Complete Industry Article List

6/30/09  Article by George Crump: The Safest Job in IT -- The Archive Specialist - Data growth seems to be recession proof; your job, on the other hand, may not be. In the past data growth has been handled by adding capacity to existing storage shelves. It was the path of least resistance. Modern storage architectures made it easier to grow existing volumes and primary storage seemed to be getting less expensive each year. In truth from a capacity per dollar perspective it was. Now is not the past, and the old ways won't cut it in the new economy. Organizations need change agents and becoming the Archive Specialist can save your organization money and provide you with IT job preservation....[MORE]

6/29/09  Briefing Report: TimeSight Systems Briefing Report - The storage of video surveillance data is now the storage manager’s problem, not security’s problem. What has caused this change? Significantly easier deployment, significantly better integration to IT storage and significantly higher resolution. These three factors lead to a massive increase in the number of cameras being deployed, where that storage is coming from and how much capacity these images require. Now the surveillance team wants the storage team involved....[MORE]

6/25/09  Article by George Crump: Solving the Storage I/O Performance Bottleneck - There is a dark cloud looming in storage. Over the last decade, conventional storage platforms have been able to keep up with the demand for ever higher capacity systems at a lower cost per GB, however, the real specter on the horizon is severe and inevitable performance degradation. This is critical because most organizations rely on a scalable facility for servicing I/O to rapidly deliver information to aid in revenue generation. Indeed, resolving the storage I/O performance bottleneck becomes even more critical in a soft economy, when profits are the most elusive....[MORE]

6/24/09  Article by Joseph Ortiz: Meeting Virtual Server Data Protection Needs - Today companies  are embracing server virtualization because it provides key benefits to a business such as server consolidation, improved resource utilization, improved disaster recovery (DR) capabilities, and lower operational costs among others.  However, these benefits of virtualization come at the cost of increased complexity, as workloads now must run in an environment where they are required to share a common pool of physical resources such as CPU, memory, disk, network I/O, and so forth.....[MORE]

6/22/09  Article by George Crump: Reducing Costs By Bringing AS/400 into the Backup Mainstream

The IBM AS/400 or iSeries has been in the data center for a long time and there are over 750,000 systems in operation today. Almost as long as they have been implemented there has been the challenge of integrating these systems into the broader enterprise backup process. Backup technologies like deduplication, power managed storage and electronic vaulting of backup data are continuing to advance. As such, many backup managers are asking about bringing AS/400 into the backup mainstream....[MORE]

6/19/09  Article by George Crump: Your First SAN - Affordable and Quality? - Data storage is growing rapidly every day and SMBs need shared storage, but the challenge is that for most organizations the cost and complexity associated with the first SAN can be overwhelming. When selecting your first SAN, can a quality SAN product be affordable too?...[MORE]

6/16/09  Article by George Crump: Integrating Dedupe - As data deduplication becomes increasingly adopted by IT planners as a strategy for containing physical infrastructure footprint and the related capital and operating costs, it is important for decision makers not to overlook how to best integrate the technology into their environment to enhance overall DR capabilities. Without proper integration, the costs to manage the deduplication environment could outweigh its capital cost savings...[MORE]

6/15/09  Article by George Crump: Healthcare IT Demands Efficiency - When it comes to storage, first and foremost on most healthcare IT Managers minds is accurately forecasting for growth in the environment. Healthcare organizations tend to be very budget driven and getting the numbers right on the budget is a critical task for their IT departments. Forecasting however is a challenge in today's environment because of the tremendous growth that those organizations are experiencing, which is then compounded by the industry’s rapid adoption of server virtualization....[MORE]