Tom Clark

Tom Clark is a principal engineer in technical marketing at Brocade. He is author of Designing Storage Area Networks: A Practical Reference for Implementing Fibre Channel and IP SANs, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley).

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Disaster Recovery in an Uncertain World
Jan 06, 2002
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the storage-networking industry found itself in an awkward situation. Storage Area Network (SAN) advocates have always promoted disaster recovery. Use of Dense Wavelength...
What Drives Storage Networking Innovation?
Dec 02, 2001
Exactly how much influence do consumers have on the development of new storage networking products? Just as politicians like to project an image of reflecting their constituencies' popular will, vendors often present...
The Future of Storage Networking
Oct 28, 2001
After a slow and sometimes painful start, storage networking has emerged from a long phase of standards development and interoperability testing to affirm its value for enterprise networks. The volume of shipments of...
Storage Area Network Security
Oct 07, 2001
Data is the currency of today's enterprises. Although loss of data access can often cost in the millions of dollars each time a company's systems are down, losing sensitive data to an attacker or losing business to a...
Standards Compliance Versus Interoperability
Sep 09, 2001
At first glance, a conflict between standards compliance and interoperability seems contradictory. After all, we create standards to ensure that product and application interoperate. By designing products to a set of...
Can IP Storage Save the Day?
Aug 19, 2001
The technology sector is going through tough times. Major vendors are laying off thousands of people, and a conservative cloud has settled on new technology acquisitions. Even the storage industry, once thought to be...