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• • Federal Regulations Spur Interest in Tape Encryption

    Are federal regulations making you paranoid?

  • SAN holdouts by Jeff Moad

    In the first of three stories profiling organizations at various stages of storage networking, we look at those who have chosen to wait and find out why.

  • WORM Option Seals Tape Library Sale

  • Firm finds happiness with startup vendor

    Happiness is a 3PAR array

  • Can Disk Speed Up Lethargic Backups?

    Is disk-based backup right for your shop?

  • RAID Making its Way to the Motherboard

    Gartner sees RAID on the motherboard

  • Where tape belongs by David Braue

    Ignore the industry babble about whether tape is dead or not: Tape is here to stay. But with the advantages of new low-cost disk systems--especially for fast restoration--tape's role in backup will likely change. The upshot: You'll likely be using your libraries differently.

• • SAN/NAS convergence: proceed with caution by Michael Desmond

    Until recently, various barriers separated network-attached storage and storage area networks. New hybrid SAN-NAS solutions promise many benefits, but do they actually deliver them?

  • Dark storage

    Dark storage

  • The case for high-end arrays

    The gap between midrange and high-end storage arrays has narrowed, enough so that the decision of which storage array to buy is less of a technical decision and more of a business one.

  • Windows Storage Server 2003 Debuts

    Windows storage server has arrived.

  • Protect your SAN from attack, part 2 by W. Curtis Preston

    We continue our security series by looking at how to provide strong authentication for SANs, otherwise known as zoning. The trick is to find the right zoning technique that meets your needs for both security and convenience.

  • Linux: a good deal with drawbacks

    As Linux servers gain acceptance, the question of how Linux plays on storage networks arises. Not so bad, is the short answer, but not as well as you might hope, either.

• Columns

  • Dense wavelength division multiplexing for disaster recovery by Darryl Brooks

    It's been two years now since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and there are new options for disaster recovery. In this first of a two-part series, we critique DWDM.

  • Centralizing remote-office data backup by Jon Oltsik

    Centralize your backup, or you may never be able to recover from disasters. You may also fail to comply with federal regulations.

  • Keeping more useless data online

    Storage Bin: We may be keeping more data online than ever before, but we are also keeping more useless data online as well.

  • Avoiding backup nightmares with data backup reports by James Damoulakis

    The key to avoiding common backup nightmares that plague most storage managers is having clearly defined backup reports.

  • Snapshot: Backup procedures

    What's Your Backup Philosophy?

  • Now that the lights are back on... by Mark Schlack

    Now that the lights are back on...

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