SearchStorage.com.au Analysis & Commentary

All about "bare-metal" restores

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:43:39 +0000

Learn about "bare-metal" restores and how to achieve them in this FAQ and accompanying podcast.

NetApp beats HDS, HP, Sun and EMC for global deal at BT

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:43:18 +0000

UK company BT will use NetApp at 38 locations around the globe, underpinning a new "virtual data centre" offering.

Five ways to boost storage utilisation rates

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:12:06 +0000

Learn how five technologies - including archiving, thin provisioning and wide striping - can help increase the utilisation rate of storage you already own, removing the need for additional hardware buys!

Archiving vs. deduplication

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:18:28 +0000

Archiving your data reduces the volume of information you need to manage. But should you dedupe the data before you archive it, or just use dedupe instead of creating a separate archive to manage? We explore your options in this story.

Did NetApp lose it’s customer database? They get lashed by HDS, HP anyway, as bloggers go mild over Acadia and Emulex and QLogic clash

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:45:39 +0000

Our weekly visit to the storage blogosphere finds HDS lashing NetApp over its customer analysis data, which we suspect could have caused a data loss. Plus, HP gets ignored, EMC gets criticised and bloggers go mild for Acadia.

How to backup and restore SQL Server

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:24:34 +0000

SQL Server is ubiquitous, so make sure you know the best way to conduct backups and restores by learning the top tips in this article.

Podcast: Zombie storage technologies

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:35:03 +0000

RAID and Fiber Channel are technologies that vendors keep churning out, but which can safely be considered dead, argues Storage I/O group founder Greg Schulz in this podcast.

Secret NetApp customer research says HP arrays are “not robust enough”, HDS hard to beat on price

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:52:46 +0000

SearchStorage ANZ has found a NetApp presentation that analyses the reasons the company wins accounts among the Global 5000. The presentation includes data on the NSW Department of Education and Coles Myer, which NetApp says bought HDS products because it was “way cheaper”.

IBM/EMC brawl continues, Pillar pilloried, 3Par swipes at EMC and bloggers vent about FCoE and data deduplication but not Apple and ZFS

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:44:21 +0000

Our weekly delve into the storage blogosphere finds fewer fights than usual, but some action as bloggers burst hype bubbles and EMC cops it from IBM and 3Par

Optimizing enterprise data storage capacity and performance to reduce your data footprint

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:18:24 +0000

Data footprint constraints are not limited to physical space. There are also availability, capacity, power, cooling and other constraints in enterprise storage that need to be addressed with storage systems that provide both enhanced performance and capacity capabilities.

Amazon introduces MySQL in the cloud, high-memory EC2 instances

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:02:13 +0000

Amazon Web Services has launched a new online database service using MySQL and cut the price of cloud Linux servers.

Tutorial: Encryption key management for your backups

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:22:37 +0000

Learn several key management best practices that will help you to secure your at-rest data.

Cloud storage saves download costs for software developer

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:40:27 +0000

Australian software developer QSR International has turned to cloud storage from Amazon’s S3 to contain the costs of offering software and documentation downloads for its clients

Goldilocks and the disaster recovery site

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:15:35 +0000

How do you like your disaster recovery site? Hot? Warm? Or is cold just right for your data? Learn the differences between the three in this story.

How to shrink your data

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:23:45 +0000

Learn how to reduce the amount of data your organisation preserves, to make backups easier and control storage costs.

IBM unleashes its new big storage iron: the DS8700

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:58:53 +0000

IBM has released a new, high-end, storage array: the DS8700. The new product is faster, better at tiering and offers more SSD support.

Source vs. target dedupe for backup apps

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:19:10 +0000

W. Curtis Preston considers whether backup software should offer source or target dedupe.

How to write backup scripts in Perl

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:18:59 +0000

Learn how to use Perl to write backup scripts that automate backup chores that just have to be done every day.

IBM and EMC slanging match, Clouds queried, Pillar pounces, Microsoft’s Sidekick disaster dissected

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:13:12 +0000

Our weekly peek into the storage blogosphere finds bloggers lining up to slam IBM’s new D8700, as the community digests the Sidekick outage and gets excited about clouds and automation.

Users shun VMware backup technologies, stick to older products

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:45:37 +0000

The vStorage APIs are powerful, but users and analysts prefer conventional backup tools ... for now.