Leslie Wood

With the growth of fixed content far surpassing all other kinds of data, a big challenge for storage managers is what to with all those e-mails, documents and media files that don’t change after their creation (see Getting a Fix on Fixed Content). Add to that the protection and retention requirements of regulations such as […]

Organizations around the globe not only generate a lot of data, but they store and archive much of it. Where organizations were once managing gigabytes of data and storage, they are now managing terabytes and even petabytes. One of the biggest issues facing storage managers is what to do with fixed content data — all […]

The storage software market has been hot, posting nine consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, and analysts expect the trend to continue for some time. Storage management software has been a big driver of that growth. Gartner predicts that new license revenue for storage management software will reach $9.4 billion in 2009 — an annual growth […]

Storage customers planning large storage management software implementations are faced with a number of issues. For starters, since storage management software is designed to spot underused capacity and get it to where it’s most needed, storage users need to know how a storage product will fit into their applications and processes. Topping the list is […]

Sales of new licenses for storage management software are growing, with hierarchical storage management (HSM) and archiving expected to be the fastest growing segments of the market. According to Gartner, storage management software is slated to increase from a $5.6 billion market in 2004 to $9.4 billion by 2009. So what exactly is storage management […]

The concept of dedicated storage teams has been catching on in large enterprises in recent years, driven by the belief that such teams can deliver the benefits promised by modern storage technologies, including better cost control and greater flexibility and agility. According to an ongoing Gartner survey, in 2000, fewer than 1 percent of respondents […]

Growing complexity and soaring data demands make it inevitable that storage users will eventually have to try new approaches to manage it all. The trick is knowing when — and to which technology — to switch. Brian Biles, vice president of marketing at Data Domain, suggests looking at history for clues. At what point would […]

Maintaining a backup and recovery system that supports an organization’s business objectives has always been a big challenge facing IT departments. Issues such as weighing the risk of vendor lock-in against the potential benefits — and risks — of new technologies, the emergence of continuous data protection (CDP) and other new backup and recovery technologies, […]

Continued strong growth in data and the emergence of new ways to handle it will lead to major change and disruption in the storage market in coming years, industry analysts and experts predict. The explosion of data — and the rise of laws and regulations governing its retention — have spurred new technologies such as […]

In the final part of our series on the rise of global storage networking, we examine the role of global storage networks in service-oriented environments. As global storage users continue to be faced with ever-growing data volumes and security risks, storage technologies that offer the best investment opportunities are becoming critical business components. And as […]

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the rise of global storage networking, as global enterprises find that their growing data needs require a data management infrastructure that can span their entire operation and be managed from any location at any time. In the second part of this series, we discuss the new urgency […]

In an era where intelligent management and storage data have become one of the most strategic elements of the IT infrastructure, global enterprises have found that they not only need a data management infrastructure that can span their entire operation, they also need an infrastructure that can be managed from any location at any time. […]