Jon Toigo, CEO and managing principal of Toigo Partners International, opened the second day of the show with his keynote, "Sharks in the storage pool: 10 ways to cut your storage costs now." A main theme of his presentation was that tape archiving and other, less sexy storage media, including refurbished systems, have a place in a sound, economical storage strategy.
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Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tips to lower data storage costs: Don't always fall for the new stuff
Last week's Storage Decisions in Chicago provided a fountain of storage tips for storage administrators as experts delivered advice on how to reduce data storage costs when buying and deploying emerging technologies.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Flash storage arrays take center stage at Storage Decisions
Solid-state storage was a hot topic at the Storage Decisions Conference in Chicago last week, as expert presenters explained its benefits while warning attendees not to go overboard in deploying expensive flash storage arrays.
Presenters suggested instead using flash as a tool in a sound, economical storage strategy that also includes spinning hard disk drives, tape archiving and cloud services.
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