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Features

• • Best data storage products: 2012 Products of the Year

    Find out the 14 best data storage products in Storage magazine's/SearchStorage.com's 2012 Products of the Year competition.

  • The state of network storage technologies by Dennis Martin

    While often overlooked, there's a lot happening with network storage technologies to keep up with the ever-increasing I/O demands coming from virtualized servers and storage.

• • Storage for virtual environments by Jacob Gsoedl

    Despite the benefits of virtualizing servers and desktops, admins often struggle to support storage for virtual environments. Here's what vendors are doing to address the problem.

  • Use of cloud-based backup services expanding by Rich Castagna

    Our most recent Storage magazine survey finds that 35% of respondents use multiple cloud-based backup services and have an overall average of 13 TB of data in the cloud.

• Columns

  • Take a hybrid approach to data storage protection by Rich Castagna

    The old fundamentals of data storage protection that required separate processes for backup, DR and archive can't keep up with today's data capacities.

  • The dangers of 3D printing by Jon William Toigo

    Use 3D printing to build your own storage array. Or get a 3D printer and watch your storage array fill up with data.

  • We need a backup data deduplication layer by Jason Buffington

    As backup dedupe matures, it's still very much a proprietary technology. We need standardization to eliminate some of today's software-hardware headaches.

  • Cloud has a silver lining for ROBO storage by Mike Matchett

    Providing and managing storage for remote and branch offices can be a challenge, but a hybrid approach using local and cloud-based storage may be the best solution.

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