Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 3 No. 2 April 2004 issue of Storage managers give thumbs up to IP storage
Who thinks their storage network should be stupider? Right, just that wise guy in the back corner. You can put your hand down now. Who knows how it should become smarter? Ah, now we're into some murky waters. Except if you're a major vendor: Many of them have a very definite idea how they will provide you with that intelligence (and the rest are busy getting their stories together). Listen to Brocade, Cisco, IBM, Network Appliance (NetApp), Veritas and a growing list of other vendors, and your storage network will be smarter than Albert Einstein. And more expensive than Howard Stern's FCC fines. I think the idea of smarter networks is great. What I think is not so great is this headlong race by every vendor to get you to buy their smart widget without any rhyme or reason as to what intelligence goes where and why. Let's just take the matter of files. NetApp, among others, has a compelling vision of a clustered network storage controller that will sit between the switch and any kind of storage and provide file and block services. IBM has some (but not all) of... Access >>>
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Features
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- DWDM a Boon for the Few
- Future Looks Hazy For Enterprise Drives
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Hashing Makes a Comeback
Hashing is back
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IP storage delivers
by Johanna Ambrosio
Despite all the FUD surrounding IP SANs, early users say IP-based storage isn't all that difficult to manage and that performance is sufficient. The key is knowing what applications IP SANs should be used for.
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Wrestling with regulations
by Bill O'Brien
In the health care industry, complicated regulations such as HIPAA, combined with new technologies that require enormous amounts of storage, are driving storage managers to the emergency room.
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Get control of capacity
Although storage resource management tools can be complicated to implement, they're a better alternative to breaking the bank and rushing out to purchase more storage. Get precise with your vendors on what you need and you'll wind up with better results.
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Firm Takes Standards Route For Compliance Vault
Centera still too costly for some
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Backup Bundles of Joy?
Are you any closer to backup nirvana?
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E-mail Management Derailed By Regulations
Everyone wants a say in e-mail management.
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Disaster recovery relief
The cost of disaster recovery tools can be even more than the value of the data that these very tools are supposed to be protecting. Fortunately, newer approaches to DR are restoring sanity to this high-pressure task.
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Extreme backup
by Arun Taneja
Newsflash: Conventional data protection has reached its limits and will be dramatically changing in the next couple of years. But all roads don't lead to the same result. Here's how to analyze which route is best for you.
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Firm Takes Standards Route For Compliance Vault
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Columns
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Storage vendors need to start thinking about security
by Jon Oltsik
Everyone--except storage vendors--is concerned about security these days. Here's how to get them thinking in the right direction.
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How many storage admins do you need?
by Stephen Foskett
When creating your dedicated storage management group, there are better ways to determine staff levels than relying on a simplistic metric based on the number of terabytes per manager.
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Storage vendors should have knocked EMC down when they had the chance
Storage Bin: Storage vendors should have knocked EMC down when they had the chance. Now, it may be too late.
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Snapshot: Number of terabytes of disk capacity managed
How Many Terabytes Do You Manage?
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Why don't storage managers consider renting storage?
by Darryl Brooks
Your pack-rat neighbor uses public storage to stash belongings that don't fit in his tiny townhouse. So why don't storage managers consider renting storage?
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Intelligent confusion
by Mark Schlack
Intelligent confusion
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Storage vendors need to start thinking about security
by Jon Oltsik
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