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Table of ContentsBusiness BriefsNews Analysis TrendsCompliance advice: Keep it simpleThe vendor hype surrounding regulatory compliance is reaching a feverish pitch this year, but some vendors and consultants are advising users not to over-react.
E-mail management tops users’ priority listIn the latest end-user survey on storage management conducted by TheInfoPro (TIP) research firm, e-mail management came out on top of the “Technology Heat Index” ranking, which weights technologies based on users’ adoption plans and the relative amount of spending (see figure).
Early adopters praise CDPIt has been several years in the making, but end users are beginning to embrace the concept of continuous data protection (CDP), a new category of data protection that industry experts believe has the potential to change the face of “backup and recovery” as we know it today.
EMC software manages SAN changesTargeting the 40% of downtime that Gartner Inc. claims is caused by operator error, EMC this month began shipping new functionality for its ControlCenter family of storage resource management (SRM) software.
FineGround joins WAFS packNext month, FineGround Inc. is expected to begin shipments of a wide area file services (WAFS) appliance, putting the company in competition with other WAFS vendors such as Cisco (via its acquisition of Actona Technologies), DiskSites, Riverbed, and Tacit Networks.
IBM, NetApp team up against EMCIBM and Network Appliance last month announced a broad OEM agreement designed to combat mutual arch-rival EMC, primarily in the NAS market.
Kasten Chase targets CASKasten Chase, a vendor of data encryption appliances for the storage market, recently extended the support of its Assurency SecureData appliance to content-addressable storage (CAS)-based data archives, citing potential security risks with this architecture.
NetApp banks on VTL, buys AlacritusNetwork Appliance this month is expected to finalize its acquisition of virtual tape library (VTL) vendor Alacritus Software in an all-cash transaction valued at about $11 million, a move NetApp officials say should help the company further expand its secondary, or backup, storage business.
SNIA adds standards specificationsAt last month’s Storage Networking World (SNW) conference, the Storage Networking Industry Association announced new specifications that recently passed SNIA approval for further development, including the iSCSI Management API, Multipath Management API, and Common RAID Disk Data Format (DDF).
Survey shows users replacing tapeAlthough the vast majority of all backup/recovery operations are still based on tape, the trend is clearly toward disk-based backup and recovery.
Virtualization activity picks upAlthough storage virtualization is still in its infancy, a December 2004 IT spending survey conducted by Goldman Sachs shows strong interest in the technology among Fortune 1000 companies, despite a slight dip in interest since last fall.
OpinionDebunking the on-demand storage utilityA contrarian’s view of why the storage utility model’s promise of on-demand provisioning may be inappropriate/contraindicated for your corporate health.
Reader I OHow to determine server-storage ratiosA common mistake is to size the number of attached servers based upon the usable capacity of a storage device or the number of available ports.
New ProductsSpecial ReportSANs move downstream to SMBsCase studies illustrate why, and how, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are adopting SANs-both Fibre Channel and iSCSI.
Snia On StorageSNIA creates security best practicesFollow these guidelines and you’ll be on your way to secure resources, data, and media.
FeaturesStorage’s role in entertainment creation/distributionIncreasing resolutions, the move to digital content/distribution, video-on-demand, and digital archiving are driving the need for huge storage capacity and bandwidth.
EditorialTIP turns up the heatWe’ve said it before, but TheInfoPro’s surveys are the most comprehensive end-user research we’ve seen.
Analysts ViewUnderstanding information life-cycle management, part 3In the last article in our series on ILM we focus on strategies/products from IBM, Hewlett-Packard, ADIC, and FalconStor.
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