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• • Early Adopters Unequivocally Up About iSCSI Arrays

    After years of listening to iSCSI hype, some IT professionals are embracing a new generation of IP-based storage subsystems, a group that includes the PeerStorage Array 100E, an iSCSI array from Nashua, NH-based EqualLogic.

  • SRM Vendors Set Sights on Secondary Storage

    Storage resource management (SRM) has become a standard offering for primary storage from all of the major SAN management vendors. Now, a number of startups and established backup software makers have taken the features of SRM and aimed them at secondary storage.

  • New Pricing Schemes Aim For Lower Storage Costs

    Could pay-for-use pricing save you money?

  • Diagnostic Tool Shines Light on SDLT

    Quantum is shipping a suite of drive and media diagnostic tools that the company says will help IT managers more easily manage their tape resources.

  • Intelligent Switches To Get Common API

    Smart switches to be standardized

  • Can tools streamline provisioning?

    Virtualization was last year's buzz word, and it looks like provisioning may be this year's. We dissect what these tools actually do and how to choose which ones that are likely to actually be useful in your environment.

  • Why consolidate?

    Organizations trying to consolidate storage often find themselves creating SAN islands that perpetuate traditional stovepipes. Does this solve the problem?

• • EMC Expands Reach of Symmetrix DMX

    The incredible expanding Symmetrix DMX

  • Grid computing will change storage

    Often described as the Internet on steroids, grid computing has the buzz as the next big thing to change the world of computing as we know it. Here's how storage management will change in the grid world.

  • Guest Opinion: IBM Makes the 'V' Word Respectable Again

    IBM makes virtualization respectable again.

  • Protect your SAN from attack by W. Curtis Preston

    Think your SAN is secure? Find out the truth by reading Part 1 in our three-part series on storage security.

  • File Virtualization Tackles NAS Management Woes

    Now that NAS farms have grown to multiterabyte proportions, management migraines usually associated with SANs have arisen, and virtualization--round two--has begun.

  • The best way to scale SANs by Stephen Foskett

    SAN configurations greatly influence their scalability. There's no perfect model, but here are the trade-offs involved with each major option.

  • E-mail: It's worse than you think by Eric Knorr

    According to a 2003 study by Meta Group, 80% of businesspeople say e-mail is more essential than the telephone. However, storage managers are struggling to keep pace with the growth in message volume and retention requirements. however.

• Columns

  • Recovering from a data center disaster by Darryl Brooks

    Your worst nightmare -- of your data center suffering a catastrophic disaster -- has come true. Now what?

  • More cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history

    Storage Bin: Summer thoughts: There's more cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history.

  • Getting started with data storage efficiency

    Don't get stuck in the old mode of consolidation and miss opportunities for greater efficiency.

  • Do you encrypt your backup tapes?

    Do You Encrypt Your Backup Tapes?

  • Editorial by Mark Schlack

    After the winter, what to plant?

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