Content Archives

Selected Topic Categories Featured Reports, White Papers, Articles and Tips
Power, Cooling, Data Footprint Reduction,
Green and Environmental Topics
  • Tip – How
    to increase your storage energy efficiency – July 2007
  • Article – Storage Power and Cooling Issues Heat up – May 2007
  • Webinar – “Storage power and cooling”
    – June 2007
  • Article – PACE yourself to power and cooling needs – July 2007
  • Comments on the business case for green
    storage – October 2007
  • Comments on power, cooling and floor space
    issues – September 2007
  • Comments on Green IT and Storage
    marketing – July 2007
  • Comments on Green Storage Means Money
    Saved (From CIO) – May
    2007

Additional information on power, cooling
environmental and green related storage and data storage infrastructures
topics can be found at www.storageio.com

Server, Storage, NAS & Virtualization
Backup, Data protection, DR / BC and Management
  • Pod cast – File Archiving – April 2007
  • Disaster recovery channel opportunities Q&A – February 2007
  • Video interview – Addressing remote backup challenges
  • White paper – Tips for ROBO data protection (May require registration)
  • Tip – How far is far enough for DR purposes
  • Tip – Automated data migration – Choosing technology for ILM
  • Tip – Determining SMB Storage Options
  • Tip – SMB backup options
  • Article – Tape virtualization (VTL) deployment checklist
  • Tip – Dealing with tape and media errors
  • Tip – Planning for next generation backup
General, eDiscovery, Performance, and Capacity Planning
  • Tip – How to monitor SAN performance
  • Opinion – The SMB Storage Gap
  • Pod cast (download) – Addressing storage and I/O performance bottlenecks
  • Article – 10 ways to secure your stored data
  • Article – Storage Vocabulary
  • Tip – Storage certification sources
  • Tip – Leasing vs. buying storage
  • Tip – Out of capacity – what now?
  • Article – Considerations for data
    discovery, classification and indexing tools
  • Article – Automate data recovery
  • White Paper – Data Center I/O Performance Issues and Impacts
  • Tip – Capacity Planning – Reclaiming Orphaned
    Storage – October 2006

Some of the buzzword, themed
topics and technologies on this page include among others Archiving, Backup, Business Continuance
(BC), Capacity Planning (CP), CAS, CDP, Classification, Clustering, Database, Data Protection,
Disk Based Backup, Disaster Recovery (DR), Encryption, Fibre Channel, FICON, Grid, ILM, iSCSI,
MAN, NAS, Networked Storage, Object Storage, Performance, RAID, SAN, SAS, SATA,
SCSI, Security, SNIA, SRM, Storage Devices, Search, Storage Management, Storage
Software, Storage Systems, Switches, Tape, Virtualization, VTL, WAFS and WAN.

Venue or
Publication

Articles, Commentary, Interviews, Presentations, Speaking, Tips, Web casts

  • Comments on business of all sizes
    needing to keep data accessible – October 2007

  • Comments
    on InfiniBand, iSER, iWARP, RDMA, OpenFabric technologies  – September 2006

  • StorageIO
    Press Release – March 8, 2006

  • Opinion – A Storage Letter to SANta – December 2007
  • Opinion – The SMB Storage Gap – September 2007
  • Opinion – Keeping IT “Green” this
    summer – August 2007
  • Opinion – Zombie technologies,
    mature technologies – March 2007
  • Opinion – Hybrid Storage – December 2006
  • Comments on Brocade 8GFC Director,
    Backbone Data Center Fabric Platform – January 2008
  • Comments on Seagate selling
    technology to Xiotech – November 2007
  • Comments on VTL and clustered or grid
    solutions – November 2007
  • Comments on VTL and data footprint
    reduction including de-duplication – November 2007
  • Comments on IBM green energy
    efficiency certificates – November 2007
  • Comments on power and cooling
    challenges as opposed to green wash – September 2007
  • Comments on NEC and clustered
    storage for backup and archiving – September 2007
  • Comments and caveats when looking at
    MAID to address power and cooling – August 2007
  • Comments on Crosswalk – August 2007
  • Comments on evolution from backup
    reporting to data protection management – August 2007
  • Comments on 8GFC and impact of 10GbE
    or FCoE – August 2007
  • Comments on thin storage provisioning
    – July 2007
  • Comments on avoiding DR disaster by
    testing and DR plan maintenance – May 2007
  • Comments on NetApp releasing products
    around their acquisition of Topio – April 2007
  • Comments on Fibre Channel over
    Ethernet – April 2007
  • Comments on Sun storage – March 2007
  • Comments on data protection and replication
    for VMware environments – February 2007
  • Comments on SNIA SMIS gaining ISO approval – January 2007
  • Comments on HP new information and data management
    business unit – January 2007
  • Comments on data protection and availability for
    Windows environments – January 2007
  • Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel including server and
    application issues – January 2007
  • Comments on BlueArc and HDS OEM partnership
    for Ultra Scalable NAS – December 2006
  • Comments on 3PAR and PolyServe utilities for
    migrating databases – December 2006
  • Comments on 10Gb Ethernet &
    InfiniBand for clustering & HPC environments – November 2006
  • Comments on Cisco entry level and SMB/SME Fibre
    Channel solutions – November 2006
  • Comments on VMware, Xen, server and storage I/O
    virtualization – November 2006
  • Comments on server and storage virtualization – November 2006
  • Comments on disk to disk data protection (3DP) and
    Symantec API – November 2006
  • Comments on data center power and cooling tied to
    server consolidation – November 2006
  • Comments on NAS and I/O performance acceleration – October 2006
  • Comments on McData storage virtualization appliance
    and blades – October 2006
  • Comments storage industry vendors M&A and recent IPO
    activity – September 2006
  • Comments on New landscape for disk – September 2006
  • Comments on Data, PC and laptop
    security – August 2006
  • Comments on RAID rocks on – August 2006
  • Comments on Cisco and NAS – June 2006
  • Press mention of the StorageIO Group – March 8, 2006
  • Comments on Neoscale, security and
    importance of encryption key management – March 2006
  • Comments on Pillar Data Axiom Storage
    System funded by Oracle Larry Ellison – March 2006
  • Comments on 3PAR Storage Reporter
    Performance & Capacity Planning – March 2006
  • Comments on Brocade switch and router
    enhancements – March 2006
  • Comments on SANrad and iSCSI routers,
    bridges and gateways – February 2006
  • Comments on Brocade
    acquisition and partnering strategies – June 2005
  • Comments on dynamic storage
    optimization – May 2005
  • Webcast – 4Gb
    Fibre Channel
      – Spring 2004
  • Webcast – Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
    – Fall 2004
  • Webcast – 4Gb
    Fibre Channel and Enabling Technology
    – Fall 2004
  • Webcast – Disk
    Based Backup Systems & Software – Spring 200
  • Note: On-demand webcasts may require
    registration and subject to change without notice.

