Life Cycle of Storage Challenges

Primary Storage—The Origin of a Life Cycle of Storage Challenges

The most complex and costly storage challenges are entirely related to storing and managing data over a life cycle that must be longer than reasonable on rapidly evolving digital systems. CES will have resounding and lasting impact on the practice of storage because that life cycle begins when data is created on primary storage. The integration of cloud and primary storage systems for the first time enables primary storage to deliver features and data management well beyond physically limited devices, systems or data centers. Such storage can eradicate or at least massively reduce the need to move and manipulate stored data.

Instrumenting your storage infrastructure

You might think you have good insight into your infrastructure, but for next-generation data centers, it probably isn’t good enough.

If you’re responsible for business-wide IT infrastructure strategy, you’re facing a unique array of innovative, appealing and business-changing technology choices. I can’t recall ever having witnessed a similar number of big picture choices to rival the selection we’re currently seeing from virtualization, automation, the cloud and more. Moreover, nearly everything is better integrated and easier to use. But one element – visibility—remains an unusual sticking point.

Today’s Data Protection Business Dilemma and Challenges

In our 2006 research paper, Taneja Group presented a vision to the industry introducing the concept of Continuous Data Technologies (CDT) (Taneja Group TECHNOLOGY IN BRIEF Continuous Data Technologies: A New Paradigm April, 2006.) The underlying issue was that data protection and the associated data management methods available to the market for the last three decades were broken and, in our opinion, required a complete overhaul.

Three key VDI storage challenges

Virtual desktops offer some attractive benefits, but storage systems that aren’t up to the task can make it hard to realize those benefits.

Not all scale-out NAS systems are created equal

You may already be sold on the concept of scale-out NAS, but scale-out systems vary widely and you’ll have plenty of decisions to make before buying one.

9 Top eDiscovery Trends for 2012

So many people come out with end of the year “Trends” articles that I sometimes skip it. However, there is so much rapid morphing in the eDiscovery industry that if I didn’t share my 2012 trends I’d be a slacker. We can’t have that.

The following 9 points are some of the trends you need to know about the complex field of eDiscovery coming into 2012.