Storage administrators can never have enough creative troubleshooting ideas. Here are tips for every day storage dilemmas and advice for more challenging, strategic issues.

Storage Tip: Access storage arrays remotely, securely 12/03/2007)

Your business can benefit from remote management, but take the necessary actions to ensure security.
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Storage Tip:Mitigate pain of storage growth with active archiving, data deletion, and data de-duplication 11/28/2007)

Estimates of annual storage growth are 60% and annual budget growth around 4-5%. While your storage growth may not be that high, the growth rate of storage is still likely to exceed the annual overall decline in storage prices. Can you afford it? This problem isn't new, nor is it only about how to squeeze out enough dollars to pay the bill. It's also a question of management. Throw in power and cooling requirements, and will you be able to handle the extra environmental demands?
Here's what you need to know.

Storage Tip: The rise of thin provisioning 11/21/2007)

Thin provisioning gets you out of the guessing game as to how much storage a server or application will demand, but it's not a panacea.
Here's what you need to know..

Storage Tip: Employ storage technologies in the right order to maximize benefit 11/13/2007)

Sooner or later you'll need to buy into technologies that manipulate the layout of bits on storage media, and the order in which you deploy these technologies is important. Repeat after me: Data de-duplication. Compression. Encryption. Here's what you need to know.
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Storage Tip: High availability and disaster recovery are not the same thing 11/07/2007)

IT organizations may confuse the terms "high availability" and "disaster recovery." You need both, but if you think that the two are synonymous you may do one or the other and think that you have done the other. And that could be a problem as the two, while interrelated, are not the same.
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Storage Tip: Eliminate unnecessary tapes 10/30/2007)

Long-established procedures for doing backups often result in having to maintain a large number of physical tapes. Nowadays, backup tapes serve not only to restore application data (their traditional purpose), but also serve as a target for e-discovery purposes (as part of the emerging trend toward litigation support). Eliminating tapes where possible not only saves costs and reduces tape administration complexity, but also makes the e-discovery process easier. But eliminating tapes may not be easy. Here's what you need to know.
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Storage Tip: SNIA turns 10, continues to offer resources for ongoing learning 10/24/2007)

Storage Networking Industry Association just turned 10, and if you haven't been to its site in awhile, you may be suprised at the wealth of resources available.
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Storage Tip: Preserving information in perpetuity 10/18/2007)

Previous storage tips have discussed the need to preserve data for the long-term -- a minimum of 10 to 15 years, but it's actually likely to be 50 to 100 years or more. A general solution does not yet exist, but there is a way to preserve carefully-selected and

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