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Get help with specific problems with your technologies, process and projects.
What's the best way to do a server availability calculation?
A discussion on the efficacy of predicting site/environment availability. Continue Reading
How does RAID5/parity really work?
Reactive/proactive intrusion detection measures
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Can you use normal LAN IP switches as the SAN layer using iSCSI?
Ten data protection recommendations
10 data protection recommendations Continue Reading
Data management/consolidation challenges
Some of the benefits of data consolidation
Blue light storage specials
Blue light storage specialsContinue Reading
FC/iSCSI differences
Storage subsystem failure
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How does a hard disk organize data?
Single vs. dual SAN fabrics
Advantages, disadvantages of servers and mainframes
Understand disk performance numbers in Windows
What disk performance numbers mean in Windows.Continue Reading
Check queues when tuning Windows disks
What to look for in your queue logs.Continue Reading
Evaluating hard disk drives
Many applications and NAS
SCSI and IDE differences
Solid-state disk gives SANs performance
Why you can use them somewhat cost-effictively.Continue Reading
Zone with zone sets
A discussion of zone sets.Continue Reading
DSS drives
RAID reliability
Setting policies/procedures into business goals
Looking for an alternative to clustering
IBM's NAS products
Symmetrical and asymmetrical SANs
The differences and what each is good for.Continue Reading
The data density dilemma
Find out about the dilemma of rapidly increasing disk densities combined with slower increases in disk speed.Continue Reading
Issues/benefits of offline, online and Nearline® storage
Graham Irving shares on some of the considerations involved in offline, nearline and online storage.Continue Reading
Who are the key players?
Using hard zoning
Mixing arbitrated loop and fabric
Why you would want to do it, and how.Continue Reading
Fibre Channel advantages
File server policies
Implementing a storage-management policy
Important considerations on implementing a storage-management policy.Continue Reading
EMC introduces Centera to the fixed content market
EMC introduces Centera to the fixed content marketContinue Reading
Using SAN or NAS for data warehousing
Masking and zoning for SAN security
How they work to enhance security.Continue Reading
Point-to-point connections
Configuring a Fibre Channel SAN for RAID5
Comparing bandwidth with capacity - Part I
Availability, Part 1: The availability index
Part one of a series on storage availability.Continue Reading
The different NFS versions
Block and file I/O
RAID 1 requirements
A brief history of storage management
An amusing look at the history of storage with Jon William Toigo.Continue Reading
Top 10 business continuity elements
This tip is the first of a series that analyzes disaster recovery and BC technologies.Continue Reading
Maximum mailbox sizes in Exchange
Why you should set them, and how to do it.Continue Reading
SAN approaches to LUN security
Different ways to help manage security of data on a SAN.Continue Reading
Common tasks for a storage administrator
What's the difference between a bridge and a gateway?
Explore the differences between a gateway and a bridge, and get advice from storage expert Marc Farley.Continue Reading
Ports and ASIC on switches
CD/DVD jukebox
Connecting tape to switch using existing HBAs
Explaining a NAS gateway and SAN appliance
LAN-free backup vs. server-free backup in a SAN: Part 1
Functional benefits of LAN-free versus server-free backup implementations using a storage area network (SAN).Continue Reading
Differential and single ended
NAS and DFS
Have you heard of RAID-C?
Connecting storage boxes and servers
Calculating concurrent access
Clustering in a SAN environment for high availability
How to increase availability by implemeting a SAN in a clustered environent.Continue Reading
Guidelines for carrying out a network storage policy
Guidelines for carrying out a network storage policy.Continue Reading
Shared storage and SAN differences
What does a terabyte look like?
DR and automatic failover
Tape, disk or both in a SAN environment?
Use a NAS server for bare-metal restore
How you can speed restore after a disaster by backing up on a NAS server.Continue Reading
Understand SPC-1
Discussion of a new standard for SAN performance.Continue Reading
Why have storage policies?
Expert advice on why and how to establish a solid storage management policy.Continue Reading
Discussing dictionary-based compression algorithms
What are the latest storage trends?
Who uses object-oriented databases?
Certification for SAN professionals
Which SAN certification is best to help you meet your goals?Continue Reading
What is concurrent access?
SCSI and IDE hard drive differences
Node and port WWNs
NDMP NAS appliance advantages
NAS protocols
Integrating SAN and NAS
A guide to where to find info on current storage architectures.Continue Reading
Know your underutilization
Before you can manage your growth, you have to know how much space you aren?t using.Continue Reading
Hubs, switches and director differences
SAN/NAS security considerations
What's needed to become a storage engineer?
Considerations for SAN extension
Extending SAN connections over long distances is getting easier with new IP storage products, but look before you leap.Continue Reading
Ping to test your SAN
Proactive testing is the ticket for optimum SAN performance.Continue Reading
SAN switch design considerations
Do you need a large number of ISLs in order to build a single FC fabric? This user suggests probably not.Continue Reading
Evaluating SAN storage solutions
DWDM for long-distance SANs
Discussion of optical multiplexing technique that allows for SANs over greater distances.Continue Reading
Retain your staff if you outsource
Ideas to follow when your are considering outsourcing some or all of your storage.Continue Reading
H/W-S/W replication techniques, Part III
Rewind? Non-Rewind?
Keep track in Linux of backup devices that rewind and those that don't.Continue Reading
Terabytes per storage manager: An important metric
An important metric for testing efficiency is the amount of data stored per storage management employee.Continue Reading
Core-edge SAN switch architecture
A discussion of the most scalable and fastest of the popular SAN switch architectures.Continue Reading
SSD solves bank's traffic jam
Texas State Bank switched to solid-state disk when slow transaction processing caused customer service problems.Continue Reading
NAS security
Cascaded SAN switch architectures
A discussion of the simplest of the SAN switch connection schemesContinue Reading
Test your SAN aggressively
Storage consulting company Imation's Storage Professional Services Group relates their experiences with building SANs.Continue Reading
Measuring SAN performance
Use a Linux logical volume manager
Discusses why you should use the Linux logical volume manager for better storage administration.Continue Reading
SW/HW acronyms