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.
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.
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In this podcast, Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with the Taneja Group, outlines the significance of WAN optimization in the disaster recovery (DR) space.
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This webcast transcript dives into cloud services and cloud-integrated storage systems designed to optimize your storage management and data backup and archiving.
WHITE PAPER:
As infrastructure elements are now abstracted from their hardware layers and controlled by software, highly resilient, shared datastores can help you grow as go. Download this white paper to learn the 5 benefits of adopting software-defined storage (SDS) and how an SDS approach can fulfill your growing datastorage needs.
WHITE PAPER:
Check out this informative paper to explore the current state of cloud storage. Discover a benchmark comparison of today's top cloud storage solutions and explore one vendor's offering that stands out from the rest. Read on to learn more.
WHITE PAPER:
Learn about the new features and capabilities available on Dell's Storage Center 6.4, including Flash optimized solutions and a new SC280 dense enclosure.
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.
WHITE PAPER:
Storage capacity utilization metrics provide a framework you can use to analyze and manage SAN storage use across a diverse IT environment. Check out this white paper to explore how capacity metrics can help your organization with efficiency, capacity management, and risk management.
CASE STUDY:
Applying the ideas and principles of cloud computing to IT operations can offer organizations agility and cost savings. Read this paper to learn more about building a cloud infrastructure through the use case presented by Parallels Elastic IT Solution.
