, as well as explore 5 additional factors to consider before adopting a flash solution.
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Object Storage Architecture: Mitigating Complexity, Capacity, and Archival Concerns
Sponsored by: SanDisk CorporationThis expert resource serves as your full guide to object storage implementation, with cloud workload, sync-and-share, API-accessible storage, and more use cases examined. Download now to gain full access, learning how object storage maintains the unstructured data deluge, and view an object vs. file vs. block storage bake off.
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George Crump Evaluates the State of Flash Storage Systems
Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®In this expert guide, George Crump outlines the state of flash storage systems, and demonstrates how to use NVMe and flash DIMM to proactively keep performance ahead of users' expectations. Read on as Crump also predicts the fate of HDDs, and explains how to keep pace by improving internal and external connectivity.
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Seven Tips to Improve Data Storage Efficiency
Sponsored by: HPE and Intel®In order to get the most out of your new flash array, you need to start with a solid foundation of practices and complimentary technology. In this expert guide, learn 7 tips to achieving faster, more efficient storage.
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Building a Better Storage Environment for Your DevOps Plan
Sponsored by: DateraClick inside this guide to learn about the questions of data management, shelf-life, and viability which have grown hand-in-hand with the rise in DevOps adoption. Then, discover the challenges of optimizing your storage system for DevOps, and how to build a private cloud environment to combat them.
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GDPR Developments Will Dominate Storage and Compliance in 2017
Sponsored by: Arrow + NetAppIn this expert guide, Storage Editor Antony Adshead and CEO of Vigitrust, Mathieu Gorge, discuss 2017's developments in the GDPR, as it pertains to regulatory compliance, and data backup. Read on to discover backup challenges associated with e-discovery, the evolution of data retention regulations, and more.
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All-flash Storage Arrays: Are They Killing Hybrids?
Sponsored by: TechTarget StorageWhere there are instances when either all-flash or hybrid arrays work well—that is where the battle for dominance occurs. In this issue of Storage Handbook, our experts deconstruct the hybrid vs. AFA debate, digging into cost, network connectivity, and which arrays are more pertinent for primary storage workloads.
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Storage Handbook: Get Hyped for Top Hyper-converged Technology Use Cases
Sponsored by: TechTarget Data CenterDownload your issue of Storage Handbook now to discover which workloads are best run on HCI—VDI and beyond—as well as which workloads to avoid, as you implement. Additionally, learn how to unlock the key to HCI success in SMBs, and more.
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How Storage Is Catching Up with the DevOps Revolution
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn this essential guide, discover why DevOps requirements are shifting how enterprises consume and deploy storage resources to a more-cloud focused approach. Download now to gain guidance on storage technologies most appropriate for Agile development, including VM-aware secondary storage, hyper-convergence, and more.
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Simplifying Storage Allocations for Virtual Desktops
Sponsored by: Pure Storage"How can I simplify storage allocation for virtual desktops?" You asked the question, we have the answer. Read on to discover how to address storage allocation requirements of both the operating system and apps, and VDI user data, in this expert guide.
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Flash Storage Caching Boosts Application Performance—but Requires Balance
Sponsored by: Pure StorageUse this guide as a comprehensive resource for evaluating flash caching benefits, trade-offs, 3 main implementation models, and determine where to cache in order to leverage faster media and improve I/O performance.
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SQL Server SSD Technology Becoming a Solid Storage Choice
Sponsored by: Pure StorageAccess this e-guide to clue into exactly why SSD is emerging as a solid storage choice for SQL Server. Our experts highlight how SSD's embedded controller ensures the integrity of the data stored in the drive, and address your concerns centered on drive reliability and longevity.
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Which Types of Flash Make the Most Sense for Virtualization?
Sponsored by: Pure StorageWhich types of flash make the most sense for a virtualized environment? In this expert guide, George Crump evaluates the durability of three types of flash—single-level, multi-level, and triple-level cell. Read on to also delve into three flash form factors to consider when implementing it on virtual workloads.
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Ten Methods of Improving Virtual Server Storage
Sponsored by: Pure StoragePerformance monitoring for virtual storage is very difficult due to the hypervisor lacking the insight into what's happening with that storage. This expert guide illustrates how to improve the performance of your virtual server storage with 10 proven methods.
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DevOps Strategy for Health Site Fueled by Flash, CDM
Sponsored by: Pure StorageIn this expert guide, discover how women's health website Lifescript implemented a revenue-boosting DevOps strategy with all-flash storage and copy data management. Read on to see how this SSD/CDM duo succeeds, with built-in data deduplication and more.
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If Performance Is Paramount, Flash Cloud Storage May be Key
Sponsored by: TintriThis e-guide serves as your essential resource for choosing a cloud provider with integrated flash storage to maximize your cloud app performance. Read on to learn why object storage just doesn't deliver the scale and performance cloud apps demand, and instead see how SSD steps in to deliver potentially unlimited scale.
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The Secrets and Strategies to Switching Cloud Storage Vendors
Sponsored by: Zadara StorageGain some perspective on how to choose and migrate to a new cloud storage offering without hurting your service or your wallet. Inside, learn how to calculate migration costs, break down the cost of storage by service type, region, and capacity. Then learn about a storage-as-a-service offering starting at $0.03 gigabyte per month.
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Analytics: The Next Great Storage Frontier
Sponsored by: QumuloIn this expert guide, read an interview with 2 storage experts who explore this growing demand for analytics in evolving scale-out systems. Then, learn about the history of storage analytics, as well as what these programs con provide for your storage team today, and a glimpse into what the future might hold for data intelligence.
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Stemming The Unstructured Data Tide With Speedy Storage Systems
Sponsored by: QumuloUse this guide to help you decide if your storage system is up to the challenge the unstructured data boom poses. In addition, learn how scale-out NAS & object storage each handle big data, the ideal design of a scalable NAS system, and how a modern scientific research institute uses their NAS system to analyze terabytes of data.
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3D-Nand Boosts Capacity to Push All-flash Data Center
Sponsored by: AvnetBecause the demand for storage capacity is so insatiable, storage media suppliers have had to look for new ways to increase the capacity of their flash products. Discover how to do so here with 3D-Nand-powered SSD, achieving higher densities at a lower cost per bit.
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Solid-State Storage Device Buyers Want Performance
Sponsored by: AvnetRead this expert guide to flesh out flash implementation, and discover why I/O performance lags, capacity concerns, and server virtualization are fueling SSD appliance adoption. Additionally, learn the top 3 apps storage admins indicate are in most need of flash.
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Honing Your Business Case for All-flash Array Implementation
Sponsored by: AvnetDownload this expert guide to delve into the AFA essentials, and learn which apps will best benefit from implementation. Read on to take advantage of AFA deduplication and compression for virtual apps, as well as learn how HDDs compare to SSDs, how to accommodate apps that require more IOPS, and more.
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How to Extract the Most Value from the Software-defined Storage Market
Sponsored by: Veritas and HighVailLearn how to plot out effective software-defined storage implementation by delving into the SDS market. Read on to weigh the pros and cons of SDS integration, and take into consideration SDS's role in the overall context of software-defined enterprise architecture and hyper-converged infrastructure.
