December 30
The pros and cons of NAS virtualization
Here’s a quick rundown of the advantages of file-level virtualization, and some tips on how to choose the best solution for your requirements. by Ashish Nadkarni, GlassHouse principal consultant

December 11
Is it really a disaster?
Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse director of strategy services, writes about "The first step in an effective disaster recovery plan is defining what constitutes a real disaster."

December 5
New data classification tools drill deeper, but still lag
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about how "Data classification is still far from automatic"

November 28
Are nightly backups irrelevant?
Most people will do anything humanly possible in order to avoid being dependent on traditional backups by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

November 21
Measuring backup health
"If you can't measure it, you can't manage it", by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

November 15
Determining risk
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about how the balance has begun to shift in favor of risk in the area of security.

November 10
How to better connect storage to the business
Storage managers can learn how to streamline processes by emulating manufacturing process efficiencies. by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

November 7
Keys to data management policies
Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse Technologies, writes about "Moving beyond tiered storage"

November 3
Locking the Windows
Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse director of strategy services, writes about "Closing some of the most common storage security holes".

November 2
Is your e-mail a business record?
E-mail archiving can be viewed as a special-purpose data warehouse. Computerworld Opinion by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

October 30
Strategic governance issues for e-mail archiving
This article identifies some of the higher-level issues in governance and control that can impact the parameters and attributes used in selecting the appropriate e-mail archiving technology.

October 25
De-dup technology -- a killer app for cutting cost
"A killer VTL feature soon-to-be-available on VTLs is data de-duplication", Computerworld opinion by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

October 18
Speeding up backup: Can VTLs keep up with tape?
Before buying, understand the real sources of backup bottlenecks by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

October 12
Untangling the encryption chain
Encryption can protect your data, but it can also play havoc with other storage applications. by Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse directory of strategy services

October 10
Know your storage security fundamentals
Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse, asks "Can your World Wide Names be spoofed by someone with malicious intent?"

October 5
Offshoring Datacenters? You Might Want to Think About That
Relocating the servers, storage, and networks that run your business to another continent is far-fetched, write CIO Update guest columnists John Merryman and Stephen Craike in this Special Report.

October 3
Choosing the right data-replication option
What are the key factors to consider in addressing a data-replication requirement?

September 26
Policies: Who sets them and how?
What is the right approach to setting data management policies? by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

September 18
Placing your bets on the technology lottery
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about "The challenge of striking the right balance"

September 12
10 points to consider before deploying an e-mail archive
Selecting an e-mail archiving application based solely on features and functions may result in unexpected administration costs. Consider these 10 points before deploying an e-mail archiver.

September 6
Opinion: How to build a storage SOI
GlassHouse CTO, Jim Damoulakis, writes "Why you should create a services approach to storage"

August 29
What's slowing data encryption? Plenty
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about how "Draft standards are evolving for encrypting data at rest"

August 14
Best Practices: How to count the cost of storage
The cost of each gigabyte of storage is declining rapidly in every segment of the market. Enterprise storage today costs what desktop storage did less than a decade ago.

August 9
Twelve questions to answer before buying email archiving
Answering these questions go a long way to ensure the right technology is selected, writes GlassHouse CTO, Jim Damoulakis

August 1
Flying by the seat of our pants
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, write how "Simplicity remains an elusive goal for storage management".

July 25
How to align your data for ILM
Is cost savings the main goal or is it to improve service levels? Opinion by Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse Technologies

July 20
Service Level Agreements: The Secret To Backup Success
Without a service level agreement (SLA) for your backup system, you'll think you have an eight-hour RTO (recovery time objective) and a 24-hour RPO (recovery point objective). by W. Curtis Preston, GlassHouse vice president of data protection

July 15
Looking for disk in all the wrong places
To understand storage consumption, you need to follow its trail from acquisition to actual use. by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

July 15
Real disaster recovery testing
It's not enough to have a DR plan--you need to know it will work. Repetitive, detailed tests will tell you if your DR plan is up to snuff. by Bill Peldzus, GlassHouse principal consultant

July 11
Building a storage transformation road map
CTO of GlassHouse, Jim Damoulakis, writes about the basic components of a storage strategy road map

July 5
Developing a storage reference architecture
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about "Making sure vendors have a greater stake in project success".

June 27
Maintaining backup health amid constant change
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO writes how "Small problems can go unnoticed until they become large"

June 26
Tips on implementing Oracle 10g RAC
Clustered databases offer a variety of advantages, as well as choices and challenges by Ashish Nadkarni

June 20
Data hoarders pay high price
As users hoard data, operational costs soar by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

June 13
Building a storage strategy road map
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about using an internal service provider model as a vision for management.

June 6
Small companies need DR, too
Today's OSs offer mirroring and replicating options by Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO

June 1
Application Alignment: A Plan for Success
Communication—not code—is the key to successful applications, writes CIO Update guest columnist Dan Weinstein of GlassHouse Technologies.

