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Cloud Storage to the Rescue?
The sad state of storage management might create an opportunity for cloud storage to serve as a secondary or, more likely, tertiary tier of storage, says James Damoulakis.

Q&A: Christopher Crowhurst discusses Thomson Reuters' massive virtualization initiative
Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin provisioning and using the capital expenditure saving from that to pay for its server virtualization project, which overall will reduce its power consumption as well.

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Without an overall game plan for storage security, there is a strong likelihood that efforts will be duplicated and other risks overlooked, says columnist James Damoulakis, chief technology officer at GlassHouse Technologies.

Opinion: De-duplication guarantees -- are they just gimmicks?
De-duplication guarantees are gimmicks, and letting a vendor set all of the ground rules primarily benefits the vendor and ultimately still leaves the user holding the bag, writes Jerome Wendt.

Opinion: Is performance back on top?
Through the deployment of multiple tiers of storage within a frame, and the influence of factors such as aggregation and allocation of bandwidth, performance has once again emerged as a priority ahead of availability and recovery.

50%-off storage
Going far beyond the basic integration and certification activities that one would expect for support of a popular application, storage vendors are integrating management functionality and working to develop other ways to distinguish and differentiate their VMware support, and with that have come some bold claims.

Storage Virtualization
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Your Own Virtualization Flight Test
Industry watchers offer five key questions to ask yourself and your prospective vendors before choosing a storage virtualization technology.

Opinion: The heartburn and happiness of virtualization
IT administrators are apparently willing to deal with the new management issues that virtualization creates, such as I/O performance bottlenecks and the inability to trace performance problems back to the source application. All this for cost savings and efficiency.

Opinion: The elusiveness of data classification
For those who simply want to facilitate a more effective tiered storage infrastructure, the most practical approach is to align based on applications rather than data. As technologies such as advanced file system and metadata management evolve, data classification options will increase.

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