Leslie Wood

Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies became even more of a critical concern for most companies after September 11, 2001. And now, with most of the Northeast and some of the Midwest resuming its first week back to work after the biggest power failure in American history, companies are once again talking about the importance […]

As long as cyber attacks and viruses continue to infiltrate computer networks, and as long as systems continue to fail for a myriad of other reasons as well, anxiety over data protection and recovery will remain at or near the top of the list of major concerns for IT managers across the globe. The costs […]

The total cost of owning and managing storage varies greatly from company to company. IT administrators must weigh a number of factors such as customer needs and business applications when designing and implementing storage environments. An IT department that understands the hidden costs of unmanaged storage will most likely end up with a lower storage […]

Efficient corporate fiscal management dictates that IT departments run their operations as mission critical and also provide maximum services at minimal costs. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have long faced the daunting task of carefully evaluating what infrastructure expenditures offer the most cost-effective solutions available to support a company’s applications. It’s no different within the storage […]

New concepts that result in change are typically disruptive and costly when they enter the information infrastructure of our lives and businesses. The latest concept of ‘utility computing’ seems to not only be one of the ‘hottest’ buzzwords on the storage conference circuit, but also a concept that will force considerable change. However, even though […]

Microsoft recently announced that it would provide support for the iSCSI standard in Windows client and server environments by next month. A spokesperson for the software giant said that the announcement signals the company’s continued focus on making Windows a stronger platform for storage. But the lingering question concerning iSCSI still exists: Is it just […]

Over the years, storage resource management (SRM) has often been referred to as “top-to-bottom integration,” as it has grown to not only include its ability to monitor and report on storage, but to manage the system itself, its applications, storage devices, and the efficient backup and recovery of data. In a nutshell, SRM has come […]

While demand for data storage continues to evolve, the need for increased capacity is also evolving, a need that has companies across the globe looking for storage providers that can meet their increasing capacity demands today and into the future. While it has been said that linear tape drives allow users to more easily add […]

Serial ATA (SATA) is a glossy new storage technology designed with the intent to eventually supplant parallel ATA (PATA). According to some industry experts, SATA storage solutions could cut the price of high capacity, server-attached storage by as much as 60 percent. But, if that’s really the case, what’s keeping SATA from taking the storage […]

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The storage industry has recently seen many new vendors make significant impacts on the industry as a whole. The Yankee Group predicts that today’s storage systems making up the networked attached storage and storage area network markets will dramatically evolve over the next two to four years. However, managing multi-vendor SANs and creating storage environments […]

As systems and storage administrators wrestle with ever-growing data volumes and varying requirements for retaining data, one solution that many are considering is storage virtualization. Virtualization is the process of taking many different physical storage networks and devices and making them appear as one ‘virtual’ item for purposes of management and administration. The theory is […]