Contributed Editorial

  1. Guest Column: Storage Management Is Becoming The Make Or Break Piece In A Successful Server Virtualization Strategy 4/14/2010
    Last week I blogged about the issues that were top of mind with users who were in attendance at the quarterly Omaha VMware Users Group (VMUG) meeting. Those challenges specifically included data protection, I/O bottlenecks and iSCSI SANs but notice that their issues can largely be traced back to an ineffective storage management strategy as the root of their issues. By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  2. Software And SSDs Are The Lethal Combination That May Turn Out To Be The Real FC HDD Killers 4/14/2010
    A year ago at least two analysts forecast that 2010 would see the accelerated adoption of solid state drives (SSDs) with an accompanying drop-off in the purchase of high end FC hard disk drives (HDDs). By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  3. Guest Column: Software And SSDs Are The Lethal Combination That May Turn Out To Be The Real FC HDD Killers 4/14/2010
    A year ago at least two analysts forecast that 2010 would see the accelerated adoption of solid state drives (SSDs) with an accompanying drop-off in the purchase of high end FC hard disk drives (HDDs). By Jerome M Wendt, Lead Analyst and President, DCIG Inc.
  4. Copy Machines: The Unlikely Threat To Your Health IT Network 4/1/2010
    Last month we talked about how we are similar and this month I’m going to highlight one of those similarities: printer/copiers. Or as they are referred to by the vendors and leasing companies: multifunction devices. By Mark Kadrich, president and CEO, The Security Consortium
  5. Guest Column: Copy Machines: The Unlikely Threat To Your Health IT Network 4/1/2010
    Last month we talked about how we are similar and this month I’m going to highlight one of those similarities: printer/copiers. Or as they are referred to by the vendors and leasing companies: multifunction devices. By Mark Kadrich, president and CEO, The Security Consortium
  6. Guest Column: Selling Storage Software In A Troubled Economy 3/24/2010
    While budgets are shrinking and many organizations are faced with difficult cutbacks, there is one element of business world continues to grow exponentially - data. Digital data, the lifeblood of organizations’ knowledge base and source of revenue generation, doesn’t slow down because IT budgets are trimmed or a company is faced with staff cutbacks. By Ken Horner, SVP, corporate development and strategy, BakBone
  7. How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage 2/22/2010
    In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O.
  8. Guest Column: How SSDs Can Be Leveraged To Deliver Inline Deduplication For Primary Storage 2/22/2010
    In late January 2010 someone posted a comment in response to a blog that I wrote in the October 2009 time frame. This individual was questioning the value that an inline deduplication solution like the Exar Hifn BitWackr DR1605 provides since most of the performance bottleneck associated with deduplication is primarily in the disk I/O.
  9. 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
  10. Email--Not Just Communication But A Legal Document Of Record 1/21/2010
    The Internet has become so ingrained in everyday business that I'd venture to say not many of us even think about communicating or conducting everyday business with hardcopy anymore. Tracking documents through the standard U.S. postal service mailing options (registered or return receipt) has given way to a variety of sending and receiving options for email. By James Koopmann, DCIG Inc.