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Finally, a storage user group
This article is part of the Storage magazine issue of Vol. 2 No. 3 May 2003
Storage departments are becoming increasingly commonplace. More often, IT departments have dedicated storage architects, and some have even split off storage operations from systems or networking groups. Yet most storage people feel that upper management doesn't really get what they do. That's what we heard from nearly 500 storage managers at April's "Storage Management 2003" conference. Nor do vendors get it when it comes to what corporate storage groups want and need. That's pretty evident when you compare the marketing hype to what people are actually trying to do. Even some people within the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) recognize that vendors are out of touch with users to an extent that could impact future business. This is a multifaceted problem, to be sure. Many of you who were at TechTarget's "Storage Management 2003" conference last month told me that you have little opportunity to talk face to face with other storage people. Even in your own companies, there's a relative handful of you. So, you're ...
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Features in this issue
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Storage spending continues to rise
Our extensive survey of 2003 spending plans show spending is up, but storage managers want more than just raw capacity.
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Outsourced Backup: Pricey But Worth It
Experio, the consulting arm of Hitachi USA, has more than 800 employees, 700 of which are mobile consultants. At the same time, it only has a four-person IT staff. How does Experio do it? In a word: outsourcing, including outsourced backup.
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Optimize your storage for fixed content
Much of your data gets written once, read often and never changes. Here's what's available to handle so-called fixed-content storage--and how storage managers are making use of it.
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ATA Drives Move Up the Ranks
The nod has been given to ATA drives by EMC, which is now giving customers the option of buying disk array enclosures (DAEs) for their Clariion CX400 and CX600 arrays equipped with ATA, rather than the usual Fibre Channel drives.
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SRM Software Players Cook Up New Pricing Models
As more IT shops deploy networked storage, many storage resource management (SRM) vendors are moving to capacity-based pricing, rather than the server- or processor-based pricing models of old.
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DDS Lives as Replacement Fails to Materialize
Last year, the digital data storage (DDS) tape format, a.k.a. DAT, was in decline.
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SNIA Members Plug Away at Management Spec
Storage Networking World, co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is always a big source of storage standards news.
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The shape of the new data center
The key to the next wave of data center technologies is adaptability. Realizing that goal may rest in your hands.
Columns in this issue
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Is HSM ready for open-systems storage?
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The world of storage is healthier than ever
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