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• • Cutting through the tape maze by Ron Levine

    All tape is not created equal. Here's everything you need to know about tape formats for corporate backup.

  • Recent Funding to Storage Companies

    Database backup and recovery software and next-generation storage switching hardware garnered the lion's share of late-spring venture capital funding.

  • ASK THE EXPERT: What does storage pooling mean? What do you think of it? by Joel Lovell

  • Test before you taste by Benjamin Kuo

    If you're putting a SAN together, you'll need to test interoperability. Surprisingly, that goes double for open systems products. Some companies are even doing it themselves - here's how

  • Virtual tape is cast for the open systems stage

    For some people in the open systems world, tape is a four-letter word.

  • Distance yourself from disaster by Charles T. Clark

    Long-distance replication is reachable with new optical and IP storage networking technologies.

  • Pushing storage to another level by Johanna Ambrosio

    In the extreme worlds of geophysical computing and genomics, storage managers are learning approaches that will be in the mainstream tomorrow.

  • NDMP restores sanity to NAS backup by David Braue

    NDMP has emerged as the best way to provide plug-and-play connectivity between backup software and filer-attached tape drives.

  • Storage industry index

    May followed April's dramatic decline.

  • NAS: more than just an appliance by Randy Kerns

    New advances in NAS boxes are moving them from mere departmental storage workhorses to servicing mission critical corporate applications.

• • Chargeback ROI: Does accountability pay? by Anne Zieger

    Chargeback for storage use is attracting a lot of interest. But does it make sense financially?

  • Standard IT processes: getting to yes at Intel by Bill Whittington

    How one man helped standardize corporate backup and restore procedures - and lived to tell about it.

  • Vixel chip brings switching to disks

    Subsystem vendors are coming up against the limitations of shared protocols.

  • Storage management building on XML foundation

    Storage management software is "like stepping back in time ten years."

  • Bona fide iSCSI products ship

    With ratification of the standard coming soon, more and more iSCSI products have started surfacing.

  • Apple Xserve counts on ATA

    Apple has embraced ATA drives in its new 1U rackmount server.

  • Legato sidles up to Microsoft

    Curious about what Microsoft will include for storage management software in its upcoming .NET server?

  • HPaq: the upshot for storage

    Wondering which storage product the merged Compaq/HP will push?

  • 15K RPM disk drives

    Need speed? While not spilling over with capacity, 15,000 rpm disk drives deliver average seek times for reads at about 3.5 ms vs. around 4.5 ms for 10,000 rpm drives.

• Columns

  • Don't get burnt in the fire sale by Mark Schlack

    Don't get burnt in the fire sale

  • Are your backup processes up to snuff?

    Are your backup processes up to snuff? Here's how to rate them.

  • Give the people what they want - better automation

    Storage Bin: Give the people what they want - better automation.

  • Snapshot: How users manage capacity

    Do you know how much data you have?

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