Archive Looking not backward, but forward to value creation Managing risk is important, but creating new opportunities is the key to success. Posted July 11th Is it an iPod or portable storage in sheep's clothing? Whole yotta bytes on the loose. Posted April 25th Storage and the Third Wave world Wireless technology — not compliance — is the engine driving the data explosion. Posted September 20th Ten years or forever — whichever comes first Digital records lack lasting power. Posted June 21st FAIS: The fabric intelligence enablement standard ANSI T11 effort may lead to reduced time to market for fabric-based storage management intelligence. Posted February 9th EMC, BMC and Legato: A tale of two rumors We know what EMC has gained, but what might it lose? Posted July 28th Virtualization: The future is in the fabric Starting next year, the virtualization spotlight is going to be on hybrid models and architectures. Posted June 9th Can vendors help users with people problems? SNW columnist John Webster asks whether vendors are well positioned to act as mediators in the endless battles that swirl around IT shops and end users. Posted April 7th The biggest storage issues have faces attached People problems are persistently prevalent. Posted January 20th Disaster recovery — insurance policy or survival plan? Senior executives who fail to realize the true value of disaster recovery are doing their companies a dangerous disservice. Posted September 30th Things don't work as advertised There are many nuances to both the promotion and installation of SAN technology. Here is how vendors and users can get their SAN solutions right the first time. Posted August 12th Applications-managed storage — who needs it? CIM/WBEM fills the void between application and storage domains. Posted June 17th Q&A: John Webster analyzes Microsoft's statement of storage direction and the CIM-WBEM initiative At the recent Storage Networking World conference, John Webster spoke with SNW Online about his take on Microsoft's storage announcement and the impact of the CIM-WBEM announcement made by SNIA. April 8th Storage is now about managing risk Your storage environment can be the ultimate protector of data loss, so why not consider it as a place to manage and mitigate risk? Posted March 25th Can you get anything you want? An increasing number of users are bucking the conventional wisdom that states, "Thou shalt not use NAS for DBMS apps." Posted December 24th In the new world order, the need for storage security is crystal clear Although many people may be disoriented by the appalling events of September 11, the need for enhanced storage security has never been more straight forward. Posted October 1st Show Time for iSCSI at UNH For years, Durham, N.H. has been a landmark on the storage landscape, the focal point of one issue: interoperability. At the University of New Hampshire, storage vendors meet with fellow vendors and the friendly UNH staff to work out bugs at the UNH Plugfest. Posted August 27th SSF members face daunting organizational, technological challenges In the wake of its unveiling, the SNIA's Supported Solutions Forum (SSF) is moving forward with its efforts to create pre-configured interoperability solutions. Some solid progress has been made, but the specter of vendor self-interest still hovers over the group. Posted August 27th Co-operability is catching on "Co-operability" is the key to success for the SNIA's Supported Solutions Forum. But what will it take to make competing vendors work together toward the common good of users? Posted July 23rd Tearing down the Tower of "Virtual" Babel Clearly, virtualization is based on permutations, combinations and re-combinations. But what the heck is it, and how can "SAN-virtualists" make money from it? Posted June 11th Bridging the gap between vendors and users What can be done to resolve the differences between vendors — that are constantly developing and selling new products — and users — who are constantly struggling to understand these new products while doing their day-to-day jobs? Storage Insider John Webster examines this perplexing issue. Posted April 30th The overwhelming importance of storage Storage was once a peripheral - a mere feature of the server. Those days are long gone, and that's a good thing because information shouldn't always be hidden behind, or bottled up inside a single server. Posted April 9th Feedback: feedback@snwonline.com Questions: questions@snwonline.com Technical difficulties: webmaster@snwonline.com