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Greg Schulz
Founder and Senior Analyst
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Do you want a Firewire SAN?
Submitted By: By Rick Cook | 28 Jul 2003
TIP - Firewire (IEEE 1394) is a serial bus usually associated with peripherals. Yet at least one company makes a firewire SAN and it has established a firm foothold, in a limited market.
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Audit your SAN's security risks
Submitted By: By Rick Cook | 14 Jul 2003
TIP - This tip describes checklists for auditing the security of your storage area networks (SANs).
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Avoid circular hierarchy references
Submitted By: By Rick Cook | 30 Jun 2003
TIP - This tip describes an important caveat when dealing with tiered storage hierarchies and moving storage to various volumes: Avoid circular references.
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Before LVD, there was differential SCSI
Expert: Marc Farley | 23 Jun 2003
EXPERT ANSWER - I have an HVD (High Voltage Differential) device. I was told that I need a differential SCSI cable in order for the device to work properly. I have never heard of a differential SCSI cable. Is there such a cable or is the ...
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Streaming storage
Expert: Marc Farley | 23 Jun 2003
EXPERT ANSWER - What exactly are CIFS streams and is there a white paper on it? And, how do you compare it to NFS? Does DAFS support streams?
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Storage 101 -- a few basic definitions
Expert: Marc Farley | 13 Jun 2003
EXPERT ANSWER - What are the differences between hubs and bridges, SONET and ATM, SS7 protocol and OSI references model protocol, frame relay and cell relay and finally, CDMA and TDMA?
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Risk/performance trade-offs of notification criteria
Expert: Marc Farley | 11 Jun 2003
EXPERT ANSWER - When writing to disk, an Oracle process waits until it "hears" from the storage device that the write is "done." It turns out that different storage devices have different criteria for when a write is "done." Some when they ...
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