Storage capacity management obviously drives CapEx expenditures. However, capacity management also ripples through the rest of storage infrastructure cost profile. Capacity impacts software license costs, maintenance costs as well as power/cooling and ...
By: Terri McClure, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc.
Keeping Pace with Data Growth Continues to be a Top Storage Challenge
The management of file-based or “unstructured” content (i.e., multimedia files, Web pages, office productivity documents, ...
Major changes in the health care industry are almost certain as organizations drive toward greater electronic records management (EMR) efficiency and regulatory mandates loom on the horizon. Two counter-trends exist: a need to invest in infrastructure to ...
Data deduplication is another technology that has gained wide acceptance as a tool to streamline the backup process. Deduplication eliminates duplicate data even when such data is unrelated, greatly reducing the data multiplier effect on data.
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To make better use of storage resources, organizations can leverage storage management technologies. Storage resource management (SRM), for example, enables IT to navigate the storage environment and identify old or non-critical data that can be moved to ...
Creating highly available Oracle databases with immediate failover is expensive, though sometimes justifiable. However, organizations whose SLA includes near-minute failover can consider a Veritas Clustered File System (CFS) solution. CFS is an option ...
Even as IT organizations face significant budget pressure, business carries on and continues to drive storage growth. So, how can IT organizations meet organizational needs without buying more storage? Let’s do a little math.
First, two baseline ...
Current Business Scenario : The current recessionary economic cycle has introduced a great deal of uncertainty into the business climate. Organizations are reluctant to spend any more money than absolutely necessary, which has limited or delayed the ...