Maximizing your enterprise data storage capacity is more important than ever before. With the majority of storage budgets unable to keep pace with data growth rates, most storage administrators need to find ways to reduce capital and operating expenses to survive the economic downturn. Download this tutorial to learn more about tiered storage. 

The final 2009 issue of Storage Magazine Online features the 5 technologies that our editorial team and expert contributors predict will make the biggest impact in 2010. Plus, our annual Salary Survey shows how the economy is affecting the highly-specialized world of storage in IT. 

Too many organizations fail to recognize the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery. The two scenarios are actually vastly different in terms of hardware and management needs. View this webcast to ensure you're prepared for any outage - whether hardware failure or full-scale disaster - and learn the differences of BC and DR. 

As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. 

In this expert podcast W. Curtis Preston describes the most effective techniques, tools and best practices for protecting edge or mobile data. 

To help you make an informed decision when considering various storage solutions, the Storage Value Index takes into account not only purchase price, but capacity, efficiency, and operating expenses as well. This paper explains how the Storage Value Index was designed and offers suggestions for finding the best storage value for your needs. 

Learn the basics of data protection using deduplication in less than 10 minutes. 

Enterprise Elementary School District uses Dell expertise to help bring technology to the classroom by optimizing key applications to run up to 65 percent faster with the virtualized Dell/EMC SAN and help boost uptime by an estimated 15 percent for a 99.9 percent uptime total. 

Using EMC RecoverPoint/SE software and appliances, Hosted Solutions built a cost-effective, best-in-class data protection and recovery solution to protect client's multi-vendor environments. 

CyberShift needed visibility into actual resource utilization to continually identify, predict, and resolve memory and storage capacity bottlenecks. Learn how they used VKernel's Capacity Analyzer and Optimization Pack to achieve better monitoring, managing, and optimizing with its VMware infrastructure. 

This case study looks at a Fortune 1000 company who recognizes that its storage environment has changed and has not kept pace. Before the company makes another storage purchase, it turns to Forsythe for help in assessing its existing storage infrastructure and designing an optimized, cost-efficient storage environment. 

This whitepaper will discuss how the push for continued virtualization and the "cloud"- along with a consolidated view that manages the infrastructure - is quickly becoming a reality due to market and end-user demand. You'll also learn what questions to ask yourself to assist in creating an organizational strategy for the best management approach. 

This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users.