Michael Krieger

The beauty of information technology is that users generally benefit from its evolution. Hardware prices drop as functionality increases. Software becomes more agile and productive. Labor-intensive manual processes are automated, freeing up people to focus on other tasks.In the case of network security, however, one very small user group is benefiting while the rest of […]

When it comes to tales of woe about mismanaged data, storage leads the way. Market researcher International Data Corp. estimates that some 60 percent of vital corporate data on desktop and notebook PCs remains unprotected. That number is thought to be closer to 80 percent for small-office and home-office PC users. Taking a slightly different […]

While reviewing the results of the just-released ZDME 2003 Storage Buying study, I noticed something was a bit odd. Although the average enterprise has seen storage demand increase, and expects to do so in the future, the percentage of companies that planned to buy specific technologies – such as DAS, SANs, or storage resource management […]

Although much has been written about Storage Area Networks (SANs) over the past few years, only one in three IT shops has yet to deploy SANs, according to the April 2003 Ziff Davis Market Experts study on storage purchasing. Most of those SANs have been deployed in larger organizations, and for the most part, these […]

Editors Note: Michael Krieger is vice president of Ziff Davis Medias Market Experts Group. This group serves our sales organization by providing advertisers with consulting, insight and data about market trends and conditions. Because of their sales focus and to avoid any possible conflict of interest, these experts dont often write content for our sites. […]

Introduction The importance of making the right storage decisions has never been greater: Without a strategy to provide the capacity your company needs, your networks and mission-critical applications will grind to a halt. Data centers are doubling their storage needs annually: According to Dataquest, about 299,344 terabytes—or 299,344,000,000,000,000 bytes—of disk storage for corporate networks and […]