Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 4 No. 6 August 2005 issue of The best high-end storage arrays of 2005
Sooner, rather than later, networked storage connectivity options won't be limited to Fibre Channel (FC) and Ethernet. Working with Engenio Information Technologies, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) is building a prototype of a storage system that features a native InfiniBand connection to the host. "Customers are now lining up to be the first to have the beta product," says John Howarth, director of storage products at SGI. Why InfiniBand? These days, many high-performance computing environments consist of a cluster of hundreds of commodity 1U rackmount Linux servers that use InfiniBand for interserver communication. Running at 10Gb/sec today and rapidly moving to 20Gb/sec, InfiniBand provides between four and five times the bandwidth of FC (2Gb/sec today and currently moving to 4Gb/sec), little of which is used by interserver communication. The sales pitch for InfiniBand goes something like this: Rather than build out a separate FC fabric to carry storage traffic, why not piggyback on the existing InfiniBand fabric, which reduces cost and provides more ... Access >>>
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Future is fuzzy for Fibre drives
Fuzzy future for Fibre drives
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InfiniBand storage shipping soon
InfiniBand storage
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Archiving unstructured data
by Jerome M. Wendt
Companies must find ways to automate and simplify the process of archiving files and e-mail messages. ECM software addresses this large pool of unstructured data.
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Bridging the gap
Many disaster recovery and remote backup programs rely on an efficient, cost-effective WAN. Fiber-optic network technology is often required for long-distance data transmission, but you need to know what transport is best and the related implementation issues.
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DR testing infrequent at best
Have you tested your DR plan?
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New tools to classify data
by Brad O'Neill
Putting data on storage systems appropriate to its value requires the ability to classify data. An emerging category of applications, Information Classification and Management apps, can index enterprise information and execute precise actions based on its content.
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Future is fuzzy for Fibre drives
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Quality awards: Enterprise arrays
We present the results of the first-ever Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards. In the inaugural product category, enterprise arrays, see how users rated the major array vendors and which vendor came out on top.
- Migrating old files curbs disk costs
- A SAN for super sleuths
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Monolithic going modular
Monolithic systems go modular
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Storage for manufacturing
Manufacturing environments typically have different storage requirements than corporate apps, and have to deal with globally dispersed design teams as well as growing regulatory concerns. Here's how several prominent manufacturers have met the challenge.
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Quality awards: Enterprise arrays
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Snapshot: Multiple SAN fabrics common
How big is your SAN?
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Getting serious about storage resource management tools
Times have changed. Storage resource management tools--once dismissed as hype--are becoming more and more useful.
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Smaller storage companies have proven that they can innovate
Storage Bin: A handful of big companies dominate much of the storage market, but some of the smaller guys have proven that they can innovate and have caught the eye of savvy storage managers.
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Why Windows is storage-friendly
It's time to take Windows' storage features seriously. Two key technologies-Multipath I/O and the Volume Shadow Copy Service-demonstrate why Windows is much more storage-friendly than people think.
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Wanted: Better support
by Mark Schlack
Wanted: Better support
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Snapshot: Multiple SAN fabrics common
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