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NAS: more than just an appliance
New advances in NAS boxes are moving them from mere departmental storage workhorses to servicing mission critical corporate applications.03 Jul 2002
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Storage management building on XML foundation
Storage management software is "like stepping back in time ten years."03 Jul 2002
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Test before you taste
If you're putting a SAN together, you'll need to test interoperability. Surprisingly, that goes double for open systems products. Some companies are even doing it themselves - here's how03 Jul 2002
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ASK THE EXPERT: What does storage pooling mean? What do you think of it?
03 Jul 2002
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Recent funding to storage companies
The venture capital stream has yet to dry up completely.03 Jul 2002
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15K RPM disk drives
Need speed? While not spilling over with capacity, 15,000 rpm disk drives deliver average seek times for reads at about 3.5 ms vs. around 4.5 ms for 10,000 rpm drives.03 Jul 2002
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Bona fide iSCSI products ship
With ratification of the standard coming soon, more and more iSCSI products have started surfacing.03 Jul 2002
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Vixel chip brings switching to disks
Subsystem vendors are coming up against the limitations of shared protocols.03 Jul 2002
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Chargeback ROI: Does accountability pay?
Chargeback for storage use is attracting a lot of interest. But does it make sense financially?03 Jul 2002
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Pushing storage to another level
In the extreme worlds of geophysical computing and genomics, storage managers are learning approaches that will be in the mainstream tomorrow.03 Jul 2002
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Distance yourself from disaster
Long-distance replication is reachable with new optical and IP storage networking technologies.03 Jul 2002
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Standard IT processes: getting to yes at Intel
How one man helped standardize corporate backup and restore procedures - and lived to tell about it.03 Jul 2002
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HPaq: the upshot for storage
Wondering which storage product the merged Compaq/HP will push?03 Jul 2002
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NDMP restores sanity to NAS backup
NDMP has emerged as the best way to provide plug-and-play connectivity between backup software and filer-attached tape drives.03 Jul 2002
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Virtual tape is cast for the open systems stage
For some people in the open systems world, tape is a four-letter word.03 Jul 2002
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Cutting through the tape maze
All tape is not created equal. Here's everything you need to know about tape formats for corporate backup.03 Jul 2002
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Start the revolution without me
In time for Independence Day, Toigo takes a look at SAN and other revolutions.02 Jul 2002
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Set priorities for data migration
What should you move and when?02 Jul 2002
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Quiz #2: Storage management
If you missed any of the Storage Smarts questions in our daily e-mails, here's another chance to try your hand at questions 11 to 20.01 Jul 2002
Storage Management Strategies for the CIO