Archive USB drives to protect against online fraud, ID theft SanDisk is first aiming TrustedSignins at the financial services industry Posted October 30th Why Fibre Channel will remain the heavyweight champion Alternate protocols such as iSCSI cannot offer comparable data throughput without significant performance penalties Posted June 19th Leveraging search and virtualization synergies for ILM Global namespace key to complete metadata profile Posted May 8th Tape backup strategies for SMBs Follow these steps to storage success. Posted March 27th Reducing SMB storage TCO with iSCSI SAN-based storage Consolidation Centralized data pool is key to success Posted February 6th Constructing secure SANs WDM-enabled optical networks endow state-of-the-art SAN connectivity solutions with unprecedented capabilities. Posted January 2nd The virtues of server virtualization Autonomic computing is on the horizon. Posted November 14th SAN compatibility: Headed upstream? Overcoming the SAN fear factor and the iSCSI identity crisis. Posted October 10th Preventing porous personal data security The advantages and disadvantages of walking around with massive amounts of data in your pocket. Posted August 15th Database archiving versus backup: complementary best practices Each technique serves a different purpose. Posted July 11th Technology developments favor IP storage growth New Intel technique promises throughput gain. Posted April 11th Cut the storage fat by implementing a SAN Server consolidation is worth the effort. Posted February 21st What you need to know about cryptographic hashes and enterprise storage Secure hash technology plays a key role in protecting data. Posted November 1st Interview: Tom Mancuso on the SNW Interoperability and Solutions Demo SNIA program manager says solutions, not products, will be the focus in Orlando. Posted October 18th To achieve utility computing, you first need to manage SAN changes Predictive change management supports the transition of SANs into on-demand environments by reducing the risk of business disruptions. Posted September 20th The changing dynamics of Fibre Channel Fibre Channel storage array manufacturers reinvent themselves using Fibre Channel fabric switches. Posted August 9th ATA/SATA drives fitting bigger niches Users embracing hybrid environments. Posted March 8th Hybrid SANs unify storage nets Blending iSCSI with Fibre Channel SANs solves the stranded servers dilemma. Posted February 2nd The promise of next-generation file I/O protocols Reduced complexity and increased performance are the hallmarks of these emerging technologies. Posted December 15th How to know if midrange storage is right for your enterprise The bottom line: Make sure you're getting your business requirements met with a product that will grow along with your needs. Posted November 24th File caching protects and manages "data on the edge" With file caching technology, remote users can get centralized data protection and management, combined with high application service levels. Posted October 20th New NAS offers best of all worlds Next-generation NAS technology includes distributed file systems that provide new levels of virtualization and performance. September 22nd Reaping value from consultants and third-party software suppliers A lack of internal IT expertise can be overcome by carefully choosing third-party partners. Posted August 18th Taking an organized, logical approach to disaster recovery By understanding business priorities, IT can right-size disaster recovery solutions on an application-by-application basis. Posted July 7th Business continuity goals: Protect information, deliver strong ROI Companies can't afford disaster recovery systems that serve merely as insurance policies. Posted June 9th Mobile backup users have multiple choices Many factors determine the right type of mobile backup solution. Posted May 12th Grow SANs and lower costs? The time has now come for storage network consolidation. What are the implications? Posted April 21st Intelligent director-class switch platforms consolidate best practices, technology The life of your storage network investment can be considerably enhanced by an innovative intelligent architecture. Posted March 17th The Next Big Thing: SAN policy-based service level management As applications continually compete for and share resources across SANs, policy-based service level management will become increasingly essential. Posted January 13th iSCSI, Serial ATA look good to cash-strapped users Emerging connectivity technologies hold the key to the implementation of next-generation storage systems. Posted December 23rd Linux and SANs evolving into the IT mainstream SAN and Linux technologies have matured rapidly over the last few years. As they have evolved from the cutting edge to mainstream computing, more organizations are realizing their combined value. Posted November 25th Storage over SONET: SAN extension enables advanced business continuance applications Together, Fibre Channel and SONET help overcome many of the challenges associated with extending business continuance applications outside a single data center. Posted October 28th Active archiving minimizes data growth Ongoing active archiving keeps databases streamlined and operating at peak performance, providing a cost-effective, long-term solution to the problem of accelerating database growth. Posted September 23rd Carrier-grade storage connectivity is a key to SAN success (Part 1 of 2 in a series of articles on SAN-WAN networking) Storage connectivity based on wavelength division multiplexing provides carrier-grade performance, reliability, availability, predictability, scalability and security to storage network users. Posted August 19th Bluefin will be a catch for users by early next year Bluefin is expected to push the idea of multivendor interoperability and help users consolidate data on a minimum number of storage devices. Posted July 8th Consolidation and SANs driving SRM deployment By implementing policy-based SRM, organizations can make better decisions while automatically maintaining their storage systems. Posted June 24th How to cost-effectively ensure fail-safe data protection Data protection is more critical than ever, yet many companies do not have effective plans in place. Users can choose from a variety of strategies, including outsourcing. Posted February 18th Data archiving improves database performance, decreases storage networking complexity Organizations are compelled by legal and regulatory reasons to store a lot of data that – most likely – will never get looked at again. To alleviate this IT headache, many companies turn to data archiving. Posted November 12th Dense Wave Division Multiplexing extends SAN's over fiber MAN's Managed Wavelength Services, a new breed of broadband network based on Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM), promises to finally make it affordable for businesses to extend their SAN applications over fiber optic-based metropolitan area networks. Posted October 1st Fibre Channel SAN's and TCP/IP: uneasy technology partners Many storage networking users are trying to determine how TCP/IP should be deployed in their corporate networking infrastructures. Given the battle between Fibre Channel SAN's and TCP/IP, corporate users are in danger of becoming embroiled in an all-out turf war between IP networking and storage networking vendors. Posted August 31st Storage wide-area networking technologies still maturing Eager to extend their SANs' abilities to allocate storage flexibly across multiple servers and disk arrays, more and more companies are seeking wide-area networking solutions that will allow them to transfer their storage securely. Posted July 30th Gigabit Ethernet: settling in as a storage networking standard While it is not yet ready to unseat Fibre Channel as the premiere vehicle for connecting servers to storage networks, Gigabit Ethernet is gaining an increasingly loyal following. Posted June 4th Vendors scrambling for control of immature virtualization marketplace Whether they know it or not, many more corporate IT customers will be buying products with some sort of virtualization capabilities in the coming years. The question is, from which vendors will they buy them?. Posted May 21st InfiniBand I/O standard will enhance storage networking The greatest restriction to data flow is the nature of the I/O architecture. InfiniBand technology - which is based on an I/O fabric - addresses this problem by offering performance gains ranging from 500M bits/sec. to 6G bits/sec. per link. In this enhanced environment, the implications for storage networking are enormous. Posted April 9th Feedback: feedback@snwonline.com Questions: questions@snwonline.com Technical difficulties: webmaster@snwonline.com