The only way to solve the seemingly intractable problems of storage management is to do so strategically.
None of the popular storage strategies—FC fabric, Big Iron, multi-tiered storage, or storage consolidation—has any intrinsic value, regardless of what a vendor may say.
Size is NOT everything … it's all in how you manage your data.
Old-guard storage vendors believe storage management is the same as resource management. We explain why that concept is out of date.
Only by looking at data targets, then building security in pragmatic layers around the targets, can you realize strategic data security
Disinformation in the iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel debates is stronger than ever
Will customers be able to establish real storage tiers and perform migrations of data per policy to enable 90 percent capacity allocation efficiency with a new arrival on the array horizon … and say goodbye to proprietary products?
As the first month of 2006 comes to a close, our curmudgeon of a storage analyst finds several companies deserve praise for their storage efforts.
Mirror, mirror on the….drive. Is continuous data protection the next holy grail? We look at three approaches.
Sifting through the options (and hype) of redundant-backup can be daunting. Our storage analyst simplifies things with three key questions.
How recent advances make SATA suitable for many enterprise online storage needs
How much noise will users have to make to get vendors to listen?
10, 9, 8……let's see what the future holds.
If you don't have something nice to say, say nothing at all, right? Storage columnist Jon Toigo ignores that advice as he looks at the three worst events and trends in the storage industry this year.
Our storage guru Jon Toigo has always been suspicious of industry awards. Rather than looking at slick literature, Jon evaluates dozens of products each year to find what's worthy of your consideration. Here are the Toigos for 2005.
Extra weight isn't just for the holidays. Here's a diet plan that might interest you.
Open-source initiatives may not be workable—or even enough. Consider treating disk as inventory instead.
Several changes today are opening the door once again to more novel and less standards-based storage protocols.
One-upmanship brings responsibilities to prove or dispel the boast.
While top administrators are spending money for things they don’t understand, IT professionals fail to see the value in overpriced goods.