Storage tiering automatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

Storage tieringautomatically matches data to particular media types according to a variety of user-defined policies to ensure data resides on the most cost-effective disk. Most storage arrays now come with storage tiering as a standard feature, but how do you add storage tiering to an existing environment? In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Darren Janaway, senior consultant with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about definitions of storage tiering and the various ways it can be added to an existing storage infrastructure.

In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Steve Pinder, practice lead for storage with GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the difference between data deduplication and compression, their suitability for use with primary storage and how you can determine whether these data reduction techniques are suited to your primary storage environment.

In this interview, SearchStorage.co.UK Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Steve Pinder, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), about the mechanism of RAID rebuilds and how to ensure the quickest possible RAID rebuild times on your arrays...

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.

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.

In this interview, SearchStorage.co.uk Bureau Chief Antony Adshead speaks with Simon Johnson of GlassHouse Technologies UK about defining a DR plan and the procedures storage managers need to include in it.

In this podcast, Simon Johnson, data center practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies, discusses the benefits and limitations of MAID, as well as MAID levels and how they operate.

In this SearchStorage.co.UK podcast, UK storage bureau chief Antony Adshead discusses email archiving with Anthony Dickinson, principle consultant at GlassHouse Technologies (UK).