  • Comments on Google book scanning and
    on-line book search – December 2007

CMG

MeasureIT

CMG

Symposiums

  • Article – I/O Performance
    Issues and Impacts on Time-Sensitive Applications – October 2006
  • Spring 2006 Minneapolis
    Regional CMG “Storage Industry Update”
  • Spring 2006 “Server and I/O Perspectives,
    Issues and Industry Trends in a Virtual World”
  • Article – Networking with your Storage – May 2003 (May require registration)
  • CMG
    1999, Reno, NV – Paper and Presentation – Storage & Storage Networking
  • CMG
    2000, Orlando, FL – Paper & Presentation – Using RAID to improve Database Performance
  • CMG 2000, Orlando, FL – Introducing Storage Networks (SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel
    & Beyond)
  • CMG 2001, Anaheim, CA – Presentation on Storage Networking Primer for
    OS390 and Open Systems Environment
  • CMG 2002, Reno, NV – Paper and Presentation on Storage Networking Primer
  • CMG 2002, Reno, NV – Update & Scaling Resilient Storage Networking
  • CMG 2003, Dallas, TX – Paper and Presentation on Storage Networking
    Performance and Capacity Planning Basics
  • CMG 2003, Dallas, TX – Securing Storage Networks &
    Storage Networking Primer and Update
  • CMG 2003, Dallas, TX – Future of Storage and Storage
    Networking Panel – Fred Moore Moderator
  • CMG 2004, Las Vegas, NV – Paper and Presentation on Performance and
    Capacity Planning For Storage Networking
  • CMG 2004, Las Vegas, NV – Storage Technology Update
  • Regional & international events Rocky
    Mountain, CMG Italia (Rome Italy), National
    Capital Area, Minneapolis-St.
    Paul.
  • Comments on NetApp, NAS storage and SMB
    environments – June 2006
  • Comments – Imation removable hard disk drive (HDD) deployments – August 2007

  • Comments – HP makes “Green”
    technology announcements – June 2007

Compaq Enterprise
  • Article – Getting Started With Your Own SAN – March 1999

  • Comments on Brocade high-end Backbone
    Director Data Center Fabric Platform – January 2008
  • Comments on NetApp buying Infrastructure Resource Management firm Onaro
    January 2008
  • Comments on Imation adding RFID
    to tape cartridge labels – March 2007
  • Comments on storage startup Pillar Data
    systems – October 2006
Computer Technology Review (CTR)
  • Article – New Storage Interfaces – July
    1997
  • Comments on back up, protecting data
    and performance for virtual servers – November 2007
  • Comments on the business case for
    green and power efficient storage – October 2007
  • Comments on application aware storage
    and management software – August 2007
  • Comments on Holographic storage
    August 2007
  • Comments on FC-SATA (SATA over FC) technology – April 2007
  • Comments on NAS tackles more sophisticated roles in the enterprise – February 2007
  • Comments on Thin storage provisioning and avoiding over booking – December 2006
  • Comments on Consider compliance when
    choosing storage products – September 2006
  • Article –
    “Small office home office (SOHO) backup options – February 2007
  • Article –
    “Wireless storage – unplug your backup” – November 2006
  • Article –
    “Happy 50th, hard drive. But will you make it to 60? – September 2006
  • Article – “Top
    10 ways to secure your stored data”
    – August 2006
  • Article – “Ten tips and checklist items for deploying tape
    virtualization” – July 2006
  • Article – “Storage virtualization: How to deploy it”- June 2006
  • Article – “The Many faces of NAS – Which is appropriate for you?” – May 2006
  • Comments on Best practices for data
    protection, DR, backup and replication – November 2007
  • Comments on storage and networking
    companies going public – August 2007
  • Comments on Green IT and Storage
    marketing – July 2007
  • Comments
    on education and certification – January 2007
  • Comments
    on Cisco Fibre Channel SAN switch enhancements – November 2006
  • Comments
    on 4Gb Fibre Channel data and tape encryption – October 2006
  • Comments
    on leveraging smarter storage software and tools – October 2006
  • Comments
    on Windows Vista storage and I/O enhancements – October 2006
  • Comments on Brocade acquisition of McData – August 2006
  • Comments on remote offices and Wide Area File Services
    (WAFS) – February 2006
  • Comments on recent HP storage related announcements – February 2006
  • Comments on
    Brocade and the storage networking industry – January 2006
  • Comments on SAS disk drive technology  – December
    2005
  • Comments on storage virtualization reality
    October
    2005
  • Comments on McData new FICON
    capabilities   –
    September
    2005
  • Comments on new Hitachi (HDS, HP, Sun)
    disk arrays –
    July
    2005
  • Comments on RAID and relevance to data
    protection for most all environments – June 2006

