Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 4 No. 2 April 2005 issue of How to scale up with storage clusters
The numbers are in for the NAS market and, if you're a NAS vendor, 2004 looked pretty good. Last year, the number of NAS units shipped was up by 25% over 2003. Even more impressive was the number of terabytes shipped--almost double (99%) year over year. Furthermore, industry observers see NAS consuming an ever-greater share of the networked storage pie. "If NAS is between one-fifth and one-fourth of the total market, I see it going to about one-third in the next couple of years," says Arun Taneja, president and founder at Taneja Group, Hopkinton, MA. But while one of NAS' strongest selling points is its ease of manageability, swelling NAS environments can spell trouble for users. "The big problem with NAS is that [the devices] are islands unto themselves," says Taneja. For example, "What happens if I want to move info from NAS box 1 to NAS box 52?" That's exactly the problem at Rosetta Inpharmatics, a Seattle biotech firm with 137TB of raw capacity across a Network Appliance (NetApp) 960c and 960, and three NearStores. For Linda Loux, manager of Windows ... Access >>>
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- Survey says: What's hot, what's not
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NAS news: Boom continues
2004 numbers in: NAS still hot
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Disk finally outruns tape
Mainframe shops weaning themselves off tape
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Pros and cons of VTLs
by W. Curtis Preston
VTLs aren't perfect, and this tip outlines some caveats about the technology that you need to know before implementing a VTL.
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Are SATA drives ready for the enterprise?
SATA drives are great low-cost alternatives to pricey Fibre Channel and SCSI drives, but they lack the reliability and performance that mission-critical applications demand. But new technologies are bringing SATA up to enterprise-class standards.
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Chart a course for consolidation
by Bill Peldzus
This tip addresses key issues that must be addressed to have a successful storage consolidation project.
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Keep track of backups
Backup reporting tools help track backup failures and determine their cause. Some tools can identify weak links in your backup processes where there's a potential for failure.
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The new shape of SRM
Monolithic SRM apps fading away
- SAS--Hurry up and wait
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Clustering storage
Clustered servers have become a mainstay of the data center, and now clustering is quickly becoming the preferred technology for making storage more scalable, reliable and easier to manage.
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First Look: Crossroads Systems' DataMover 240f
Crossroads Systems' DataMover 240f is a SAN edge device that takes on one of the most vexing backup bottlenecks by keeping data flowing through the network pipes.
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Should you archive spam?
Spam gobbles up storage
- SNIA + CDP = SIG
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The new shape of SRM
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Columns
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Tap into Windows' hidden resources to make it enterprise-worthy
Windows often gets a bad rap when it comes to storage, but you can tap into Windows' hidden resources to make it more enterprise-worthy.
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Storage Bin: The devil is in the details
"Close" isn't good enough for disaster recovery and security planning. Overlooking what might seem to be a minor detail could result in major consequences.
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Storage security policies for data backups and tape
If you think host security is more than adequate to protect your storage, think again. Your backup and tape rotation practices could be putting your data at risk.
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Snapshot: Remote office storage management
How do you manage remote office storage?
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Signs of progress
Signs of progress
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Tap into Windows' hidden resources to make it enterprise-worthy
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