ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
This guide offers a comprehensive survey of the hybrid flash storage market. We give the lowdown on hybrid flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we take a look at what's best for virtual desktops: All-flash or hybrid?
EZINE:
In this issue, we take a look at the struggles and triumphs faced by the channel this year so far. Also read up on possible solutions to the skills shortage, including the opening up of STEM to a more diverse range of students, and the necessity for improving skills on the job.
EGUIDE:
In this e-guide we will major on NVMe, the stance towards it of the big five storage makers and the varying architectures marketed to the market. We also look at deploying NVMe in the enterprise and in particular for AI use cases. We also look at contemporary scale-out NAS products and flash options offered by the key cloud providers.
EGUIDE:
This e-guide explores the concept and key characteristics of software-defined storage and points out the cost and scalability benefits it can provide, particularly in virtual infrastructures.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
This webcast transcript dives into cloud services and cloud-integrated storage systems designed to optimize your storage management and data backup and archiving.
TRIAL SOFTWARE:
Download the compact VMware virtual machine and never run out of space again. Nasuni is your integrated storage and backup system that replaces clumsy tape rotations. Download free trial.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In this transcript of a podcast, David Chapa, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, discusses some best practices for tape vaulting. Find out the costs of tape vaulting services, how offsite tape storage costs are determined, how to negotiate your SLAs, and whether or not you should encrypt your tapes before you ship them offsite.
WHITE PAPER:
In response to this solution confusion, Citrix has designed a turnkey “VDI Capacity” test procedure that simulates “a day in the life” of a 750 user desktop virtualization environment and reveals how to achieve VDI-optimized storage for as little as $37 per desktop.
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In this FAQ, Vijay Subramanian, cloud computing expert and practice manager for managed services at Laurus Technologies, an IT services and consulting company in the Midwest, explains how his company evaluated the idea of cloud storage services and gives advice for other VARs considering the same thing.
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
View the helpful blog post to learn how to build the most cost-effective applications using Windows Azure Storage (WAS) by understanding how bandwidth, transactions, and capacity are billed.