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  Report Inquiry Spotlight: Five Ways To Modernize Your Storage Strategy

  Cloud Storage, Flash Arrays, And Software-Defined Storage Take Center Stage

  March 26, 2015 | Henry Baltazar

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals are struggling to evolve their infrastructure to meet the daunting scalability, performance, and rapid provisioning challenges created by the...

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  Report Brief: The Software-Defined Data Center Is Still A Work In Progress

  Four Recommendations For Embarking On Your SDDC Journey

  August 27, 2014 | Richard Fichera

  To accelerate business growth, infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals must understand and ultimately master four key I&O-related trends: 1) continually consolidate and optimize the...

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  Report Quick Take: Dell's Nutanix Partnership Escalates The Hyperconvergence Vendor War

  Witness The Beginning Of A New Era In Infrastructure Convergence

  June 24, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Dell's new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnership with hyperconvergence pioneer Nutanix adds a disruptive element to its portfolio that will help you design and deliver services more...

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  Report Seven Influential Storage Trends Shaping Your Near-Term Strategy

  Flash And Object Storage Expand Tiering Options To Better Serve Your Business

  May 21, 2014 | Henry Baltazar

  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) decision-makers continue to struggle with unbridled data growth and must change inefficient storage buying habits to keep their customers happy and key data...

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  Report Cache Is King In Cloud Storage Enablement

  How Cloud Storage Gateways Can Facilitate Storage Across The WAN

  August 6, 2012 | Andrew Reichman

  Cloud storage options abound these days, and enterprise infrastructure and operations professionals are eager to take advantage of expected cost and flexibility benefits. But for most...

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  Report Top 10 Storage Predictions For I&O Professionals

  February 24, 2012 | Andrew Reichman, Vanessa Alvarez

  Storage teams faced another busy year as their businesses produced larger volumes of data than ever before and sought better storage performance to feed applications that support business growth....

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  Report Market Overview: Midrange Storage, Q3 2011

  Unified Storage Architectures Enable Private Cloud Environments

  August 29, 2011 | Vanessa Alvarez

  The storage industry is undergoing a transition. Infrastructure and operations (I&O) execs know that storage is a core component of enabling private cloud environments. But to achieve cloud...

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  Report Are Converged Infrastructures Good For IT?

  New Unified Solutions Strive To Accelerate Virtualization Maturity

  May 17, 2010 | James Staten

  IT pros have most of the basic ingredients to cook up their own cloud-like infrastructure — but there's no recipe, and many ingredients just don't combine well. Complicating the story are the...

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  Report Controlling Storage Cost Amid High Growth

  February 3, 2010 | Stephanie Balaouras, Andrew Reichman

  Storage capacity has been growing fast for the past five years, and an end to the recession is only likely to spur further expansion as projects are re-funded. Recent data shows storage commanding...

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  Report Storage Market Status And Predictions Report

  September 1, 2009 | Bryan Wang, Gene Cao

  This report provides unique market research on storage in China's mid-market, including the market dynamics and trends prevalent in order to enable vendor strategists to address market...

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  Report Inside The Campus: IT In India's Education Sector

  July 1, 2009 | Dane Anderson

  This report examines the Indian education system from kindergarten to college and highlights opportunities for vendor strategists. It is now an acknowledged fact in India that emerging technologies...

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  Report Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments

  Most Firms Go Conservative But Still Struggle With Performance And Efficiency

  January 15, 2009 | Andrew Reichman

  Server virtualization is the most substantial shift in IT so far this decade. Adoption is high, and firms are virtualizing mission-critical and business-critical applications. But while server...

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  Report Do You Really Need A SAN Anymore?

  Dedicated Application Storage Proposes More Simplicity And Lower Cost

  December 4, 2008 | Andrew Reichman

  It's been the conventional wisdom of the past 10 years that to provide the best performance, protection, and capacity utilization for applications and databases, you need a robust storage array in...

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  Report Five Key Storage Strategies For A Down Economy

  Tips To Make The Most Of A Tight Budget In The Face Of Ongoing Data Growth

  July 16, 2008 | Andrew Reichman

  It's clear that the economy is on a downward trajectory, and regardless of the duration or severity, there's no doubt that belt-tightening in IT spending will be the norm for the next year. At the...

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  Report 10 GbE: Its Time Is Coming

  Start Targeted Deployments Today, But Anticipate Broad Investment In 2010

  May 16, 2008 | Andrew Reichman, James Staten

  Ten gigabit per second Ethernet (10 GbE) represents the next level of enterprise network bandwidth, with vendors hyping it as the next great capability. But as an IT infrastructure and operations...

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  Report Market Overview: File-Based Storage

  NAS Offerings And Other Approaches To Address An Avalanche Of Files

  April 14, 2008 | Andrew Reichman

  Firms must store more and more file data as users generate more office documents and create more rich digital content such as photos, audio files, and video files, and as applications do more with...

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  Report Cost Comparison Of iSCSI Versus Fibre Channel SAN Components

  Favorable Economics Makes iSCSI Worthy Of Serious Consideration

  February 7, 2008 | Andrew Reichman

  Although a great deal of energy is expended discussing the performance differences of IP-based and Fibre Channel (FC)-based storage area networks (SAN), it is generally accepted that it is cheaper...

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  Report Storage Buyer Profile: 2006

  Business Data Services North America And Europe

  April 18, 2007 | Stephanie Balaouras, Frank E. Gillett

  To help storage marketers better understand storage buyers, we asked a set of storage-oriented questions about vendors, adoption of emerging storage technologies, and top storage priorities in our...

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  Report Asia Pacific Storage Buyer Profile: 2006

  April 18, 2007 | Frank E. Gillett

  Asia Pacific storage data.

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  Report Bleeding Edge NAS Joins The Big League

  HDS OEMs BlueArc To Compete With EMC And Network Appliance

  March 21, 2007 | Andrew Reichman, Stephanie Balaouras

  In December 2006, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced that it had taken a minority ownership stake and established an OEM relationship with niche network-attached storage (NAS) player BlueArc...