Welcome to Wikibon's Storage Networks (SN) Portal.
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.
Check out these Peer Incite Podcasts related to storage networking:
1. Six noted industry experts rap about EMC's recent analysts meeting. (23:18)
2. Grant, a Sr. Storage Admin at a large bank discusses how heterogeneous storage virtualization can help reduce the budget for 2009. (20 Mins)
3. Wikibon's summary of IBM's 'stealthy' XIV announcement. (9:07)
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WikitipUnderstand flash and apply where appropriateEMC's announcement incorporating flash drive technology represents the possible resurgence of solid state disks (SSD) in high end disk systems and will likely have ripple effects throughout the industry. Users should understand the benefits of the technology and apply it where appropriate. Comparisons with conventional disks are simple but not meaningful as value for performance (not value for capacity) is the key to understanding the benefits of SSD. |
Featured Case Study
Financial Firm Implements Tiered StorageCS2 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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Implementing Tiered StorageTraditional 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. | |||
