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Category:Storage professional alerts
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Cloud computing
Clustered storage, Storage services, WEB2.0

Companies
3PAR, Compellent, Dell, EMC, EqualLogic, HP, Hitachi, IBM, LSI, NetApp, STEC inc, Sun, XIV

Data protection
Backup and restore, Business compliance, CDP, Data deduplication, Storage disaster recovery, Storage security

Energy efficiency
Data deduplication, Green storage, MAID, Thin provisioning, Tiered storage, VMware, Virtual tape

Planning design implementation management
Backup and restore, Business compliance, Data classification, Green storage, Managing storage, ROI, SRM, Storage Design, Storage asset management, Storage capacity management, Storage capacity planning, Storage implementation, Storage management, Storage operations, Storage planning, Storage vendor management, Tiered storage

Storage networks
Clustered storage, ISCSI, NAS, SAN, SRM, Storage consolidation, Tiered storage, VMware

Virtualization
Clustered storage, Green storage, Storage consolidation, Storage virtualization, Thin provisioning, VMware, Virtual tape

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  • .pst file: The scourge of IT

3

  • 3-Node Disaster Recovery
  • 3PAR: Virtualization to the rescue

A

  • A brief history of solid state disks
  • A layered storage security organization
  • A quick storage history lesson
  • Active archives will foster new IT activities
  • Admissible? Not necessarily.
  • Aim high when selling services-oriented storage
  • An inconvenient truth in IT
  • Appointing the eye of the energy storm
  • Archive uses and abuses beyond e-mail
  • Are blade servers solving the right problem?
  • Are storage vendors just greenwashing?
  • At your storage service!
  • Auto-classification of metadata means truckloads of terabytes
  • Avoiding disaster recovery disasters

B

  • BT's award winning shift from dark to light green
  • Backup in a virtualized environment
  • Bad user behavior trumps perfect email archiving technology
  • Best practices in Exchange 2007 backup and recovery
  • Best practices in Oracle 11G remote replication: An HP EVA example
  • Better take unstructured content in 'byte-sized' chunks
  • Big NAS brings value of data into focus
  • Blade Servers
  • Blade computing isn't for everyone
  • Blades not the tool for everything
  • Building the case for virtualization

C

  • CDP for applications that cannot sit still
  • CDP for early-life application support
  • CDP not a general purpose B/R substitute
  • CX3 to CX4 online upgrades
  • CX4: A wakeup call to DMX customers
  • CX4: Time for EMC to lead
  • Can IT be cool again?
  • Can IT vendors be neutral about carbon?
  • Can a Service Orientation Change the Perception of IT?
  • Case Study: Evaluating the virtualization and thin provisioning benefits achieved by 3PAR customers
  • Changing email archiving economics means IT must shift its expertise
  • Chargebacks: Are storage vendors missing the boat?
  • Classifying data
  • Classifying data isn't optional anymore
  • Cloud computing: Seeding the cloud
  • Cloud hopping
  • Cloud meets the industrial IT complex
  • Clustered storage mashup
  • Clustered storage networks are worth waiting for
  • Combining Storage and Server Virtualization
  • Common strategic framework for NAS and SAN
  • Competitive responses to EMC's DMX announcement
  • Compliance and storage: Birds of a feather...
  • Consolidation 2.0: Combining server and storage virtualization
  • Consolidation 2.0: Don't just sign, ship and drop the box
  • Consumerization of IT is a style -- That's the substance
  • Cooling heats up
  • Current Email archiving solutions are only tactical

