The list of skills agencies look for in ideal storage administrators is long, varied and sometimes hard to find. For starters, agencies would like to find employees with experience in deploying a ...

Storage hardware and software manufacturers are trying to make the process of managing storage easier. There are simplified storage infrastructures, simplified storage management systems and software ...

The drive towards convergence could make an endangered species of the storage administrator. As technologies collide, and with the rise of the cloud, datacentre jobs increasingly demand generalist ...

Virtualization may not change everything, but it will change the way enterprise IT operations groups function and how storage professionals fit in. John, a senior partner at Evaluator Group, has 30 ...

The storage administrator has long been one of the least appreciated jobs in large organizations. These experienced IT professionals manage capacity and access, set up new offices and wind down ...

Skilled storage pros are in demand as enterprise IT teams take on exponential data growth and strategically migrate data assets from legacy systems to more modern options. For these professionals who ...

Database systems require data files to store the data under management. These files, or data sets, reside on storage media. So storage management should be a key part of the database operations ...

It is estimated that about 30% of storage within a datacentre is wasted due to under-utilisation caused largely by the lack of enforcement of routine storage management policies and best practices.