JOURNAL ARTICLE - It seems like everyone is talking about thin provisioning. It's no miracle cure, but the technology can do wonders.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Successful data migration projects require as much planning as doing. Use this checklist to make sure you have all the bases covered.
Posted: November 14, 2007 | Published: November 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Migration | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - By the time this article is published, most of you will have returned to work after a holiday break and settled down for the year ahead. Considering this is my first 2008 column, I decided to write about some areas that will take center stage this year.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Management Services | Storage Provisioning | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Virtualization can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional methods while navigating new obstacles.
Posted: December 20, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Server Virtualization | Storage Best Practices | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The fall 2007 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions survey reveals some subtle changes in storage managers' buying plans as new technologies gain greater consideration.
Posted: October 18, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Disk Storage Systems | iSCSI SAN | Storage Capacity | Storage Security | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization | Surveys | Tape Libraries

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Clustering techniques increase the availability of mission-critical ERP apps, but they're sometimes complex to set up and manage.
Posted: February 15, 2007 | Published: February 1, 2007


Topics:  Cluster Software | Clustering | Data Centers | ERP Software | Storage Virtualization | VMware

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the real problem.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Most of the emails and phone calls I get from vendors and PR people feature overblown phrases like "industry-leading," and are peppered with the typical tech litany of something being the first, fastest, biggest and so on.
Posted: March 14, 2007 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Appliances | Storage Consolidation | Storage Industry | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage | WAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - EMC and Hitachi use very different architectures for their top-of-the-line arrays. Here's how they measure up.
Posted: January 15, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Storage Architectures | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Controllers | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - N_Port ID Virtualization, a new HBA feature, lets you assign different WWNs to each virtual server and determine which applications run on specific hardware and even when they run.
Posted: November 13, 2006 | Published: November 1, 2006


Topics:  Fibre Channel Switches | Host Adapters | Storage Management Software | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - With virtual servers taking over the data center, planned storage systems must reap the benefits of virtualization.
Posted: September 17, 2007 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Server Virtualization | Storage Capacity | Storage Resource Management Software | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Remote replication on virtual machines adds up to a disaster recovery plan that can really work.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - I/O obstacles could throw a monkey wrench into virtual server environments, but there are alternatives to traditional methods.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel SAN | Host Adapters | Infiniband Architecture | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 2008 will be an exciting, competitive and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Channel Management | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ITIL | SAN | Staffing | Storage Industry | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - iSCSI SANs, hardware-based tape encryption, high-capacity disk drives, virtualization and thin provisioning will be must-have technologies next year.
Posted: December 12, 2006 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Data Encryption | Disk Backups | Email Archiving | iSCSI SAN | Serial ATA | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Security | Storage Standards | Storage Virtualization