  • Comments on Imation Odyssey removable
    hard disk drive (RHDD) – August 2007
  • Comments
    on InfiniBand Solid State Disk (SSD) – November 2006
  • Comments
    on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PCIe RAID adapters – November 2006
  • CBR:
    Comments on NetApp buying Infrastructure Resource Management (IRM) vendor
    Onaro – January 2008

  • Comments on Imation Odyssey removable
    hard disk drive (RHDD) – August 2007
  • Comments
    on InfiniBand Solid State Disk (SSD) – November 2006
  • Comments
    on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) PCIe RAID adapters – November 2006
  • Moderate “Building Better Backups” – June 2006
  • Moderate
    “Need for speed” panel
    discussions – June 2006

  • Comments on storage virtualization and intelligent switches –
    September 2005

  • Comments on new EMC disk based virtual tape libraries (VTLs) – November 2006
Disaster Recovery Journal
  • Article – Securing Storage Networks – Spring 2004 (May require Registration)
  • Comments on FalconStor and Synex
    single instance storage (de-duplication) – November 2007
  • Comments on iSCSI storage vendor
    LeftHand and Avnet partnership – September 2007
  • Comments on Sun, storage and storage management – June 2007
  • Comments on HDS entering low-end SMB storage market – October 2007
  • Comments on IBM and Storage – June 2007
  • Comments on Bell Micro – August 2007
  • Comments on WysDM and data
    protection management – April 2007
  • Comments on
    SNIA XAM (CAS) API and Green Storage – October 2007

 

  • Comments on
    CNT Matrix switch – May 2005

  • Cisco’s storage-networking gambit draws mixed review  – August  2002
  • Cisco forays into
    storage nets – August  2002
  • Bandercom to face
    huge cuts amid slow InfiniBand market  – August  2002

  • Webinar – “What to look for in an SMB
    iSCSI solution” – July 2007
  • Webinar – “Storage power and cooling”
    – June 2007
  • Webinar – “Enterprise iSCSI storage
    options and applications” – May 2007
  • Webinar – “How to keep your remote
    data secure and available” – March 2007
  • Webinar – “Clearing up cluster
    confusion” – February 2007
  • Webinar – “Protecting remote office
    branch office (ROBO) data – March 2007
  • Webinar – “Decrypting encryption, a look at data security options” –  October 2006
  • Webinar –
    “Building Resilient, Scalable, Flexible Data Storage Infrastructures – September 2006
  • Article – Not Just a Flash in the Pan
    – The many faces and uses of SSD storage – January 2008
  • Article – I/O, I/O, its off to
    virtual work we go – December 2007
  • Article – Making sense of
    VMware storage options – September 2007
  • Article – PACE yourself to power and
    cooling needs – July 2007
  • Article – Storage Power and Cooling
    Issues Heat up – May 2007
  • Article –
    Storage trends worth watching – January 2007
  • Article –
    Clarifying storage cluster confusion – November 2006
  • Article –
    Storage virtualization, its more common than you think – October 2006
  • Article –
    Making storage resilient – September 2006
  • Comments on IP iSCSI, Fibre Channel
    and Green Storage for 2008 – December 2007
  • Comments on 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC)
    and FCoE – November 2007
  • Comments on Sun releasing disk based
    archiving solution – November 2007
  • Comments on NetApp Storevault SMB
    multi-protocol, unified storage – October 2007
  • Comments on VMware and data storage
    and I/O topics – September 2007
  • Comments on MAID and Intelligent
    Power Management – September 2007
  • Comments on Sun, Lustre and
    other topics – September 2007
  • Comments on VMware and how
    storage vendors are adding support – September 2007
  • Comments on Sun reselling Diligent
    and OEM of Falconstor VTL technology – September 2007
  • Comments on disaster recovery and
    data protection – April 2007
  • Comments on Cisco acquisition of
    Neopath – April 2007
  • Comments
    on storage and IT trends – December 2006
  • Comments
    on BlueArc and Hitachi (HDS) high-end NAS partnership – December 2006
  • Comments
    on Symantec acquisition of Revivio CDP technology and backup – November 2006
  • Comments
    on disk vs. tape storage mediums – November 2006
  • Comments
    on Symantec disk based backup and VTLs – November 2006
  • Comments
    on I/O provisioning and storage I/O performance enhancement – October 2006
  • Comments
    on Sun and FalconStor virtual tape announcements – October 2006
  • Comments
    on storage industry and vendor consolidation – October 2006
  • Comments
    on storage virtualization – September 2006
  • Comments
    on EMC and data storage security – September 2006
  • Comments on Microsoft and iSCSI – July 2006
  • Comments on data and storage security – June 2006
  • Comments on IP
    storage – May 2006
  • Comments on
    Cisco and Neopath NAS file virtualization – May 2006
  • Comments on
    Backup and CDP – September 2005
  • Comments on RAID and storage
    virtualization – June 2005
eServer Magazine

