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Storage capacity management obviously drives CapEx expenditures. However, capacity management also ripples through the rest of storage infrastructure cost profile. Capacity impacts software license costs, maintenance costs as well as power/cooling an...

By: Terri McClure, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. Keeping Pace with Data Growth Continues to be a Top Storage Challenge The management of file-based or “unstructured” content (i.e., multimedia files, Web pages, office productivity documents, et...

By Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, the StorageIO Group, Author “The Green and Virtual Data Center” (CRC) Introduction Healthcare organizations are faced with the demands of supporting a growing patient population requiring more procedures an...

Major changes in the health care industry are almost certain as organizations drive toward greater electronic records management (EMR) efficiency and regulatory mandates loom on the horizon. Two counter-trends exist: a need to invest in infrastructur...

Thin provisioning and data deduplication are strategies for reducing the growth rate and space consumption of new data or finding more efficient ways of storing it. These strategies must be combined with addressing unnecessary data storage in order ...