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Taneja Group analysts have loads of experience in both the vendor and end-user IT communities, which gives them a unique view of industry trends, vendors and products. It’s their long-running, hands-on experience that enables them to provide the insightful commentary that journalists need.
Solving Storage Growth Challenges: Avoid Storage That Undercuts Consolidation
Join Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with Taneja Group, and Jason Collier, CTO of Scale Computing, for a discussion on solving data growth challenges. In this presentation attendees will learn which storage architectures deliver on scalability and address both capacity and performance, and how to avoid those that undercut consolidation efforts due to an inability to scale simply and affordably.
During this online-only event, you will hear actual case studies where storage deployments lowered capital expenditures, and increased operational savings by using storage with simple management and simple scalability. Jason and Jeff will discuss these cases and the critical features that most small to medium-sized enterprises will need in a storage solution to accomplish consolidation, virtualization and availability goals.
- Premiered: 11/21/11 at OnDemand
- Location: Online: Please Register
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): Scale Computing & Ziff Davis Enterprise
Live Radio Podcast: Transitioning to Cloud Storage with Jeff Boles
Cloud services can save SMBs significant operational and capital costs. But it’s not always clear what should be ported to a cloud service, nor how or when. Questions of application integration, data de-duplication, and data optimization, along with other issues, must be addressed. In this edition, Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst/Director, Validation Services, Taneja Group, discusses the focus on making a smooth transition from onsite storage to cloud services.
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- Premiered: 11/16/11 at Wednesday, November 16th at 2pm EST
- Location: OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): Symantec
Tiering storage primer: Data classification, archiving key
Tiering storage can be a challenge. Data must be classified into the right storage tiers, and it’s not always clear what data should go where. IT managers must also comb through several different types of storage tiering, such as automated storage tiering, dynamic storage tiering and sub-LUN tiering. Although tools (such as data migration tools) exist to help users tier their storage, they can often be complicated to use.
- Premiered: 07/22/11 at OnDemand
- Location: OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Taneja Group
- Sponsor(s): TechTarget: SearchStorage.com
What you need to know about automatic failover and disaster recovery automation
Automatic failover for disaster recovery is an option for organizations that need a zero downtime environment, and there are a number of approaches available in the market today. Andrew Burton, senior editor of SearchDisasterRecovery.com and Jeff Boles, senior analyst with the Taneja Group, discuss who should consider automatic failover, the vendors that offer products in this space, how the technology works, and the challenges associated with automatic failover.
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- Premiered: 06/22/11 at OnDemand
- Location: OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): TechTarget: SearchDisasterRecover.com
Auto tiering crucial to storage efficiency
Auto tiering is used to help optimize data running across LUNs and file systems. It’s an important storage efficiency tool, and many users and vendors see it as a must-have technology. It’s especially key for users who have solid-state drives (SSDs) in place. SSDs have capacity constraints, and auto-tiering software helps with performance demands.
In this podcast interview, Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director, validation services at Taneja Group, discusses the importance of auto tiering in today’s data storage industry. Find out auto tiering’s main purpose in the data center; the difference between sub-LUN tiering and auto tiering; when sub-LUN tiering is a better choice than auto tiering; who the big vendors are that support auto tiering; and what the future looks like for automated storage tiering. Read the transcript below or download the MP3.
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- Premiered: 06/09/11 at On Demand
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): TechTarget and Dell Compellent
Automated Tiering Primer: How to Implement Auto Tiering
Data storage administrators are often faced with the decision of whether or not to automatically tier their storage. While many might think it’s a good idea to quickly adopt automated tiering, it might not be the best choice, especially if you have applications that require high bandwidth and quick response times.
In this podcast interview, Ashish Nadkarni, senior analyst and consultant at Taneja Group, discusses the ins and outs of automated tiering. Find out if automated storage tiering improves storage efficiency; how to implement an automated tiering project; and the best way to determine if you should manually or automatically tier data. Finally, get pointers on when to be concerned about auto tiering gaining too much control over your environment; what environments aren’t suitable for automated storage tiering; and get the scoop on sub-LUN tiering.
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- Premiered: 06/07/11 at OnDemand
- Location: OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Ashish Nadkarni
- Sponsor(s): TechTarget Podcast sponsored by Dell Compellent