Storage: Demand for Storage
Storage beats the slowdown
Storage is perhaps the only sector that hasn’t been affected by the slowdown. Yet, even as storage booms, there are many questions that need an answer. Which are the sectors where demand is primarily coming from, what are the issues that customers have with storage vendors, and are prices really coming down.

Storage: NAS and SAN
NAS and SAN two pieces of the same puzzle
While storage is still largely direct-attached or server-based, networked storage is growing rapidly. NAS and SAN are getting faster, and these storage options have gained acceptability among Indian enterprises, though SMEs are still reluctant to take the bait.

Storage over IP Soon becoming a reality
IP storage leverages the large installed base of Ethernet-TCP/IP networks. It makes direct-attached storage accessible over LANs and WANs. Anil Valluri of Sun says, “Storage over IP will be the next big thing. SAN may end up morphing into storage over IP. Speed is easy to create in hardware, what’s difficult to emulate is the rich feature set of IP.”

Storage: Case Study
IOCL fuels IT infrastructure growth with SAN
Apart for being one of the few corporate giants from India who can hold its own in any global club, Indian Oil is also extremely savvy on the IT front.

Storage: Software
Storage management software market booms
As storage requirements increase massively, and user firms deploy more and more hardware boxes, often from various vendors, what’s required to bring it all together is storage management software. Srikanth R P analyses this vital segment of the storage market

Storage: Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery Paving a recovery path
Sometimes it takes a crisis to incite people to action; as was the case with the September 11 attacks in the US last year, which spurred enterprises to appraise the worthiness of their data and communication infrastructure to withstand unexpected disasters.

NSE’s stitch in time saves nine
The country’s first debt market trading exchange is also one of the pioneers in implementing a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, and is now looking at sharing this expertise with other interested parties, discovers Srikanth R P

Storage: Personal Storage
Personal storage market looks up in India
The ubiquitous floppy might be in its death throes, but the market thrived on a host of optical disk drives. In addition, hard disk drives witnessed remarkable evolution in terms of capacity and technology bringing cheer to an otherwise dull market.