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Articles by Author: Stephen Foskett

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Can iSCSI crack the enterprise?  - Jul 2007
iSCSI storage systems are showing up in medium-sized businesses, but storage managers at large enterprise shops have been reluctant to embrace them. This is largely because Fibre Channel (FC) is so firmly entrenched in bigger companies. But iSCSI offers some unique benefits that may appeal to shops with FC-only environments.

The best way to scale SANs  - Aug 2003
SAN configurations greatly influence their scalability. There's no perfect model, but here are the trade-offs involved with each major option.
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Best Practices  - Feb 2007
Everyone thinks about online data in the same way: You write it, read it, rewrite it and keep it forever. But many organizations have far more data that's written once, read a few times and kept alive forever. You might say this bulk data is "write once, read several times" (WORST), and it can bloat your storage environment.

Best Practices  - Oct 2006
In many companies, data that should be safeguarded against loss or theft isn't getting encrypted. The main reason why so many storage managers are shying away from encryption is that they don't understand how it functions within the storage infrastructure.

Best Practices  - Aug 2006
The cost of each gigabyte of storage is declining rapidly in every segment of the market. Enterprise storage today costs what desktop storage did less than a decade ago. So why are overall costs increasing?

Best Practices  - Jun 2006
Disk drives are getting smaller and smaller even as their capacities rise. Now storage vendors are packing more disks than ever into smaller spaces, which saves costly data center real estate. But the denser arrays also have a downside--higher power consumption and more heat.

Best Practices  - Apr 2006
In this age of compliance and despite well-publicized cases of data theft, a recent security survey from GlassHouse Technologies indicates that few companies are paying much attention to storage security.

Best practices  - Feb 2006
The midrange array market may still be hot, but storage managers are wary of getting burned. While midrange vendors keep piling on the features, storage pros are becoming disenchanted with midrange systems despite their more modest price tags.

Best Practices  - Dec 2004
The storage revolution

Best Practices: Get your storage management group up and running  - Oct 2004
Follow this methodical plan to build an effective storage management group with clearly defined responsibilities.

Best practices  - Aug 2004
Here's how to distinguish best practices in storage from sloppy ideas and unproven methods.

Best practices  - Jun 2004
Metcalfe's law explains how the Internet works. But what about storage? Here are five rules to help you build a storage strategy.

Integration  - Apr 2004
When creating your dedicated storage management group, there are better ways to determine staff levels than relying on a simplistic metric based on the number of terabytes per manager.

Integration  - Mar 2004
It's essential to create sound strategic, tactical and organizational policies to keep your organization from running amuck.

Integration  - Feb 2004
There are many new technologies that you may want to try, but you need to implement them with new processes and procedures to maximize the benefits these new products bring.

Integration  - Dec 2003
Tiered storage is a hot idea, but implementing it can be trickier than appears. This article defines the two different approaches--heterogeneous and homogeneous--and helps you choose the strategy you should employ.

Integration  - Oct 2003
The key to making sense of the the bewildering amount of storage management products offered today is knowing what you need and ignoring the rest.

Integration  - Jun 2003
Are you keeping your SAN secure? Here's a start on process and infrastructure to safeguard your pooled data.

Integration  - Apr 2003
Stephen Foskett takes a real-world look at how storage is being utilized and the answers are shocking.

Integration  - Feb 2003
If you're figuring your space utilization from the host side, you're getting the wrong answer. Here's how to get a truer utilization picture.

Integration  - Dec 2002
SNIA is promising a new solution that manages heterogeneous storage environments. Will it deliver?

Integration  - Oct 2002
The good--and bad--of vendor independence.

Integration  - Aug 2002
Introducing new technology to your department isn't as easy as it sounds.

Integration  - Jun 2002
A further look at business continuance volumes.




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