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This tip shows you what features you need to search for when looking for storage automation products.

Following SSD best practices will benefit companies a great deal with improved performance.

Classifying data for tiered storage may sound simple, but it's not. Learn best practices for effective tiered storage, including capacity planning and data archiving technology.

Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses offsite vs. onsite storage.

Policy managers take your business rules about the information being managed, then implement those rules to move, store and delete information in the enterprise...

Green storage best practices control power and cooling costs, and increase energy efficiency in your data center. Tiered storage, consolidating storage arrays, solid-state drives (SSDs) and MAID can help.

The number of cloud success stories is growing. The cloud is here, but where is it headed? What are the risks? And how can IT organizations prepare for the future? NetApp's Raymond Siow takes us through the three levels of cloud computing and offers three tips to becoming "cloud-ready".

Thin provisioning allows storage capacity that has been allocated to various apps or servers, but not actually consumed, to be shared. This allows you to use less disk capacity.

Find out why solid-state drives (SSDs) are rapidly becoming a major factor in enterprise data storage arrays, and what you need to know about the multifaceted technology. Learn about SSD trends and future directions in this tutorial.

User acceptance is crucial to an email archiving project. Learn how complete integration, offline access and mobile access ensure a user-friendly email archiving system.

 
 

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Discover why the Coriell Institute for Medical Research turned to IBM when they wanted a compact storage solution that would be easy to manage and that would enable us to grow capacity nondisruptively at a financially acceptable cost per terabyte.
Discover why thousands of organizations are discovering that the IBM XIV Storage System series, with a virtualized storage architecture, is a perfect fit with VMware environments.
 
Avon Cycles, India's largest cycle manufacturer, and Nongfu Spring, China's largest bottled water producer, are now ramp up customers of SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.
With 2012 revenues of $4.1 billion, Electronic Arts (EA) is the third-largest video game company in the world by revenue behind only Nintendo and Activision Blizzard. It boasts landmark franchises such as Madden NFL, FIFA, The Sims and Mass Effect. Through its PopCap Games subsidiary it is the publisher of hits like Bejeweled and Plants vs. Zombies. And yet, in June of 2012, EA's chief operating officer compared the company to a burning oil platform.