How to: Solve your top storage headaches

How to: Solve your top storage headaches

What plagues you most when it comes to managing storage? Well according to a recent SearchStorage.com poll, those pesky backups are still causing most of your hair to fall out. Couple that with the votes we got for creating a disaster recovery plan and more than half of the respondents say a backup/recovery related issue is their biggest problem. The next biggest headache are management-related issues. More specifically, finding good tools AND good staff to run a good storage operation. Below, SearchStorage.com's editors have compiled what you need most, resources to help solve these ongoing problems. Admitting you have a problem is the first step...now here is some help solving those challenges.

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Creating a DR plan that won't break the bank
   Ease staffing concerns
   Interoperability
   Troubleshooting your SANs
   Getting the best deal from your vendors



   More efficient backups Return to Table of Contents

  A few good storage mangement tools  Return to Table of Contents

   Creating a DR plan that won't break the bank Return to Table of Contents

   Ease staffing concerns Return to Table of Contents

   Interoperability Return to Table of Contents

   Troubleshooting your SANs Return to Table of Contents

   Getting the best deal from your vendors Return to Table of Contents
  • Webcast: Best Practices for Buying Storage
    Presented by Bill Peldzus, Director of Storage Architecture, GlassHouse Technologies
    By understanding the best approaches for buying storage you can get the best deal for your company. Along with tips and techniques for rating RFI and RFP responses, it will put you -- the buyer -- back in control.
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  • Tip: RFPs create savings

  • RFP workshop webcasts:

    SRM & Policy-Based Management: Creating RFP's that achieve the right results
    Presented by Jamie Gruener, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Computing and Networking, The Yankee Group
    Jamie Gruener looks at the top five priorities you need to consider when evaluating storage resource management (SRM) tools. He explains how these priorities translate into questions you need to ask vendors as part of an RFP. Attendees to his webcast preview will also learn the top five "gotchas" that customers have experienced in evaluating SRM, and how to avoid these issues by asking the right questions during the review process.
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    Writing a switch RFP
    John Webster, Senior Analyst and Founder, Data Mobility Group
    Building a SAN requires careful and detailed attention to the SAN switching environment. Acquiring the best switch configuration for a given environment or set of applications can be a daunting task. Getting vendors to speak to these issues in their responses to your RFP will help you construct a SAN that will hold-up under a production work load and make changing the configuration as time goes on a much easier proposition. This webcast walks step-by-step through these issues and offers attendees the critical information needed to get the most out of the switch-buying experience.
    View this webcast

Drop me an e-mail to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchStorage.com. Mark Lewis, Managing Editor.


This was first published in July 2004

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