 

  • Article – Seeing Storage In A New Light – May 2002
ET Magazine
  • Comments on fabric and switched based
    storage virtualization – October
    2005

  • Comments on Open Source and Fibre
    Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) – December 2007
  • Comments on Texas Memory FLASH based
    solid state disk drive – September 2007
  • Comments on Xsigo and I/O
    virtualization – September 2007
  • Comments
    on LSI new SMB Fibre Channel and SAS storage system – January 2007
  • Comments on system and storage resource and data protection management
    tools – May 2006
  • Comments on encryption for mobile disk drives    – June
    2005
  • Comments on disk drive based encryption as part of a data protection
    strategy –
    February
    2005
  • Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel and other technologies – June 2005

  • Comments on storage consolidation,
    server and storage virtualization – November 2006

  • Comments on Mapping your future with
    automated tools – November 2006

Federal

Computer

Week
(FCW)

  • Comments on safe data storage ingredients – May 2006
  • Comments on serial attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive technologies
    August
    2005
  • Comments on disk based data protection technologies  – May
    2005
     

Government Computing News

  • Backup to the future – Closing the window on potential data
    losses
    – March 2007

  • Comments on how community banks can avert data-loss disasters – May 2007
HealthCare InfoMatics
  • Comments on storage in the health care industry – January 2005
  • Decrease your data with de-duplication – August 2007
  • Comments on ESCON and FICON – September 2005
  • Comments on Imation removable hard disk drive
    media – October 2006
  • Comments on the value of IP storage
    – June
    2004
  • Comments on EMC and Intel
    partnering on SOHO and SMB NAS solutions – November 2007
  • Comments on EMC announcing VMware IPO – February 2007
  • Comments on Brocade acquiring McData – August 2006
  • Comments on 4Gb Fibre Channel and VMware
    as complementary technologies – June 2006

  • Comments on I/O virtualization – October 2007
  • Comments on Cisco SMB/SME Fibre Channel
    announcements – November 2006
  • Comments on NetApp acquisition of Topio – November 2006
  • Comments on Qlogic and Fibre Channel
    switch and director markets – November 2006
  • Comments on StorVault by NetApp and SMB
    storage needs – July 2006
  • Comments on InfiniBand – January 2006
  • Tip – How
    to determine server to disk ratio – May 2005
  • Tip – Sorting
    Out Disk Drive Options – February 2005
  • Article – The benefits of data
    footprint reduction – August 2007
  • Analyst View – Examining I/O
    performance issues
    – August 2006
  • Article – Protocol options lead to ‘storage-agnostic networks’ – May 2002
  • Article –
    Storage virtualization: An overview – August 2000
  • Article – Fibre Channel
    SANs: An Overview – January 2000
  • Article – Storage
    Management A to Z – February
    2005
  • Article – How to Improve SAP RAID performance – January 1999
  • Article – Introduction to Fibre Channel SANs – June 2001
  • Article – SANs enable Internet-related businesses – February 2000
  • Comments on the SMB storage
    market – October 2004

  • Comments on Dell acquiring iSCSI
    storage vendor EqualLogic – November 2007
  • Comments on VMware based data
    protection and backup solutions – September 2007
  • Comments on Crosswalk closing down – August 2007
  • Comments on Brocade
    acquisition of McData – January 2007
  • Comments on NetApp StorVault and SMB iSCSI and NAS
    storage – July 2006
  • Comments on NetApp disposition of NetCache to Blue Coat systems – July
    2006

  • Comments on self-healing storage
    management layers for IP networks – July 2004

  • Interview – SMBs Calling the Storage Shots These Days – January 2007
Managing Automation
  • Comments on Email archiving and compliance – December 2005

 

NASPA Tech. Support Journal

  • Article – What’s New With
    Storage – March 2005
  • Article -The Art and Science of
    Writing and Publishing a Book – June 2005
  • Book review of “Resilient Storage Networks”

  • Comments  about “Colorado
    Storage Corridor” via Denver Business Journal – June 2006

  • Comments on Dell acquiring iSCSI
    storage vendor EqualLogic for $1.4B – November 2007
  • Comments on 8Gb Fibre Channel (8GFC)
    – August 2007
  • Comments on Intelipath and matrix
    switch virtual patch panel – April 2007
  • Comments on Cisco acquisition of
    NeoPath file virtualization – April 2007
  • Comments on Fibre Channel over
    Ethernet – April 2007
  • Comments on data and storage security
    standards and key management – April 2007
  • Comments on New players entering online
    storage backup market – February 2007
  • Comments on Brocade acquiring McData – August 2006
  • Comments on SAS storage and SAS switches for SMB – April 2006
  • Comments on
    new EMC storage announcements – January 2006
  • Comments on
    SAN switching, scaling and Cisco – January 2006
  • Comments on storage virtualization technologies – May
    2005
  • Comments on storage grid hype – September
    2004
Pillar
Data
Systems Axiom Journal
  • Article – Storage interfaces in the Inaugural Issue (May require registration)
  • Comments on new network storage
    products and technologies – August 2007
  • Comments on NAS and unified
    multi-protocol storage and data footprint reduction – July 2007
  • Comments on optimizing storage
    service delivery and management – April 2007
  • Comments on storage consolidation and
    avoiding performance issues – April 2007
  • Comments on 10Gb Ethernet and IP
    storage – March 2007
  • Comments on disk based backup and
    data protection including VTLs – January 2007
  • Comments
    on I/O performance bottlenecks and I/O virtualization – November 2006
  • Comments
    on optical based backup and virtual optical libraries (VOL) – October 2006
  • Comments on how to plan a storage area network – June 2006
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  • Comments on perpendicular recording for disk drives – January 2006

