Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 5 No. 11 January 2007 issue of Comparing EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 vs. Hitachi Data Systems USP1100
Storage consolidation is a rising trend, though it can be risky. Storage arrays can crash, and the more data residing on a single frame, the more damaging those crashes can become. Additionally, the more moving parts a system has, the more likely it is that mechanical problems can occur. Yet none of that seems daunting to users who say they've benefited tremendously from new storage products that pack multiple protocols into one system, allowing for large-scale storage consolidation and management simplification. These multiprotocol systems are available from companies such as Compellent Technologies, EMC, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Network Appliance (NetApp), Nexsan Technologies and Pillar Data Systems, among others. Michael Israel, senior VP of information services at New York City-based Six Flags Theme Parks, says his company swears by NetApp's 3000 series, which runs NAS and block-level access for iSCSI using the same OS. Each of Six Flags' 25 national amusement park locations boots commodity servers from HP off NetApp FAS3020 or FAS3050 systems, depending on... Access >>>
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- Akorri advocates app analysis
- RapidIO steams into storage
- DC saves energy for storage
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Snapshot: Top storage priorities
What's your top storage priority for 2007?
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Quality Awards II: Leading libraries
Although they're the most mechanical part of a backup system, users are fairly satisfied with the reliability of their tape libraries. And despite high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors, the results of the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards largely reinforced last year's results.
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Face-Off: EMC DMX-3 vs. Hitachi USP1100
Only a handful of storage vendors produce truly top-of-the-line arrays, and EMC and Hitachi Data Systems dominate those ranks with their respective Symmetrix DMX-3 and TagmaStore USP1100 products. These vendors attain high capacity and high performance using two very different architectures. We examine the differences to see if one approach outstrips the other.
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Protect remote-office data
Centralizing remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) apps and their data in the primary data center has enormous economies of scale. These remote-data apps cut the amount of data sent over the wire, making it possible to economically back up remote data to a central site. We provide a sampling of the various ROBO data management products on the market, and describe how they can best be implemented.
- iSCSI for everybody
- Multiprotocol arrays attract attention
- The power of virtualization
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Face-Off: EMC DMX-3 vs. Hitachi USP1100
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New storage standards from The Trusted Computing Group
by Jon Oltsik
The Trusted Computing Group is a security standards body now venturing into the storage world. The group is about to release a spec that promises to provide a secure foundation that storage management vendors and users can leverage to improve the protection of stored data.
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Back to DR planning basics
by James Damoulakis
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable.
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Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years
Storage Bin: Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years. The rest of the IT infrastructure must try to catch up and, ultimately, the only thing not virtualized within the data center will be the last guy standing.
- Editorial: May the force be with you
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New storage standards from The Trusted Computing Group
by Jon Oltsik
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