Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 4 No. 3 May 2005 issue of Tips for real-world disaster recovery planning
This article first appeared in "Storage" magazine in the May issue. For more articles of this type, please visit www.storagemagazine.com. What you will learn from this tip: Building a storage budget -- and getting it approved -- is an annual uphill battle. By taking a business-plan approach to the process, you'll have a better chance of getting a green light. To a beleaguered storage manager, it may seem like the CIO and CFO are working as a tag team to "Just say no" to storage budget proposals that call for an increase over last year's budget. So how can a storage director make a sustainable and substantiated case for the expenditures required to manage and protect one of the organization's most valuable assets, its data? By using facts, financials and fear, an organizationally aware and prepared storage director can present the CFO with a budget proposal that's based on familiar business terms, contains options for discretionary funding and focuses on tangible services provided to clients. Talking tech to a CFO could spell doom for a budget proposal. But a... Access >>>
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- Definition: Perpendicular recording
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Lawyers fan flames of e-mail archiving fire
Legal issues boost e-mail archiving
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First Look: Overland's REO Backup Appliances
Overland's REO works with traditional backup software and eliminates tape from the backup process, simplifying data protection at satellite locations.
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Real-World DR
by Marc Staimer
Storage administrators often ask what their peers are doing to solve DR problems. However, information of this type is usually difficult to make public. These case studies have a central theme: Increasing data levels and stricter compliance regulations are forcing companies to look to newer technologies to solve their growing DR and backup pains.
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Virtualization at your service
New twist on virtualization
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File services frenzy
File services frenzy
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Branch backup goes tapeless
Better way to back up branch offices
- Do or die data restore
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Build a winning storage budget
by Dick Benton
This tip offers advice on taking a business-plan approach to the process of building a storage budget.
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Give local disk the boot
Boot from the SAN with iSCSI
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File services frenzy
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Columns
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Storage Bin: The changing role of tape
Respondents to a recent ESG survey said they've replaced, or will consider replacing, tape with disk.
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Snapshot: Encrypting backup data
Do you encrypt your backup?
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10 reasons why your DR plan could be in trouble
by James Damoulakis
Is your firm's DR plan more talk than action? Here are 10 reasons why your DR plan could be in trouble.
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Moving from tape to disk: A six-step guide
The benefits of disk-based backup are appealing, but moving from tape to disk takes planning. These six tips will help you build a solid game plan to ease your transition.
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Realigning the stars
Realigning the stars
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Storage Bin: The changing role of tape
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