Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Access "Who's running the storage shop?"
This article is part of the Vol. 3 No. 3 May 2004 issue of Who owns storage in your organization?
"Absolutely," says Angelo Privetera, when asked if his storage management group has helped save his company money. "We're able to bill it back, and reduce the cost by not adding additional staff," explains Privetera, vice president and director of information and technologies for HDR Inc., an architectural and engineering consulting firm based in Omaha, NE. Companies like HDR that have established a formal storage management structure with specific responsibilities have reaped rewards. Centralizing storage management helps eliminate redundancies, allows for consistent maintenance and monitoring of storage and applies the talents of personnel more efficiently--all of which contribute to the company's bottom line. Before creating a formal storage management function, a number of questions need answers: How many storage specialists are needed? What are the job responsibilities and required skills? Should the storage personnel comprise a new, separate entity, or remain in their current positions with newly defined responsibilities? How will the storage personnel... 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
by Jon Oltsik
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