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Security administrators sound off on best "mistakes" of their professional careers.

As with any government organization, SNB is under heavy public scrutiny for the cost of any IT upgrades. It was easy for SNB to show that, while money was spent, even more was saved, through a methodical rather than an aggressive strategy. In addition to some of the more obvious cost reductions for system maintenance, consolidating disparate data sources and improved efficiencies, SNB has experienced cost reductions in the following areas:

EMC Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array also sports three different types of Fibre Channel drives that allow users to move storage across tiers of disks inside the array.

With the advent of inexpensive disk-to-disk backup systems that offer faster, easier and more reliable backups and restores than most tape systems, many administrators would like to abandon tape altogether. However, a standard schedule of one full backup per week plus nightly incremental backups uses up a lot of storage space, the kind of space that only tape traditionally offers at a reasonable per-gigabyte cost.

Storage utility company PowerQuest Corp. this month is expected to launch software for midsize Windows NT companies that helps network professionals monitor, manage and reconfigure storage resources.