http://www.windowsitpro.com/authors/author/author/5777610/rsscomment/5777610en-USSun, 27 May 2012 07:37:54 GMTSun, 27 May 2012 07:37:54 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-virtualization-wars-heat-up#commentsAnchorThu, 04 Sep 2008 15:42:45 GMT
Excellent article. Too bad I have to pay to read the key parts of it.]]>Julie HThu, 04 Sep 2008 15:42:45 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-virtualization-wars-heat-up#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/it-pros-top-backup-needs-faster-restores-better-archiving#commentsAnchorTue, 14 Mar 2006 07:35:00 GMT
Good Article. hope fully in the future better data backup and restoration will be there. i really dont see much change in the near future specially for data in Tera bytes.]]>DanielTue, 14 Mar 2006 07:35:00 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/it-pros-top-backup-needs-faster-restores-better-archiving#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorThu, 09 Feb 2006 17:01:15 GMT
Thank you for pointing out the errors, which I’ve corrected, as well as adding links to the CentOS and Nagios sites. The editors and authors strive to make sure all articles posted on windowsitpro.com are accurate, but occasionally we miss something. We appreciate careful readers like you and welcome your continued feedback! --Anne Grubb, senior editor, Windows IT Pro]]>AnneThu, 09 Feb 2006 17:01:15 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorMon, 06 Feb 2006 18:29:44 GMT
This article is RIFE with factual inadequacy. As a previous commenter pointed out, CentOS is not built by Open Source Storage. The next glaring error is Nagios. Nagios is not a storage management solution, it is an excellent network/system monitoring utility written by Ethan Galstad. www.nagios.org I commend the coverage of open source software. It works quite well in, and with the windows environment. It’s designed under the ideal that everything can work together. However I’d urge some fact checking for articles in the future.]]>jperrin Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:29:44 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorMon, 06 Feb 2006 16:22:40 GMT
CentOS is absolutely NOT built by Open Source Storage. CentOS is a Linux distribution that is built by the CentOS Project. We are rated in the top 8 of all Linux Distributions in Number of webservers installed in the Inernet: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/12/05/strong_growth_for_debian.html CentOS also finished 2nd in the Linux Journal 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards. We are one of the fastest growing linux distributions out there, please see our website for more information: http://www.centos.org/]]>JohnnyMon, 06 Feb 2006 16:22:40 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/open-source-storage-beckons-but-will-storage-vendors-heed-its-call-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/data-security-it-s-a-storage-problem#commentsAnchorWed, 25 Jan 2006 11:10:53 GMT
Good article -- let’s have more like this one!]]>MichelleWed, 25 Jan 2006 11:10:53 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/data-security-it-s-a-storage-problem#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/storage-industry-growth-explodes#commentsAnchorMon, 19 Dec 2005 12:16:45 GMT
One thing that would seem to be significant to note is the fact that much of Dell’s storage portfolio (i.e. SAN and high-end NAS) is OEM’d from EMC. Therefore, it is probably not fair to say that EMC is "feeling the heat" from the likes of Dell - at least not when speaking of the storage market.]]>WilliamMon, 19 Dec 2005 12:16:45 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/storage-industry-growth-explodes#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/application-specific-storage-solutions-are-on-the-horizon#commentsAnchorThu, 15 Dec 2005 11:11:27 GMT
Your article as what it is mainly concentrating on is very informative, but truly it is a little ’dull’ essay, or perhaps due to the fact that I am not in a good mood at the time, :-)]]>lepThu, 15 Dec 2005 11:11:27 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/application-specific-storage-solutions-are-on-the-horizon#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/compliance/shockingly-risky-storage-behavior#commentsAnchorTue, 15 Nov 2005 16:45:23 GMT
I guess Cryoserver’s survey is unsurprising until you think about it, at which point you realise what sorts of people become CIO’s these days! Even allowing for the fact that they’re pushing their (admittedly excellent) compliance product, these results are a dismal reflection of how far behind the ball CIO’s are with this stuff. Such technology has been around for quite a few years now, so there’s really no excuse!]]>nonTue, 15 Nov 2005 16:45:23 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/compliance/shockingly-risky-storage-behavior#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/will-flash-memory-replace-hard-drives-#commentsAnchorTue, 25 Oct 2005 23:01:10 GMT
