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Historically, DBMS were invited to divide program and data. The idea was to have a single logic (DBMS) that is aware of all the data a company is working with and some clearly defined interfaces to access these data (SQL). The information is stored in few files in the file system of the underlying operating system. Today this view should be changed again ...

Choice is good ...

Every day it seems I find something new that Linux Just Does. Last week I finally decided I needed to learn about "shared storage" and started asking the resident experts here, who all pointed me to YaST. Much to my surprise iSCSI is built into YaST and works out of the box with SLES without much more than ten minutes and an understanding of the technology. For the quickest understanding of shared storage I can muster this article is now being created. Hopefully it will be as enlightening to others as this topic was to me.

Did you accidentally delete some files? Is your media disk corrupted? Here's how you can recover them.

David Condrey talks about the problem of storage growth and the need for automated, life cycle management through Novell Storage Manager 2.5. Two new Novell Open Video demos show exactly how to set up the policies for Novell Storage Manager to perform automated storage tasks.

The Novell OpenAudio group recently sat down with David Condrey, who leads the Novell Storage Manager development team, and learned a great deal about how the product works and the new features and enhancements in Version 2.5.