  • The Many Faces of SAS: Beyond the DAS
    factor – September 2007

  • Comments
    on VTLs, deduplication, disk to disk data protection (3DP) – October 2006
  • Present Key Note speech in Ottawa Canada
    2005
  • Conference session presenter in 2001,
    2002, 2003
  • Comments – Disaster recovery:
    Strategies for rapid recovery – October 2007
  • Comments on rapid data
    restoration – October 2007
  • Comments on disaster recovery and
    why companies need to pay attention – September 2007
  • Comments on storage performance
    testing – March 2006
  • Comments on disaster recovery and
    why companies need to pay attention – September 2007
  • Tips (May require registration)
  • Ask The Expert & Tips (May require registration)
  • VTLs for disaster recovery (DC) and
    business continuance (BC) – February 2006
  • Tip – Offsite data storage, how
    far away is enough – September 2007
  • Tip – What to look for in a vaulting
    vendor – June 2006
  • Tip – Best practices in establishing a
    records retention department – June 2006
  • Comments on I/O virtualization
    including Cisco and Xsigo – October 2007
  • Tip –
    Blade servers and blade centers – April 2007
  • Tip – Disaster
    recovery planning for SMBs – January 2007
  • Tip –
    Determining SMB Storage Options – November 2006
  • Tip – Storage for
    growing SMBs – September 2006
  • Comments on
    recent HP storage for SMB announcements – September 2006
  • Tip –
    Storage options – Clearing the confusion – September 2006
  • Tip – Storage offerings meet SMB needs – August 2006
  • Tip – Measuring storage
    capacity – June 2006
  • Tip – Weighing
    your storage options – June 2006
  • Tip – Storage planning for SMBs:
    Check IT List – June 2006
  • Tip – Determining
    backup options – June 2006
  • Ask the experts SMB storage
    management Q&A – June 2006
  • Webcast – Disaster recovery planning: SMB blueprint for business continuance –
    August 2005
  • Greg present examples, tips, and recommendations on how SMBs can
    proactively protect their data and information from various threats.
    Note: Webcasts & tips may require
    registration and subject to change without notice.

  • Comments
    on Brocades new high-end Data Center Fabric Backbone Director – January 2008
  • Comments
    on data center requirements and budget demands – November 2007
  • Comments
    on server and storage virtualization enablement services – Sep. 2007
  • Q &A – How
    can channel pros provide value with disaster recovery services? – July 2007
  • Q & A – How does continuous data
    protection (CDP) fit in with DR and BC? – July 2007
  • Q & A – How can customers address DR and
    BC on a budget? – July 2007
  • Q & A –
    How often should a customer’s disaster recovery plan be tested and how? – July 2007
  • Q & A –
    Does a DR plan have to incorporate service at the  provider’s hot site?
    – July 2007
  • Q & A –
    What size shops need help with DR and BC? – July 2007
  • Q & A –
    Locking down security access to storage media – May 2007
  • Q & A –
    Audit trails for secure data storage – May 2007
  • Q & A –
    Catalog and database backup best practices – April 2007
  • Q & A –
    Archiving storage systems — VTL or disk to disk – April 2007
  • Q & A –
    Ensuring secure backup for channel professionals – February 2007
  • Q & A –
    Security, DR and CDP for the channel – February 2007
  • Q & A – CDP
    for disaster recovery (DR) – February 2007
  • Q & A –
    Disaster recovery opportunities for the channel – February 2007
  • Q & A – How
    a VAR can get started with data de-duplication January 2007
  • Q & A –
    Technologies for starting with data de-duplication – January 2007
  • Q & A –
    Channel de-duplication opportunities – January 2007
  • Tip –
    Capacity Planning and Management Tools present service opportunities – February 2008
  • Tip – SAN
    Disaster Recovery Options for Channel Professionals – August 2007
  • Tip – Data security services: Physical and
    logical data security strategies – June 2007
  • Tip – Defining data security vs. data
    protection
    – June 2007
  • Tip – Selling business continuity services and data recovery
    services to SMBs
    – April 2007
  • Tip
    – Data in transit and tracking options – March 2007
  • Tip
    – Tape encryption and data security options – February 2007
  • Tip
    – Facilities and habitats for servers and storage – February 2007
  • Tip
    – Disk drives for archiving options – January 2007
  • Tip – Data protection and archiving challenges in face
    of new FRCP rules
    – January 2007
  • Tip – Prepare for
    backup vendor consolidation – November 2006
  • Tip – Key questions to ask when developing managed
    backup services
    – October 2006
  • Tip –
    Choosing backup options for growing SMBs – October 2006
  • Tip – How
    to develop a managed backup service – October 2006

