Find and Select the Right File Storage for your Applications (Fall 2009)

Many businesses are linked to file storage technologies as many of these new, recent and even existing applications morph now, rely and support file based data. At the same time, the volume of data explodes especially the file data type which now represents by far the larger portion of enterprise data. With the complexity and variety of market solutions, the challenge for IT buyers and storage managers is to choose and adopt the most adapted solutions aligned to their business and IT needs to address their current and future challenges with a special attention to compliance and data retention regulations, Backup and Archiving, ILM and Tiering. This session covers the most common deployed applications, their attributes in term of file storage needs and maps these to file storage solutions available in the industry with technologies details and advantages. Various technologies are presented in this session, among them: Clustered, SAN-based, Distributed, Parallel File Storage and the very last approach Cloud Storage.

Learning Objectives:

The presented survey, technologies segmentation and features matrix, helps end users, IT and file storage buyers to select, choose and adopt the right solution
And finally this content contributes to the promotion of file storage technologies in an agnostic philosophy
With a top-down approach, this tutorial improves file storage technologies positioning and understanding aligned to applications needs and challenges