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This article is part of the Vol. 9 Num. 10 February 2011 issue of Storage Products of the Year 2010
Based on our annual Storage Priorities Survey, it looks like a busy year -- storage budgets are up a bit and there are long to-do lists. This month's Snapshot borrows from our annual priorities survey to provide a peek at what data storage managers have on their to-do lists for 2011. The most encouraging news is that nearly 42% of respondents say their budgets are up this year, while less than 16% still have to deal with shrinking budgets. But no matter what size your budget is, odds are a good part of it will go to new disk capacity, and in some cases, a lot of it. More than a third of those surveyed will add more than 50 TB of fresh disk in 2011, while another 27% anticipate adding 11 TB to 50 TB. But disk systems aren't getting all the attention, with two-thirds of our survey takers saying they'll upgrade their storage networks this year; 41% will add switches or switch ports, while 12% expect to install new SANs in their home offices or at remote sites. But the top priority -- as it has been for the past four years -- is dealing with backup. More than ... Access >>>
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Storage managers plan for busy 2011
Based on our annual Storage Priorities Survey, it looks like a busy year -- storage budgets are up a bit and there are long to-do lists.
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Finalists: 2010 data storage Products of the Year
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Replication revisited
Once an expensive option, data replication is now available in many forms and is a more affordable and effective disaster recovery option than ever.
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Using NAS for virtual machines
Common wisdom says you need block storage for virtual servers; but with most hypervisors supporting the NFS protocol, NAS may work just as well.
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Replication revisited
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What you should know about global dedupe
by Arun Taneja
Global data deduplication can yield significant capacity savings, but its most attractive feature may be the architecture it's built upon.
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Follow the leader: Mature virtualization projects reap biggest benefits
by Lauren Whitehouse
A recent survey shows the sharp contrast between the benefits associated with server virtualization projects and the age and size of the deployment environment.
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Just don't call it disaster recovery
Things might be looking up in data storage shops these days, but a lot of firms are still falling short when it comes to DR readiness.
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The end of NAS as we know it
by Tony Asaro
You've read all the predictions about how file storage will bury our data centers in a few years. How to cope? Probably not with NAS.
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What you should know about global dedupe
by Arun Taneja
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