  • Comments
    on NAS consolidation and pitfalls to avoid – January 2008
  • Comments
    on green data storage, power, cooling and environmental topics – December 2007
  • Comments
    on 3PAR and recent storage related IPOs – November 2007
  • Comments
    on pros or cons for using NAS in SMB environments – November 2007
  • Comments
    on integrating SAN and NAS environments – November 2007
  • Comments
    on Intel and EMC SOHO and SMB based NAS storage solutions – November 2007
  • Comments
    on storage, I/O and performance benchmarking caveats – November 2007
  • Comments on SRM and Capacity
    Planning – October 2007
  • Comments on how to backup virtual
    server environments – October 2007
  • Comments on host bus adapter
    upgrades and replacements – October 2007
  • Comments on EMC buying Mozy for
    online data storage backup – October 2007
  • Comments on data classification and
    ediscovery – September 2007
  • Comments on using storage
    virtualization to breathe new life into old arrays – September 2007
  • Comments on HP SMB storage and
    server solutions – September 2007
  • Comments on NetApp suing Sun over
    alleged patent infringements – September 2007
  • Comments on Fibre Channel over
    Ethernet (FCoE) – August 2007
  • Comments on Application aware
    storage – August 2007
  • Comments on IBM and iSCSI – August 2007
  • Comments on integrating SAN and
    NAS – May 2007
  • Comments on NAS taking on important
    roles in the enterprise – February 2007
  • Comments on iSCSI in the mid-market and enterprise
    – January 2007
  • Comments on “Top 10 SAN tips for 2006” – November 2006
  • Comments on disk to disk data protection (3DP) and
    disk based backup – November 2006
  • Comments on IBM and NetApp NAS and virtualization
    enhancements – November 2006
  • Comments on remote backup, archiving, and
    evaluating
    – November 2006
  • Comments on IP Storage – October 2006
  • Comments on backup reporting tools – October 2006
  • Comments on Continuous data protection (CDP) – August 2006
  • Comments on SRM and  tools to help planning
    and provisioning – August 2006
  • Comments on how RAID is changing – August 2006
  • Comments on SAN switches, directors
    & intelligent switch (virtualization) capabilities – July 2006
  • Comments on RAID technologies – June 2006
  • Comments on data classification
    software and analysis tools – May 2006
  • Comments on Server vs. Storage
    System and Software vs. Hardware RAID – March 2006
  • Comments on Backup and Data Protection
    Strategies – April 2006
  • Comments on NAS interoperability acrossLinux, Windows, and Unix servers – March 2006
  • Comments on implementing VTLs and
    what to watch out for – March 2006
  • Comments on Storage Performance and
    Performance Testing – March 2006
  • Comments on Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)
    – February 2006
  • Comments on Data
    Security, Information Privacy and data theft. – January 2006
  • Comments on CAS and Storage software – January 2006
  • Comments on Tiered storage – December
    2005
  • Comments on Clustering – December 2005
  • Comments on SMIS and storage management tools – December 2005
  • Comments on Data classification and categorization – November
    2005
  • Comments on storage management and storage provisioning tools – November
    2005
  • Comments on Wide area file services (WAFS) – October
    2005
  • Comments on what to look for and how to prepare to purchase a storage array – October
    2005
  • Comments on serial disk drives and other storage technology trends – September 2005
  • Video & Podcast – Scaling storage
    with clustering – August 2007
  • FAQ – RAID FAQ Part I – November 2007
  • FAQ – RAID FAQ Part II – November 2007
  • Tip – Lun Basics – January 2008
  • Tip – How to monitor SAN performance
    November 2007
  • Tip – What you should know about
    iSCSI initiators – August 2007
  • Tip – How to increase your storage
    energy efficiency – July 2007
  • Tip – “Learn About RAID”, “RAID its
    Alive”; “How to Choose the right RAID Level” – June 2007
  • Tip / Podcast – File Virtualization
    FAQ June 2007
  • Tip – Customizing your NAS – June 2007
  • Tip / ATE – Understanding file
    archiving – April 2007
  • Tip / ATE – How does file archiving
    differ from file virtualization – April 2007
  • Podcast – File Archiving – April 2007
  • Tip – Storage Virtualization – Where
    and How – April 2007
  • Tip –
    Balancing act – Match your data to the correct disk – February 2007
  • Tip – Block and file access unite with
    multi-protocol storage
    January 2007
  • Tip – Easing I/O bottlenecks with Microsoft
    Scalable Network Pack
    – January 2007
  • Tip –
    Automated data migration – Choosing technology for ILM – November 2006
  • Tip – Capacity Planning – Reclaiming Orphaned Storage – October 2006
  • Tip – Five
    tips for improving your SAN utilization – September 2006
  • Tip – Backup your LAN without performance impact – September 2006
  • Tip
    – Taming NAS and file sprawl – July 2006
  • Tip – Unreadable
    magnetic tapes: How to deal with tape errors
    June 2006
  • Tip – Storage certification sources: What’s out
    there for you –
    June 2006
  • Tip – Leasing vs. buying storage – May 2006
  • Tip – Planning for next generation
    backup – April 2006
  • Tip – Out of capacity – What now? – April 2006
  • Tip – Balancing costs and demands
    for proper storage allocation – March 2006
  • Tip – Three steps to evaluating a VTL – March 2006
  • Tip – Controlling Clusters – February 2006
  • Tip – Virtual Tape Library (VTLs) for DR and BC – February 2006
  • Tip –Compare distance extension
    technologies
    – January 2006
  • Tip -Server expansion and growth without wasted space – January 2006
  • Tip –Better DR and BC planning – January 2006
  • Tip –How to minimize I/O latency – January 2006
  • Tip –What LAN/MAN/WAN technology to use – December 2005
  • Tip -How
    to compare FC and SCSI – November 2005
  • Tip -Do I need a switch? – October 2005
  • Tip -What
    you should know about SATA II – October 2005
  • Tip -Bridging
    the gap: Choosing storage-over-distance network technology – September 2005
  • Tip –Understanding
    snapshots and point-in-time copies
     – September 2005
  • Tip -Tiered
    storage with SATA – September 2005
  • Tip -The
    myths and realities of SATA – July 2005
  • Tip -How
    to select storage management tools – June 2005
  • Tip -Checklist:
    Eight no-nonsense steps to buying storage products – June 2005  
  • Tip -SAN
    road map: How to scale beyond a single fabric – February 2005
  • Tip –How
    to choose the best switch for your SAN or LAN
     – February 2005
  • Tip -How
    to plan for I/O-intensive environments – January 2005
  • Tip –Checklist:
    10 steps to troubleshooting SAN/NAS performance problems
    – December 2004
  • Tip -How
    to keep your SAN from crashing – October 2004
  • Tip -Four
    steps for evaluating storage virtualization products – October 2004
  • SAN FAQ downloadable audio podcast
    – January 2007
  • “Ask The Experts” questions and tips by Greg Schulz.
    On-going
  • Webcast – SAN and NAS integration – May 30, 2000 Note: This was second on-line event
    ever held at SearchStorage!
  • Webcast – 10 steps to foolproof data protection – December
    10, 2004
    Greg discusses backup and recovery options such as
    disk-based backup and disk-to-disk-to-tape. He’ll also cover mirroring and
    replication techniques, archiving and managerial business continuity process and
    procedure.
  • Webcast – Storage Management Survival School Lesson 2 Best Practices: Storage Mgmt. Operations – August 10, 2004
    This lesson gets into the real nuts and bolts of storage management and how to
    accomplish those tasks more efficiently.
  • Webcast – Scaling Storage Networks – November 15, 2005