I’ve read two articles including this one that suggest flash and or NVRAM have positive futures in the storage category. I have dreamt for many years of a psuedo RAID array consisting of flash or storage cards (nodes), lets call them flache-RAM cards, because they resemble cache in that they’re quickly read-from and written-to, and randomly accessed; perhaps connecting to a special high-speed bus yet to be engineered that runs at FSB speed--a RAIN (redundant array of inexpensive nodes) array of eight or more 16GB (or higher as the technology matures) falche-RAM nodes, that rebuild the stored data as nodes degrade in a striped-with-parity fashion for the primary storage system. Larger arrays of the same technology act as centralized secondary storage, and hard disk(s) are tertiary for backup as NAS or SAN for the home network or segment of the LAN. I also want a dedicated flache-RAM A-drive that takes over duties from the C-drive as the primary boot sector, with a fater controller obviously than floppy--perhaps flachie--using EEPROM tactics for a secure OS: patch it, flache it, and boot from it, but never write to it during normal operations. Flache-RAM cards for the masses!]]>RoyTue, 25 Oct 2005 23:01:10 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/will-flash-memory-replace-hard-drives-#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/compliance/smbs-confront-email-retention#commentsAnchorTue, 23 Aug 2005 21:20:43 GMT
I know we don’t archive email and we should. I just sent this link to our IT staff. Thanks]]>Anonymous User Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:20:43 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/compliance/smbs-confront-email-retention#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/protecting-data-at-rest#commentsAnchorSun, 01 May 2005 21:45:25 GMT
Recently I reviewed companies in this space and found that Decru (http://www.decru.com) is a transparent and works well with my backup application environment. They support all protocls that are necessary in my environment, NAS, SAN and Tape. With the introduction of their iSCSI, this covers my future needs as well.]]>Anonymous User Sun, 01 May 2005 21:45:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/protecting-data-at-rest#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/protecting-data-at-rest#commentsAnchorFri, 29 Apr 2005 14:26:03 GMT
These compaines should us NSI Software’s Double-Take. They would not have these problems. You can find it here: http://www.nsisoftware.com/.]]>Anonymous User Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:26:03 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/security/protecting-data-at-rest#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/storage-moves-to-the-management-layer#commentsAnchorFri, 14 Jan 2005 12:23:03 GMT
NO COMMENT ]]>Anonymous User Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:23:03 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/storage-moves-to-the-management-layer#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-virtualization-wars-heat-up#commentsAnchorMon, 27 Dec 2004 11:10:58 GMT
Good article, but why was the pioneer in open SAN virtualization - Xiotech - never mentioned? They continue to lead in this space and offer features (like virtual links) that their bigger competitors cannot.]]>Anonymous User Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:10:58 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-virtualization-wars-heat-up#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/benchmarks/the-rise-of-storage-benchmarks#commentsAnchorMon, 13 Dec 2004 03:15:55 GMT
i dun understand, where is da fiiiiireeefoooooooxxx]]>Anonymous User Mon, 13 Dec 2004 03:15:55 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/benchmarks/the-rise-of-storage-benchmarks#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/separating-hype-from-reality#commentsAnchorFri, 10 Dec 2004 19:41:44 GMT
Paragraphs are our friends.]]>Anonymous User Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:41:44 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/separating-hype-from-reality#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/auditing/countdown-to-compliance#commentsAnchorFri, 26 Nov 2004 11:44:47 GMT
Educational]]>jrsutils Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:44:47 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/auditing/countdown-to-compliance#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/ilm-changes-tape-s-footprint#commentsAnchorMon, 18 Oct 2004 00:12:39 GMT
as long as tape is an external IO device it will always be slower than a disk drive. and whats to prevent archiving hard disks than tape? disaster recovery from hard disks would be faster than blu-ray cds would be faster than tape. tape has always been left behind by hard disk storage capacity.]]>RostandMon, 18 Oct 2004 00:12:39 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/ilm-changes-tape-s-footprint#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/fibre-channel/the-competition-spars-with-emc#commentsAnchorMon, 11 Oct 2004 03:30:41 GMT
