Does it take money and membership in SNIA to get that organization to consider a good product?
Adaptec and SNAP have found each other—and that bodes well for all of us
Is there a role for the independent integrator in the well-demarcated world of storage vendor relationships?
The time for application-centric storage performance monitoring is now
Our column on actual vs. real disk space touched quite a nerve
Lousy component integration and ever-present infighting among Fibre Channel vendors may leave a hole in your wallet
Think you're getting the space your storage vendor says you're getting? Think again.
Testing is absolutely required to ensure that storage “solutions” will actually resemble the pretty picture in the vendor brochure. But what's really needed is the ability to test storage products before you buy them—and under real workloads.
Was development of the SMI specification by the SNIA usurped by a small group of vendors? A developer provides his real-world experience.
Customers say management features for heterogeneous storage should be a "given"—built-in (and free). Vendors say it's an add-on worth paying for. When will vendors wake up?
Can smaller vendors still have a voice in an organization designed to develop hardware standards for the entire industry?
Familiar problems are starting to crop up
The SMI spec offers considerable benefits: improved efficiency and potentially huge management cost savings as well as improved troubleshooting capabilities. Yet SMI's poor outreach to end users has been a serious blunder. What the SMI should do next.
What, exactly, is SMI-S anyway? We may finally be able to find out.
Recent legislation doesn't mandate changes to your storage infrastructure, but it does mean you'll have to manage your data more effectively.
Disaster recovery planning must become an integral part of application development so the right middleware and coding choices are made at the outset of system design.
In a market with few innovations, we find some noteworthy achievements among storage vendors and their promoters.
The reality is that demand for more storage is not growing as much as originally forecast—and the forecast revisions are significant. How are analysts deriving their numbers?
The author outlines 10 reasons why he disagrees with the FCIA's view of FC SANs
Sun announces a development partnership with AppIQ, which offers a combo storage resource management/SAN management product called StorageAuthority Suite.