Storage


Storage and Security: How Real is the Threat?

Partially at the behest of a reader, we take a look at the storage-security nexus.

SCSI vs. Fibre Channel: Picking the Right Protocol

A reader asks for guidance in choosing between the two—and we offer a third option

SMS: From the Beginning

Giving credit where it's due

Proliferating Protocols

Business applications must guide storage architecture, not vice versa

Stand By for More Storage Software

New storage software is in the works to automate and integrate storage, its management, and the enterprise.

HIPAA: The Storage Labyrinth

How recent Federal data protection regulations impact storage

The Little Initiative That Could

SNIA wants to assimilate the Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative



Measuring IO Performance

What are a few milliseconds between friends?

Storage Management Issues Still Driving Us Crazy

The classic mainframe need for simpler storage administration still resonates in the open systems storage world

Self-Aware Storage: Innovation or Retrenchment?

The concept is sweet and seductive, but is this just the same old proprietary engineering game?

Certification For Data Managers?

Can "official" recognition help us gain respect?

Naming the iSCSI Standard

A protocol Without A Number

The Secret War Over License Transfers

The hitch in used storage gear

BMC Abandons Storage Management

Users feel jilted as they question their next move

Addressing Storage Growth with Limited Budgets

A technical support specialist describes his storage problems and asks for advice on a strategy for moving forward.

iSCSI: The Best Darn Protocol You’ll Probably Never Use

Nearly three years overdue, the new iSCSI protocol lets SCSI operate as an application across a TCP/IP network. Is it too little too late?

The Bell Tolls For BMC Storage Management

After assuming the mantle of “mind share leader” in application-centric storage management, BMC After assuming the mantle of “mind share leader” in application-centric storage management, BMC Software has pulled the plug on its storage business unit. Lamentations aside, the company is owed a few parting kudos for steering the storage industry a couple of degrees toward the direction of end user requirements.

Small Vendors and Risk Management

A reader challenges my "success story" column (on buying from a small vendor) with the need to manage risk.

Invasion of the Tin-Wrapped Software Appliances

Increasingly, functionality to support storage networking and management is being provided by start-up companies who choose to embed their technology in an appliance format. We offer a few questions

Case In Point: How Storage Management Vendors Should Support Customers

Forbes.com CTO Mike Smith reveals how a solution from Tek-Tools took into account a customer's needs and preferences to solve a common storage problem—capacity management.