NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MIKE KARP ON STORAGE IN THE ENTERPRISE
06/14/05
Today's focus: SMBs want disaster recovery
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Today's focus: SMBs want disaster recovery
By Mike Karp
I spent most of last week in Long Beach, Calif., at the
StorageWorld Conference. There are just so many of these
meetings that I can attend each year and still maintain what
little is left of my sanity, so I had missed this annual
gathering in the past. Shame on me. It was an interesting
conference, better than most. I'll be going back.
I was there to run two panels. The first, on storage for small
and midsize businesses, had an interesting mix of leading
vendors participating: EMC (Danz), FalconStor, HP, IBM, IntraDyn
and LiveVault. As you might expect, after the vendors made their
pitches (I kept them to about two minutes each - have you ever
seen a vendor try to limit his presentation to two minutes, no
slides allowed?) and some questions and answers between the
panel and me, the most important part of the session came when
the audience chipped in with their own questions and commentary.
One interesting point that came out of those audience questions
is that there seems to be a big need for disaster recovery
solutions at this level - but those solutions had better be
cheap. Most sites want disaster recovery without the expense of
investing in a second set of storage devices for the secondary
site. It is clear from this that for much of the SMB market
replication to a remote site is not an option they wish to
exercise, although sending data to a remote service provider may
fill the bill.
Another interesting point from the SMB panel: when I polled the
audience on their back-up strategies, I asked how many of them
turned on the "verify" option during backups? The answer: one
person out of an audience of about 100 said his site did.
Considering their interest in disaster recovery, this is curious
phenomenon.
My second panel, on disaster recovery, was a real pleasure. I
had IT managers from three quite different firms on the panel.
Based on what I heard, it would seem that the corporate data at
Roetzal and Andress (a legal firm), Securian Financial, and
Southwestern Gas is in good hands.
In one sense IT the guys from those firms had an easier time of
it - while vendors on panels are often seen as the enemy, the
audience here enjoyed the give-and-take with three of their own,
and their response was very gratifying. One negative point about
the audience however: when I asked them the same question about
the "verify" option, the attendees (mostly from larger companies
this time) didn't fare much better. If I remember correctly,
only about 10% of the audience verified that the back-up data
was recoverable.
To those of you who attended and stopped by our panels, thanks.
Your comments during the Q&A and in the aisles after the
sessions were valued contributions to the meetings. To my
readers who stopped by with a kind comment about the column,
thanks for your thoughtfulness - the check is in the mail.
Next time: what was hot at the StorageWorld Conference, and
which major vendor did something really, really stupid.
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To contact: Mike Karp
Mike Karp is senior analyst with Enterprise Management
Associates, focusing on storage, storage management and the
methodology that brings these issues into the marketplace. He
has spent more than 20 years in storage, systems management and
telecommunications. Mike can be reached via e-mail
<mailto:mkarp@enterprisemanagement.com>.
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