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Enterprise data storage strategies

• Storage performance testing -- Strengths and weakneses

  Storage performance testing (SPT) may be called for when there is a pressing question that a storage administrator needs to answer. Continue Reading

• Storage performance testing -- Introduction

  Every storage administrator is concerned with system performance. Knowing how a system will run in the data center -- and predicting its limitations in your particular environment -- is absolutely essential for storage managers. Continue Reading

• Storage performance testing -- The vendors

  Storage performance testing can be performed in-house by establishing a test setup designed to simulate the workload and traffic patterns expected by a system under test. Continue Reading

• Backup guidelines: Keeping off-site storage 'in-house'

  You may have considered handling your long-term tape media storage internally for security or cost-efficiency reasons. This tip provides tape handling and storage information that can save you some future pains and unpleasant surprises. Continue Reading

• Consider technology lifecycle before archiving

  Getting vendors to agree to a standard for minimum technology lifecycle would be very challenging. Continue Reading

• Lessons from Katrina: Part 5, Making redundancy redundant

  In the last of our five-part series on rebuilding your data center after a disaster, Carrie Higbie has tips on how to make your redundant site redundant—including checklists for hardware, software, circuits, cabling infrastructure and data.Continue Reading

• Lessons from Katrina: Part 4, Resuming operations with end users

  In part four of our series on rebuilding your data center after a disaster, Carrie Higbie has guidelines on how to get your users back into the network.Continue Reading

• Lessons from Katrina: Part 3, Replacing active components

  In part three of our series on rebuilding your IT infrastructure after a disaster, Carrie Higbie focuses on replacing the active components on a network.Continue Reading

• Lessons from Katrina: Part 2, Operating from a remote site

  In part two of our series on rebuilding after a disaster,Carrie Higbie discusses remote offsite services and how to bring business operations back on line at an alternative site.Continue Reading

• Lessons from Katrina: Part 1, Rebuilding a critical infrastructure

  Rebuilt your data center after a disaster: Networking expert and hurricane veteran, Carrie Higbie shares tactics on how to rebuild your critical data center infrastructure after a disaster. This is the first, in a three-part series.Continue Reading

• Rsync and Amanda: Keeping your data safe with open source backup

  Rsync and Amanda are two straightforward open source products that can simplify your backup procedure.Continue Reading

• Distance between home and recovery

  A user recently asked what our expert thought about having a recovery site 3-4 hours away. See what expert Robert McFarlane said.Continue Reading

• Data center disaster recovery plan basics

  Expert Bob McFarlane explains data center disaster recovery plan basics.Continue Reading

• Setting the record straight on recertified media

  Hesitant about using "used" media? This expert insists that not everything you hear about used media is true.Continue Reading

• To encrypt or not to encrypt? That is the question

  A manager searches for answers to his encrypting quandary.Continue Reading