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• • Tap the SAN for File Storage

    Used to be, if you wanted to give users a central place to store files, you had two options: put them on a generic file server, or on a NAS device.

  • Symmetrix DMX: Is it Hot or Not?

    The year is still young, but EMC's Symmetrix DMX announcement is arguably 2003's biggest storage story.

  • Make HSM work for open systems by Ed Palmer

    Translating this time-honored mainframe concept to open systems requires a completely different approach.

  • Cheap DR with Wireless MAN

    Synchronous replication between remote EMC Symmetrix arrays isn't cheap.

  • Tight Integration Seals Database Archiving Sale

    The size of corporate databases has been swelling for years

  • Ease backup pain

    OK, maybe there's no cure, but a variety of bandages and pills can help. We look at the major backup packages and analyze what each does best.

  • Moving backup off the mainframe by Daniel Sitler

    Hobart Corp. migrated their backup environment to open systems, dramatically reducing media and management costs.

  • Is it lights out for optical? by Eric Knorr

    Blue lasers and other technical advances are pushing optical disks to 30GB soon, with more than 100GB in site.

• • Sony Joins Super Drive Game

    The market for super drives is alive and kicking, according to a recent report from Freeman Reports, with unit shipments more than doubling from 2001 to 2002.

  • Firm Sees the Storage Automation Light

    Many IT people are on the fence about automated storage management, but at Allegra Systems in Piscataway, NJ, there's no doubt that automatic file migration software has cut down on the IT staff's workload.

  • Backup exec gets big boost by Tom Henderson

    Version 9.0 has a surprising number of features that enable it to work with newer storage technologies.

  • Pushing storage to the edge by Susan J. Marks

    If you're delivering large content files to widely distributed users, consider moving data storage closer to the user.

  • Surveillance Gradually Going Digital

    Security-conscious companies who started out using analog videotapes, are gradually making the switch to digital, offloading to digital tape and occasionally, cheap ATA disk.

  • Bring DBAs into the SAN era by Jim Booth

    You may not want DBAs poking around inside your fabric, but the more they understand about SANs, the better they'll be.

  • How to do hybrid backup by Mark Teter

    Disk-based backup is an attractive idea, but you'll want to get a handle on how to optimize it.

• Columns

  • How to block the four paths to your data by Darryl Brooks

    Hackers can't get into your SAN? Baloney! Here's how to block the four paths to your data.

  • Data storage consolidation guidelines

    Consolidation sounds good, but here are some guidelines to determine if it will work for you. Plus, seven steps to getting it done.

  • Annual awards for the best and brightest in the storage industry

    Storage Bin: Steve Duplessie gives out his first annual awards for the best and brightest in the storage industry.

  • What's better for backup: tape or disk? by James Damoulakis

    What's better for backup: tape or disk? Both, actually, and here's why. The answers may surprise you.

  • Here we go again by Mark Schlack

    Here we go again

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