Wow is there a bias on this? So they can be behind on feature and price and still be well positioned. That would explain there share price ;-)]]>Anonymous User Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:30:41 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/fibre-channel/the-competition-spars-with-emc#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/companies-don-t-plan-for-disaster#commentsAnchorMon, 04 Oct 2004 22:19:45 GMT
i hate tape backups, its a dead paradigm. i hope dps will be cheaper and be available sooner. ]]>RostandMon, 04 Oct 2004 22:19:45 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/companies-don-t-plan-for-disaster#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/super-tape-drive-market-remains-dynamic#commentsAnchorMon, 14 Jun 2004 18:54:36 GMT
You talked about Quantum and other companies. What about Certance (Seagate). It still has a huge market.]]>Umair Khalid Mon, 14 Jun 2004 18:54:36 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/super-tape-drive-market-remains-dynamic#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-client/the-cd-rom-is-dead-as-removable-media-shifts-gear#commentsAnchorMon, 03 May 2004 03:02:37 GMT
Nobody takes in deep seriusly this matters, all want to develop a new everything intead to give wings to the 3.5 or the old CD Rom.]]>ElAngel Mon, 03 May 2004 03:02:37 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/windows-client/the-cd-rom-is-dead-as-removable-media-shifts-gear#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/distributed-vs-centralized-storage-the-struggle-continues#commentsAnchorFri, 30 Apr 2004 14:09:53 GMT
This is what we haev been working on for a few months now, In short - we have been able to redesign our storage and datacenter to offer virtually unlimited self provisioning of servers based on a central storage back end. We are able to (even from our phones) reboot blades and direct the servers to pull ip configuration based on server farms and remap storage based on configurations that we set for that image. We are building this entirely on a diskless local infrastructure and powering the storage via an iscsi network that we rolled out using Cisco storage routers. This allows us to bring servers up on line and re-provision servers without having to touch a server or a keyboard for that matter. We can set triggers that will alert us of network changes and direct us to slide servers around in our environment. We are then able to take advantage of, say accounting servers, which are not being used for the day and bring them into web server farms and reassign them to the accounting at night so they can crunch numbers. It really allows us to build the data center for the lowest common denominator and puts the system management back to less advanced personnel to monitor and provision our network. This model achieves the following for us: - One point of presence in the datacenter to monitor and react to the traffic needs on our daily changing environment - We are now managing one disk image for booting server servers and not entire server farms of individual servers. - We move our key potential points of failure to more robust equipment dedicated to storage - Allows us a rollout of another 5 servers in a matter of seconds instead of days to bring servers on line. - One point of disaster recovery by being able to take the image of the storage and replicate it to other sites. - A nearly hands off approach to disaster recovery. - One point of backups to all servers. I can go on and on about the benefits of this approach to our organization – is this the kind of project you had in mind? If so - I can spend time on white papers and get some information out on such a design. Storage was really the key that solved all of our problems with backups, scale-out and disaster recovery.]]>Kyle Ohme Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:09:53 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/distributed-vs-centralized-storage-the-struggle-continues#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/java/ibm-and-bea-square-off-in-j2ee-arena#commentsAnchorThu, 22 Apr 2004 02:39:16 GMT
i want know about cisco routers]]>zeinab Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:39:16 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/java/ibm-and-bea-square-off-in-j2ee-arena#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-grid-heats-up#commentsAnchorThu, 26 Feb 2004 13:39:38 GMT
