Storage & Clustering Community Blog

Imagine a storage strategy that could make storing data more flexible and efficient while reducing storage costs. With an increasing amount of data to manage, accommodating growth and controlling costs becomes virtually impossible without the knowledge of a trusted partner and a powerful set of tools. Randy Cochran, vice president of NAM channel sales provides four innovative technology practices that will drive immediate return on existing investments or ROY (return on yesterday):

1. Identifying unused capacity to improve storage utilization, decrease power and cooling costs, and reduce floor space and maintenance.

2. Using thin provisioning to reduce storage set aside for applications by allocating storage as needed and discovering what data the server and applications are actually using.

3. Avoiding redundant data with data deduplication, a technology that divides individual chunks of data into smaller segments that can be placed in available disk space....

As a quick introduction, I am a product manager within the Symantec Information Management Group - specifically responsible for the File System Archiving component of Enterprise Vault.

We are always looking for input from our customers as to what they would like to see us developing next. One area that we've talked about internally for a while is that of Unix Archiving. By Unix Archiving I mean archiving content out of the Unix platform rather than an archiving application running on Unix. We would like to know whether you have demand for such an applicaton and if you do, what are the key features you would be looking for. If you are operating a unix environment, but not necessarily requiring Unix Archiving today, we would still like to hear from you to obtain environmental information.

To help us gather this information, we are conducting a short survey which should take 15-20 minutes to complete. If you do have an interest in this topic, we would very...

The April 2009 issue of CIO Digest is now available and includes a special Executive Q&A with new Symantec President and CEO Enrique T. Salem and interviews with C-level thought leaders from organizations such as Unum Group, Memorial Hermann, Reliance Communications, and more.  

The Executive Q&A with Salem covers a number of topics, from his leadership approach, to the key initiatives he’s spearheaded in prior roles at Symantec, to a special sidebar tribute to John W. Thompson’s 10 years of ten-fold revenue growth. The Cover Story is an interview with Lynda Fleury, the AVP and CISO at Unum, who discusses how there is no “Alpha” or “Omega” for an information...