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STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE 12/21/01 Today's focus: All I want for Christmas Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * An IT director's wish list * Links related to storage * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ THE STORAGE OPTIONS Ever since September 11th, spending on storage has increased. How are you ensuring that you're choosing the right network storage options? Network World's Deni Connor evaluates the networked storage options. Before you start spending next year's budget check out what Connor has to say at: http://nww1.com/go/ad219.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: All I want for Christmas By Mike Karp Dear Editor, I am eight years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in the storage newsletter, it's so." He is an IT director. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? If there is, please give him this wish list from Papa. Dear Santa, I would really like the following for Christmas. If that is not possible, I would be glad to accept them for Chanukah or Kwanzaa or Arbor Day or Midsummer Night's Eve. 1) A self-configuring storage-area network, please, with switches from two different vendors and a whole lot of storage from Compaq and IBM and a couple of others that I could choose when the need arises. 2) Network-attached storage boxes that scale well into the multiterabyte range. 3) Storage management software that knows something about the applications that are running in my shop. 4) An objective method of comparing vendor claims about performance and install time. Maybe a suite of industry-wide benchmarks, and an independent testing lab that would certify key points. 5) Industry standards written so clearly that even the hardware vendors can understand them. 6) Backups that are so reliable I can count on being able to restore 100% of the data I send to tape. 7) The foresight to do disaster planning BEFORE the next disaster, and if a disaster does take place, the ability to recover from it by the next business day. 8) The near-magical ability to service my remote sites easily. 9) A definition of virtualization that more than two industry vendors can agree on, and that I can understand. 10) Disks from a redundant array of independent disks vendor that don't cost five times more than the street price my kid can buy them for. 11) Asset management software that automatically discovers and configures my environment. 12) No more visits by vendors that promise storage management, but really only offer the capability to monitor. 13) The ability to sleep at night (get me any three of the above, and I'm pretty sure this will result). 14) A teddy bear for comfort, just in case you can't provide any of the others items I have listed. My friend Roberto has his own list, but mine is much more reasonable. If you will get me the things I ask for, I will be really good for the next four quarters, and I promise to live up to all my service-level agreements and justify all my purchases with really great ROI analysis so my CFO can understand what I am doing. Thanks, Santa P.S. Please don't smoke your pipe in the computer room. We are all sorry about that business with the Halogen last year. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Mike Karp: Mike Karp is senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates (http://www.enterprisemanagement.com) in Boulder, Colo., an analyst and market research firm focusing exclusively on enterprise management. He works out of Portsmouth, N.H., and Westboro, Mass., and can be reached via e-mail at mailto:mkarp@enterprisemanagement.com _______________________________________________________________ Promote your services and generate qualified leads! 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