June 1
Scaling Storage
Scaling storage might seem as easy as tossing a few more disks into the array, but adding just capacity can affect your overall performance. by Vic Dery, storage consultant with Strategic Business Solutions & Ashish Nadkarni, principal consultant at GlassHouse Technologies

June 1
The rise of the ultra-dense array
Higher disk densities and smaller form factors will affect power and performance. by Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse director of strategy services

May 31
Managing the data protection continuum
Dependence on specialized management tools exacerbates management issues by Jim Damoulakis

May 23
RTO is more than data recovery
RTO represents the maximum acceptable time to recover, not the best-case scenario by Jim Damoulakis

May 16
The data recovery expectations gap
In his weekly column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes about the gap between user expectations of data recovery and the capabilities of IT.

May 15
ILM isn't just tiered storage
Storage tiers are the first step toward true information lifecycle management. But they're only a small step—the key to ILM success is aligning your data with its business value.

May 2
Virtualization is only a means to an end
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, responds to queries about where and how storage virtualization has been deployed.

May 1
Governance Dashboard for Enterprise Storage
Dick Benton, GlassHouse principal consultant, writes about how the growth in data has put the capabilty and maturity of enterprise management on a high-visibility, rapid growth path.

May 1
10 hidden perils of DR planning
Your company may have formulated a disaster recovery plan and invested in the technology to support it, but that might not be enough to ensure that you can recover data.

April 24
Getting the most from partnerships
Maximising benefits with minimal resources is tricky – but can be achieved

April 24
Onward toward meaningful storage management metrics
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis writes about storage metric challenges.

April 17
What's stalling storage virtualization?
Jim Damoulakis discusses one of the hottest trends in IT - server virtualization.

April 14
Misplaced Priorities
In this age of compliance and despite well-publicized cases of data theft, a recent security survey from GlassHouse Technologies indicates that few companies are paying much attention to storage security.

April 10
Storage utilization's trick question
Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse Technologies, poses a trick question about managing storage utilization levels in this week's Computerworld column.

April 3
Flirting with Disaster
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis writes about Disaster Recovery and meeting your organizations objectives.

March 28
Does storage utilization really matter?
In his weekly Computerworld article, Jim Damoulakis discusses "... the radical notion: When it comes to managing storage efficiently in enterprise environments, utilization doesn't really matter."

March 22
Combine storage provisioning and the assembly line
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, asks "If BMW can build a car in 16 hours, why does it take months to provision data storage capacity?"

March 14
Does Your Backup Environment Measure Up?
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, discusses backup assessments

March 9
Cut out the fat
Karl Langdon, GlassHouse engagement partner, writes that "Cutting storage costs is easy; making the cuts sustainable is the difficult part."

March 9
Virtual reality: The inevitability of storage virtualization
In his Best Practices column for Storage magazine, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, writes "Virtualization is a tried-and-true technology, so what's holding it back?"

March 7
Four Steps to a Successful DR Strategy
Disaster recovery planning and testing are the keys to business continuity, writes CIO Update guest columnist John Haight of GlassHouse Technologies.

March 2
Windows Storage Myths
Stephen Foskett, of GlassHouse, writes Windows Server 2003 is one of the most storage-focused operating systems on the market (although many of its features are unfamiliar to most administrators)

February 28
In bed with tape
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, talks about the roadblocks to eliminating tape

February 23
How to plan for information lifecycle management
In an article for InfoStor, GlassHouse principal consultant Dick Benton asks if ILM is simply a repackaging of old methods with a glossy veneer of vaporware or if you can actually improve your operational costs and efficiencies.

February 22
Uncovering your data's DNA
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, says that in storage management, data classification continues to be one of the major stumbling blocks.

February 14
Addicted to data
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, suggests that we might just be addicted to data.

February 13
Best practices: A toaster oven in the data center
Stephen Foskett, GlassHouse director of strategy services writes that vendors may claim midrange arrays rival enterprise systems, but user skepticism threatens to take some of the air out of the hot midrange market.

February 7
Do we really care about storage security?
At their own risk, companies continue to ignore technology available to secure data, says GlassHouse CTO Jim Damoulakis in his weekly column for Computerworld.

February 1
Stopping the Next Heist
W. Curtis Preston, GlassHouse vice president of data protection, writes in Information Security magazine that storage and backup systems are rife with vulnerabilities.

January 31
The data value conundrum
In his weekly Computerworld column, Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, looks at aligning the cost of managing data with its business value is at the crux of initiatives like ILM.

January 25
Top 10 Storage Technologies for Systems and Network Professionals
GlassHouse consultants, Victor Dery and Ashish Nadkarni, provide an overview of hot topics in the storage industry for Network Support magazine.

January 23
Don't shortchange people, policies and processes with ILM
Jim Damoulakis, GlassHouse CTO, discusses the results of the GlassHouse Storage Budget Survey in his weekly column for Computerworld.

January 17
A storage manager's 115th dream
In his new ComputerWorld column, GlassHouse CTO, Jim Damoulakis, offers some practical insights and real-world observations into how to address the various challenges of managing and protecting data.

January 1
Key trends in data storage next year
Rupert Beeby, GlassHouse UK director of strategy services, takes a look at storage issues for 2006 that organizations will be facing for SNS Europe.

January 1
Backups are not archives
W. Curtis Preston says in Storage magazine that using a backup program to create archive files isn't a good idea--trying to find specific information in backups is costly and time consuming.

January 1
Best Practices: Disk-based backup
Jim Damoulakis writes in Storage magazine that disk-based backup can help companies struggling with the inefficiencies of tape, but you may experience sticker shock at the cost of moving to disk.