Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 5 No. 10 December 2006 issue of The hottest storage technology for 2007
Waste millions of dollars or start archiving The days are shorter and there's a chill in the air. What better time to curl up with a good book? Recently, "The Third Annual Litigation Trends Survey Findings" found its way onto my somewhat eclectic reading list. Those of you who prefer to see the movie may have a long wait, but this annual report from the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski offers some eye-opening facts for all of you who haven't implemented an archiving application yet. The report is based on a survey of 422 companies, including 311 in the U.S., that span a cross-section of all major verticals. It offers some impressive--and disturbing--details, such as that 23% of the companies surveyed report being involved with 50 or more lawsuits, which is more than twice the number from a year ago. On the flip side, in 2005, 25% of respondents said they didn't have to deal with any lawsuits, while this year that number dwindled to 11%. An even more staggering statistic is that 40% of companies said they were on the receiving end of at least ... Access >>>
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- Vendors split on strategies for key management
- New rules impact storage procedures
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SAN consolidation strategies
As islands of SANs proliferate in companies, the cost of storage can soar. Sound SAN design strategies allow companies to reduce the number of SAN islands, strengthen a primary SAN, make storage easier to manage and provide more data protection.
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Configuring storage for ERP
The "crown jewels" of corporate data are typically maintained within enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications. But for many storage managers, ERP is a minefield of critical information and competing priorities. In this first installment of a three-part series, we look at ways to protect ERP data while improving performance.
- Virtualization may cure provisioning woes
- Users want more from tiered storage
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- Mixing SAS, SATA prompts caution
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Hot technologies for 2007
"Storage" magazine's editors reviewed technology developments, product introductions and storage standards to come up with this short list of must-have technologies for 2007. We believe iSCSI SANs, hardware-based tape encryption, high-capacity disk drives, virtualization and thin provisioning will have the greatest impact on enterprise storage environments.
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Quality awards II: EqualLogic named top midrange array
by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin, Storage magazine
Another Quality Awards dark-horse candidate, EqualLogic PS Series, joins backup winner BakBone in unseating established players for top honors.
- Mobile drive tech could move into data center
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Host-based replication
There are three distinct architectures of host-level replication software: Windows-only file system, multi-OS file system and multi-OS blocklevel products. Each alternative offers specific features that make it a better fit for some types of data protection.
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Snapshot: Continuous data protection
Is CDP part of your backup?
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Recent storage company IPOs remind us that fast and loose spending isn't behind us
Storage Bin: Just when we thought the fast and loose spending of the dot-com bubble was well behind us, a few recent storage company IPOs remind us that we really haven't gotten a lot smarter.
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Waste millions of dollars or start archiving
Waste millions of dollars or start archiving
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Data backup versus data archiving
Companies should split backup and archiving into two separate initiatives to help them differentiate between copying data for recovery, and retaining data for future reference and retrieval.
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Is it really a disaster?
Was it really a disaster after all? It's important to distinguish operational recovery from disaster recovery because the tools and techniques used in each situation can differ significantly.
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Recent storage company IPOs remind us that fast and loose spending isn't behind us
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