Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm StorageIO. A 25 year IT veteran, Greg has worked as an IT customer, vendor, author and industry analyst. He has worked with applications, servers, databases, networks, storage, DR/BC, performance and capacity planning and associated management tools in IBM Mainframe, OpenVMS, Unix, Windows and other environments. Greg is also the author and illustrator of "Resilient Storage Networks". (Elsevier) and has contributed material to Storage magazine and other TechTarget publications. Greg holds degrees in computer science and masters in software engineering from the University of St. Thomas.
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Contributions from Greg Schulz
- Using dark fiber to connect sites
- Active/active vs. active/passive arrays
- Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop or switched disk?
- Taming NAS sprawl and file management
- Performance monitoring on boot from SAN
- HBAs: Are dual HBAs worth the investment?
- Fiber optics over distance
- Storage certification sources: What's out there for you
- FATA vs. FC disk drives
- iSCSI, iFCP and FCIP: How do they stack up?
- Leasing vs. buying storage: A closer look
- Decreasing I/O latency in RAID array
- SATA port: Can you run multiple drives off of one?
- Cannot retrieve data from RAID
- Server-based RAID vs. controller-based RAID
- Balance costs and demands for proper storage allocation
- Guidelines for controlling clustering
- Better DR and BC planning
- How to minimize I/O latency
- Server expansion and growth without wasted space