Opinion: SAN, NAS, ILM, SAS, DAS, CAS -- your boss doesn't care
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The trouble with trying to explain the meaning of these acronyms is that it requires using language that confuses rather than clarifies the situation.
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Red Hat, Dell, IBM and HP get SAMPed Analysis Almost five years ago, Sun's then CEO Scott McNealy told me his company had little intention of entering the great database fray. "You know, we haven't decided that is a war we want to go fight," he said. "Why not let them all beat each others' brains in?".â¦
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SAS, iSCSI and even InfiniBand offer alternative ways to connect servers to storage and are starting to steal some of Fibre Channel's thunder. But while they are, respectively, cheaper and faster than Fibre Channel for direct-attached storage, that doesn't mean the technology is doomed.
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IT managers concerned about deploying blade technology into heterogeneous environments may have an easier time of it with the recent announcement that Brocade&#39;s SAN (storage area network
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iSCSI's still banging on the door, but it's banging faster... EqualLogic has brought out its first iSCSI array to use SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives and support tiered storage.â¦
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There are smart moves, and there are stupid moves. For some reason, IBM is selling ThinkPad, the best business notebook brand name, to some Far East discount outfit. That can't be a smart move. As a nonsmart counter-move, I figured I'd better break down and buy one of the darn things before none were left. So I did.ADVERTISEMENTWhite paper: Solutions to Address IT Control RequirementsLearn how BMC Software Solutions address requirements such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 in this 20 page whitepaper!
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Virtual SAN Appliance for VMware ESX LeftHand Networks is snuggling close to virtualization market leader VMware, to bring a SAN solution to that ever-elusive - and inconveniently ever-cash-conscious - market, the SMB.â¦
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TechWeb - Small and medium-sized businesses are the target market for the disk array, which can be used to build an Internet-based SAN, even without IT staff managing the setup process.
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InfoWorld - If you curse your &quot;tier-one&quot; IT management solution as too cumbersome, too complex, and too expensive, you&#39;re not alone. In arecent Gartner study that declares the &quot;Big Four&quot; -- BMC, CA, HP, and IBM -- increasingly vulnerable to SaaS (software as a service) and open source alternatives, surveyed users gave their vendors mostly C&#39;s and D&#39;s, and a good number of incompletes.
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Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight. read more
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Selecting a preferred vendor to meet all of your company's storage needs is a noble idea but only works if you, as a storage manager, are willing to accept that in some circumstance you can not or will not make the best technology choice for your company's application requirements.
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If storage remains free to corporate users, then there is little inclination to economize or improve utilization. Any company's goal should be not only to provide a cross-charging mechanism for recouping costs, but also to incent more efficient usage of storage.
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Things are pretty informal at this organization, and network security isn't exactly tight. So when the head finance guy needs a little work done on his network account, IT admin simply asks what his password is.
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Q. I have a boss who is a control freak. He thrives on blaming other people and making them look bad, especially in front of his bosses. If someone makes a small mistake, he makes it appear bigger than it is.
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Many corporations today employ multiple techniques to protect against data loss. Unfortunately, the various approaches are often applied and managed in an uncoordinated manner. Ironically, the nightly backup, for some critical classes of applications, becomes almost irrelevant, representing a tertiary, "last ditch" level of data protection.
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?
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New industry standard should offer cooler, quieter systems--so why isn't anybody rushing to embrace it?