Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 3 No. 10 December 2004 issue of How does your storage salary stack up?
By now, everyone and their brother in the Fibre Channel (FC) industry has announced 4Gb/sec FC products. Among those companies are Brocade Communications Systems, with its 32-port SilkWorm 4100, and McData with promises of 4Gb/sec and 10Gb/sec support for its Intrepid line of directors. For host bus adapters, Emulex has its LP1100 family, Atto Technology its Celerity FC-42XS and LSI Logic has the LSIFC7204XP-LC. Other vendors in the 4Gb/sec club include Hitachi Global Storage Technologies with disk drive prototypes, Broadcom and QLogic. But there's a difference between a company announcing a product and users being able to buy it. LSI Logic's 4Gb/sec products are currently "sampling" to OEMs, says Charlie Kraus, director of HBA marketing at the firm's Storage Standard Products Division, and should be in production in the first quarter of 2005. Then you'll "have a multi-month qualification cycle" from system vendors to contend with. In other words, 4Gb/sec equipment may hit the streets by the middle of next year. Access >>>
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First Look: Brocade's SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router
Brocade Communications Systems' SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router links SAN islands with software-assignable ports that can communicate via three different ports.
- Survey says: Heterogeneous fabrics still rare
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Think you're compliant? Prove it
Documenting compliance.
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Are cheap mirrors better than RAID?
Cheap mirroring vs. RAID.
- Storage bolsters blade servers
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Match snaps to apps
Snapshots are key to most shops' backup and recovery plans. But implementing them requires application analysis to determine the best type of snapshots to use and how often to take them.
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Storage salaries edge up
Storage's second annual Salary Survey finds salaries and bonuses inching upward despite a still sluggish economy. Even with hiring remaining flat, 2005 looks promising for storage salaries.
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First Look: Brocade's SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router
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- Faster DB failover in view
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How to select an SRM suite
by Jerome M. Wendt
Today's SRM tools offer a full menu of features, but before you dig in you need to know which are must-haves and which look tasty but provide little sustenance.
- Four Gig: Hurry up and wait
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Hands-On Review: Kashya KBX5000
by Darryl Brooks
Kashya Inc.'s KBX5000 appliance offers cost-effective and efficient replication for heterogeneous storage.
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Tape price hikes looming
by Alex Barrett, Trends Editor
In the coming months, expect to pay more for tape cartridges.
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Stress-free firmware upgrades
Firmware upgrades can be daunting, but you can take some of the fear and frustration out of the process by preparing detailed documentation of your storage environment.
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IBM takes a step forward
Storage Bin: IBM takes a step forward
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Data storage trends: Information lifecycle management
by Jon Oltsik
Looking forward to 2005
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Snapshot: Remote mirroring for data
Do you mirror your data remotely?
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A glimpse of the future
by Mark Schlack
A glimpse of the future
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The storage revolution
by Stephen Foskett
The storage revolution
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IBM takes a step forward
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