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Storage Capacity Planning and Performance


This topic includes news, expert advice and best practices on storage capacity planning and storage performance for storage service providers, consultants, systems integrators and value-added resellers (VARs) who help customers address storage performance and capacity planning. You'll find information on storage performance measurement and rankings, storage capacity assessment, selling storage management services, choosing capacity planning tools, storage network bandwidth planning, storage network bottlenecks and other capacity planning and performance issues.
IN THIS TOPIC:  EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVICE (22) , REFERENCE & LEARNING (20) , NEWS (6)

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Storage capacity assessment
FAQS - Check out Kurtis Lindemann's answers to these commonly asked questions about assessing a customer's storage capacity needs. Or, download them as an MP3 file and take them with you.
Capacity planning and management tools create service opportunities
TIP - Capacity planning and management tools enable service providers to help customers maximize their IT resources.
How does thin provisioning impact capacity planning?
FAQ: - Learn about thin provisioning and whether its storage improvements outweigh its risks.
What tools can determine a customer's data growth rate?
FAQ: - Learn which tools you can use to determine a customer's data growth rate.
How should snapshot overhead be determined?
FAQ: - Learn how much overhead to reserve for storage snapshots.

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Top five data storage compression methods
Submitted By: SearchStorageChannel.com | 14 Jul 2008
CHANNEL CHECKLIST - Learn the top five methods for lossless and transparent storage compression.
Capacity planning and management tools create service opportunities
Submitted By: SearchStorageChannel.com | 30 Jan 2008
TIP - Capacity planning and management tools enable service providers to help customers maximize their IT resources.
How does thin provisioning impact capacity planning?
Submitted By: SearchStorageChannel.com | 30 Jan 2008
FAQ: - Learn about thin provisioning and whether its storage improvements outweigh its risks.
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  REFERENCE & LEARNING: 1 - 3 of 20
Best practices for storage capacity planning
SearchStorageChannel.com | 02 May 2008
FEATURE - Storage capacity planning goes beyond predicting customers' growth. You should also help them curb it with best practices.
Predicting data storage growth
SearchStorageChannel.com | 01 May 2008
FEATURE - If your customers have deep pockets, predicting data storage growth is a simple chore. But for small companies, you'll need to be more creative.
The benefits of storage capacity planning
SearchStorageChannel.com | 15 Apr 2008
FEATURE - Storage capacity planning can deliver benefits by balancing utilization and growth rates with architecture and tolerance for upgrades.
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  NEWS: 1 - 3 of 6
Predicting data storage growth
SearchStorageChannel.com | 24 Apr 2008
FEATURE - If your customers have deep pockets, predicting data storage growth is a simple chore. But for small companies, you'll need to be more creative.
Selling storage management services to SMBs: Overcome storage outsourcing fears
SearchStorageChannel.com | 10 Apr 2007
ARTICLE - Storage management service providers must put their expertise to task when selling to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) hesitant to outsource storage.
Clustered storage is changing SMB channel conversations
SearchStorageChannel.com | 03.06.2007
OPINION - It's time to change your storage conversation. As clustered storage products enter the small to medium-sized business market, you not only need to change what storage technologies and services you sell but how you talk to SMB ...
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Tier Storage, Online Storage Services, Data Provisioning Tools, Data Migration Tools and Strategies, Data Archiving, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)


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