Storage


Podcast: Best Practices for Personal-Use Storage Policies

Setting a storage usage policy can be tricky

Backup/Recovery Strategies: Protecting Networked Workstations (Part 2 of a 3-part Series)

Two key questions must be addressed: what do you back up and how do you do it?

Backup/Recovery Strategies: Protecting Road Warriors (Part 1 of a 3-part Series)

IT must acknowledge the importance—and risks—of mobile computing tools and start building processes to protect corporate data.

Unified Theories of Data Management

How do we manage the combined output of all of the event logs produced by all the available, and frequently used, management tools?

Sometimes It’s Not a Storage Issue

Trying to reconcile the technologies and products offered by the storage industry with the actual problems confronting IT can seem like a thankless job.

Records Managers Are Suddenly Sexy

Data management should stand on its own as an umbrella effort driving all of IT’s efforts, because the essential task of IT is data management.

Storage News and Abuse

Equal parts architecture and marketecture continue to dominate the releases coming out of the storage industry.



Cracking the Code of Data Protection

Storage consolidation into a SAN is often a code word for re-centralization, a strategy based more on nostalgia than necessity—or benefit.

Herding CA(T)S Caringo Launches Software-Only CAS Solution

The fur will fly as Centera flaws are exposed

Really Big Storage on the Cheap

How a pair of protocols and unique interconnect software can lead the way to inexpensive storage

A Season of Disasters: The Signs Are There

Forget the tape versus multi-hop-mirroring battle. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, has some suggestions.

Do Disasters Know A Season?

Disaster recovery was once a one-stop proposition. No more.

Universal Data Classification, Part 2

While there may be no complete solution to content-and-context -managed storage problem, two vendors have interesting products that worth a look.

The Search for Universal Data Classification

You can’t optimize capacity utilization until you understand the data you’re storing.

Podcast: The Changing Nature of Data Storage

Data storage has moved beyond managing transactions in a database. We explore the changing nature of data, conventional and clustered storage, and the business value of a new class of storage technologies.

Readers Speak Up

Readers are on the right wavelength when it comes to their storage concerns.

Podcast: What’s New at Storage Networking World

The largest conference devoted to storage networking wrapped up last week. We learn what’s new and what caught our storage analyst’s eye—plus news of a new disaster recovery summit.

Circling the Data

Active-Circle says it provides a centralized mechanism for establishing policy-based management across your existing network-attached infrastructure. We take a closer look.

Three Spring Projects for Storage Managers

Spring cleaning is a reminder to get busy with long-delayed projects, including several projects we ought to be initiating today to improve our storage infrastructure for the rest of the year.

Managing the Data Archives Manager

Can MOM—a manager-of-managers for data archives—really make it all better?