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Randy Kerns is a partner at The Evaluator Group, Greenwood Village, CO, and is responsible for Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage analysis and education as well as company and product strategies. You can reach him at randy@evaluatorgroup.com.
Contributions from Randy Kerns
- Data compatibility between ATA and FC
- Windows NAS advice
- Mixing Fibre Channel and SATA drives
- Monolithic vs. midrange
- Is NAS right for our needs?
- NAS and disk-to-disk backup
- SAN and NAS (heads), together at last
- Performance differences between EMC NS500 and NetApp FAS270
- Security issues in NAS backup
- SATA, Fibre Channel and ATA disks on the same array?
- What's so important about the SPC-1 benchmark?
- What do you think about SAN-in-a-box?
- Clariion CX700 vs. Symmetrix 8830
- How to defrag a hard drive on NAS to fix unusual hard drive formatting
- NAS or SAN for data warehousing
- NAS for multiple heterogeneous servers
- SATA as an alternative to serial storage architecture?
- Counterpoint: Why does a SAN access data from the server faster than a hard drive?
- Data warehousing with iSCSI for SQL Server 2000
- Counterpoint: What's so great about block-level access?
Storage Management Strategies for the CIO