Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Access "Ensuring Good Data, Far Away"
This article is part of the Vol. 2 No. 8 October 2003 issue of Low-cost storage pieces fall into place
Replicating your critical data far away is widely held as a good thing. Now, at least two companies are also promoting the idea of time-stamping the replicated data. That way, in the event of disaster, not only can you run your business off a replicated server, but you can roll back to a stable file system image. Proponents include XOsoft, which pares its Data Rewinder with its WANSync software, and Kashya, which combines wide-area replication capabilities with "small aperture snapshots," taken at very frequent intervals. PowerDsine, an Israeli engineering firm, for one, uses XOsoft's WANSync and Data Rewinder software packages to replicate Exchange and Oracle servers from Israel to Long Island. The company also evaluated replication software from Veritas and NSI, but Data Rewinder tipped the scales in XOsofts' favor. "In a normal system, corrupted files, they're replicated as well," explains Asaf Silberstein, PowerDsine vice president of operations. Kashya followed in XOsoft's footsteps last month when the KBX4000. Based on an appliance, it compares ... Access >>>
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Lock the back door
by W. Curtis Preston
In the last installment of our three-part security series, this article discusses SAN management interfaces, which can give a stealthy hacker an easy way to sneak in and potentially damage your data.
- Regulatory Compliance: the Next Y2K?
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Low-End NAS is a Backup Mainstay
Low-end NAS for backup?
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Surviving and thriving: facing recession and growth
by Mark Schlack
Don't submit your budget without checking the results of Storage's semiannual purchasing intentions survey of 500 storage managers.
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Searching for seamless consolidation
by Jeff Moad
In this second part of a three-part series featuring organizations in different stages of storage networking, we look at why growth often means abandoning the storage utility notion, at least for the moment.
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Big New Tape Libraries In Smaller Packages
Big tape libraries come in smaller packages.
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Spend less on storage
by Marc Farley
Serial ATA disks can save you big bucks, but there's a bigger story here. By using RAID and a SAN, you can overcome many of its inherent reliability and performance limitations. It's time to rethink many of your assumptions about storage costs.
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Lock the back door
by W. Curtis Preston
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- Can Cheap Fibre Channel HBAs Stave Off iSCSI?
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Scamming for Storage
Storage swindle by e-mail
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Clustering Tapped to Solve Storage Challenges
What can clustering do for you?
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Apple RAID: innovative but limited
by W. Curtis Preston
Surprise! Apple Computer has entered the storage game. Its new storage array, Xserve, has a lot to offer, but mostly for those with Apple servers.
- Ensuring Good Data, Far Away
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The trouble with measuring SAN performance
A common system administrator's nightmare involves the telephone call at 4:oo in the morning from your boss. He's calling to tell you there's a problem with the SAN. Here's how to survive and prevent this from happening again.
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How to pick the right protocol for your SAN
by Darryl Brooks
There are four different protocols for sending long-distance SAN traffic. This article will help you pick the right protocol for your SAN.
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IT people scrambling for a few bucks while they attempt to tackle monumental tasks
Storage Bin: At the beginning of a budgeting cycle, poor IT people begin scrambling for a few bucks while they attempt to tackle monumental tasks.
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Storage and security groups working together
by Jon Oltsik
Get ready to meet your new partner. Over the next few years, storage and security groups will be working more closely together.
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Snapshot: Email archiving
Do You Archive Your E-mail?
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Making sense of data storage management options
by Stephen Foskett
The key to making sense of the the bewildering amount of storage management products offered today is knowing what you need and ignoring the rest.
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How to pick the right protocol for your SAN
by Darryl Brooks
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