Setting a storage usage policy can be tricky
Two key questions must be addressed: what do you back up and how do you do it?
IT must acknowledge the importance—and risks—of mobile computing tools and start building processes to protect corporate data.
How do we manage the combined output of all of the event logs produced by all the available, and frequently used, management tools?
Trying to reconcile the technologies and products offered by the storage industry with the actual problems confronting IT can seem like a thankless job.
Data management should stand on its own as an umbrella effort driving all of IT’s efforts, because the essential task of IT is data management.
Equal parts architecture and marketecture continue to dominate the releases coming out of the storage industry.
Storage consolidation into a SAN is often a code word for re-centralization, a strategy based more on nostalgia than necessity—or benefit.
The fur will fly as Centera flaws are exposed
How a pair of protocols and unique interconnect software can lead the way to inexpensive storage
Forget the tape versus multi-hop-mirroring battle. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, has some suggestions.
Disaster recovery was once a one-stop proposition. No more.
While there may be no complete solution to content-and-context -managed storage problem, two vendors have interesting products that worth a look.
You can’t optimize capacity utilization until you understand the data you’re storing.
Data storage has moved beyond managing transactions in a database. We explore the changing nature of data, conventional and clustered storage, and the business value of a new class of storage technologies.
Readers are on the right wavelength when it comes to their storage concerns.
The largest conference devoted to storage networking wrapped up last week. We learn what’s new and what caught our storage analyst’s eye—plus news of a new disaster recovery summit.
Active-Circle says it provides a centralized mechanism for establishing policy-based management across your existing network-attached infrastructure. We take a closer look.
Spring cleaning is a reminder to get busy with long-delayed projects, including several projects we ought to be initiating today to improve our storage infrastructure for the rest of the year.
Can MOM—a manager-of-managers for data archives—really make it all better?