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• • Close the IM Loophole

    NYSE sends message about instant messages

  • Taming HBAs by Jerome Wendt

    Installing, configuring and maintaining Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) is the bane of many SAN administrators. Thankfully, these new cards offer better management tools.

  • When a Mighty Wind Blows into Town

    South Floridian IT managers don't worry a whole lot about terrorism, but there's one thing they do worry about: hurricanes.

  • Virtual SANs put to the test by David Braue

    Cisco's new virtual SAN technology has aroused a lot of interest. But how does it work in practice? We look at how Australia's Deakin University uses VSANs to isolate development activity within its large, multisite fabric.

  • CAD for SANs by John Vacca

    New automated design tools can help you build the SAN of your dreams.

  • Drive Vendors Think Small

    Seagate's incredible shrinking disk

  • Creating a large e-mail system by Jim Booth

    Here's how one storage team transformed a monolithic storage design into a flexible, scalable system.

• • Roll Your Own NAS

    Is building your own NAS better?

  • The evolving storage department by Carol Hildebrand

    Here's how to avoid common road blocks as you revolutionize your storage department.

  • Getting remote data right by Marc Farley

    The second of a two-part series on business continuity, this article focuses on how to use replicated data and the different types of replication: subsystem, host and network device based.

  • EMC Launches Space-Saving Copy Option for Symmetrix

    EMC wants to save you space

  • SEC: No Hard and Fast Distance Minimums

    SEC doesn't define distance minimums

  • Serial ATA Adoption Ramping Up

  • IP SANs take their place

    There's a growing interest in using IP for storage in small to midsized enterprises, although Fibre Channel is still dominant in large organizations. What's right for you: IP, FC or a combination of both?

• Columns

  • How to build a storage security strategy for your enterprise

    According to a Morgan Stanley December 2002 survey of 225 CIOs, security spending tops their 10 highest priorities for 2003. This article details how to build a thorough, companywide security strategy.

  • Intelligence belongs in the network and on the switch

    Storage Bin: Intelligence belongs in the network and on the switch, but it's not going to get there in a jiffy.

  • Snapshot: 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Switches

    Would You Buy a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch?

  • Veritas SANPoint Control compared with EMC ControlCenter by Darryl Brooks

    In the second part of a two-part article, we review Veritas SANPoint Control and compare it with EMC ControlCenter.

  • Is compliance the next killer app? by Mark Schlack

    Is compliance the next killer app?

  • What are your backup, DR and data retention policies? by James Damoulakis

    Can you describe your backup, retention and disaster recovery policies? And do they correctly address your business needs?

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