storage administrator

A person who manages the disk and tape systems within an organization. Responsibilities include developing a storage management program and providing for routine backups. Such tasks are often handled by a network or system administrator, but are performed by a storage administrator in very large enterprises and datacenters. See network administrator, system administrator and WAN administrator.

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Today, the typical mainframe storage administrator manages on the average more than 40 terabytes of disk storage while the typical storage manager for Unix, Linux and Windows manages from 1 to 5 terabytes.

Mainframe lessons: slowly moving to non-mainframe systems

Storage administrators must choose to implement asynchronous or synchronous mirroring as tradeoffs exist for each case and all increase the total storage requirements for the backup and recovery application.

Are the days for traditional backup and recovery numbered? Changing the rules for backup and recovery

Storage administrators are vital to IT departments because they protect and maintain a company's most valuable asset--its data.

The care and feeding of your HSM environment

Administrators will need to scale to support both simple environments (where the security officer and storage administrator are the same), as well as more complex, diverse models with delegated authority.

Improving data security by protecting tape-based storage

To execute on ILM, for instance, if a volume in a medium performance storage pool is not meeting the specific service level guaranteed to the application owner, the storage administrator moves the data to a higher performing pool (most likely on a different tier of storage) to meet the requirement.

Storage virtualization, Part 1 of 3: delivering non-disruptive operations, flexibility and simplified management

Today, storage administrators must select, install, configure and manage dozens of independent storage, backup, archiving, and replication products as well as management tools to adequately store and protect data.

Data storage sticker shock: the need to recalculate data storage TCO

A storage administrator is required to shut down a switch, but doesn't fully understand its impact on the SAN.

SAN Change Management: a tutorial

Storage administrators can perform proactive monitoring of NetApp systems, assess the impact of storage performance problems on end-user services, and better align their efforts with business needs.

NetApp Storage System Plug-In Achieves Oracle Validated Integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c

New functionality in Veritas Operations Manager, the next generation management platform for Storage Foundation HA, bridges the gap between server, database and storage administrators to increase storage utilization, scale operations, maintain compliance and help ensure uptime and availability across Unix, Linux, Windows and VMware.

Symantec Helps Data Center Managers Work Smarter Not Harder with Storage Foundation HA

Unfortunately, storage is sometimes relegated to an afterthought; after all, don't we have storage administrators who deal with our disk arrays?

Managing database storage

According to the company, the new EMC Unisphere management software enables storage administrators to perform common tasks with 90% fewer clicks.