It was a dark and stormy night. At a secret conference room hidden in the jagged rock face of a remote mountaintop, members of the powerful-yet-shadowy industry consortium, the Engineers of Accelerated Total Depletion of Information Storage Components (EATDISC), formulated the next steps in their Master Plan for global domination of IT spending.
End runs can be a good thing. Sometimes they can get you around some significant problems and take you where you want to go. But the end run can also be a questionable strategy, especially when it comes to storage technology.
The economy has slowed, but data growth certainly hasn't. Our expert offers 10 tips to help you squeeze the most from your enterprise storage investment.
Newer networked storage topologies that capitalize on the simplicity of NAS and the scalability of a SAN will soon appear in the marketplace.
A New York-based managed service provider switched to a SAN solution from IBM to drive revenue and beef up customer value.
While network attached storage has moved into the technology mainstream today, that wasn't so in 1992. In fact until recently, conventional wisdom held that such a technology would lead to anarchy.
In garnering media attention through "shock PR," BlueArc has gotten its 10 minutes of fame. However, it has also exposed its value proposition to the kind of scrutiny that most start-ups generally do not want.
Ask any storage vendor to describe a suitable scenario for the deployment of a SAN and most will answer, "Data Warehousing." However, if handled across the production LAN, a SAN could negatively impact the performance of other applications that transact their business through the same fixed bandwidth.
SANs are the latest news in storage architectures as they provide a highly manageable, scalable and available infrastructure for corporate information, instantly delivering data storage resources to end users. SANs make it possible to share information and data on a level unprecedented to date and are becoming a major factor in the essential infrastructure to support the growing demands of e-commerce systems. Despite the increasing popularity of SANs, the question remains: What is the best way to build and manage a SAN?
Universities and higher education institutions are facing a boom in electronic data storage and backup needs. The national upsurge in Internet-based research and the increasing popularity of data-intensive studies are causing stressed-out systems admin personnel to frantically search for terabytes of storage space. Additionally, "mission-critical" data, such as administrative, personnel and student records are now recorded electronically, emphasizing the importance of an expandable, rock-solid-reliable backup system.
The explosion of the e-business revolution is driving an unprecedented demand for storage. Of course, as demand rises, technological innovation follows. As technological innovation accelerates, user confusion over the number of products and technologies available increases as well. The storage market is no exception to this rule and has given rise to new, and commonly confused, storage topologies: NAS and SAN. So what's the difference?
The explosive growth of e-business and e-commerce is triggering new and serious issues for system administrators in the areas of data storage and file transfer management. Offline and nearline are the traditional data backup and storage methods, but each has major drawbacks and limitations.
Information has become the new world currency. Information-intensive requirements are raising a growing chorus of demands for more storage and more bandwidth. Organizations are racing to provide fast, reliable, continuously available information access, while struggling to accommodate the growing volumes of bulk data and these pressures are driving organizations to adopt Storage Area Networks.
The enterprise storage utility is a self-diagnosing, self-healing, policy-based, intelligent storage system that dynamically allocates and re-allocates a virtual pool of storage, and automatically handles saving and backup. Sound too good to be true? It is, for it doesn't exist -- yet.
IBM takes bold steps to recapture a major part of the disk storage market from UNIX and NT with its new disk subsystem, the IBM 2105 Enterprise Storage Server (ESS).
The key to tape library problem-solving and preventive maintenance relies on the automated tracking of performance indicators. And a performance package makes tape library preventive maintenance realistic for the data center by placing minimal demands on data center staff resources.
To meet business requirements in an age where data is the lifeblood of the corporate world, dispense with misconceptions and consider leveraging existing network switching fabrics to create an enterprise storage network.
As competition increases, companies will further intensify their efforts to gain a competitive advantage. Virtual storage solutions offer an exciting way to address these demands and provide companies with the edge they need by increasing sales, improving customer satisfaction and reducing expenses.
A business faces many challenges when implementing a continuous availability system to support applications accessing data in a VSAM file structure.
In the battle for the hearts and IT budgets of enterprise users, storage vendors are moving beyond the issue of sheer capacity to the more compelling value propositions of storage management and storage area networks.