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The SN Portal is a resource for IT professionals interested in building resilient, cost effective and flexible enterprise storage infrastructure to support mission and business critical applications. Key technology themes in this portal include storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), iSCSI, SAS, storage consolidation and related innovations. We welcome you to join Wikibon, browse the portal and participate. You can write a Wikitip, Ask a Question or attend a Peer Incite Research Meeting.
The Wikibon Storage Network Portal contains storage network industry research, articles, expert opinion, case studies, and storage network company profiles.
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Storage administrators should carefully study the applicability of thin provisioning offerings from vendors such as EMC and Hitachi. Understand how the technology applies to business storage needs and get the results in front of their CIO, who will appreciate finally having a great storage financials story to tell to CFOs while setting up overall service improvements to application owners.
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CS2 is a financial organization and significant merger and acquisition activity has led to a mixture of storage and storage management tools behind nine SANs, with poor storage utilization. The charge back system does not reflect all the storage costs and has led to Symmetrix being used extensively for tier 2 storage.
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Traditional methods of managing storage use either a “one size fits all” strategy, or a "Mix, Match and Manage" approach introducing many different storage pools. The challenge of the first technique is high equipment cost, whereas the latter often brings higher labor costs to manage the multiple storage pools all with different software, services and procedures.
Creating storage tiers with more granularity with a single management approach begins to address the problems that one size does not fit all and storage pools are hard to manage.
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Enterprises are showing a strong interest on wireless voice technology over the standard WiFi networks for its attractive features such as lower phone bills, centralized management, or fast deployments. However these wireless voice networks are susceptible to usual attacks like viruses, spam, phishing, hacking, stolen data, denial of service (DoS), voice injections, man in the middle attacks, call hijacking, eavesdropping etc. The security of these networks become a major concern for enterprises because IT managers have no or very little knowledge how to protect voice networks.
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Wireless email is an important business tool for today's enterprises and an entrepreneurial solution to maximize the employees’ business potential and gain a competitive edge. Since businesses now send as much as 60% of their business-critical data via email, accessing emails wirelessly means business success for many organizations by providing rapid customer communication, faster decision-making and collaboration from distant places.
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