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• • Backup Arrays Revisited

    Was 2002 the year of the ATA-based backup array?

  • Are you paying too much for storage?

    With features, functions and capacity all moving downstream, you may be able to kick the overpriced storage habit.

  • IBM Demos Storage Tank

    Big Blue's new Autonomic Computing Organization is working on technologies that will reduce the human costs of running complex computing and storage systems.

  • Road testing fast HBAs by Tom Henderson

    We put four PCI-X adapters to the test and the results are instructive.

  • Learn from mainframe storage by Johanna Ambrosio

    Open systems dudes--it's all been done before on the mainframe as far as systematic storage management goes. Check it out.

  • The networked storage project: Getting started by Jeffrey Fritz

    If you're just getting started, check out how West Virginia University built its first SAN to handle e-mail.

  • Tape libraries on the SAN: sharing isn't always good by Darryl Brooks

    If your latest project is choosing a new tape library for your SAN, you have a lot of decisions to make--the most important being how to architect your backup.

  • Your next data center: Think flexible by David Braue

    The second part of our two-part article focuses on the networking infrastructure of the new data center.

• • Fibre Channel and ATA: An Odd Couple?

    Those IT shops that build SANs are typically characterized by their demanding performance requirements.

  • CTRC Mirrors with iSCSI

    The Cancer Therapy and Research Center in San Antonio has aggressive uptime goals for IT resources at its two facilities.

  • SNIA Relaunches Supported Solutions Forum

    Eighteen months ago, the Storage Networking Industry Association announced the formation of the Supported Solutions Forum.

  • HBAs: Why some are better than others

    The storage chain is only as strong as the weakest HBA. Here's how to spot the strong ones.

  • Pixie dust & GBIC

    Pixie dust & GBIC

  • Vendors and CIM: How Deep is Their Love?

    The reign of CIM-based storage management is just around the corner.

  • Backup, Replication Next on Automation Agenda

    Why the sudden fuss over provisioning?

• Columns

  • Creating a storage services group

    Now that you've created a storage services group, it's time to roll it out.

  • Don't let vendor doublespeak prevent you from innovating

    Storage Bin: Don't let vendor doublespeak prevent you from innovating.

  • Part two on troubleshooting your SAN. by Darryl Brooks

    Part two on troubleshooting your SAN.

  • Snapshot: Deploying IP storage technology

    Will you deploy IP storage technology?

  • SNIA's new heterogeneous storage management solution by Stephen Foskett

    SNIA is promising a new solution that manages heterogeneous storage environments. Will it deliver?

  • Out with the old, in with the new by Mark Schlack

    Out with the old, in with the new

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