Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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This article is part of the Vol. 3 No. 3 May 2004 issue of Who owns storage in your organization?
Wright-Pierce, a small civil engineering firm in Topsham, ME, is seeing its business expand throughout New England, and has added several branch offices, with more on the way. But for Wright-Pierce's staff, that hasn't always been a happy thing. The firm's business revolves around AutoCAD drawings--files between 1MB and 50MB in size. For branch office workers, opening a file can take a few minutes, as can saving it back to the main office, says Ray Sirois, Wright-Pierce's IT manager. But if files are copied locally, "then a file revision problem crops up." Sirois tried many tricks to get around these problems, and they "were pretty slick at the time." But users still weren't happy. "I told them, this is the best I can do; you're asking me to make the sun shine at midnight." Recently, Sirois began beta-testing the Steelhead 500 appliance, a "transaction acceleration platform" from Riverbed Technology in San Francisco, CA. In place at two of the three branch offices, in a few short months it has "made all the other innovations we had been doing obsolete." (See... Access >>>
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Mobile Drives, Portable Backups
Do mobile disk drives have a future in disk-based backup?
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WAN Links gain speed
Can't get past the cost of doing high-speed remote replication? Latency problems driving you nuts? New TCIP/IP accelerators for IP storage promise some relief.
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Green light for disk spending
by Mark Schlack
The results from our semiannual Purchasing Intentions Survey are in. Storage managers are investing more in disk, but budgets for networked hardware are decreasing. The technology least likely to be invested in? Storage management software.
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Firm Licks WAN File Sharing
WAN file sharing problem solved
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The best way to move data
Don't get mired in sluggish data. There are best practices for migrating data from point A to point B. Here's how to pick the right method that fits with your company's needs and budget.
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Mobile Drives, Portable Backups
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Bridging SAN islands
To help ensure that a change made to one part of the SAN doesn't interfere with the entire storage network, some new products claim to have developed a new switch-based intelligence that segregates the SAN and protects SAN data.
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Mainframe Storage on the Cheap
IBM gives birth to a new baby Shark
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Who's running the storage shop?
Companies that set up a storage management group with well-defined job duties can eliminate redundancy and get more bang for their buck.
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The object is better backup
by John Merryman
New object-based backup may forever change the way backup is done. It drastically reduces volumes by backing up only the data that has changed.
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Bridging SAN islands
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Putting storage security policies in place with information life cycle management
by Jon Oltsik
Vendors promise that in the future, ILM will make your life easier, but it ignores security. Start putting security policies in place now.
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Get ready for Sarbanes-Oxley
by James Damoulakis
This November, a new portion of Sarbanes-Oxley will go into effect. Here's how to set up the right storage management practices so your organization will be ready.
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Veritas' StorageCentral formidable storage resource management application
by Darryl Brooks
Veritas' StorageCentral may be Windows-only, but it's still a formidable storage resource management application.
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Dinosaurs walk the Earth
by Mark Schlack
Dinosaurs walk the Earth
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Disaster recovery for the masses
Storage bin: Disaster recovery for the masses may be a reality in the not-so-distant future.
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Snapshot: Storage certifications
Are You Certified For Storage?
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Putting storage security policies in place with information life cycle management
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