D

  • DAS RAID: from odd man out to wild card in storage arena
  • DDN: A well-kept secret
  • Data Deduplication -- A Recovery Perspective
  • Data classification is the holy grail of MAID
  • Data classification value transcends storage efficiencies
  • Data classification: Brains or brawn?
  • Data classification: Managing metadata
  • Data classification: So much more than storage optimization
  • Data de-duplication and the low-end backup/restore choice
  • Data de-duplication: Greasing the rails of the backup window
  • Data de-duplication: What shade of green?
  • Data deduplication and vendor roadmaps
  • Data deduplication has tape looking over its shoulder
  • Data deduplication standards and the domino effect
  • Data deduplication: Backup is one thing, recovery is everything
  • Data deduplication: Declawing the clones
  • Data security in the year 2008
  • Data that never needs to be backed up?
  • Deduplication implementation strategies
  • Deduplication offerings likely to stay proprietary
  • Defining MAID
  • Defining RPO and RTO can put the horse back in front of the cart
  • Dell drives storage virtualization with EqualLogic purchase
  • Deploying five identical systems with two large hard disks configured as a hardware-controlled RAID 1 on Linux
  • Deploying flash drives in EMC's DMX to save power, cooling and improve performance.
  • Developing a storage services architecture
  • Dialing in on CDP
  • Disaster recovery plan too risky to test?
  • Disk in a nutshell
  • Do competitors need to respond to XIV?
  • Do storage architectures matter?
  • Don't get lost in EMC's blanket

E

  • EMC 7/07 announcement: community overview
  • EMC BusinessEdges up the services value chain
  • EMC GB for free?
  • EMC Lands a Haymaker
  • EMC World - A Model for Mindshare
  • EMC World 2008: Head in the clouds, feet on the ground
  • EMC World 2008: Integrating storage solutions
  • EMC World 2008: Should Users Make EMC Their Strategic Storage Partner?
  • EMC challenges all comers
  • EMC makes a "SaaSsy" suggestion
  • EMC on storage virtualization and other emerging technologies
  • EMC reshuffles high end deck: User implications
  • EMC ups the ante at the high end
  • EMC's CX4: Tiered storage exploitation challenges
  • EMC: A platform for all seasons?
  • EMC: Fewer tears for tiered storage
  • EMC: Integrating the piece parts
  • EMC: Optimization needs cost transparency
  • EMC's CX4 smorgasbord
  • Early Christmas for storage administrators
  • Eliminating disaster recovery testing
  • Email Archiving
  • Email archive admin: Many lives, many masters
  • Email archive administration: When is an archive something else?
  • Email archiving Organizational Implications
  • Email archiving driven by board room, not server room
  • Email archiving realignment
  • Email archiving: A short-lived bonanza for vendors or a true value producer?
  • Email archiving: Moving from server room to court room to board room
  • Email archiving: Necessity or pleasure
  • Email archiving: Not just an IT problem any more
  • Energy Rules of Thumb - A Plan of Attack for Going Green
  • Energy efficiency: A problem or opportunity for IT?
  • Enterprise-class thin provisioning is for real
  • Even bad benchmarks can lead to good standards
  • Evolution for sourcing clustered storage
  • Exchange 2007 offers an opportunity to re-assess the backup picture

F

  • Fibre Channel Interface Technology: An Overview
  • File virtualization combats unstructured data growth
  • Focus on RPO
  • For Microsoft Exchange - Backup is Important, Recovery is Everything
  • For whom iSCSI tolls, it tolls for DAS
  • Future perfect scenario: Standards keep tape from getting duped

G

  • Go tell storage on the CFO mountain redux de-dup
  • Go tell thin provisioning on the CFO mountain
  • Going green starts with attitude adjustment
  • Google's SLAs: Fine print gives false hope
  • Green Storage -- Do Disk Drives Matter? Yes, but ....
  • Green Storage: Do Disk Drives Matter? - Technical Summary
  • Green storage is all about the other green
  • Green storage procurement options
  • Green storage: The opportunity and threat of hybrids
  • Grid Access Manager: Is it vertical or horizontal?
  • Grid storage moving closer to reality

H

  • HA Blades: A solution or part of the problem?
  • HDS acquires: Why Archivas, why now?

H cont.

  • HP goes to storage extremes
  • HP's "Cookbook" Planning Guide for Oracle11G Remote Replication Hits the Mark
  • High stakes high voltage
  • Hitachi keeps margin for competitive error thin
  • Hitachi's thin provisioning: Where to start?
  • Holy Olympic Gold Batman, DataDirect Networks has done it again!
  • Horses for courses: When to ride IBM
  • Hot and cold aisles
  • How Server Virtualization is Changing Storage
  • How can users prepare for the coming of MAID?
  • How far can advertising subsidies take storage services?
  • How much meta in the data
  • How to configure FCIP on Brocade 7500's
  • Hulk is hot and heavy!

