SANs, NAS, iSCSI, virtualization, in-band, out-of-band, the terminology seems
never ending when it comes to storage and what's worse, no-one will tell you
what's best.
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. The advent of SANs and the introduction
of new technology has increased the number of options available, but there
are no clear guidelines as to which one to use and when. There isn't a silver
bullet or golden configuration that is good for everyone, the solution has to
be tailored to the specific environment.
But all is not lost, there has been a lot written about storage and storage
architectures, and if all else fails look at what you are trying to achieve
and how much money you have to spend.
While it is widely thought that SANs are for big enterprises and NAS for
smaller ones, this is not true. Most enterprises, whether big or small, now
have NAS servers and m... (more)
Just a quick reminder that it's the Cloud Computing Expo next week in Prague
and my session is on The Darker Sides of Cloud Computing: Security and
Availability. Cloud computing is definitely the buzzword for 2009 and so it
will be great to hear other peoples' opinions along with some ...
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Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report came out this week and it
showed that Symantec issued 1,656,227 new malicious code signatures in 2008.
This is more than all the previous years put together! This represents a
tipping point, where it is now easier to look at the good stuff rather than
...
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Even wireless networks depend on a wire of some kind, it might not be
attached to your handset or computer, but somewhere along the communication
chain there is a wire... and if that wire is severed... well... then there
will be an outage. In a storyfrom California earlier this week, ...
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Symantec Security Response has identified yet another two web browser
attacks, one on Microsoft Internet Explorer and the other on Firefox. Two
weeks ago we reported the Microsoft Video Streaming Active X control
vulnerability, which can be exploited mostly through the older but still
widely used versions of Internet Explorer ...
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Dr. Guy Bunker, an Independent Expert at Bunker and Associates, is co-author with Gareth Fraser-King of "Data Leaks For Dummies" (John Wiley & Sons, February 2009). He holds a PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from King’s College London, several patents, and is a Chartered Engineer with the IET.
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