Removing Data Waste from Virtualized Storage

by Alex Rosemblat

Forgotten data objects from virtual machines can clog up virtualized storage. Cleaning up this waste will reclaim storage that can then be reused.

Optimizing resource usage in a virtual environm...

Backup Appliances Are All About the Money

by John Pearring

This article is the first in a two-part series exploring the savings and scalability that backup appliances will afford CIOs in the coming years.

The educator James W. Frick is often quoted, &quo...

Modern Business Needs Driving the Shift from Tape to Disk

by Walter Angerer

It starts at the top. If there’s one time-tested truth in IT management, and especially in data protection, it’s that seismic industry shifts start at the top. Above the backup administrator. Above...

The Cloud IT Service Management Transition: From Painful to Pervasive

by Dave Saunders

The stampede to deploy cloud-based services by organizations threatens to overload IT and create far more problems than benefits, if not managed efficiently and efficiently. CIOs and IT service planners...

The Cloud Service Provider's Guide to Maximizing Customer Value

by Eric Blum

As more business-critical services move to the public cloud, service providers must offer more differentiated, nuanced, agile, and automated services to compete profitably in this market. Service prov...

Ethernet SAN: At the Intersection of Enterprise Storage and Cloud Scale

by Kevin Brown

Business demand for technology continually increases, but businesses have no tolerance for waste. This forces IT into a survival-of-the-fittest mode, ridding the data center of underperforming products -...

What You Should Know About Securing Your Public Cloud — But Didn't Know to Ask

by Rand Wacker

While the cloud makes it far easier to procure and deploy computing resources, it also mandates a new set of security requirements that differ from systems running in an organization’s traditional priv...

Virtually Invisible: Meeting Lawful Intercept Challenges in Virtual Environments, Part Two

by Ran Nahmias

This article is the second in a two-part series introducing the virtual Tap and exploring how it can cost-efficiently meet many of the needs of Lawful Interception. The first part addressed the challenges ...

The PCIe Advantage in Storage Systems

by Osman Javed

With the increasing demand for data from a wide variety of storage devices in an enterprise-class storage system, it has become necessary to use point-to-point data transfer protocols such as PCI Express ...

Virtually Invisible: Meeting Lawful Intercept Challenges in Virtual Environments, Part One

by Ran Nahmias

This article is the first in a two-part series addressing the challenges associated with Lawful Interception (LI) and compliance inherent to virtualization within converged network environments. The second ...

The Power of Information Availability: Safeguarding Healthcare Data

by Robert Gast

As the healthcare industry embraces health information technology (HIT), with electronic health records (EHR) at its core, new concerns arise. Eliminating points of failure, which can result in data loss ...

Harnessing Unstructured Data Requires New Thinking, New Solutions

by Seiji Shintaku

Imagine that you own a storage rental building and you hire someone to manage the building for you. The manager begins by creating a spreadsheet listing all the tenants in the building. Several months...