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December 2002

Vendors and CIM: How Deep is Their Love?
The reign of CIM-based storage management is just around the corner.

CTRC Mirrors with iSCSI
The Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio has aggressive uptime goals for IT resources at its two facilities.

Backup, Replication Next on Automation Agenda
Why the sudden fuss over provisioning?

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Storage Industry Index

Backup Arrays Revisited
Was 2002 the year of the ATA-based backup array?

Fibre Channel and ATA: An Odd Couple?
Those IT shops that build SANs are typically characterized by their demanding performance requirements.

Definition
Pixie dust & GBIC

Ask The Expert
by Evan L. Marcus
File server cluster vs. network load balanced vs. DFS: What's the best method for file server HA?

IBM Demos Storage Tank
Big Blue's new Autonomic Computing Organization is working on technologies that will reduce the human costs of running complex computing and storage systems.

SNIA Relaunches Supported Solutions Forum
Eighteen months ago, the Storage Networking Industry Association announced the formation of the Supported Solutions Forum.

November 2002

Brocade, McData Bolster Midrange Families
Dominant Fibre Channel switch vendors Brocade and McData have both made significant enhancements to their midrange 2Gb/s Fibre Channel switch platforms.

Microsoft Scales Data Center Wall with MPIO
Microsoft is exhausting data center managers' objections to running Windows in the data center.

The Whys and Wherefores of Failed Backups
Despite all the effort storage administrators pour into backup, backups fail about 40% of the time.

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Migrating Data No Picnic - and No Bargain
To describe data migration as complex is an understatement and tools to assist in data migration, meanwhile, are few and far between,

Definition
Direct Memory Access

API Swaps: Only Skin Deep

Storage Industry Index

Ask the Expert
by Marc Farley
What are the pros and cons of storing user files on a RAID array with either ATA or SCSI drives? Because it's so much cheaper, I'd like to install an ATA RAID.

Saving Media from Extinction
What do whales and digitizing analog broadcast tapes have in common?

Storage Manager Profile
NAS vs. SAN? Who Cares?

October 2002

Cisco Joins FC Switch Club
By the end of the year, Cisco will begin shipping the fruits of its Andiamo acquisition, the MDS 9000 series fabric switch and director products.

Protect Data at Rest

HIPAA Prompts Hospitals to Reconsider Storage
With the deadline to comply with HIPAA lurking in the not-so-distant future, the healthcare industry's IT professionals are revamping their storage infrastructures to fulfill the law's security and patient record accessibility requirements.

Book Review
by Kit Pitroda
Storage Area Network Fundamentals

By the Numbers

Where Does Midrange End and Enterprise Begin?
There's an increasingly fine line between midrange and high-end storage, with vendors stuffing midrange systems with more and more hardware and software capabilities.

Definition
Superparamagnetic limit

Ask the Expert
by Marc Farley
Can you do a LAN-free data transfer by giving an IP address to a FC adapter? Does it decrease the speed of data transfers to LAN speeds?

Easing the Pain of NAS Backup Headaches
Installing NAS device after NAS device may be as easy as pie, but backing them all up can be a royal pain.

High-Availability Switches Still a Moving Target

iSCSI Products Flood Market

Beyond basic RAID

Storage Industry Index
The mild run-up at the end of July proved temporary, as the Index yo-yoed along with the S&P 500 all throughout August

Remote Backup Services: The Road Not Taken
Getting remote workers to perform backups is like pulling teeth - even with a bevy of Web-based backup services to choose from.

September 2002

EMC takes a stab at storage consulting services
EMC is expanding its professional services group to offer platform-independent consulting.

Data growth not in vain at NCSA

Free of Fibre Channel baggage, firm builds IP SAN
by Alex Barrett

By the numbers

Ask the Expert
What is the average amount of hosts for a centralized system to backup at one time?

Penny per megabyte NAS here to stay
Priced in the penny per megabyte range, networked storage is within reach of all but the smallest mom and pops.

Definition
Exabyte (EB)

Few options for disaster-proof storage

Storage Industry Index
While the S&P 500 took a dive, storage stocks stabilized somewhat.

The bookshelf
Looking for storage enlightenment?

What Will Succeed DDS for the Low-end Tape Throne?
by Alex Barrett
Last year, manufacturers of Digital Data Storage (DDS) tape announced they would discontinue any further development of the 8mm technology.

Storage firsts

Standard Procedure

IBM's Shark stays afloat
Recent enhancements should keep Shark afloat for a while longer.

Comings, Goings

August 2002

Tape Spins Right Round
by Alex Barrett
Tape vendors continue to put out products at dizzying speeds.

Standard Procedure
by Alex Barrett
10G Ethernet Leads, 10G Fibre Channel Follows.

InfiniBand Marches on Despite Intel Retreat
by Alex Barrett
Intel has put the brakes on some of its InfiniBand activities.

ASK THE EXPERT:
by Randy Kerns
Why doesn't my mail client software create a lock for e-mail files if it's reading it off a NAS device? Which non-EMC NAS devices provide a gateway to connect to an EMC Symmetrix SAN?

Centralized Storage No Fad

Definition
by Alex Barrett
FCIP & iFCP

Solid State Disk: Coming Soon to a SAN Near You
by Alex Barrett
It's commonplace to find disk subsystems and tape drives on the SAN, but that's not always the case for solid state disk (SSD).

USB Drives Make Small Work of Large File Transfers
The market has seen a flood of small plug-and-play USB storage devices that have ample capacity.

Will disk replace tape?
by Alex Barrett

Taxonomy of Storage Management Software Providers
There's no lack of vendors who will sell you tools to help you regain control of your storage resources.

Are You a SAN Guru?
by Alex Barrett
Take these sample exam questions to see if you could pass SNIA's FC certification programs.

Virtualization Inside!
by Alex Barrett
Users attracted by the promise of virtualization can now get some of the benefits without getting their hands dirty.

Storage Industry Index
June wasn't a great month for the stock market, and it was even worse for our index.

By the Numbers

With SANs, Street Price Bears Little Resemblance to List
If you're not getting deep discounts on your storage networking equipment, you need to hone your bargaining skills.

July 2002

Bona fide iSCSI products ship
by Alex Barrett
With ratification of the standard coming soon, more and more iSCSI products have started surfacing.

Apple Xserve counts on ATA
Apple has embraced ATA drives in its new 1U rackmount server.

HPaq: the upshot for storage
Wondering which storage product the merged Compaq/HP will push?

Storage industry index
May followed April's dramatic decline.

Virtual tape is cast for the open systems stage
by Alex Barrett
For some people in the open systems world, tape is a four-letter word.

By the Numbers

ASK THE EXPERT: What does storage pooling mean? What do you think of it?
by Joel Lovell

Definition
inode

Chargeback ROI: Does accountability pay?
by Anne Zieger
Chargeback for storage use is attracting a lot of interest. But does it make sense financially?

Recent funding to storage companies
The venture capital stream has yet to dry up completely.

Vixel chip brings switching to disks
by Alex Barrett
Subsystem vendors are coming up against the limitations of shared protocols.

Storage management building on XML foundation
Storage management software is "like stepping back in time ten years."