Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Archiving the brain
Sharing data with scientists all over the world is the challenge for Dartmouth's fMRI data center
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Tips for the everyday admin -- #3
Bits & Bytes: Evan Marcus' availability countdown continues with advice on exploiting external resources.
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Simplify storage with operations staff
Bits & Bytes: This tip explains why you need to work with your operations staff for successful and simplified storage management.
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Seven steps for building, scaling SANs
Bits & Bytes: Although many have a SAN, not everyone is content with them. Learn what GlassHouse Technologies' consultants suggested recently for dealing with SANs.
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Five steps to selecting a provider
Bits & Bytes: Data consolidation expert Joel Lovell offers these five steps to help you make an informed decision on a storage solution provider.
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Let the iSCSI games begin
How and when will iSCSI impact you? Find out here.
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Choose the right tape library
Some considerations for choosing the right tape library.
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MB/s or IO/s: Which to measure?
There are two common methods of measuring performance in a storage network, but which do you measure? According to this tip, it depends on what you're doing.
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Using DFS for server migration
Bits & Bytes: Columnist Sri Seshadri explains how to use Microsoft DFS for server migration.
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Stay available through a disaster
Bits & Bytes: In this tip, Evan Marcus explores the difference between simple data replication and full application recovery in a disaster-recovery scenario.
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Regulation compliance strategies
Are you ready for the impending job of regulation compliance? Our expert offers some advice on new business strategies and technologies that may help.
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EMC's Clariion with ATA disk support
EMC's Clariion with ATA disk support offers savings
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Taking a look at ATA drive options
Bits & Bytes: Here is a look at ATA drive options you may want to consider for your storage systems.
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NAS gives hotel a vacation from backup
To consolidate and streamline its server backups at varied locations, Wyndham Hotels switches from tape to network-attached storage (NAS).
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Let automation solve your headaches
Bits & Bytes: This tip discusses an ideal storage world where you can set up your storage infrastructure to run itself -- and how the key to achieving that is provisioning.
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Building company constructs framework
Looking for a dependable storage infrastructure that didn't break the bank, VP Buildings Inc. turned to a blueprint of network-attached storage.
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Security standards
Get your security policies in place, standards are on the way
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HIPAA -- a bang or a whimper?
The April '03 deadline for compliance to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is propelling momentum for several, major IT and storage implementations.
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E-mail archiving: Plan your strategy
Bits & Bytes: Jamie Gruener offers several tactics to consider when planning a strategy for managing and archiving e-mail.
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Why computing on demand may flop
Why computing on demand may flop in the long run
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Will erasure coding replace RAID?
Learn why the reliability of RAID technologies could be related to the increased use of erasure coding by both new and established storage vendors.
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PowerShell tutorial: Managing Windows Storage Spaces
This PowerShell tutorial shows users how to fully interact with Windows Storage Spaces, which will help them script the storage provisioning process.
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Five LUN management basics
IT expert Brien Posey discusses five fundamental ideas storage professionals must understand when dealing with LUN management.
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Five LUN storage questions for pros
Learn what expert Brien Posey has to say to storage administrators about five questions they have about LUN storage in their environments.