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Storage Management

October 23, 2006

It's an often-stated stat that it costs anywhere from 3x to 7x more to manage storage than it does to procure it. Unfortunately, corralling management costs may involve a dizzying array of disparate technologies.

CONTENTS

SRM: No longer just 'nice to have'
Storage resource management (SRM) has evolved well beyond quota management and now includes functions such as SAN management. More...

Storage management fundamentals, part 1
Storage management can loosely be divided into categories such as SRM, SAN management, data management, HSM, and ILM. More...

Welcome to the file area network (FAN)
A FAN combines and integrates a wide variety of technologies, enabling IT organizations to get a grip on file-level management and control. More...

Information classification enables better management
Intelligent information management (IIM) tools allow companies to index, search, and locate information more quickly and accurately. More...

Getting value from the SMI-S standard
According to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), common management of multi-vendor environments and agent-less management are just two of the potential benefits of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). More...

Gartner 25th Annual Data Center Conference
November 28-December 1
Las Vegas, NV
This year's event addresses servers and storage, IT operations, business continuity/disaster recovery, virtualization, and best practices. Other topics include SRM, real-time infrastructure, virtualization trends, server- and network-based replication, and high-end storage. For more information, go to
http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/lsc25.jsp

QUICKVOTE QUESTION

What is your company's policy on buying storage products from start-ups?

•	We routinely buy storage products from start-up companies.
•	We occasionally buy from start-ups if their solution meets our needs.
•	We evaluate products from start-ups to keep the big vendors honest.
•	We only buy from tier 1 storage vendors.

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