• Top five SMB backup tips

    The editors of SearchSMBStorage.com have compiled this list of five tips to help you develop a data backup strategy that’s right for your needs.

  • Top five tips on data management tools

    SMBs face unique challenges when it comes to storage management. Check out our five favorite tips on data management tools from the past year.

  • A look at storage in Windows Server 8

    Frequent TechTarget contributor and Microsoft MVP Brien Posey introduces some of the storage features and changes in Windows Server 8 in this video.

  • Top five tips for choosing a NAS device

    The editors of SearchSMBStorage.com have closely followed the network attached storage (NAS) device market. Here are our top five NAS device tips.

Tips

  • MAID and other energy-saving storage technologies for S

    The cost to power and cool data storage gear is eating up IT budgets. In this tip, Daniel Dern discusses eight ways that small to midsized businesses (SMBs) can keep storage energy costs down while...

  • Top questions to consider when consolidating SANs

    Small-midsized businesses (SMBs) frequently deal with disparate storage area networks (SANs). Many start with an entry-level system and later add a larger, more sophisticated one. In this tip, Marc...

  • How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs

    USB flash drives containing business-critical data are lost, misplaced and stolen in small-midsized businesses (SMBs) nearly everyday. In this tip, Daniel Dern discusses how your business can lever...

  • The pros and cons of thin provisioning

    Most storage area networks (SANs) have a section in their marketing material entitled "Thin Provisioning," but what is it, how does it work and why does it matter? In this tip, Mark Arnold discusse...

  • How SMBs can ensure storage security

    With minimal time and a small budget, many small and midsized businesses (SMBs) often struggle to achieve reasonable information security. In this tip, Kevin Beaver discusses the keys areas that SM...

  • How to establish a recovery time objective (RTO) for SM

    What does recovery time objective (RTO) exactly mean? The RTO is the specific amount of time before a business is negatively impacted by the interruption of a system or application supporting criti...

  • RAID levels and application suitability, Part one

    With disk protection for business data, one size does not fit all. Applications and the various categories of data within a given application require different levels of protection. This tip discus...

  • Seven steps for outsourcing data storage for SMBs

    Although hard drives keep getting higher in capacity and lower in price, storage is still increasingly challenging for SMBs. This tip discusses seven tips for outsourcing data storage to help SMBs ...

  • The rising cost of cheap SMB storage

    The commoditization of data storage has been consistently driving its acquisition costs down. However, hidden costs have surfaced as SMBs struggle to manage growing amounts of data. This tip discus...

  • SMB capacity planning: Focusing on energy conservation

    To avoid IT service delivery disruptions, SMBs can put a storage capacity planning program into place. This tip discusses how a capacity plan can forecast what storage performance, availability, ca...

  • Outsourcing email archiving for SMBs

    While email significantly improves productivity, it also carries some heavy baggage. This tip discusses how email archiving can enable SMBs to decrease the costs associated with email, allow employ...

  • How does content-addressed storage differ from backup?

    The term content-addressed storage (CAS) refers to systems that store data in such a way that an object cannot be duplicated or modified once it has been stored. In this tip, Russ Fellows discusses...

  • Tips and tools for making the most of event log files

    Nearly every part of your system reports events can be logged. This tip discusses which events you should log and best practices for making sense out of that information once it is logged.

  • Troubleshooting SAN performance issues

    SAN troubleshooting is tough because good design is not always obvious and Fibre Channel standards make interoperability a concern. This tip will review some common problem areas with SANs, describ...

  • Moving from DAS to NAS

    As the volume of data and the number of users in SMBs grow, direct-attached storage (DAS) becomes harder to manage. In this tip, Rick Cook discusses how SMBs can benefit from adding storage to thei...

  • Tiered storage for SMBs

    If an SMB hasn't already deployed an iSCSI SAN or NAS filers, they're probably about to. This tip discusses how SMBs can increase the cost savings of consolidating storage by implementing tiers of ...

  • VTL 101: Integrating a virtual tape library into your b

    A virtual tape library (VTL) is a disk array that mimics tape. In this tip, Rick Cook discusses the basics of Integrating VTLs into a small-midsized business (SMB) environment.

  • Backup 101: Seven tips for better SMB backups

    Because budget and technical expertise are frequently strained in SMBs, an effective backup strategy must take those issues into consideration. The following tips can help you make successful backups.

  • Data storage security issues for SMBs

    Federal compliance is as complex for the SMB as it is for the large enterprise. This tip discusses how your business can implement a secure business and technology storage environment to ensure it ...

  • How to boot from a SAN

    Not too long ago, the idea of storing a server's operating system on the SAN was treated with skepticism. Now, with the growing adoption of iSCSI storage, some SMBs moving to networked storage are ...