Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 6 No. 10 December 2007 issue of Hot storage technology for 2008
Travis Means, director of sales at ISSI Data, an IT services provider in Bothell, WA, makes it very clear to his clients that storing data on old tapes is a bad idea. How bad? When one of Means' clients, an architectural firm, accidentally deleted some files, they couldn't recover the original drawings and renderings because they'd been backed up to an old tape. That resulted in the firm losing a competitive project bid. "Their failure to make a $300 investment in tape probably cost them $100,000 in sales," says Means. It seems like the storage industry should have moved beyond such mistakes, but industry observers and users say the problems associated with old tapes persist. Companies store data on tape for three good reasons: lower cost per gigabyte, lengthy shelf life and infinite capacity. The problem is that when companies try to recover data from tapes, they often discover that they no longer own the right tape drive to mount the tape or their backup software can't recognize the data on the tape. Kelly Polanski, a data protection specialist at KEHP ... Access >>>
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Run storage as a utility
Converting from a traditional decentralized IT and storage infrastructure to running IT services and storage like a utility isn't a trivial task; it requires a big shift for both business units and IT. But mandates to lower costs and meet compliance requirements will undoubtedly result in an increasing number of organizations opting for centralized storage models with tiered storage offerings.
- Running Fibre Channel over 10Gb Ethernet by Rich Friedman
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VTL data management issues
As disk libraries become the primary backup target for near-term data recoveries, storage managers are exploring new ways to exploit tape's high capacity, low cost and mobility. Disk is the best medium for fast backups and recoveries, and many companies have turned to virtual tape libraries as a way to put disk in their backup process. On the surface, it may seem easy to implement a VTL, but there are many subtle operational issues that must be dealt with to ensure that your data can be recovered quickly when needed.
- Tracking down those missing bytes
- What does your CEO want from storage? by Ellen O'Brien
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Run storage as a utility
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- Old tapes can lead to sticky situations
- Talking up server virtualization, security at SNW
- Snapshot: Will you adopt LTO-4?
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Hot technologies for 2008
Each year, Storage magazine's editors pore through product introductions, study technology developments and ask users about their plans for the coming year to create a short list of must-have technologies for 2008. We think LTO-4, N_Port ID Virtualization, deduplication, ediscovery and green storage can't be ignored, and are likely to impact your storage shop next year.
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Hot Spots: The case for unified data management platforms
by Lauren Whitehouse
A unified data management and recovery platform can improve performance, decrease complexity and costs, and make all copies of data more useful and accessible for electronic discovery purposes
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Best Practices: Viewing virtualization from every angle
by Ashish Nadkarni
Virtualization can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional standards while navigating new obstacles. But it's prudent to embrace it now so the storage team can enjoy the same benefits that the systems and applications teams have realized.
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Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization challenges
by Tony Asaro
Some of the biggest challenges in the data center revolve around backing up and recovering data in a virtual machine environment.
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