This tip offers some good insight on how much storage is needed for an access path. If you have trouble keeping your storage use under control, this tip may help you. This writer does a good job of getting right to the point and explaining how to solve the problem. If a hardware purchase is in your future, you might want to check out Abacus Solutions' Web site. In addition, it offers consulting services and technical support.
Readers can then decide for themselves which is the best path to take.
This column from Bob Lewis, VP of IT at The Unified Foodservice Purchasing Cooperative, covers disaster recovery, looking specifically at some of the principles he learned from Scott Ream, president of Virtual Corp. Lewis stresses the importance of ensuring that all critical resources are considered in a business continuity plan, not just the computer side of things. The company was having a problem with the storage and retrieval of the financial reports generated by its ERP system. Using Metaview, Hershey is able to create a full text index that includes every word of every report that is stored on the system. A tabular interface allows you to view the document in HTML, download it in Adobe PDF format or order the materials online. A gateway to IBM's document search engine is included.