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SRM is probably the most important investment that storage managers can make, but it’s riddled with problems.
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The need to build resilient low-cost infrastructure for hosting e-mail archives is growing fast.
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Storage standards don’t top the list of customer needs.
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Only when the pain and cost of the status quo becomes too great to bear will users start to make some noise.
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Are standards something we should really care about?
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Is Microsoft's Vista responsible for a push to hybrid drives?
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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.
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Last week we explained the four key factors in tiered storage. This week we explore how to align your storage strategy with business requirements.
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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.
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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.
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The release of CERT information raises a controversy between storage security vendors.
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To better define the term, we recall the most memorable quotes of 2006
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The top seven storage trends that mattered this year and may matter even more in 2007.
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Vendors—full of glee over new federal evidence rules for evidence—may be overstating the need for their products.
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Newly created Olin College chose a beefy but cost-effective iSCSI storage area network for rapidly escalating storage needs
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What happens when a major technology player seems to disappear?
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Enterprises once considered using a third-party to manage their off-site data on the basis of cost. The economics have shifted.
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SANs are out, virtual grids (aka storage clusters) are in.
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Why a nearline component solution is the most practical and cost-effective way to keep data warehouse storage costs under control.
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Feedback on our column about clustering inefficiency.
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More speed, lower failure rates, better encryption—sounds too good to be true
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How do you help businesses better manage information and increase the performance of their database and storage-related infrastructures?
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Is a software-only solution to storage manipulation on the horizon?
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New vendors trumpet products with lower price tags, but if they lock you into a single source, what’s the point?
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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.