Real archiving is more challenging to set up and manage over time than simply backing up data.
Archiving isn’t rocket science, but it can be a challenge for even rocket scientists to do well.
Though StorHouse is principally a data warehousing system, its stronger value may be as a database archiving solution.
How much would you spend for 2 TB?
SRM is probably the most important investment that storage managers can make, but it’s riddled with problems.
The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.
Storage standards don’t top the list of customer needs.
Only when the pain and cost of the status quo becomes too great to bear will users start to make some noise.
Are standards something we should really care about?
Is Microsoft's Vista responsible for a push to hybrid drives?
Even in the most "monolithic" of IT settings, the mainframe data center, there may be compelling justifications for violating the one-stop-shop approach that vendors are keen to promote these days.
Last week we explained the four key factors in tiered storage. This week we explore how to align your storage strategy with business requirements.
In less than 18 months, perpendicular recording has gone mainstream. It is one of those little-noted technology innovations, but one that is extraordinarily important.
Views of tiered storage differ wildly because there is no clear, concise, universally accepted definition of the technology. We offer a definition that spells out the four attributes of tiered storage.
The release of CERT information raises a controversy between storage security vendors.
To better define the term, we recall the most memorable quotes of 2006
The top seven storage trends that mattered this year and may matter even more in 2007.
Vendors—full of glee over new federal evidence rules for evidence—may be overstating the need for their products.
Newly created Olin College chose a beefy but cost-effective iSCSI storage area network for rapidly escalating storage needs
What happens when a major technology player seems to disappear?