Enterprises once considered using a third-party to manage their off-site data on the basis of cost. The economics have shifted.
SANs are out, virtual grids (aka storage clusters) are in.
Why a nearline component solution is the most practical and cost-effective way to keep data warehouse storage costs under control.
Feedback on our column about clustering inefficiency.
More speed, lower failure rates, better encryption—sounds too good to be true
How do you help businesses better manage information and increase the performance of their database and storage-related infrastructures?
Is a software-only solution to storage manipulation on the horizon?
New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?
ITIL emerged from an effort to establish better coordination and service-level controls over IT infrastructure within the British government. It’s certainly changed since then.
Sooner or later, technology to allow a true ILM was bound to come along.
As you consider your archive options, don’t count out optical.
Do what needs to be done to operate storage infrastructure with a quality of service you can live with.
Content-addressable storage may be the key to meeting extended data storage management requirements.
The Wild West adage “Never trust nobody” should be a storage manager’s creed.
The off-site storage industry continues to lack a common set of best practices to describe the services they provide or ways to measure service delivery.
Like a summertime guilty-pleasure-but-pointless novel, and SNIA’s latest document on information lifecycle management makes for nice beach reading.
Acquisitions, new releases, value-added hype --- what can we believe and who is offering something new?
The entry level price of "solutions-in-a-box" is rarely for a unit configured in a manner that most smart consumers are likely to deploy.
Addressing the difficulties of both horizontal and vertical scalability has seen the rise of clustering techniques—but the question is where the brains for the cluster should reside.
IT must shift from developing backup strategies to developing reliable, easy-to-use recovery practices to ensure that data, applications, and operating systems can be recovered in a consistent format.