Storage Nation

SNW Spring | April 12-15, 2010 | Rosen Shingle Creek | Orlando, FL Qualified IT end-user members of Storage Monkey may attend SNW Spring for free!  To apply for this special registration offer (a $1690 value), you must have IT responsibilities in an end-user organization and be a member of the Storage Monkey community ( http://www.storagemonkeys.com/ ).  Register now at:  http://www.snwusa.com/monkey  SNW is the world’s largest event on stoRead More…

Many of you guys out there have gathered a lot of digital information. This might be your private photo collections, home videos, scanned documents and your home administration. All sorts of data that sits somewhere on your computer(s) or NAS devices

I was recently asked to look into Cloud Storage options for our organization and if it might fit in the future for some archives etc.   I checked out what was being offered by all the big names, AmazonS3, Google, I was eventualy led to  ParaScale and Zetta as what seemed to offer the best capabilites to an enterprise user.   The “storage” costs were as hyped, very cheap.  They run $0.25/GB and lower.  Compared to several dollars per Gig we pay Read More…

I just came across (yet another) good article by Kevin Beaver called Tests for securing the internal windows network .

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The question is very simple: are you going to be dragged by the business people in your organization to introduce SaaS solutions into your IT management environment, or are you going to lead your organization to it?

I’m a Linux technician by heart but I have now worked as a storage administrator for a couple of years. This blog is where I will post some snapshots of what I do at work. Most likely I won’t post often. And since I feel I’m a rookie in this profession, I won’t post any smart conclusions or ideas or tips.

Today I will be connecting our newly bought EMC CLARiiON CX4-480, fully equipped with 1TB SATA disks. We installed the other one this week on our secondary site. They will host our primary online media for our media management and production system and replica of the same data on our secondary site

Who better than a bunch of storage monkeys to determine which vendors lead the market in Data DeDuplication, iSCSI storage and Tape Libraries?  And what is better than a free cup of coffee to entice you to share your wisdom?   This month, InfoStor Magazine will feature survey results from storage professionals who participate in the latest IT Brand Leader survey from IRead More..

One of the things I’ve learned, having been in more traditional “Enterprise” environments and “Internet” companies is that the latter have much larger scale issues, with respect to storage, by an order of magnitude or two, than the former.   Fortunately, there’s also a difference in the nature of the data, such that the most voluminous (and, arguably, most valuable) data, web access logs, are highly compressible (5-10x) with the right algorithm. Compression is important atRead More…