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
- Is my SCSI controller compatible with my tape drive?
- HBA-to-server ratio for high availability
- Retrieving data from multiple IDE drives
- Is the EMC 8530 Symmetrix dead?
- NAS gateway versus SAN-attached server
- Alternatives to using HBAs
- Configuring SANs for high availability
- Can I use Fibre Channel to provide access to DAS on a Linux host?
- How do I connect a Fibre Channel switch to a router?
- How does a LUN relate to notation CxTxDxSx?
- Connecting a Fibre Channel switch to a router
- Holistic storage management: Cross-training admins
- Point: Why does a SAN access data from the server faster than a hard drive?
- Should we use CAT 5 cabling to assign an IP?
- The relationship between latency and buffer credits
- Switching from NAS-based access to SAN
- Point: What's so great about block-level access?
- Swapping out SANs without damaging clusters
- Point: Why is multimode fiber cable used more than single mode fiber cable?
- How to determine acceptable data loss