December 12, 2007 12:12 PM
Posted by: mwright16
Around the water cooler,
Data storage managementOver the last few weeks, storage insiders have been abuzz with speculation that a merger between HP and Symantec is imminent. Whether such talks are occurring, I can not definitively say, but if it does occur, the whole corporate world might as well kiss goodbye any hopes it had of creating and...
December 7, 2007 10:21 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Data storage management,
Storage conferences,
storage virtualization,
Strategic storage vendors
This was our first Storage Decisions conference in the hilly city built on a fault line, and that meant a fresh crop of Storage Decisions...
November 30, 2007 12:12 PM
Posted by: mwright16
Data storage management,
Storage backupJust when I think that I have heard every reason for keeping data on tape, new arguments keep emerging. Now the latest is that tape is more energy efficient than disk.
My first real insight into this came a few weeks ago when I was speaking to Spectra Logic's director of technical...
November 2, 2007 1:51 PM
Posted by: Tskyers
Data storage managementI know, I know ... whenever I see "killer app" I roll my eyes too, but I've been shown the light, or indoctrinated, whichever way you want to look at it. So here is my take: I've found storage's killer app, and it's hiding in plain sight.
Email.
There ... I said it ... EMAIL.
At work we've been...
November 1, 2007 9:37 AM
Posted by: mwright16
Data storage managementIt may be a little early in 2007 to start prognosticating about what is going to occur in 2008 and beyond. However, there are some major trends -- I would almost classify them as "mega-trends" -- that I see taking shape. These trends indicate that, at a higher level, storage management is shifting...
October 24, 2007 3:57 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Data storage management,
Storage backupI have yet to get a letter from an institution with which I do business that starts like this:
Dear Current or Former PEIA, WVCHIP, or AccessWV Member:
We are writing to you...
October 10, 2007 2:32 PM
Posted by: mwright16
Data storage managementSuccessful patterns of behavior are repeated. That adage is as good a reason as any as to why storage managers are reluctant to change their storage buying or management practices. Yet fundamental changes in how underlying data storage technologies work are forcing a subsequent change in storage...
September 21, 2007 8:40 AM
Posted by: mwright16
Data storage management,
Storage backupCDP and DPRM software are relative storage newcomers, but they may be the software that finally delivers on the promises of their SRM and storage virtualization software predecessors.
Storage resource management (SRM) and storage virtualization software have taken their turns sharing the storage...
September 20, 2007 12:15 PM
Posted by: Ndamour
Data storage management,
storage technology research,
Strategic storage vendorsNot a day goes by that I do not hear from yet another storage or server vendor that their offering, whatever it is, is green. This mania started about a year ago in earnest. Prior to that, the green movement was pretty much restricted to organizations outside of the computer industry. So, what is...
