Storage


Happiness, Nothingness, and Long-Term Storage

So-call regulatory compliance solutions are just data movers.

My Bad: More on SNIA's Silence

Does it take money and membership in SNIA to get that organization to consider a good product?

Adaptec and SNAP: Let the Joyous Wedding Begin

Adaptec and SNAP have found each other—and that bodes well for all of us

Lock-Outs for Independents

Is there a role for the independent integrator in the well-demarcated world of storage vendor relationships?

You Had Me At I/O: A Love Story

The time for application-centric storage performance monitoring is now

Readers Sound Off on T-Bits and B-Bits

Our column on actual vs. real disk space touched quite a nerve

It’s Not the Drill, It’s the Hole

Lousy component integration and ever-present infighting among Fibre Channel vendors may leave a hole in your wallet



The Little Guy: Squeezed Out of SMI-S Land?

Can smaller vendors still have a voice in an organization designed to develop hardware standards for the entire industry?

Pick a LUN, Any LUN

Familiar problems are starting to crop up

SMI: Will The Spec Ever Get Respect?

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.

Winning the Little Battles to Demystify SMI-S

What, exactly, is SMI-S anyway? We may finally be able to find out.

PSS Systems Provides Common Sense Data Management Policy Scheme

Recent legislation doesn't mandate changes to your storage infrastructure, but it does mean you'll have to manage your data more effectively.

The End of Disaster Recovery Planning

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.

And The Winner Is...

In a market with few innovations, we find some noteworthy achievements among storage vendors and their promoters.

Storage Growth: Lowering The Limbo Stick

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?

Reader Mail: A Response to the FCIA

The author outlines 10 reasons why he disagrees with the FCIA's view of FC SANs

The Sun Also Rises ... And Sets ... And Rises ...

Sun announces a development partnership with AppIQ, which offers a combo storage resource management/SAN management product called StorageAuthority Suite.

Can Networking Guys Do Storage?

Acopia is a network-turned-storage-focused company with a new product for managing the network resources that support file access and data movement.

View from the Crossroads: Can iSCSI Make Storage Management Friendly?

A widely respected storage veteran looks at connectivity issues, including SCSI/iSCSI, plus Microsoft and storage management.

Family Counseling for SCSI

SCSI implementations may be different in terms of the way data packages flow, but all are members of the same family. Arguments over the superiority of any implementation are heated.