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Goodbye Manual Reporting: Infrastructure Team Improves Analysis & Decision-Making
Most IT storage teams are familiar with the struggle: Important data about your storage environment is not immediately available, and in order to get it you have to spend hours on manual reporting through spreadsheets or other internal processes. Besides the wasted time, the other consequence is even more harmful to your business: errors that [...]
Visual Storage Intelligence Named Finalist for Three 2021 SDC Awards
Visual Storage Intelligence has been named a finalist for three distinct 2021 SDC Awards: Storage Management Innovation of the Year, SaaS Innovation of the Year, and Storage Company of the Year. (Click here to vote!) The Storage, Digitalization and Cloud (SDC) Awards are the premier IT event for rewarding success in the products and services [...]
Data Storage Can Drive Sustainability in IT
Data storage and infrastructure use a significant amount of energy, creating sustainability challenges. Globally, data centers have used between 1% and 3% of all worldwide electricity usage at different times over the last decade (measurement estimates vary). And it’s no secret that data center energy consumption is growing rapidly. Is sustainability even possible in modern [...]
Public Cloud or On-Premises: Storage Reporting Considerations
Everyone in IT is familiar with the question: Is it best to move storage to the public cloud or on-premises? Or is a combination of both better? On-premises and public cloud storage are radically different from each other, especially when it comes to storage reporting and monitoring. For storage and infrastructure professionals, there are trade-offs [...]
Customer Service is the Missing Ingredient in Your Storage Management
Does your Storage Management offer personal customer service and data reporting? No matter how you manage your storage - complicated spreadsheets, detailed SRM software, or even open-source tools - it's probably up to you to figure out how to accomplish your goals. Open-source tools typically rely on forums of other users to share their lessons [...]
How to Predict Changes in Variable Capacity Arrays
Variable capacity arrays, also known as “All Flash” storage arrays (like Pure Storage, EMC XTREMIO, and HP Nimble) are popular in the enterprise storage marketplace. Thanks to space reduction technologies like compression and deduplication, customers can buy 20TB of storage while actually storing 80TB of data. Customers love these arrays because they improve the cost-effectiveness [...]