I

  • I come to praise tape, not to bury it…
  • IASS - Integrated Applications, Servers
  • IBM Big Green: Get ready for the call from the CEO
  • IBM System Storage DS8000 series October 2007 Announcement Review
  • IBM XIV: Signpost to the future or a niche product?
  • IBM XIV: Standard components vs. custom hardware
  • IBM and XIV: Is this the blue cloud?
  • IBM and XIV: Web 2.0 or controlling midrange destiny?
  • IBM brings affordable tape encryption to the midrange, sort of
  • IBM storage announcement
  • IBM's Grid Access Manager: Why users should care
  • IBM's XIV "No Tiers" - A Wakeup Call to the Industry?
  • IBM's acquisition of XIV
  • IBM's image for a storage future
  • IBM's stealth XIV announcement
  • IBM: Avoiding forklifts, for now
  • IBM: High end credibility is crucial for overall storage success
  • IBM: Scaling performance, capacity and functionality peaks
  • IBM: Sustaining storage momentum
  • IBM's Virtual File Manager™ brings the potential for file consolidation
  • IPhone Backup/Restore: Doing IT in public
  • IPhone backup, archive and restore remain the challenge and opportunity
  • IPhone demands storage solutions
  • ISCSI forecast: DAS is odd man out
  • ISCSI shouldn't change FC strategies
  • ISCSI: Reducing the abuse of NAS
  • ISCSI: What's that big sucking sound?
  • ISV support for thin provisioning is win-win
  • Implementing Storage Services
  • In email archiving the IT cost tail shouldn't wag the dog
  • In search of storage ROI
  • InfiniBand and storage: Why and when?
  • Integrating CDP and traditional backup
  • Integrating NAND technology into the data center
  • Integrating deduplication into IT infrastructure
  • Integrating replication into an application
  • Integrating storage services technologies into IT
  • Integrating technology layers in storage security
  • Integrating the cost of storage technology change
  • Integrating the virtual pieces
  • Integrating thin provisioning into the fabric of IT
  • Is array-based NAND a flash in the pan?
  • Is tape dead?
  • It's Time to Start Protecting ALL of Your Data with the Right Solution

J

  • JOB POSTING - STORAGE SUPPORT SPECIALIST
  • Jervons' Paradox - beware the unintended consequences of driving data center energy efficiencies.

K

  • Keep blade servers simple and similar
  • Key factors toward building an internal storage service

L

  • Leveraging installed assets for remote replication projects

M

  • MAID - Massive (Misunderstood) Arrays of Inactive Disks
  • MAID needs rescuing by Microsoft
  • MAID: Business solution or cheaper way to store useless information?
  • Magnetic disk technology roadmap
  • Managing the Introduction of XIV
  • Managing the resources for storage resource management
  • Maximizing storage returns from your EMC relationship
  • Maximizing the value of your NetApp investment
  • Mobile storage support strategies
  • Modernizing the storage infrastructure
  • Most DR plans don't meet business requirements
  • Most disaster recovery systems are too risky to test

N

  • Natural language processing: Key technology for organizing unstructured data
  • NetApp helps BT get rid of tons of stuff...literally
  • NetApp is Dead: Long live NetApp
  • NetApp riding VMWare coattails - hard
  • NetApp's silo buster vision of the future
  • Nextra Implementation/Availability Considerations
  • Note to SRM rock stars: Do not give up your day jobs

O

  • Old storage: To be or not to be?
  • Opportunity Knocks for MAID - Will It Answer?
  • Organization implications for three-node disaster recovery
  • Organizational imperatives for future perfect records management
  • Organize for Quicker Restores with Exchange
  • Organizing Oracle array-based replication projects for success

P

  • Planning for Oracle 11G Remote Replication with HP's EVA
  • Planning for higher storage power densities
  • Planning for safe thin provisioning on external storage
  • Pointing the way to storage automation
  • Power projection
  • Power shift to green computing
  • Protecting data in the 21st century
  • Putting energy into getting rid of stuff

Q

  • Question regarding future enterprise drive product
  • Quick tips for storage networks and consolidation

