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Hot Technologies in Storage
Manu Priyam
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Storage is one area where any amount of coverage is insufficient. That's
because no matter which application you deploy, you'll always require storage
for it. As a result, the amount of data grows at such an exponential rate that
you quickly run out of what you have and end up buying more. With so much data
spread across so many devices, manageability also becomes a key challenge. How
do you ensure that there's no unwanted data eating up precious storage space on
your network? How do you ensure that there's no duplicate data consuming your
precious storage space? It becomes very difficult. That's why, beyond a certain
point, you have to decide whether to buy more storage, or invest in technologies
and solutions to manage what you already have.
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Moreover, as the amount of data grows, security becomes a key concern. How do
you secure the ever growing amount of data? How do you keep it away from prying
eyes? You can keep it secure while the data is being transported, but what about
data that's lying stationary inside storage devices? How safe is it? There are
technologies evolving to safeguard that data as well.
This brings us to the third most critical element. When you've got so much of
data, you not only have to protect it from prying eyes, but also from disasters.
So you need a mechanism by which data can be instantly replicated to a remote
location. There are technologies available for doing that as well.
The storage market is vast. Lots of technologies have already been developed
to cater to existing requirements, and work is in progress to cater to new and
future requirements. In this story, we look at the key developments in the
storage space to cater to most of the things we've said till now.
There's storage virtualization to help you utilize your existing storage
resources more efficiently. There are encryption technologies to keep it away
from prying eyes. There are replication technologies that ensure efficient and
quick synchronization of data with a remote site, and work is even in progress
to store data on the most unheard of things, like bacteria. The technologies
behind all these areas have been discussed in this article. Next Page : Storage Virtualization Consolidation and morePage(s) 1 2 3 4 5 6
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