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  • How to add storage tiering to your data storage environment

    Storage tiering automatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

  • How to add storage tiering to your data storage environment

    Storage tieringautomatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

  • Data reduction techniques for primary storage: How suited are deduplication and compression?

    In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Steve Pinder, practice lead for storage with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the difference between data deduplication and compression, their suitability for use with primary storage and how you can determine whether these data reduction techniques are suited to your primary storage environment.

  • Backing up virtual servers vs. physical servers

    If you want to back up virtual machines, the options may seem confusing. Methods used to back up virtual machines have evolved rapidly over the past couple of years, from an analogue of traditional backup, via an awkward two-stage process, to today’s backup apps that have been re-engineered for the virtual server age. But, what challenges arise with the backing up virtual servers, and why might you want to dig deep into the settings of your backup app to avoid crash-consistent database backups? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with David Boyd, practice lead for backup and recovery with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the difference between backing up virtual servers vs physical servers; image-level backups of VMs; and features such as data deduplication, white-space recognition and active block mapping that are included in current products intended to back up virtual machines.

  • Unified storage architecture: Different approaches, scalability and capacity-saving tools

    A unified storage architecture provides file and block storage access in the same device with connections via Fibre Channel and/or iSCSI and CIFS/NFS depending on the product. Putting the two types of storage access together potentially cuts capital costs and eases management but you need to watch out for performance bottlenecks. In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Ian Lock, service director for storage and backup with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the benefits and limitations of a unified storage architecture, how vendors’ unified storage products differ, and how scalable and flexible it is.

  • RAID rebuilds: How do RAID rebuilds work and which is fastest?

    In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Steve Pinder, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the mechanism of RAID rebuilds and how to ensure the quickest possible RAID rebuild times on your arrays...

  • Network-attached storage (NAS) basics for UK data storage managers

    In this SearchStorage.co.UK interview, Ian Lock, storage practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), discusses the basics of network-attached storage, what components make up a NAS environment and how the file-system capabilities of NAS differ from block-based storage solutions.

  • SAN switching: How to configure a SAN switch

    In this podcast from SearchStorage.co.UK, bureau chief Antony Adshead talks with Steve Pinder, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about how to decide what fabric topology to implement, the importance of zoning and masking, and how to figure out fan-in and fan-out ratios.

  • Disaster recovery for data storage environments podcast

    In this interview, SearchStorage.co.uk Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Simon Johnson of GlassHouse Technologies UK about defining a DR plan and the procedures storage managers need to include in it.

  • Benefits and limitations of MAID storage: A step toward a green data centre

    In this podcast, Simon Johnson, data center practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the benefits and limitations of MAID, as well as MAID levels and how they operate.

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