Storage

The storage of very large volumes of email represents both an asset and a liability. There are powerful reasons for accessing stored email messages. This can include compliance with laws and regulations that require long retention periods and supervision of email.

As companies are diving deeper into virtualized storage projects, IT managers are getting a better understanding of the staff skills they need to make those projects succeed. The exact talents required depend on the type of storage implementation, but most employers say they're in the market for two kinds of IT worker: technicians with vendor-specific SAN or NAS knowledge, and systems administrators and IT architects who understand the complexities and interdependencies among applications, operating systems and I/O, all of which affect storage requirements.

and green initiatives, according to IDC's top 10 storage predictions for 2008.

IBM was the first company in the world to present a magnetic disk for storing data. That was in 1956, and the capacity of the RAMAC 350 was about 5 Mbytes. That was enough to store all William Shakespeare's works.

storage administrators' national average salary tops $80,000, while senior administrators average more than $95,000

Nearly half of the IT managers in 1,700 companies across Europe do not receive guidelines on what e-mail should be saved even as awareness of the need for careful record-keeping has increased in recent years, a new study shows.

Beta users of Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 R2 operating system offer positive reviews on its storage resource management tools but says that it lacks the robust reporting capabilities necessary for data replication.