Fixing the plumbing of storage

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Jun 26, 20062 mins

Latest storage news.

Network World Video: Fixing the plumbing of storage, 06/26/06

What do data collection/retention and clogged toilets have in common? Dave Ellard, senior vice president at Glasshouse, explains the analogy and how you can remedy the problem on this week’s Network World Hot Seat.

Backup consumes big chunks of budgets, study shows, 06/26/06

The wild expansion of data requiring replication and protection is a key challenge for IT, according to a recent biannual storage study by TheInfoPro, an IT market research company.

Advanced managed services, 06/26/06

Smart use of contract help is central to the New Data Center plan. Call it outsourcing. Call it managed services. Call it out-tasking. But network executives will call on it in some form to help them manage the complexities of their advanced New Data …

Network Appliance enters SMB storage market with new array, 06/26/06

Network Appliance this week plans to announce its entry into the small and midsize business market, with a storage array designed to work in network-attached, iSCSI and Fibre Channel environments.

EMC opens software center in China, invests $500 million, 06/23/06

EMC Friday announced it will open a software development center in Shanghai and invest $500 million in China over the next five years.

EMC plans to offer data classification, 06/22/06

EMC plans to provide users with data classification functionality, a move that could presage another wave of mergers and deals with storage industry start-ups.

Storage Newsletter: Why the digital camera was bad news for storage, 06/22/06

Ever since Baron Frankenstein first turned on the juice to animate his creation we have all understood that sometimes, even when things are developed …

Sun starts storage standards war, 06/22/06

Sun has left Aperi, the IBM-led open source storage management initiative, causing a big fracture in the world of storage standards.

Storage Blog: New Fibre Channel fabric standard, 06/21/06

McDATA today announced that the IETF has approved a new management information base ( …