January 30, 2012

My Quotes

I often get quoted in the press by other authors. Here’s a list of articles:

FCoE or iSCSI? Doesn’t matter! It’s about the Ethernet (May 2011)
Network storage options for virtual servers depend on needs, skill set (Mar 2011)
Wanted: SAN management tools for a virtualized environment (Feb 2011)
Thin provisioning driven by technology advances, best practices (Jan 2011)
10GigE still seeking killer app (Nov 2008)
Users Give Dedupe High Marks (Sep 2008)
Windows Server 2008′s hidden storage features (July 2008)
SearchStorage.com - Archiving made uneasy by lack of metadata (July 2008)
InfoStor – Cut the Costs of Disaster Recovery (Dec 2007)
SearchStorage.com – How to integrate iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and make it work (Nov 2007)
SearchStorage.com – SAN Expansion Best Practices (Oct 2007)
SearchStorage.com – Best practices for expanding or replacing disk arrays (Oct 2007)
SearchStorage.com – ISCSI takes its rightful place beside Fibre Channel (Jul 2007)
InfoStor – Cutting the costs of remote disaster recovery (July 2007)
Storage Magazine – Optical storage eyes the enterprise (Feb 2007)
SearchStorage.com – iSCSI SANs grow in midmarket, enterprise (Jan 2007)
Storage Magazine – Hot Technologies for 2007 (Dec 2006)
SearchStorage.com – Users say keeping it simple means keeping one vendor (Sep 2006)
Enterprise Storage Forum – File Virtualization Heats Up (Jul 2006)
Storage Magazine – What’s Holding Up ILM? (Jul 2006)
SearchStorage.com Guidelines for better iSCSI security (Mar 2006)
SearchStorage.com – Top tips to control storage budgets in ’06 (Dec 2005)
SearchStorage.com – Storage arrays: Preparing for the purchase (Oct 2005)
InfoStor – It’sa long and winding road to ILM (Jun 2005)
SearchStorage.com – Strategic Storage: Storage virtualization — Is it soup yet? (Apr 2005)
SearchStorage.com – Five steps to managing storage growth (Mar 2005)
InfoStor – Consultants identify 2005 storage issues (Jan 2005)
SearchStorage.com – Strategic Storage: Five storage management musts (Jan 2005)
SearchStorage.com – Strategic Storage: Smart planning moves many to tiers (Dec 2004)
SearchStorage.com – SMBs in the spotlight (Oct 2004)
SearchStorage.com – Continuous backup gains traction (Jul 2004)
Storage Magazine – Consolidating NAS pays off (Mar 2004)
SearchStorage.com – Increasing uptime, performance with SANs (Apr 2004)
Storage Magazine – Management suites come up short (Jun 2003)
InfoStor Europe – IT’s backup dilemma (Oct 2002)

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