Experts and hiring managers say the following skills and areas of
experience make a storage administrator's resume attractive:
- The ability to design, configure and administer SANs. This is by far the hottest skill in storage today.
- Thorough knowledge of the old standby, tape storage. "Tape libraries are still the chosen backup medium in most companies," says David Foote of Foote Partners. The need to perform a full backup and restore won't vanish for years.
- Experience managing either a specific vendor's products or a multivendor environment.
- Experience working with the vast, multiterabyte data warehouses that are becoming de rigueur in corporate America.
Storage: New Wrinkles 2006
Stories in this report:
- New Wrinkles in Storage
- Storage Package Overview
- Backing Up the Virtual Machine
- Sidebar: How Many Licenses?
- Battle of the Bulge
- Sidebar: Provisioning Pretender
- Sidebar: Thin Provisioning Explained
- Cruising Over Copper
- DIY Recovery
- Sidebar: A Comeback for Managed Storage Services?
- Data Points: Storage
- Safe and Sound
- Sidebar: How Long Will It Be Safe?
- Sidebar: Have a Key-Recovery Plan
- Sidebar: Encryption Decrypted
- Storage-free Zone
- The Storage Specialty
- Sidebar: Resume Gold
- Sidebar: Big Cities, Big Bucks
- Virtual Tape