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When in doubt, buy more storage, 04/23/07
Imagine driving a car without a gas gauge. You have no idea how much gas is in the tank and worry that you’re about to run out, so you stop at every gas station you see to buy more. Storage managers in data centers have much the same problem.
Storage user groups merge: SNUG a fit for ASNP, 04/24/07
Two storage networking user groups Tuesday announced that they have merged their organizations in order to better serve their constituents.
Hitachi rolls out storage, server disk drives, 04/23/07
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Monday announced three disk drives that will be deployed in enterprise storage systems and servers.
Survey says 73% of organizations store corporate information on removable devices, 04/23/07
About 73% of 308 respondents to a survey taken at two recent conferences said they store corporate data on removable media, but 46% answered they did not have – or were unaware of — a corporate security policy in place to protect that information.
Brocade ships SAN access gateway, 04/20/07
Brocade today announced availability of storage-area networking gateway software that lets IT managers connect HP BladeSystem servers to SANs.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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