Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Storage magazine - Vol. 4 No. 8 October 2005Kurt Hazel oversees annual tests to ensure that national restaurant chain Denny's can recover its applications and data in the event of a disaster. Also, learn how to stay a step ahead with capacity forecasting, and how to rein in remote offices with WAFS. Access >>>
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Features
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- Tape library scales up and down
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Katrina data management snafus compound chaos
by Jo Maitland, News Director
A lack of planning and IT skills leaves the Red Cross scrambling to organize data into a system for refugees to search for missing loved ones.
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Process frameworks and storage
Process frameworks provide guidelines for improving storage practices and procedures. But understanding the differences between process, procedure and policy is essential. Here are 10 ways to ensure a successful process framework implementation.
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Hidden threats to data
Inadequacies in storage governance and weaknesses in data management may pose far less-visible risks to a company's data. To mitigate these threats, you must be aware of the impact and probability of these risks to reduce or eliminate them.
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Keep remote offices in sync
With regulatory compliance, data protection requirements and the need to share data, remote office data can no longer be ignored. Wide-area file system products can rein in and protect remote data.
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Better capacity forecasting
There are two methods for devising storage capacity forecasts: quantitative and qualitative. By combining the two, you can develop practical metrics that will make more accurate forecasts.
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Simplified protection for end-user files
DPM brings end-user file protection up a notch
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Really delete your data
Permanent data destruction.
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Survey Says: SATA has staying power
SATA has staying power
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Safer SATA for nearline apps
New SATA drivers tailored for nearline apps
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Will your disaster recovery plan work?
No matter how many checklists a company creates, the number of disaster scenarios it considers or even how assiduously it backs up data, managers can't be confident in their firm's ability to recover data unless the systems have been tested thoroughly.
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Data grids for storage
Data grids are used by the scientific community to access data resources around the world. Companies can use the principles underlying these global grids to link geographically dispersed sites.
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Simplified protection for end-user files
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Columns
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Getting serious about data storage security
A new survey indicates that recent high-visibility security breaches have caused storage managers to take storage security seriously.
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Storage Bin: Behind the scenes
Some small startups are smart, and they're responsible for much of today's storage innovation. But the storage giants might be even smarter—they're selling the startups' products.
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Do you set disk quotas?
Do you set disk quotas?
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Keeping the connected world connected
Keeping the connected world connected
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Who should control the SAN?
There's a tug-of-war going on over the storage network. Network people want to manage it, and so does the storage staff. But who should control the SAN?
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Getting serious about data storage security
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