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This article is part of the Vol. 5 No. 2 April 2006 issue of Big 3 backup apps adapt to disk
THE NUMBER and variety of iSCSI SAN options is growing by leaps and bounds. The past couple of months have seen significant iSCSI announcements from Hewlett-Packard, Brocade and, most notably, Microsoft. Furthermore, server virtualization superstar VMware stands to jolt the market for iSCSI arrays this summer, when the iSCSI-friendly ESX Server 3 comes out of beta. Hewlett-Packard's latest foray into the iSCSI market comes via its midrange modular EVA SAN arrays, which can now be outfitted with an iSCSI Connectivity Option. With it, EVA users can gain concurrent access to the array via either Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI, or can use the entire EVA exclusively as an iSCSI target. The option is available for new and existing EVA arrays. Brocade's iSCSI offering is called the Brocade iSCSI Gateway, or BIG, which consists of two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two FC ports. Based on technology from Sanrad, BIG could theoretically be used to connect up to 100 hosts to an existing SAN array. Of interest to smaller shops, Microsoft will begin offering an iSCSI target as ... Access >>>
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- Survey Says: Data classification on the distant horizon
- Exchange protection goes real-time
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Voice apps can strain storage
Digital voice recordings are creeping up on storage like e-mail did a decade or so ago, but they're roughly 1,000 times larger per element. Here's how to prevent them from overwhelming your data center.
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New life for InfiniBand
InfiniBand storage is finally emerging, but despite its cost, speed and scalability advantages over Fibre Channel, acceptance has been slow in enterprise data centers. But clustered, high-performance computing and demanding applications have helped renew interest in InfiniBand-based storage networks.
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Finding Data
Archiving applications are increasingly being used to minimize online data stores and to meet compliance requirements. Most of those archivers include search features, but the capabilities vary widely. Understanding how these search tools work will help you find the best fit for your company.
- What data classification can do for you
- SMB backup: To tape or not to tape?
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Big three apps adjust to disk-based backup
EMC's NetWorker, IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager and Symantec's Veritas NetBackup are still the leaders for enterprise backup. But as more and more shops back up to disk, the big three have had to adapt to the new requirements of disk-based backup.
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Fine-tune storage networks
How key SAN components, principally host bus adapters and switches, are configured will determine overall SAN performance. If you know what to look for and how to make adjustments, performance issues can be greatly reduced.
- iSCSI moves up the ranks
- New DLT drive tops a terabyte
- Microsoft to support boot from iSCSI SAN
- Snapshot: Do you have a data archive?
- User needed more than SAN management tools could give
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Big three apps adjust to disk-based backup
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Columns
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The winners of Storage magazine's Products of the Year were surprising
Storage Bin: The winners of Storage magazine's Products of the Year were surprising, as so few of them were big-name storage vendors. Here's Steve Duplessie's take on the subject.
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Deploying Intelligent Information Management applications
By deploying Intelligent Information Management applications, organizations can improve resource management by eliminating the storage of duplicate data, reduce risk by quickly responding to discovery requests, comply with record-retention and privacy regulations, and restore the right data faster.
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Misplaced priorities
by Stephen Foskett
In this age of compliance and despite well-publicized cases of data theft, a recent security survey from GlassHouse Technologies indicates that few companies are paying much attention to storage security.
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Standards or product development?
Standards or product development?
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The winners of Storage magazine's Products of the Year were surprising
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