Storage

White Papers

• Coming to Grips with Technical Debt - What’s the size of your organization’s technical debt? Unfortunately, many IT leaders can’t answer this question accurately. Not only don’t many IT leaders know the gamut of their organization’s technical debt, but they struggle with knowing fully how it impacts their business. In addition, many IT leaders don’t have a meaningful strategy for addressing their […]
• 2024 Trends: Better Business Through Generative AI - The new year is upon us, and for many, it’s out with the old and in with the new. Outdated, inflexible systems and processes will be shown the door, ushering in a new way of working smarter, not harder. Not surprisingly, artificial intelligence, including generative AI, will continue to drive many technology conversations in 2024. […]
• Storage and Sustainability: Strange Bedfellows - When you think of storage, do you think of sustainability? Unfortunately for many IT leaders, the answer to this question is a disappointing “No.” That’s the finding of a recent survey conducted by Pure Storage. The company polled 1,000 sustainability program managers in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany about the importance of sustainability in […]
• IBM Content Navigator and Box - Simplify access to content both in Box and on premises for improved insight and control of all your business content.
• The Changing Landscape of Storage - You may not feel the earth moving, but if you'remanaging a virtualized infrastructure or serving as a storage administrator be aware: A disruptive, industry-changing shift is in motion
• Smart Storage That Sees, Learns and Adapts – A Strategic White Paper - Tintri smart storage addresses the mismatch between storage and the demands of virtualization. Built on the industry's first and leading intelligent application-aware architecture, VMstore and Tintri Global Center have the intelligence to deliver unparalleled performance and efficiency and end-to-end insights into the infrastructure, while allowing for unmatched VM control.
• Comparing Storage Options for Virtualized and Cloud Environments - IT organizations increasingly are turning to new storage solutions that are purpose-built for virtualization and cloud, with a focus on application-aware designs that provide VM-level visibility and control across the entire infrastructure.
• Changing The Rules Of The Game: Top 5 Reasons To Adopt Application-Aware Storage - As virtualizaion becomes the norm throughout organizations of nearly all sizes, and as more organizations look to private cloud solutions, IT decision makers are increasingly in need of ways to keep storage costs and complexity under control in the face of often-runaway M sprawl. Application-aware storage is designed to help achieve those goals by giving IT leaders and storage administrators VM-level visibility into application performance and availability, and by properly provisioning storage resources to meet those requirements in a virtualized environment.
• Capacity Planning in Virtual Environments - vExpert Eric Siebert provides key insights into capacity planning, discusses why it's one of the top challenges systems admins face, and how to make it more manageable.
• Best Practices for Heterogeneous Storage Management - Stay true to the flexibility and affordability of having a multi-vendor storage environment with these management tips.
• Software-Defined Storage: What it Means for the IT Practitioner - Server Virtualization has changed the way IT runs data centers across the world. Most enterprises now operate with a "virtual first" policy. However, the storage architecture that supports it has not kept pace
• Flash Storage For Dummies - Flash Storage for Dummies, NetApp 2nd Special Edition, describes the many uses and benefits of flash storage technology in the enterprise. From flash-accelerated storage to all-flash arrays, flash technology improves performance and increases reliability in storage infrastructures.
• Rethinking Storage: The Rise of Hyperconvergence - Video: Traditional storage can be complex and expensive, and with new applications forcing enterprises to stretch their limited resources, a new strategy for enterprise storage is just what you need. In this presentation, we will discuss some of our latest developments in hypervisor-converged storage and how it'll transform IT operations forever.
• Rethinking Storage: The Rise of Hyperconvergence - Traditional storage can be complex and expensive, and with new applications forcing enterprises to stretch their limited resources, a new strategy for enterprise storage is just what you need. In this presentation, we will discuss some of our latest developments in hypervisor-converged storage and how it'll transform IT operations forever.
• Simplify Virtual Storage Provisioning and Management - As big data continues to proliferate, storage becomes a tremendous challenge - even in a virtual environment.
• Gartner Report: Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies 2015 - IT managers often share common goals, including a need to modernize their storage infrastructures, improve quality of service and contain costs while simultaneously maintaining legacy systems. New storage software and system providers can help stakeholders build easier-to-manage, more scalable and efficient storage infrastructures.
• Software Defined Storage: What’s New In The Industry & How It Impacts Your Business - Looking to understand how your business can leverage the latest trends in storage including Software defined storage, Big Data and HyperConvergence? View this on-demand webcast to uncover how you can take practical steps to modernize data management in your organization.
• Software Defined Storage: What’s New In The Industry & How It Impacts Your Business - Video
• Actian positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant in Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics - Gartner has published the "2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics", and we invite you to read a complimentary copy of this important research. Not only has Actian been positioned in the Visionaries quadrant, but in the highest tier as well.
• Oregon State University Solves Critical Storage Pain Points with VMware Virtual SAN Solution - The IT department at Oregon State University manages two open-use computer labs and one computer-equipped classroom. Because of financial restrictions, the university had originally purchased all of its servers with local storage, but that infrastructure could not handle the school's growing workloads, and it required time-consuming upkeep.