    This SearchStorage Webcast takes a look at
    reasons for scaling a storage network along with various techniques,
    technologies and examples to scale a storage network on a local and
    wide-area basis.

    Note: On-demand webcasts may require
    registration and subject to change without notice.

  • Tips – RAID usage for Windows environments – November 2006
  • Comments on vendor consolidation and changing tape
    landscape – August 2006
  • Webcast – Windows Storage 101: Part I – What are
    your storage options? – March 30, 2005
    This
    webinar provides an overview of storage-related topics for Windows-based
    environments. Among the topics we will cover include Windows-based storage
    options, data protection and storage management techniques.
  • Webcast – Windows-based
    Storage 101: Part II – Your data protection options
    – May 4, 2005
    This Webcast provides an overview of data protection topics and
    options for Windows-based environments. Among the topics we will cover include
    Windows-based data and storage threats, data protection techniques and options.
    Note: On-demand webcasts may require
    registration and subject to change without notice.
  • The Semantics
    of storage virtualization – November 2006
  • Comments on alternative storage solutions for SMB
    environments – January 2007
  • Comments on storage for SMB environments
    – June 2006
  • SNIA Tutorial development and presenter
  • Contributor to certification and SNIA
    Qualified Sales Professional Program
  • SNIA FarSighted contributor
  • “Resilient Storage Networks” – (Elsevier) SNIA endorsed reading

 

  • Article – Meet the New Boss, Same as
    the Old Boss Preview of 2007 – February 2007
  • Article – Technology trends and topics
    for fall 2006 – October 2006
  • Article – Considerations for data
    discovery, classification and indexing tools- August 2006
  • Article – Storage Vocabulary
    De-Mystification and Contextuality April 2006
  • Article – What disk drive to use for ILM
    and tiered storage – March 2006
  • Article – Food
    for Thought: Storage and Storage Networking Education – October 2005
SNS
Europe

State
Tech.

Magazine

  • Comments on data protection – Fall 2005
  • See Events page for additional presentations form Storage Decisions
  • Presentation – “Storage on Steroids – Alleviating storage and network
    bottlenecks – Fall 2006
  • Presentation – “Storage on Steroids” – Spring 2006

  • Dallas TX – Oct 2007 – Presented
    BeyondGreen wash – Power, Cooling and Green Storage
  • San Diego California – April 2007 –
    Presented Storage Industry Update
  • Orlando Florida – October 2006 –
    Presented Storage Industry and Technology Primer
  • San Diego California – April 2006 –
    Presented Storage Industry and Technology Primer
  • Orlando Florida – October 2005 – Presented Storage Industry Primer
  • Orlando Florida – October 2005 – Presented Metro & Wide Area
    Storage Networks Tutorial
  • ScottsdaleArizona – April 2005 – Presented Storage Industry Primer
  • Scottsdale Arizona – April 2005 – Presented Metro & Wide Area Storage
    Networks Tutorial
  • Orlando,
    FL October 2004 – Presented SNIA Metropo & Wide Area Storage Networking
    Tutorial
  • Orlando,
    FL October 2004 – Presented Storage Industry Primer
  • Frankfurt
    Germany – September 2004 – Presented SNIA Fibre Channel and Metro Networks
  • Frankfurt
    Germany – September 2004 – Presented Storage Technology Architecture and Update
  • Frankfurt
    Germany – September 2004 – Presented Resilient Storage Networks
  • Scottsdale Arizona – April 2004 – Presented Storage Industry Primer
  • ScottsdaleArizona – April 2004 – Presented Metro and Wide Area Storage
    Networks Tutorial
  • Orlando,
    FL – October 2003 – Presented SNIA Metro & Wide Area Storage Networks
    Tutorial
  • Cannes
    France – June 2003 – Presented SNIA Metro & Wide Area Storage Networks
    Tutorial
  • Cannes
    France – June 2003 – Presented (Main Stage) – Storage
    Networking With Boundaries
  • Sao
    Paulo Brazil – April 2003 – Presented Storage Networking Without Boundaries
  • Scottsdale Arizona – Apr 2003 – Presented Metro & Wide Area Storage
    Networks Tutorial
  • Orlando,
    FL – Oct 2002 – Presented SNIA Metropolitan & Wide Area Storage Networks
    Tutorial
  • Orlando,
    FL – Oct 2001 – Presented SNIA Fibre Channel Tutorial