R

  • RAID 6 Fundamentals and Applications
  • RFID for storage media
  • Rationalizing SAN creep
  • Recording the Change to Records Management
  • Reference models for storage service architectures
  • Reflections on the New NetApp
  • Remote backup and recovery services and de-duplication
  • Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) and Energy Efficiency Certificates (EEC) - know the difference.
  • Retaining employment while backing up VMWare
  • Retire roadblock products in 3-node DR projects

S

  • SAN and NAS technologies should be consolidated but kept apart
  • SAS Storage Environment
  • SAS: The Next Evolution of SCSI
  • SOx still a problem child in most businesses
  • SRM - An organizational perspective on SRM
  • Securing Data-at-Rest with Self Encrypting Drives
  • Securing the Storage Onion
  • Self-healing before permanent failure occurs
  • Selling storage disaster recovery: Don't be column fodder
  • Sensible power policies: Back to the future
  • Service-oriented storage promises big changes
  • Service-oriented storage: An idea whose time has come
  • Shifting Storage Focus From Capex to Opex
  • Should IT Managers be held accountable for energy costs?
  • Show me the money for tiered storage buy in
  • Single pane of glass storage management: What's taking so long?
  • Sizing up backup and recovery options
  • Slicing the VMware storage pie
  • Slings and arrows against email management
  • Source the email archive
  • Sourcing data protection: Choose your MSP carefully
  • Spinning climate in the data center
  • Start Virtualization with NAS
  • Storage CAPEX vs OPEX
  • Storage Consolidation 2.0
  • Storage Consolidation 2.0: Earning the right to be trusted
  • Storage Consumerization: Not If but When
  • Storage Resource Management: Not on the critical path
  • Storage Services Architecture
  • Storage TCO - comparing apples to apples
  • Storage Vendors - What's In Your Cloud?
  • Storage Virtualization
  • Storage Virtualization: Not if but when
  • Storage as a service
  • Storage consolidation 2.0: Know software or no success
  • Storage domination: Not for the faint of heart
  • Storage facts, figures, estimates and rules of thumb

S cont.

  • Storage innovation answer: $30B
  • Storage integration: IBM's scale out strategy
  • Storage megatrend: Pricing and usage clarity
  • Storage menage a trois for disaster recovery testing
  • Storage network consolidation rules-of-thumb
  • Storage security starts with a proper assessment
  • Storage security: Find the weakest link and eliminate it
  • Storage services and the three envelopes
  • Storage services architecture metrics over all
  • Storage services architectures could manage inventories of resources
  • Storage services architectures - reducing storage anarchy
  • Storage services architectures - who pays for storage services?
  • Storage services inside out
  • Storage services not a replacement strategy
  • Storage services vortex
  • Storage services vortex: Part II
  • Storage services: An opportunity to clean house
  • Storage services: Being part of the solution
  • Storage to get a slice of Google pie
  • Storage virtualization has services gorillas licking their chops
  • Storage virtualization: Don't try and buy on the fly
  • Storage virtualization: One size won't fit all
  • Storage virtualization: Service-side and delivery-side
  • Storage virtualization: Take advantage without being taken
  • Storage virtualization: Technology constraints
  • Storage virtualization: Think consumer, act enterprise
  • Storage-as-a-Service - Key User Actions
  • Storage: The heat is on
  • Strategic choices for SRM alternatives
  • Strategic fit for EMC in key storage modernization projects
  • Strategic fit for de-duplication and compression
  • Sun sets on the 6920: HDS takes over engineering
  • Switch and fabric-based intelligence: High value, slow adoption

