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• • Snap Hints at Next-Gen NAS

    In short order, you won't have to worry about whether to buy NAS or SAN storage.

  • Storage SLAs--get ready by Carol Hildebrand

    Separating storage from servers means separate SLAs, too. Here's how to build one that can help control costs and manage service levels.

  • SCSI Drives Bow Out of Capacity Race

    For the first time last year, it became possible to buy an ATA disk drive with more capacity than a SCSI drive.

  • Caches with the Write Stuff

    Do you think that collaborative file creation, editing, storage and management between geographically distributed users is a pipe dream?

  • Veritas Dumps Bare Metal Restore for TSM

    Veritas has announced that effective this June, it will discontinue sales of Bare Metal Restore for IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager.

  • Optimize database storage by Jim Booth

    In this article, author and consultant Jim Booth maintains that different database objects may each require their own type of storage to make the database operations run more smoothly. Whether you're dealing with tablespaces, indexes, redo logs or archives -- there's a right and wrong storage choice for each database component. This article explains what they are.

  • Types of Block Data Replication

    All block data replication schemes are not created equal.

  • Virtualization in the switch? Not so fast by Marc Farley

    Before you buy into the whole intelligent switch hype, consider that some intelligence is best placed elsewhere.

• • PST Files Spell Trouble for Storage Administrators

    Administrators trying to keep their Exchange servers slim have their work cut out for them.

  • Modernize mainframe storage by David Braue

    The mainframe is a mature technology, but storage for it continues to evolve. Find out how to bring your valuable legacy assets into your contemporary storage network environment.

  • Next-generation NAS by Jerome Wendt

    Next-generation NAS

  • Off-site copies on the cheap by W. Curtis Preston

    Off-site copies on the cheap

  • Midrange Arrays Inherit High-End Smarts

    Virtualization layers, once a feature of only the most expensive storage subsystems, are beginning to ship with midrange storage systems.

  • Inside the new Symmetrix by Michael Desmond

    Inside the new Symmetrix

  • Definitions

    Shoeshine Effect, Reed-Solomon code and Fly Height

• Columns

  • Can Brocade's SilkWorm 12000 take the pain out of expanding your SAN? by Darryl Brooks

    Can Brocade's SilkWorm 12000 take the pain out of expanding your SAN?

  • Snapshot: Where do you store end-user files?

    Where Do You Store End-User Files?

  • The iSCSI rollout--it's about time.

    Storage Bin: The iSCSI rollout--it's about time.

  • Measuring data storage utlization by Stephen Foskett

    If you're figuring your space utilization from the host side, you're getting the wrong answer. Here's how to get a truer utilization picture.

  • Hot Spots: Storage services groups

    Being in tune with your company's initiatives can help you stay afloat in the tidal wave of trends.

  • What's new with you? by Mark Schlack

    What's new with you?

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