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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.

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The following articles and presentations are available for
free download:
VMware DR and Site Recovery Manager (SRM) considerations from a storag perspective.

An updated version of Array Performance presentation that provides an introduction into the art and science of storage array performance tuning and was presented at the Interop Spring 2008.

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.

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.

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 article appeared in the September issue of InfoStor Magazine and describes the many advantages and disadvantages of this newly emerging storage subsystem technology.

Successful Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing presentation given at Storage Decisions Conference Spring 2007 provides an introduction on how to do Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning, testing and maintaining DR readiness.

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

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.

VoIP Recording presentation provides a brief introduction into the storage and use of VoIP recordings and was presented at Storage Networking World Spring 2006.

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

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.

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

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.