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Barrie Sosinsky

Barrie Sosinsky is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro. He is an industry analyst with the Sosinsky Group, which specializes in application-development and testing services, database design, network system design, and IT industry analysis.

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Storage UPDATE Survey Results, Part 2
Apr 29, 2001
In this week's column, I offer more results from the recent Storage UPDATE survey, focusing on the figures for Storage Area Networks (SANs). The results measure some significant changes since Storage UPDATE's June...
Storage UPDATE Survey Results, Part 1
Apr 22, 2001
I'll depart from the standard column format for a couple of weeks to report some results of the Windows 2000 Magazine Storage UPDATE survey that—with your help—we just completed. Thanks to the 172 people who took time...
Showtime: Storage Networking World
Apr 15, 2001
I attended three conferences last week: Spring Comdex, the Waterside Conference, and Storage Networking World. The differences among the three were striking...
Emulex Buys Some Insurance
Apr 08, 2001
Just how much life does fibre channel still have in it? I don't mean in the short term (the next 2 years)—but in the longer term (say 3 to 5 years). Infiniband will steal a lot of fibre channel's thunder, and various...
The Future Microsoft of Storage?
Apr 01, 2001
Almost every Solaris system administrator knows about VERITAS. The company's Foundation Suite software is part of the essential toolkit for storage configuration on that platform. VERITAS isn't as well known on the...
SNIA's Storage Network Model
Mar 27, 2001
Most of us are familiar with the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO's) Open System Interconnection (OSI) network model. That seven-layer cake of applications, protocols, transports, interfaces, and...
Storage Bottlenecks
Mar 25, 2001
Anyone who has followed the progress of PC and server architecture over the years knows that one part of the system always lags behind the others, creating a bottleneck. The bottleneck might lie in the processor speed...
HP Storage: Moving Fast
Mar 18, 2001
Hewlett-Packard (HP) is a $49-billion company with about 70,000 employees that dominates the printing marketplace, is strong in workstations and servers, is a leader in tape storage, and has a storage division that is...
Storage at the Edge of the Network
Mar 11, 2001
About a year ago, IBM unveiled its Edge of Network (EoN) initiative, which emerged from its earlier Pervasive Computing initiative. The initiative includes portable, wearable, and multifunction devices that will...
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