    

    

  • Moderated
    panel discussion on remote office & distributed data protection –
    September 2006
  • Presentation – Tiering up your storage – September 2006
Storage Inc.
  • Article – Solving Storage Management Challenges With SANs
    – Q1 1999
Storage
(Dutch)   
  • Interview and Industry Perspectives
   
  • Article – Building High-Availability SANs – S & E
    – May 2003
Storage Management Solutions (SMS) 
  • Article -The
    Need for Speed (Beware of Bumps in the Road!) – 2003 Vol. 8 Issue 2
  • Article – MTI Puts Codie.Net On The Right Track
    – March/April 2000

Storage

Magazine

  • Comments on archiving – August 2007
  • Comments on small office SANs – August 2006
  • Comments on data security and
    encryption – June 2006
  • Comments on Storage Trends for 2006 – December 2005
  • Comments on data migration – September 2005
  • Article – Automate data recovery – August 2006
  • Article –
    Bridging the gap –
    August
    2005
  • Article – Scaling SANs – February 2005

Storage

World

Conference

  • San
    Jose CA, August 2002 – Presentation
  • Anaheim CA, May 2003 – Storage
    Networking Performance & Capacity Planning (For CMG)
  • Anaheim
    CA, May 2003 –  Metropolitan
    and Wide Area Storage Networks (SNIA Tutorial)
  • Long
    Beach CA, June 2004 – Resilient
    Storage Networks for SMB and Enterprise Environments
  • Long Beach CA, June 2006 – Moderate
    Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI connectivity panel
  • Boston MA, September 2006 – Moderate disk to disk data protection (3DP) panel
  • Boston MA, September 2006 – Present tutorial
    on extended distance storage connectivity

St. Paul

  • Comments on Compellent post IPO, pre
    first earnings call announcement – November 2007
  • Comments on Compellent and
    competitive data storage and SAN landscape – October 2007
  • Comments on Imation entrance as a backup managed service provider (MSP)
    June 2007
SunServer Magazine
  • Article – Linux offers alternative for enterprise storage
    – August 1999
  • Article – When selecting a storage vendor, pay attention to more thancost / MB – November 2000
  • Comments on high performance computing and
    storage trends – July 2006
Sys. Admin Journal
  • Article – New Storage Interfaces – April 1997
  • Article Integrating Fibre Channel into a SCSI world – February 1998
  • Various
    comments and quotations
  • Article – NAS helps tame rampant file
    proliferation – June
    2006

             Note:
May require registration

  • Comments on storage services and distributed backup for SMB environments
    – April 2007

  • Greg Schulz Launches the StorageIO Group – March 2006

Total Storage Magazine
  • Article – Virtualization
    Defined – October
    2005
  • Article – Enter
    WAFS – August
    2005
  • Article – Performance
    and Technology Considerations for Business Continuance – June 2005
The
Resilient Enterprise
Symantec Press
  • Greg Schulz wrote the SAN and MAN/WAN
    networking chapters.
  • Co-presented at Veritas Visions “The
    Resilient Enterprise”
  • Presented at Veritas internal seminar
    series
Storage Virtualization By
Tom Clark
  • Greg Schulz provides commentary on storage
    virtualization technologies and techniques from an storage industry
    analyst perspective.
Virtual
Storage
Redefined Symantec
  • Greg Schulz contributed the SAN and MAN/WAN
    material for this project.
  • Comments on WAFS and Brocade, Cisco,
    McData, Riverbed and Tacit – March 2006

VAX Professional

  • Getting Started with VAX Capacity Planning
    – December 1990

 

  • zStorage Trends: A Comprehensive Market Review and Analysis – December 2007
  • Storage: Whats New or DejaVu? – May 2007
  • zStorage Update and Trends – February/March 2006
  • Distributed
    Data Protection: New Approaches to an Old Challenge – April/May
    2005
  • Something Old Meets Something
    Blue – June/July 2004
  • Buying Tips For zStorage – June/July 2004
  • zSwitch From Directors
    To Intelligence Switches – February/March 2004
  • zHoliday Storage Spirit
    – December/January 2003
  • Has Open Storage for zSeries Finally Arrived
    – October/November 2003
  • Virtual Storage & Storage Networking – June/July 2003
  • Opening Up zStorage – February/March 2003

  • Links to various articles, quotes, tips and other references by Greg
    Schulz