Contributed Editorial

  1. Guest Column: Staying Afloat In The Sea Of Data: Managing Your Information Risk 1/24/2011
    Corporations are drowning in data. Twenty-five years ago, individual computer storage was measured in thousands of bytes; 15 years ago, in millions; 5 years ago, in billions; today, in trillions. By Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind
  2. 10 Guidelines For Enterprise Systems Optimization 6/21/2010
    By Manny Salinas, CMO, Diskeeper Corp
    Increasingly sophisticated software and hardware is being used in modern storage environments — from disk-level technologies to massively scalable network storage facilities.
  3. Are We Just Doing The 'Information' Time Warp? 1/27/2010
    For those that have seen "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", you'll know what I mean when I say "time warp". Predicting trends, however, in information management is hardly just a "jump to the left" or "a step to the right". By Simon Taylor, Sr. Director of Information Access Management, CommVault
  4. Don't Get Caught In The Data Rip Tide When Litigation Comes 10/28/2009
    Well, it is great to join my colleagues David West and Dipesh Patel in the ranks of CommVault bloggers. I've been ruminating over this inaugural post for the past two months while I've been presenting at our nationwide Innovate8 information and data management road show.
  5. ILM: What's Old Is New Again 10/21/2009
    I'm going out on a limb here to say it's time to bring back ILM (Information Lifecycle Management). After all, the idea of managing data throughout its lifecycle continues to make a great deal of sense, especially now that companies everywhere are going through massive IT transformations driven by recently tight economy and the increasing need to gain better control of escalating data. By David West, Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, CommVault
  6. Will The Cloud Strangle IT Vendor Margins? 9/14/2009
    As Cloud Computing matures over the next decade, service providers will take an increasing share of the IT market. Non-strategic functions and large chunks of IT will be etherized. By David Floyer
  7. Another Industry First 9/14/2009
    Recently we announced support for 2 TB disks in our Axiom array. Thanks to technologists in the hard disk industry, we have witnessed an amazing progression of bit density improvement for the last 54 years. By Mike Workman
  8. How Much Are You Really Saving With Traditional Deduplication Appliances? 7/1/2009
    People often get obsessed with dedupe ratios and dedupe technologies, and have a hard time seeing the "big picture" around how much they're really going to save. Let's compare the savings from the traditional target-based dedupe vendors (like Data Domain, among many others) against standard commodity disk-based storage. I purposely left CommVault out of this and put myself in the shoes of an IT shop evaluating deduplication as a whole versus the "next best alternative" which is simply to use generic off-the-shelf storage. It also helps minimize any accusations that I'm unfairly manipulating the CommVault pricing just to make us look good.
  9. How Much Are You Really Saving With Traditional Deduplication Appliances? 7/1/2009
    People often get obsessed with dedupe ratios and dedupe technologies, and have a hard time seeing the "big picture" around how much they're really going to save. By Dipesh Patel
  10. Reliability, Availability And Serviceability 6/22/2009
    At a fundraising event a few months back at my son’s high school, I spotted a ride in a restored WWII B-17 bomber in the silent auction. Being a nut for planes, especially military stuff, I had to bid on this. As luck and my wallet would have it, I won.