storage flexibility

We know that flash storage can provide significant benefits and deliver needed agility for large businesses, but what about medium-sized businesses (MMB = 500 to 999 employees)? IBM asked Forrester Consulting to look into adoption and use of flash storage technologies by mid-market organizations. A snapshot survey of 106 IT professionals found the following: › MMBs are actively adopting flash storage › Flash is exceeding expectations regarding cloud management, flexibility and security › A majority of respondents expect to continue their investments, with almost half aspiring to an all-flash storage environment. To learn more download this report.

Business continuity, data insurance, local storage flexibility, cost benefits, standards compliance and infrastructure control. This is just some of what Datto and hybrid cloud backup can do for you, and your clients.

A step-by-step guide for adopting software-defined storage as part of a practical, proactive strategy for managing enterprise data. Flexibility is inherent in this technology, and now more than ever, a flexible IT architecture might be the key to facing the once unthinkable challenges of big data.

Eight Must-Have Technologies for the IT Director

Although the cost of flash storage solutions continues to fall, on a per-gigabyte capacity basis, it is still significantly more expensive to acquire than traditional hard drives. However, when the cost per gigabyte is examined in terms of TCO, and the customer looks past the pure acquisition cost and accounts for “soft factors” such as prolonging the life of a data center, lower operating costs (for example, power and cooling), increased flexibility and scalability, or the service levels that a flash solution enables, flash solution costs become increasingly competitive with spinning media.

Choosing cloud storage consumption model.

Today’s organizations are tasked with managing multiple data types, coming from a wide variety of sources. Faced with massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data, organizations are finding that in order to deliver insights in a timely manner, they need a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. Data Lakes are a new and increasingly popular way to store and analyse data that addresses many of these challenges. Data Lakes allow an organization to store all of their data, structured and unstructured, in one, centralized repository.

The journey toward software-defined storage is different for each IT organization. When choosing a storage solution, it’s important to consider flexibility, availability, and agility.

Although the cost of flash storage solutions continues to fall, on a per-gigabyte capacity basis, it is still significantly more expensive to acquire than traditional hard drives. However, when the cost per gigabyte is examined in terms of TCO, and the customer looks past the pure acquisition cost and accounts for “soft factors” such as prolonging the life of a data center, lower operating costs (for example, power and cooling), increased flexibility and scalability, or the service levels that a flash solution enables, flash solution costs become increasingly competitive with spinning media.

Virtualization tools are providing storage pros with the ability to overcome the limitations of physical servers and gain more flexibility. While hypervisors are allowing them to leap over these boundaries, they’re simultaneously crumbling traditional data protection walls. It’s time to rethink how we handle backup. Inside, discover 8 essential real-world practices to put in place for hypervisor backup, archiving, and disaster recovery.

The Nemertes Research PilotHouse Awards provide insight on the performance of technology vendors. See which vendors were recognized for their servers built for virtualization.

An introduction to Red Hat Storage Server Architecture

With real storage virtualization, according to the report, you can improve operational efficiency and drive down costs. And you can do this without sacrificing - or while even improving flexibility - giving you the ability to "continuously migrate" applications as a part of normal business operations

Discover how the shift from "buy and hold" data center strategy to the next generation of HP ProLiant servers can tackle today's IT constraints and tomorrow's business opportunities in this new IDC dynamic white paper.

Read this whitepaper to find out how Red Hat Storage Server can allow enterprises to quickly and confidently deliver business applications that minimize cost, complexity, and risk while increasing architectural flexibility.

Read this whitepaper to find out how Red Hat Storage Server can allow enterprises to quickly and confidently deliver business applications that minimize cost, complexity, and risk while increasing architectural flexibility.

Today’s organizations are tasked with managing multiple data types, coming from a wide variety of sources. Faced with massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data, organizations are finding that in order to deliver insights in a timely manner, they need a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake is an architectural approach that allows you to store massive amounts of data into a central location, so it’s readily available to be categorized, processed, analyzed, and consumed by diverse groups within an organization. Since data - structured and unstructured - can be stored as-is, there’s no need to convert it to a predefined schema and you no longer need to know what questions you want to ask of your data beforehand.

Snapfish is the world's No. 1 online photo service, with more than 60 million members in 20 countries and more than 5 billion unique photos stored online. Its previous storage infrastructure was not able to meet Snapfish's existing and future needs. The company was looking for a storage solution that would offer extreme scalability, flexibility, reliability, improve performance, balance performance and capacity with affordability, and meet its business needs for partnering. Read this case study to learn how Snapfish built and has maintained a highly scalable, affordable, high-performance storage architecture that has kept up with customer demand.

Learn how SARCOM, a leading IT services provider, used a virtualized HP-based SAN infrastructure linked to server blades, with point-in-time replication (full data set snapclones) and backup to tape libraries to improve storage performance, flexibility, and reliability while reducing costs and protecting data.

In the real world, IT must combine hardware, software, and technologies from multiple vendors to solve business problems. 3cV is the combination of HP 3PAR Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem. Find out more in this white paper.

This ESG Lab Validation Report sponsored by HP + Intel examines a number of backup and recovery solutions and evaluates their ease of implementation as well as their ability to improve reliability and reduce costs.

Be in the know about the appropriate criteria which will enable your "tier-1" storage to cope and respond to the needs of the "next-generation data center".

This white paper sponsored by HP & Intel introduces a solution that can extend tier-1 storage choice to provide a combination of power, flexibility, economy and ease.

This white paper sponsored by HP & Intel discusses Exchange business drivers, market dynamics, and storage trends -- and how HP & Intel storage solutions can enhance an Exchange environment.

In this white paper, find out more about HP Converged Storage - a convergence of advanced HP Infrastructure gathered together within a cohort storage product portfolio that will offer your business performance and agility.