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Storage encryption: How much is enough?
Seven steps to determine your storage security weaknesses are outlined, which can help you determine where you need storage encryption in your environment.
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Storage basics: RAID striping in detail
How RAID striping improves performance and how parity fits in.
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Justifying your storage staffing
Three things to consider when calculating staffing levels to get beyond staffing per terabyte.
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Choosing a file virtualization appliance
Five items to consider before you select and implement a file virtualization appliance.
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Data protection: Cover the right risks
Five risks to consider for effective data protection are outlined and explained.
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Storage switches: Five tips in five minutes
SearchStorage.com readers frequently ask questions about switches. This article offers a collection of expert responses to recent reader questions.
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and disk backups
This is the third of a four-part series on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager disk backup software. This tip discusses integration of disk as a backup media in a TSM environment.
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Ten questions to increase storage efficiency
Rick Cook offers 10 things to consider in order to make the best use of your storage, from simply reviewing your storage strategy to standardizing your hardware.
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Comparing SCSI, SAS and SATA
Stephen Bigelow offers insight into the future of SCSI and outlines some of the benefits and drawbacks of SCSI, SAS and SATA.
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Scale capacity with clustered NAS gateways
Jerome Wendt explains what clustered NAS gateways are, how they work and compares various products on the market today.
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Making the most of media pools
Learn what media pools are and the benefits of using them for managing removable storage.
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Why and how your storage environment will be attacked
Learn where storage security vulnerabilities exist and how your systems are likely to be attacked.
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Best practices using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager
This is the second in a four-part series on IBM's TSM backup software. This segment outlines some of the best practices when designing and implementing a TSM backup environment.
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Manage heterogeneous NAS devices with virtualization
NAS virtualization is emerging to solve issues that have cropped up as NAS has moved into enterprise environments. Learn what NAS virtualization is, its potential benefits and what you need to cons...
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Balancing act -- Match your data to the correct disk
Learn how to match your data to the correct disk or storage system to meet different service requirements.
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager vs. traditional backup
Learn about the architectural concepts behind IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager backup software and the main differences with what are often referred to as "traditional" backup products. This piece is t...
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Block and file access unite with multiprotocol storage
This tip looks at the pros and cons, as well as when and where to deploy multiprotocol storage, which is also referred to as "unified" storage.
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Remote backup: Five tips in five minutes
SearchStorage.com readers frequently ask questions about remote backup. This article offers a collection of expert responses to recent reader questions.
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Easing I/O bottlenecks with Microsoft Scalable Network
Microsoft's SNP is designed to improve performance by easing network and I/O bottlenecks. This tip explains how this new offering works, and what it means for your storage environment.
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Long-term archiving dos and don'ts
Restoring data from long-term archives can be difficult (or impossible) if your archive isn't in a readable format. This tip outlines some ways that you can ensure access to your data over time.
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Finding data deduplication solutions for DR
Deduplication is an important strategy for disaster recovery. Learn more about data dedupe solutions in this expert tip by Paul Kirvan.
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DRAM SSD vs. NAND SSD: Let the FUD begin
This tip looks at areas such as volatility, performance and longevity where buyers will want to weigh the difference between DRAM SSD and NAND SSD.
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Prolonging SSD life
Writing to an SSD gradually wears it out. Solid-state storage expert Phil Goodwin offers some tips for prolonging SSD life.
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Cloud backup versus cloud storage comparison
Cloud hype has blurred the cloud storage and cloud backup, recovery and restore line. This tip will offer a cloud BURR versus cloud storage comparison.