Author Archives: Brien Posey

AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is an AWS storage solution designed to archive data that will be rarely–if ever–accessed. Continue reading What You Need to Know about AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive→

Microsoft enables organizations to shortcut the cloud storage provisioning process through the use of Azure Quickstart Templates. Continue reading How to Use Azure QuickStart Templates to Make Cloud Storage Easier→

Vendors are tapping energy-assisted recording storage to overcome HDD capacity/size limits. Continue reading How Energy-Assisted Storage Is Being Put to Work to Increase HDD Capacity→

Windows Server provides a mechanism for screening file servers to ensure that only approved data types are being stored. Here’s what you need to know. Continue reading How to Screen Windows File Servers for Unapproved Content→

Here’s what you need to know about the communications protocol and the traditional and not-so-traditional iSCSI use cases. Continue reading Enterprise IT Storage for Beginners: Crash Course in iSCSI and iSCSI Use Cases→

Windows is good at letting you know how much free disk space is available, but four free disk usage analysis and remediation tools can help you get some of it back. Continue reading Disk Space Disappearing? 4 Free Tools for Disk Usage Analysis and Remediation→

Windows Server’s native File Server Resource Manager allows administrators to classify files in order to simplify management. Continue reading How to Classify Files with File Server Resource Manager→

Organizations can curb data growth by placing quotas on their file servers. Here’s how to set up File System Quotas in Windows Server. Continue reading How to Implement File System Quotas in Windows Server→

The biggest lesson learned from my SSD’s long life may be more about enterprise hardware lifespan best practices and less about the SSD itself. Continue reading Enterprise Hardware Lifespan: Why My SSD Still Works After 6 Years→

Gaining insight into the most pervasive industry vocabulary will help ease enterprise IT storage for beginners. Continue reading Enterprise IT Storage for Beginners: Terms Every Admin Should Know→