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• • Data storage salary survey 2012: Skills more valuable than ever by Ellen O'Brien

    Our 2012 storage salary survey finds that despite tough times—growing capacities, shrinking budgets and long hours—data storage professionals are making more money than ever.

  • Budget picture brightens for storage managers by Rich Castagna

    Our storage Purchasing Intentions survey finds storage budgets are recovering, offering storage managers a measure of relief in their struggle to contain data capacities.

• • File storage focuses on scalable NAS by Jacob Gsoedl

    NAS systems are at the heart of burgeoning file data stores. But they'll have to evolve to meet new capacity, accessibility and management needs.

  • Virtual desktops trigger storage spending by Rich Castagna

    Have you virtualized desktops at your company? Find out what our survey respondents have to say about implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure.

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  • Linear Tape File System needs a boost by Rich Castagna

    The Linear Tape File System spec is more than two years old, but still only used in a handful of products. Maybe SNIA's new working group will inspire LTFS product development.

  • A friction theory of storage clouds by Jon William Toigo

    Applying the economic theories of a Nobel laureate suggests that storage may be heading to the cloud … or maybe not.

  • Consumerization of IT poses corporate challenge by Terri McClure

    IT needs to set strict policies on what employees should and shouldn't do when it comes to choosing their technology.

  • InfiniBand networking for storage and converged data centers by Jeff Byrne

    InfiniBand has expanded from its HPC roots to take on new, more mainstream use cases in the data center.

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