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This article is part of the Storage magazine issue of Vol. 2 No. 3 May 2003
If you believe the hype, this is the year storage management tools will burst onto the scene. According to Gartner Dataquest, storage management software revenue grew from $5.3 billion in 2000 to $8.5 billion in 2002 and will continue its ascent to $16.7 billion in 2005. Companies would certainly welcome true enterprise storage management platforms with open arms. Today's landscape of proprietary element management tools provide little help to cope with storage growth and data protection. If the storage industry can deliver open, scaleable software platforms that manage heterogeneous storage, enable higher utilization rates and automate processes, CIOs will have cause for celebration. Before you break out the champagne, it's important to look at the lessons learned in the past. Remember the large enterprise management frameworks such as Computer Associates Unicenter, Hewlett-Packard OpenView, and Tivoli TME ? Similar to today's storage management platforms, these software solutions were supposed to unify management tasks into a ...
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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
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Columns in this issue
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Is HSM ready for open-systems storage?
Is HSM ready for open systems or has is it had its day?
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The world of storage is healthier than ever
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Keeping your eyes on all of your devices might require more than just two eyes
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Get ready for new storage management tools
You've selected your tools for implementation. Now get ready to deploy them.