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Fall Storage Networking World at exactly the right time, on the eve of Halloween, since it is where you can go to watch the industry eat its young. Big players often use the venue to announce that they are swallowing up smaller firms.
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Breece Hill's CEO, Phil Pascarelli, uses common sense to develop and evaluate storage products. His company is a model of the way things should work.
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Like The Dating Game and other highbrow TV fare of yesteryear, the time may be right for the development of new game shows—focused on the storage industry itself.
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Important announcements from Hitachi Data Systems and Computer Associates may look similar from 50,000 feet, but on closer inspection they're quite different.
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A Computer Associates vice president for marketing of BrightStor products suggests storage management today is a child still in the throes of personality development.
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With Arsenal Digital's service, an off-site backup company can set itself up as an electronic vault.
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Despite its name, grid storage has little or nothing to do with grid technology. But the technology holds promise.
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Is Network Appliance's grid storage campaign just marketing fluff?
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Could the future of storage be in plastics?
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SNIA gets into the education business
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So-call regulatory compliance solutions are just data movers.
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Does it take money and membership in SNIA to get that organization to consider a good product?
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Adaptec and SNAP have found each other—and that bodes well for all of us
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Is there a role for the independent integrator in the well-demarcated world of storage vendor relationships?
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The time for application-centric storage performance monitoring is now
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Our column on actual vs. real disk space touched quite a nerve
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Lousy component integration and ever-present infighting among Fibre Channel vendors may leave a hole in your wallet
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Think you're getting the space your storage vendor says you're getting? Think again.
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Testing is absolutely required to ensure that storage “solutions” will actually resemble the pretty picture in the vendor brochure. But what's really needed is the ability to test storage products before you buy them—and under real workloads.
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Was development of the SMI specification by the SNIA usurped by a small group of vendors? A developer provides his real-world experience.
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Customers say management features for heterogeneous storage should be a "given"—built-in (and free). Vendors say it's an add-on worth paying for. When will vendors wake up?
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Can smaller vendors still have a voice in an organization designed to develop hardware standards for the entire industry?
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Familiar problems are starting to crop up
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The SMI spec offers considerable benefits: improved efficiency and potentially huge management cost savings as well as improved troubleshooting capabilities. Yet SMI's poor outreach to end users has been a serious blunder. What the SMI should do next.
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What, exactly, is SMI-S anyway? We may finally be able to find out.