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Sooner or later, technology to allow a true ILM was bound to come along.
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As you consider your archive options, don’t count out optical.
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Do what needs to be done to operate storage infrastructure with a quality of service you can live with.
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Content-addressable storage may be the key to meeting extended data storage management requirements.
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The Wild West adage “Never trust nobody” should be a storage manager’s creed.
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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.
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Like a summertime guilty-pleasure-but-pointless novel, and SNIA’s latest document on information lifecycle management makes for nice beach reading.
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Acquisitions, new releases, value-added hype --- what can we believe and who is offering something new?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Setting a storage usage policy can be tricky
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Two key questions must be addressed: what do you back up and how do you do it?
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IT must acknowledge the importance—and risks—of mobile computing tools and start building processes to protect corporate data.
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How do we manage the combined output of all of the event logs produced by all the available, and frequently used, management tools?
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Trying to reconcile the technologies and products offered by the storage industry with the actual problems confronting IT can seem like a thankless job.
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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.
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Equal parts architecture and marketecture continue to dominate the releases coming out of the storage industry.
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Storage consolidation into a SAN is often a code word for re-centralization, a strategy based more on nostalgia than necessity—or benefit.
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The fur will fly as Centera flaws are exposed
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How a pair of protocols and unique interconnect software can lead the way to inexpensive storage
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Forget the tape versus multi-hop-mirroring battle. Our storage analyst, Jon Toigo, has some suggestions.
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Disaster recovery was once a one-stop proposition. No more.
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While there may be no complete solution to content-and-context -managed storage problem, two vendors have interesting products that worth a look.
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You can’t optimize capacity utilization until you understand the data you’re storing.