Articles

Ray Lucchesi has authored a number of articles on both data storage products and software for the industry press. He has also presented on storage technology use and tuning.

Please see our podcast series on Array Performance originally available at TechTarget.com and are also available for free download here.

Also, some of our presentations from speaking at major storage conferences are available for free download.

5 questions to ask Disaster Recovery (DR) Service Providers (PDF 206.0 KiB)
Using DR service providers is a common occurrence for many data centers. But how does one evaluate the various service providers. To that end, we offer a list of questions that any DR service provider should be able to answer which can be used to compare these offerings. This article first appeared on SearchDisasterRecovery.com in September of 2008.

Benefits of Cluster block storage (PDF 667.9 KiB)
Clustered block storage article published in the March 2008 issue of InfoStor explains the different architectures available today and also describes some of the intrinsic advantages of each

Data Grids For Storage (PDF 529.8 KiB)
Data Grids for Storage article appeared in Storage Magazine and discusses how data grid open source software can be used to supply global shared storage services.

Demystifying de-duplication (PDF 456.4 KiB)
Demystifying de-duplication article appeared in Computerworld online in February 2007 and describes the new data de-duplication products which have recently been introduced.

Developing a DR plan for VMs: A tutorial (PDF 260.4 KiB)
DR planning for virtual machines describes how to use many of the advanced DR tools for VMware VM fail over/fail back. The article first appeared on SearchDisasterRecovery.com in April 2009.

NAS Consolidation Options (PDF 1.0 MiB)
NAS Consolidation Options article appeared in the December 2005 issue of Storage Magazine and describes some alternatives for consolidating networked attached storage.

Pump Up Array Performance (PDF 625.3 KiB)
Pump Up Array Perfomance story appeared as the cover article of the January 2006 issue of Storage Magazine and describes some steps you can take to tune your storage performance.

SSD flash drives enter the enterprise (PDF 346.6 KiB)
SSD flash drives are the fad today but NAND Flash technology is not an easy plugin replacement for hard drives and requires intelligent design and use. This was discussed in a September 2008 InfoStor article

The benefits of file virtualization services (FVS) (PDF 917.3 KiB)
The benefits of File Virtualization Services article appeared in the October issue of InfoStor describes the benefits as well as some of the product options which provide file virtualization services.

Thin Provisioning Goes Mainstream (PDF 374.2 KiB)
Thin provisioning article appeared in the September issue of InfoStor Magazine and describes the many advantages and disadvantages of this newly emerging storage subsystem technology.

Thin-provisioning options for file systems (PDF 553.5 KiB)
File system article appeared in the February 2008 issue of InfoStor describes file system thin provisioning and how this provides many of the same benefits as block thin provisioning.

VDI and snapshots: A winning combination (PDF 339.8 KiB)
VDI and snapshots go together well and can be used to quickly provision many user machines without using lots of storage or time. Article originally appeared in the January 2009 edition of InfoStor magazine.

Virtualization: Tales from the Trenches (PDF 560.0 KiB)
Virtualization: Tales From The Trenches story appeared as the cover article of the August 2006 issue of Storage Magazine and describes user experiences with storage virtualization products.

Voice Apps Can Strain Storage (PDF 513.8 KiB)
Voice Apps Can Strain Storage story appeared in the April 2006 issue of Storage Magazine and describes how recording of VoIP traffic impacts storage.