Get Storage Smarts.

This article presents information on a portal which is a clearinghouse for storage education, user groups, research, and more. Driven by business demands such as regulatory compliance and the growth of unstructured content, companies are investing in storage technologies, including Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area networks, storage virtualization, and disk-to-disk backup. The convergence of storage and networking has created demand for--and a shortage of--workers with skills in these areas. The Information Storage Industry Center, a nonprofit research program of the University of California at San Diego in California, provides technology pros with resources to further their careers by adding storage skills.