How to purchase and manage your data storage capacity

If effective data storage capacity management is a difficulty in your organisation, you're not alone. In this SearchStorage.co.UK interview, GlassHouse Technologies (UK) principal consultant Steve Pinder discusses why users buy more data storage ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) basics for UK data storage managers

In this SearchStorage.co.UK interview, Ian Lock, storage practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), discusses the basics of network-attached storage, what components make up a NAS environment and how the file-system capabilities of NAS differ from block-based storage solutions. Lock also examines the types of advanced features that are ava...

SAN switching: How to configure a SAN switch

Do you know how to configure a storage-area network (SAN) switch? In this podcast from SearchStorage.co.UK, bureau chief Antony Adshead talks with Steve Pinder, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about how to decide what fabric topology to implement, the importance of zoning and masking, and how to figure out fan-in and fan-out ratios. Click on the podcast link or read the tr...

Disaster recovery for data storage environments podcast

For effective disaster recovery (DR), data storage managers must know the key elements of a DR plan and how to effectively leverage storage technologies to execute them....

Benefits and limitations of MAID storage: A step toward a green data centre

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Podcast: Email archiving for storage managers

In this SearchStorage.co.UK podcast, UK storage bureau chief Antony Adshead discusses email archiving with Anthony Dickinson, principle consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK). Dickinson touches on the storage aspects of email archiving, how an email archiving sy...

Making the most of your storage resources: Improving storage utilisation

In today's economy, making the most of your data storage resources is a crucial part of any storage professional's job. SearchStorage.co.UK bureau chief Antony Adshead talks with Ian Lock, storage practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (...

If Not Now, When? Create a Disaster Recovery Strategy Today

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Data classification methods and guidelines

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Search Storage UK Podcast: Impact of virtualised servers on storage

Andrew McCreath, virtualisation practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies U.K., explains the impact of virtualised server environments on storage and backup. ...

Search Storage UK Unified Storage Podcast and FAQ

Q. What is unified storage? A. Unified storage is a storage system that's defined as being able to provide storage access at block level and file level. Block level has been traditionally Fibre Channel to a SAN [storage-area network], and now iSCSI adds to that as a method to allow servers and users to access data. Unifying stor...

Conversation with Virtual Strategy Magazine about GlassHouse’s new security services

Listen to this podcast featuring Robbie Higgins, VP of Security, Natalie Hahn O’Flaherty, VP of Marketing and Scott Shepard, Principal Consultant, about GlassHouse’s recent expansion into security services and the crossover with their current virtualization services....

SearchStorage UK Data Protection Trends Podcast

 What are the latest trends in data backup and protection? SearchStorage.co.uk Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Simon Johnson, GlassHouse data recovery practice lead to get the latest tips and trends.Listen to this podcast on data backu...

FAQ Guide: Answers to tough questions about SAN hardware

For a storage administrator working with a storage area network, there's never a dearth of questions. Issues with SANs, and specifically SAN hardware, are the subject of this podcast with Steve Pinder, principal consultant of Glass...

Managed Virtualization

GlassHouse Technologies, a leading independent IT infrastructure consulting and services firm, today announced the launch of a pioneering suite of Managed Services for Virtual Environments. The new services are delivered via an advanced Management Interface that leverages virtualization management software from Tek-Tools Software. This combination results in unparalleled visibility, monitoring ...