If you’re trying to figure out how to do more with less when it comes to your storage, I’d strongly suggest you participate in an upcoming Webinar, “How to Use Storage Tiering to Create Cost Efficient Storage of your Online Data.” It will take place on August 5 at 9 a.m. PDT and 12 p.m. EDT.
The time to register for this event is now, and visiting the above link will walk you through the steps to do so.
Sponsored by Ocarina and BlueArc, the webcast will delve into the practicalities involved in achieving storage efficiency. The focus will be on use of intelligent storage tiering and capacity optimization technologies to reduce data footprint and effectively manage data center storage resources.
Featured panelists will be Noemi Greyzdorf, Research Manager, Storage Software at IDC, Victoria Kepnik, Sr Product Manager at BlueArc, and Eric Scollard, VP of Sales at Ocarina Networks.
As we have discussed here in the past, storage tiering can be one important way to reduce disk costs. As Carter George put it in a recent post: To keep up, you have to cut the flab out of your storage. This, too, calls for a two-pronged approach. … This means doing a better job of tiering, and keeping files only as long as you really need them … The second part is the “exercise” element of keeping your storage slim and trim. That is, run a storage efficiency tool –may we suggest Ocarina as one example — that will efficiently trim the fat out of your data. That kind of combination means that you really can tighten your belt on your storage budget.”
And while storage tiering and capacity optimization are frequently discussed in storage publications, this is the first time I’ve seen this particular group of storage experts come together and take a serious and significant look at the details of how this can best be achieved for your enterprise. We look forward to your participation.
