Arun Taneja will contribute a monthly blog, as well as a
number of webcasts, to searchStorage.com. Taneja is also featured
as one of our "Ask the Experts" writers. Here's his most recent
blog entry:
Blogs
NEW!
Don't overlook Amanda for your storage data
protection needs (31 July 2006)
Chances are, you have never heard of Amanda… in the sense of open
source that is. And if you have not heard of Amanda, then chances
are you have not heard of Zmanda either. I will explain both, and I
will give you my view of why it is important for you to at least be
aware of these products and their relation to data protection.
Whether you should invest in either depends on many factors that
will become clear shortly. More on
storage protection needs >>
Remote offices: Keep them working well and
keep them safe (19 June 2006)
Pretty much since the birth of computers, remote offices have been
a pain in the butt for IT. Before the client/server style of
computing became a standard, the mainframes did all the crunching
at the datacentre and presented the results on a terminal. If that
terminal happened to be in the HQ, one got a response in a
reasonable amount of time. If one happened to be far away, then you
got what you got. More on
remote offices >>
How do you keep 20 pounds of data in a
one-pound storage box? (24 April 2006)
Incoming data rates -- already creating havoc inside IT shops and
making mockery out of their budgets -- are only getting worse. Most
IT folks I talk to are seeing data almost double every year, with
unstructured and semi-structured data in the lead. Granted, the
cost per megabyte of primary storage has been falling
precipitously, thanks in part to the existence of SATA drives, and
this is certainly holding the cost increases in check. But the
costs of storage management, which are proportional to the amount
of data being managed, are still out of control. More on
data in a storage box >>
It's time for change: Show us the
data! (13 March 2006)
Vendors use the SPEC benchmark for demonstrating the performance of
their NAS boxes, but play around with the numbers in order to make
them look better. Arun Taneja suggests that these vendors instead
associate a list price for this configuration, allowing the users
to compute a price/performance ratio.
Get ready for universal grid storage
(10 Feb 2006).
Storage analyst Arun Taneja discusses the storage industry's move
towards grid storage, and the benefits it can deliver to IT.
Storage in 2006: Small steps and big leaps
(hopefully) (13 Jan 2006)
Can 2006 bring bigger and better things for storage than 2005?
Storage analyst Arun Taneja shares his thoughts on what's to happen
in the world of storage, storage vendors and their products this
year.
Knowing the myths of iSCSI (29 Nov
2005)
The myth of iSCSI is that it is inherently easy to use, simply
because it is based on TCP/IP. The reality, however, is that all
the iSCSI offerings from legacy vendors are easy to use (or not) as
their FC counterparts.
Merger mania: How you can help the small
storage companies (12 Oct 2005)
After a lull of almost four years, merger mania is returning to the
storage industry and the valuations are getting heady.
Not all SATA is alike (09 Sep
2005)
People want to believe that all SATA is created equal, but this is
a potentially risky misconception. Storage expert Arun Taneja
outlines the minimum level of functionality you should look for in
SATA-based systems.
Wake up, smell the disk, and discover CO
technologies (28 Jun 2005)
While the world of IT has accepted the use of tape, it's time that
they introduce themselves to the world of capacity optimisation
(CO).
Use compliance as a technology driver
(12 May 2005)
Compliance regulations are a great way to convince your higher-ups
to invest in new technology. Finally, something to thank Enron
for.
Also by Arun Taneja
Articles and webcasts
The scoop on FibreSpy: Emulex's FibreSpy
technology allows storage companies to plug in more drives or
connect other devices to the array, pushing the growth of
modular storage.
Next Generation Backup and Recovery: Acting on
the Future - Vendor Webcast: Disk-based backup promises much
faster restores & backups. The Taneja Group, an analyst
firm, confirms this shift in a new survey. Hear Arun Taneja
discuss how data protection strategies will evolve and how IT
leaders are responding.
Analyse that: Microsoft: Curious about what
Microsoft has up its storage sleeve? Founder and consulting
analyst Arun Taneja of the Taneja Group dissects Microsoft and
tells us why other storage vendors should pay careful attention
to what the folks in Redmond are up to.
About Arun Taneja:
Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group in
Hopkinton, Mass., writes columns and answers questions about data
management and related topics.
Other searchStorage.com Blogsters
Interested in reading what our other blogsters have to say? These
links will direct you the blog pages of our other
contributors.
Tony Asaro
Steve Duplessie
Marc Staimer
Jerome M. Wendt
Jon William Toigo
Stephen Foskett
W. Curtis Preston