Storage Networking Times

Issue 6, October 2007

Letter From The Chair
Juergen Arnold, Chair, SNIA Europe, eurochair@snia.org

The doors of SNW Europe 2007 will open tomorrow at the Congress Centre in Frankfurt and I hope you will be there to celebrate with us! It was ten years ago that a small group of forward-thinking vendors came together to create an association that would promote the understanding and adoption of networked storage. Since then... read full article

European End User Council Update
Charles Inches, Chair, SNIA Europe End User Council, eurousers@snia.org

As the Chair of the SNIA Europe End User Council (EUC) I would like to give an update on the status of our activities as representatives of the storage end-user community, and what better means of communication than our newsletter?

Let’s start by putting our work into context. When the SNIA Europe Board of Directors decided to embrace not only the vendors but also the buyers and the end-users, this idea... read full article

Spotlight on: IP Storage Initiative
Aad Dekkers, Chair, SNIA Europe IP Storage Initiative (IPSI), IPSI-Europe-Chair@snia.org

Although the summer months are traditionally associated with the holidays and a general slowdown of the business pace here in Europe, looking back I realise that the IP Storage Initiative (IPSI) achieved quite a lot during the June - August timeframe. To start with, we had our first meeting with a new member of SNIA Europe which is particularly focused on the IP storage space. We spoke to media and industry analysts about hot topics related to iSCSI and its planned growth. In the UK, we organised the first SNIA Europe technology webcast around IP storage technologies and solutions ... read full article

How Do You Put Value On Data?
Philip Howard, Research Director, Bloor Research, philip.howard@bloor-research.com

How do you put a value on data? Clearly this is difficult to answer. Apart from anything else it depends on context. For example, knowing that you have a stock level of x is useless unless you at least know what typical turnover for that stock is

The question, let alone the answer, gets more complicated if you start to involve data over time. That is, how much more valuable is a year's worth of data compared to six months? Or three years' worth? Clearly, in many situations... read full article

Best Practices For Deploying A Storage Security Solution
Blair Semple, Education & Alliances Officer, SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum, securityinfo@snia.org

In the last several years a number of trends have brought attention to security concerns involving data at rest in storage environments. Billions of dollars have been spent on firewalls, intrusion prevention, and anti-virus solutions, but these systems provide little or no protection against lost/stolen storage media such as disks and tapes... read full article

Collaborate To Compete And Comply
Kay Mushens, Chair, SNIA Europe Marketing Committee, euromarketing@snia.org

Organisations have come to realise that information is both an asset and a potential liability. The need to remain competitive, coupled with the ever stronger demands of regulatory compliance, legal discovery, and security risks have created a critical need for organisational transformation and collaboration among records and information managers, the IT department, security professionals and business users of information. Failure to respond can... read full article

Myths Uncovered: What Is In Fact Data Storage All About?
Rostislav Jirkal, Chair, Czech and Slovak Committee, czech-slovakchair@snia.org

There are terms where the meaning does not change with time -- sun, earth, mathematics have meant the same thing for hundreds of years. However, the meaning of other terms has evolved. In the dynamic world of IT for example the term “data storage” has come to indicate data archiving, management, classification and much more.

I have been personally working in the field of data storage for more than fifteen years. Our perceptions of what “data storage” actually means are constantly changing, yet imperceptibly; this is why... read full article

SNIA Europe Academy Focus

We have had a very healthy number of end user delegates attending our SNIA Europe Academy events over the past two years, and would like to enlighten those of you who have yet to come along about this series of educational appointments. First launched in 2005, the SNIA Europe Academy program is designed to take on the road the vendor-independent tutorial content at the heart of SNW Europe, to reach a wider European, Middle Eastern and African IT audience. The program has so far visited Eastern Europe and Scandinavia twice and Switzerland... read full article

Regional Focus: Italy
Marco Spoldi, Chair, SNIA Europe Italy Committee, italychair@snia.org

English Version
In this, our first regional committee focus, I am pleased to bring you an update on the preparations for the first SNIA Europe Academy in Italy.

Since its inception in 2005, the SNIA Europe Academy has visited a number of countries including the Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UAE and even Singapore (in collaboration with SNIA South Asia), receiving highly ... read full article

Versione in italiano
In questo nostro primo regional Committee focus, sono lieto di proporvi un aggiornamento sulla preparazione della prima SNIA Europe Academy in Italia.

Dopo il successo conseguito dell' Academy Program di SNIA, che dal suo concepimento nel 2005 ha visitato un sostanzioso numero di paesil, inclusi la Repubblica Ceca, Polonia, Norvegia, Svezia, Svizzera e gli UAE, per arrivare fino a Singapore con la collaborazione di SNIA South Asia; il comitato italiano... leggere l'intero articolo

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