Demand for solid state arrays (SSAs) continues to exceed market expectations, which is good for the informed consumer. According to Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant report...

Keep Your Storage Close by Keeping F.R.I.E.N.D.S Closer
(Image copyrighted by Warner Bros. Television) Best practices in storage management you can learn from FRIENDS Storage is where data rests when it’s not being...

Webinar – How to Get Real-Time Network Management Right
The IT landscape is changing at an extremely fast rate, and sometimes it feels like we are trying to manage a continually moving target with...

What Is SDS? Software-Defined Storage Defined
The software-defined storage (SDS) market, according to MarketsandMarkets, is expected to be worth a whopping $5.41 billion by 2018. On the other hand, a survey...

Flash Arrays: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A recent study from IDC predicted that worldwide spend in the enterprise all-flash storage market will grow to £1.0B in 2016 from £0.2B in 2012....

The Rise of Flash and SDS
Enterprises have been forever chasing the dream of retrieving their applications in double time. This has resulted in the creation of a number of storage...
Increased Data Means Increased Storage, Managing Demand
According to SAP, 90 percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years. The company further estimates that 2.5...

Achieving Data Center Agility With Converged Infrastructure
Most enterprises rely on their data centers to offer services to internal and external users. Important concerns for any data center today include the following:...
NetFlow on FortiOS
Fortigate now supports NetFlow export by extending its monitoring capabilities to routers and switches. FortiOS 5.2 comes with several features, such as NetFlow V9 export for...