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
Storage vendors that have lagged behind in the NAS space are displaying sudden bursts of energy and playing catch-up. Last month, EMC updated an aging NAS gateway with the new Celerra NSX gateway, and IBM announced it would fill what Randy Kerns, senior partner at Evaluator Group Inc., Greenwood Village, CO, called "major holes in their product line-up" by entering into an OEM agreement with Network Appliance (NetApp), king of all things file-related. Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) also jumped into the NAS market with a NAS blade for its virtualization platform, TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP). The Celerra NSX replaces the Celerra CNS platform introduced by EMC in 1996. Based on so-called X-Blades, the 2U NSX nodes can be clustered in groups of up to eight for aggregate performance of 300,000 NFS operations per second, and maximum capacity of 112TB. Thanks to new virtual file system technology, that capacity can be viewed as a single system. The IBM/NetApp deal calls for IBM to OEM NetApp's entire product line, including its filers, high-capacity ... 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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