Drew Robb

Storage and other parts of the IT landscape may well be trending towards a model similar to that offered by the utility industry. In other words, picture

By longstanding IT practice, enterprise backups encompass data stored on servers, not workstations. If you want your files backed up, the mantra goes,

According to legend, when bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he replied "because that's where the money is." In his autobiography,

Backup has always been a key part of storage operations. In the early days, punch cards, printouts, punched paper strips, and magnetic tapes running on

Managing storage has never been more complex, nor has it ever been more critical to daily operations and business strategy. Everything that once resided

As enterprise storage capacity continues to grow exponentially, storage is simultaneously spinning out of control in many corporations. The widespread

When managing storage and other network elements, you can easily end up with far too much of a good thing. Servers, routers, switches, desktops,

Storage Area Networks (SANs) offer companies an excellent method for cutting storage costs while providing greater availability -- provided you have an

Until relatively recently, corporate IT systems were often a hodgepodge of disparate devices and protocols that didn't interoperate. Different vendors,

The accuracy of weather reports has been a standing joke ever since the first meteorologist delivered his initial prognostication. However, comedians may

Managing storage in the old mainframe days was a simple matter. Everything was stored in one place, under the watchful eyes of the operators. But