Elizabeth Ferrarini

Content management systems need robust storage management. These systems rely on complex databases that store metadata, usage statistics, user data, and the content itself with each type of data having different storage requirements. Nevertheless, many of the Web-based content management systems don’t offer storage management because bandwidth is plentiful and storage has become inexpensive. Also, […]

The success of IP storage will depend heavily on the vendor community adopting compatible standards into SAN devices and switches. For example, iSCSI has become the driving technology for creating IP-based SANS. iSCSI, along with the progress made by other standards, should help IP reach broad acceptance among vendors, customers, and systems integrators. Below is […]

Storage area networks (SANs) have rapidly become a major component of enterprise computing. The idea of putting storage systems on their own network offers flexibility, scalability, ad rapid shared access to large hierarchical arrays. Analysts currently predict a SAN market of $11 billion by 2002, up from virtually nothing in 1999. Surveys show that managers […]

A key step in disaster recovery planning or business continuity planning includes analyzing the impact the disruption will have on an organization’s business activity. A business impact analysis can help you identify which business departments, functions, or systems are most vulnerable to potential threats, what are the potential types of threat, and what effect would […]

Every knows of itinerant databases that sit on departmental servers, or worse, desktops. These databases grow up to meet the needs of an individual project or team, then gradually become part of the data the company depends upon. So, does it make sense to leave these data stores scattered about your network in different locations? […]

A new class of enterprise backup solutions may just prompt you to rethink the cost differences between using disk rather than tried and tried true, inexpensive tape for backing up servers. Until recently, desktop PCs used Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) hard drives, which provide many of the fault-tolerant features associated with server storage, such as […]

No one has to tell you about your data requirements growing faster than your capability to manage them. Storage area networks (SANs) have claimed to be the answer. However, SANs have, in some respects, added to the management complexity. On the other hand, storage domain managers can step in to ease the management of a […]

When it comes to storage management, IT professionals face both the challenge on harnessing their organization’s demand for storage and the opportunity of purchasing more storage devices as prices continue to plummet. However, managing growing storage networks can become a complex progress requiring intensive resources. In many organizations, storage managements get carried out without any […]

Storage virtualization came about as a set of services to enable true sharing and pool of storage devices within a SAN. With the emergence of storage over IP, storage networks need no longer to be confined to fiber channel SANs, but will cross over IP networks, by connecting multiple SANs together. The services that storage […]

How many times have you heard some e-commerce evangelist say, The Internet changes everything? Now with i-SCSI, the up-and-coming TCP/IP-based storage protocol, the Internet may finally be changing the world of networked storage. Using TCP/IP, i-SCSI encapsulates block-level SCSI data traffic and transports that traffic over any TCP/IP network including, of course, the Internet. Since […]

Tired of learning about SANs, NAS devices, I-SCSI, and InfiniBand by reading disparate trade press technical articles bylined by a vendors product manager? Then grab for the new second edition of Marc Farleys definitive tome — Building Storage Networks (McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media). In fact, the Storage Networking Industry Association recommends Farleys book as a must-read for […]

When K-mart launched its e-commerce site, called BlueLight.com, a few months ago, this nationwide retailer turned to solid-state disk technology, not mechanical disk drives, to provide lightening fast delivery of e-mail message to customers. In fact, David Hill, the Aberdeen Group’s research director for storage, says that solid-state disk technology has become useful for Web-based […]