Table of ContentsFeaturesApplication-aware infrastructures ensure business continuanceBuilding storage networks that are "application-aware" enables IT organizations to enforce service levels and availability policies based on the business value of data and applications.
Blade servers and storage implications, Part IBlade servers may revolutionize the data center, but they bring up some new and old storage challenges.
Fibre Channel update: To 4Gbps and beyondLast year, the FCIA approved 4Gbps Fibre Channel for use in SAN fabrics. End-user solutions are expected in the second half of this year.
iSCSI accelerates the transition to network storageAn examination of the potential benefits of iSCSI shows why it may be a worthy alternative (or complement) to DAS, NAS, and Fibre Channel SANs.
Snapshots enhance the power of replication, Part IIISoftware-based point-in-time copies, or snapshots, enable a number of benefits, including replication between heterogeneous storage systems.
Solving information life-cycle management challengesILM boils down to classifying data based on its relative business value and then putting the data on the most appropriate storage resource.
Technical implications for iSCSI deploymentIssues include performance, high availability, interoperability, manageability, and scalability.
Business BriefsNews Analysis TrendsCloverleaf targets large SAN/NAS shopsCloverleaf Communications has begun shipments of an Intelligent Storage Networking (iSN) system that includes a storage administrator's wish list of software functionality.
ExaGrid crisscrosses the competitionWhile larger and more-established vendors are knee-high in visions of utility computing, start-up ExaGrid is making final preparations for the release of its Grid Protected Storage architecture, a framework analysts say creates a utility-computing-like environment for a variety of integrated storage services.
Gateway enters SAN, NAS marketsIn a move that may propel the company into the competitive storage area network (SAN) market, Gateway recently announced that it will resell Hitachi Data Systems' Thunder 9500V series storage systems.
Maranti touts 'application-aware controllers'More than a year after it was expected to begin shipments, start-up Maranti Networks last month released its CoreSTOR Adaptive Storage Services Platforms, which the company generically refers to as network storage services controllers.
NetApp furthers 'storage-grid' visionNetwork Appliance is continuing to move forward with the storage grid strategy it outlined in November when it announced the acquisition of Spinnaker Networks.
NetApp, Veritas push DLM, D2D backupThis quarter, Network Appliance's alliance with Veritas will yield integrated products targeting data life-cycle management (DLM) and regulatory compliance as the result of an expanded partnership announced last August.
ONStor delivers SAN-based file servicesStart-up ONStor claims its SF4400 "SAN filer" addresses users' top network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) issues, including backup, load balancing, clustering, return on investment (ROI), management, and performance.
Serial ATA activity heats upFew disk drive interfaces have generated the buzz that Serial ATA (SATA) is generating.
The ABCs of ILMInformation life-cycle management (ILM), or data life-cycle management, is quickly becoming one of the storage industry's most overused and abused terms.
Veritas ports VM to Cisco switchesBut will users buy in?
Lab ReviewEye-POPing results in NAS server testsFIA's Gigabit NAS server turns in impressive throughput results, but performance depends on the operating environment.
EditorialI-L-M, buy-from-me, M-O-N-E-YWe—and most likely <i>you</i>, too—have recently been barraged by vendors touting their information life-cycle management (ILM) strategies, products, visions, and snake oil.
Snia On StorageiSCSI and TCP/IP offload enginesTOEs relieve CPUs from protocol processing, but whether or not you need them in an iSCSI environment depends on application requirements.
Special ReportLeveraging storage resource management softwareUsers are looking beyond basic capacity monitoring and reporting to SRM functions such as chargeback, capacity planning and provisioning, and "active" management.
New Products |
This IssueNo Image Available Volume 8
Issue issue-1
January 2004
|
Home | SAN | NAS | Storage Management | Backup and Recovery | Disk Arrays | Blogs | Resources | About Us | Site Map | RSS
