Storage How-To Center

Welcome To The Storage How-To Center

No matter how large or how small your company may be — or whether the economy is growing or shrinking — it's a pretty safe bet that your storage needs keep expanding. In fact, the only thing growing faster than storage requirements may be the available options for storage, backup and business continuity. The Storage How-To Center was created to help bring SMBs up to speed on storage technologies, terms, and best practices; from the basics to virtualization and beyond.

PRIMER

Storage Primer

Don't know your SAN from your NAS? We'll show you how to make sense out of today's storage technology options and pick the right storage solution to meet your business needs. [Free registration required] Download this exclusive PDF How-To Guide now!

IN-DEPTH

Storage Virtualization Defined

Storage virtualization separates your storage systems from applications that rely on them — an approach that offers important advantages at a time when many SMBs are drowning in a sea of business data. [Free registration required] Download this exclusive PDF How-To Guide now!

More About Storage

...from bMighty

Why Storage Is Such A Challenge For SMBs
SMB storage needs keep growing, but factors from virtualization to proprietary terminology keep storage way more complicated than it has to be.
Electronic Document Storage For SMBs
Electronic document storage system may not lead your company to the paperless office, but it just might save you some money while helping to save the planet.
How To Buy Hardware For Your Business
Small and midsize businesses need to invest in hardware, but during these tough economic times, any purchase must be done wisely. bMighty talked to some experts about when to upgrade your equipment and what to consider when buying hardware.
Should Your Business Move To The Cloud?
As cloud computing comes of age, the options, security, and pricing only become more appealing, but is now the right time to move your business into the cloud?
11 IT Best Practices: Monkey See, Monkey Do?
The term "best practice" is a widely misused and misunderstood management consulting idea. Business owners and IT managers would be wise to abandon it in favor of a return to basics that seek only the best solutions for the unique business issues they must support.
5 Tips For Green Data Storage
SMBs are advised to dump tape backups if they want to reduce the carbon footprint of their storage solutions.

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Information Center

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Affordable Consolidation Solutions with VMware and IBM Systems Storage DS3000 Series
Learn about the benefits of VMware. Did you know that consolidating servers with VMware infrastructure can deliver significant benefits? These include: reduced capital and operating costs, faster IT response to business demands, and improved IT service levels among others. This product literature will address the challenge for IT to achieve the full benefits of IT shared storage while dealing with the demands of an affordable yet expandable storage solution.

Next Generation Data Protection for Midsize Companies
This white paper dispels the myth that just because your company isn't a major corporation with hundreds of offices and thousands of employees doesn't mean that you're not under the same pressures as a large company. Read this paper to learn why it is imperative to maintain access to critical information so that you can run your business and remain competitive.

The Smartest Way to Deal with Disaster - Be Ready Before it Happens.
Read this to learn why you should leave no data unprotected. If you are among the concerned about your ability to recover lost data, you are not alone. This is a concern for over 65 percent of IT managers at midsize companies who feel that they are not properly equipped to recover all their corporate data.

IBM's Business Continuance Bundle for SMEs
This paper spotlights business continuance with small -to-medium-enterprise (SME) IT professionals. It discusses common business continuance concerns and how to be prepared for them.