Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 6 No. 4 June 2007 issue of Surprise winner: BlueArc earns top NAS quality award honors
Once you realize that not all data is transactional, you can begin to manage it more intelligently. Last month I explained my theory of why we're so screwed up infrastructure-wise or at least how we got to this point. This month I'll try to show you the way out of the situation. For a few minutes, forget everything you know or at least everything you think you know. Accept my argument that almost everything we've done in commercial IT has been based on transactional requirements. Open your mind. There are two distinct types of data: dynamic and persistent. Dynamic data is in flux; this is where transactional data begins. Persistent data is fixed. It's what it is and will never be anything else. Just because data is dynamic doesn't mean it starts and dies within an RDBMS. Structured database data starts as dynamic, but at some point it becomes a nonchanging record. It's persistent. You may have reasons to keep it inside a database forever (although I doubt they're valid ones), but those records are still persistent; they are what they are. Here are a few ... Access >>>
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- Exchange 2007 replication: A stretch for DR
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Upstart tops NAS vendors
In our second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, large NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but a lesser known company emerged as the surprise winner of enterprise NAS.
- Grid storage gets real
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Catching up with deduplication
by Jerome Wendt
Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Because vendors implement deduplication differently, the fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding deduplication products has increased, with questions about when to deploy what product. Here's what you need to know to pick the product that will best fit into your environment.
- Virtualization and green storage dominate SNW
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- Brocade, Cisco clash on measuring director's power consumption
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Snapshot: Users bank on bare-metal restore
Users bank on bare-metal restore
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Consolidating remote offices
Storage magazine and Taneja Group conducted a survey of 254 IT professionals with responsibility for remote-/branch-office (ROBO) management and planning. Our research reveals that while 70% of respondents now view ROBO as central to business operations, there are still many areas of uncertainty and confusion.
- Counting the cost of data theft
- CDP gains ground one app at a time
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
Consistency and standardization are the keys to a disciplined storage operation. How much you can achieve depends on the size of your operation and the resources you have available.
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Hot Spots: Database archiving to the rescue
More information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth pose a challenge to database and storage groups.
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Storage Bin: It's time to change the way you think about data
by Steve Duplessie
The dynamic store is about speed and redundancy, while the persistent store is about infinite dynamic infrastructure, the ability to find things easily and an autonomous self-managing/self-healing infrastructure. Stop trying to make one into the other.
- Editorial: Backup will get easier ...
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
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