I wanted to elaborate on Bruce’s comment above, and make some observations there: - Spinnaker, Sistina and at least a dozen other startups have their own versions of distributed file systems, and so does Microsoft. The difference is that Microsoft DFS can ride on top of windows-like file systems that users access using CIFS, whereas Spinnaker and Sistina have their own ’file system’ - you cannot use that in conjunction with another file system. Also, the sum total of DFS deployments from these vendors would likely add up to less than 0.1% of Microsoft devices out there (most of which are DFS enabled) - what I am getting at is that from a standards perspective (and we all know that the storage industry is in desparate need of standards), Microsoft’s DFS is a standard and could be used as such (administrators are already accustomed to active directory, which DFS integrates with) - As we think of grids (already becoming hyped by storage, system and software vendors), what will be required is a services overlay that rides on top of physical compute or storage grids...and it will have to be an overlay (or out of the ’box’) to provide the standardization element across multi-vendor grids (netapp’s, HP’s , EMC’s , etc). PS: My company had looked at investing in a startup called NuView that seems to have extended Microsoft’s base DFS technology into a stack of data managemeent services. If what they sell works, this could be the services overlay for file storage grids (their product does not deal with structured data)]]>Peter Smith Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:39:38 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-grid-heats-up#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-grid-heats-up#commentsAnchorMon, 05 Jan 2004 18:48:46 GMT
It is not ’new’ news that these kinds of Distributed File System technologies exist. DFS, which is not too dissimilar to the Spinnaker SpinFS concept has been part of Windows NT and Active Directory networks for quite some time now. The day that online services begin to offer ’slices’ of some kind of DFS grid storage at a competitive price for the average punter is when we will see this take off.]]>Bruce Varagnolo Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:48:46 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/the-grid-heats-up#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/tape-moves-toward-predictive-failure-analysis#commentsAnchorMon, 05 Jan 2004 08:46:22 GMT
Any stats on how often tape backup fails? We offer an alternative to tape backup (namely Winternals Recovery Manager) in some situations, and would like to know how often an alternative is required. Thanks!]]>Ken Chambers Mon, 05 Jan 2004 08:46:22 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/tape-moves-toward-predictive-failure-analysis#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hierarchical-storage-management-hsm/attending-to-trends#commentsAnchorWed, 17 Dec 2003 22:38:29 GMT
The article is good, the author is driving home the point smoothly. There are lots of pointers in the text that add value for further learning. Thanks for the info.]]>MSWed, 17 Dec 2003 22:38:29 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hierarchical-storage-management-hsm/attending-to-trends#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/disk-fragmentation-study-makes-annual-appearance#commentsAnchorTue, 11 Nov 2003 12:39:23 GMT
I have just installed Windows XP upgrading from windows ME. Since I have re-installed Norton System works it shows my Disk optimaization at 89%. I have run both Speed disk & Defrag program but can’t get back to 100%. Please help! Is there any difference that relates to this problem with what format I installed of windows XP (IE: Fat32 vs NT). Please help I am sure my laptop is slower now because of this.]]>David Grange Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:39:23 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/storage/disk-fragmentation-study-makes-annual-appearance#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/mobile-backup-s-vexing-challenges#commentsAnchorSat, 08 Nov 2003 08:58:45 GMT
I use an USB-based Tape solution from Certance, works great! I can backup up to 40GB, more than enought for me.. ]]>johnSat, 08 Nov 2003 08:58:45 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/mobile-backup-s-vexing-challenges#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/data-storage-market-in-transition#commentsAnchorTue, 23 Sep 2003 13:35:25 GMT
This article rocks! Helped me do my job. Really explained the current situation in the Data Storage arena.]]>Dina Baird Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:35:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/san/data-storage-market-in-transition#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/new-technology-for-backup-and-restore#commentsAnchorFri, 24 Jan 2003 18:02:25 GMT
I’m not sure if you can help me or not, I have been receiving a pop up that says: Game Error: nanoxml.xmlParseException]]>Patricia Lott Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:02:25 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/backup-recovery/new-technology-for-backup-and-restore#commentsAnchorhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/redefining-near-online-storage#commentsAnchorFri, 03 Jan 2003 09:46:33 GMT
I enjoyed the article but would like to know of other ATA RAID subsystem vendors selling into the HSM (data archiving) market. You mentioned ATTO, NetApp, and EMC. Are there any other non-NAS solutions out there like Nexsan ATA RAID products?]]>Jeff Woodard Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:46:33 GMThttp://www.windowsitpro.com/article/hardware/redefining-near-online-storage#commentsAnchor