Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 4 No. 5 July 2005 issue of How HP is reloading its storage strategy
IT departments seem to have an unquenchable thirst for storage capacity--a thirst that's not being adequately satisfied by standard-issue storage enclosures. "Even though disk drives are getting bigger, the huge demand for data hasn't been met by them," says Alan Johnson, director for product application engineering at controller and enclosure manufacturer Infortrend. Among data growth's worst offenders are applications such as backup-to-disk and HDTV, he says. Today, storage enclosures tend to pack in 12 to 14 3.5-inch disk drives in a 3U (5.25 inch) enclosure. Infortrend ups that ante with a 16-bay enclosure which, when outfitted with 500GB Serial ATA drives, will provide 8TB of capacity in a 3U space. Johnson says there are plans afoot to make a 24-bay 4U model. Why not just daisy chain more enclosures for more capacity? "Space is often at as much of a premium in the computer room as the storage itself," says Johnson. "The days of huge, air-conditioned rooms are going away," he says, giving way to an era of "space constraints and 19-inch racks." Put ... Access >>>
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Features
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- Definition: Short stroking
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HP reassures the faithful
With a bevy of new products, including a long-awaited refresh of its EVA arrays, Hewlett-Packard is trying to convince its users and critics that the company really is committed to storage.
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How DBAs view storage
Storage magazine's exclusive poll gives you the lowdown on how DBAs and storage pros view storage. We detail each group's areas of concern, spotlight their differences and find some common ground.
- Survey Says: iSCSI will erode Fibre Channel sales
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Traffic to remote offices eases up
Brighter days are ahead for remote office workers
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Tape is not about to go away
Tape gets an image boost
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- Half-terabyte drives on tap
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Data classification: Getting started
by Karl Langdon and John Merryman
Classifying data and knowing how its value changes over time will improve service levels, create a better working relationship with business units and reduce costs. (This tip is part of our Storage 101 tip series.)
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Clustering comes to NAS
by Alex Barrett, Trends Editor
Fed up with monolithic NAS boxes that don't scale? Clustering provides a way out of the management headache that's being perpetuated by some industry players.
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Switching storage vendors
Many storage managers would rather push their existing storage to the max rather than install a new vendor's equipment. Three companies describe how they changed vendors with as little pain as possible.
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Object-based backup
Object-based backup products back up only the data that has changed, reducing storage and bandwidth issues.
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Big storage in small packages
IT departments thirsty for storage capacity
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Columns
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Adopting an internal service provider or utility model
by James Damoulakis
Aligning policies and processes is a significant stride toward building a consolidated service provider model.
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When consolidation doesn't bring integration
by Mark Schlack
When consolidation doesn't bring integration
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Storage Bin: The new vendor conundrum
Security and privacy are giant data issues. Vendors who speak the new "solutions" language, and deliver products that offer encryption functionality, will steal market share from those who don't.
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Snapshot: Disaster recovery plan development
Do you have a DR plan?
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Storage security basics
Is your firm focusing on performance and availability instead of security? Do you consider security "someone else's job"? If you answered "Yes" to these questions, you need a storage security wake-up call.
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Adopting an internal service provider or utility model
by James Damoulakis
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