T

  • Tape deduplication standard is a win for users
  • Tape sticks to data centers for good reasons
  • Tape's applications drive its viability
  • Tape: Not wrapped up yet
  • Target CDP at life or death applications
  • Technology alone won't reduce your energy bill
  • Technology implications for three-node disaster recovery
  • The EMC vision thing
  • The Google Effect - Web Scale Storage Takes a Big Step Forward
  • The IBM XIV Storage System Model A14
  • The Performance Impact of Energy Efficiency
  • The SRM leadership vacuum
  • The Times they are A-Changin': Architecting cloud computing
  • The Trouble with Timestamps
  • The balancing act of managed storage service selection
  • The business end of storage consolidation
  • The carrots and sticks of storage virtualization
  • The chicken and egg of VSS
  • The circular reference of Sarbanes-Oxley storage compliance
  • The conundrum of NAS consolidation economics
  • The elephant dance of IBM's tape business
  • The environmental balance sheet
  • The irony of email archiving adoption
  • The key technology prerequisite for records management
  • The most telling part of BT's virtualization strategy
  • The nature of competition in storage
  • The necessary evil of data migrations
  • The new records management imperative
  • The new storage influencers
  • The organizational implications of NAND storage
  • The pretenders
  • The problem with chargebacks
  • The promise of ILM - twenty years later
  • The pros and cons of building systems by hand
  • The pros and cons of hard drive imaging
  • The pros and cons of scripted installs
  • The skinny on Hitachi's thin provisioning
  • The squeaky wheel of storage environmentals
  • The state of big NAS
  • Thin Provisioning the Cure for Wasted Space in Storage Infrastructures
  • Thin provisioning
  • Thin provisioning: Look before you leap
  • Thin-provisioning options for file systems
  • Think before you migrate!
  • Thinking outside the traditional array
  • Tier 3 processes are diamonds in the rough
  • Tiered storage three step
  • Tiered storage: Islands or bridges
  • Tiered storage: Let vendors integrate the technology
  • Tiered storage: Who owns classification?
  • Tiered storage: ready for prime time?
  • Time to get serious about disk access density
  • To blade or not to blade
  • Triangulating Disaster/Recovery Cost and Risk
  • Trusted Time Stamps and X9.95
  • Tucci at EMC World 2008
  • Tupperware: The 2nd most important storage invention of all time

U

  • Understanding disk-based backup alternatives
  • Use hardware rather than software to clone servers quickly
  • Use incentives to get business buy in for virtualization
  • User Strategies for Cloud Computing
  • User actions for disaster recovery testing

V

  • VMware: The storage imperative
  • VSS: All that glisters is not gold*
  • VTL and tape media: same cartridges, fewer drives
  • VTLs and the Black Swan
  • Vendor actions for three-node data center solutions
  • Vendor opportunity: Outsourced archiving services
  • Vendors: responding to EMC's cluster storage initiative
  • Virtual blades
  • Virtual tape library: Journey or destination?
  • Virtual tape widens the choices for users
  • Virtual tape without tape: Half full or half empty?
  • Virtual tape: Keep the org chart handy
  • Virtualization - Other Things to Consider
  • Virtualization will help make storage certifiably sane
  • Volume virtualization and reality

W

  • WAN optimization gaining ground
  • Wanted: The Apple of the Enterprise Eye
  • Web 3.0 clustered storage networks
  • Welcome to Wikibon 2.0!
  • What are computer storage services?
  • What data should be encrypted?
  • What does not exist cannot be discovered
  • What is IT's role in justifying storage disaster recovery spend?
  • What makes storage TCO lower?
  • What's in store for storage in 2007
  • When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less
  • When do migrations to USPV make sense?
  • When should drives become boat anchors?
  • When the storage virtualization engine is the bottleneck to certification
  • Who owns de-dupe?
  • Who should manage iSCSI SANs?
  • Who should take the lead on mobile device storage infrastructure?
  • Why Do Energy Companies Get A Free Pass?
  • Why buy a DMX-4?
  • Why couldn't Google use NEXTRA?
  • Why don't more storage vendors write "cookbooks?"
  • Why is DAS so popular?
  • Why is ILM such a challenge for storage vendors?
  • Why is the TV on if Nobody's Watching!
  • Will IBM's Grid Access Manager be released from the hospital?
  • Will MAID finally get hitched?
  • Will NAND storage obsolete FC drives?
  • Will high energy costs mean storage technology substitutes?
  • Will iPhones need a PC or docking station?
  • Will storage services software be shrink-wrapped?
  • With CDP, recovery is one thing, backup is another

X

  • XIV - Simplicity and No More Tiers?
  • XIV August 2008: The jury's still out
  • XIV is a wakeup call for storage admin
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