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Features

• • By the Numbers: Compliance, FRCP and ediscovery issues

  • Best Storage Products of 2007 by Editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com

    Our sixth annual Products of the Year awards recognize the 15 new or enhanced storage products that rose to the top in 2007. The editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com, along with a panel of users and industry experts, selected these winning products based on their innovation and performance, among other factors.

  • Survey Says: Deduplication, VTL top wish list

  • Sync Up Virtual Servers and Storage by Deni Connor

    Virtual machines (VMs) can be a boon to businesses because they allow consolidation, but they can be a burden when IT considers the complexities of backing them up, and managing and tracking them. It will behoove storage administrators to learn the best ways to protect VMs in their environment and, with management and monitoring tools, control their growth.

  • Ask the Expert: Concurrent write access

    How can we have concurrent write access to our EMC SAN without corruption?

  • Snapshot: Data protection SLAs on the upswing

  • Protecting virtual machines by Rich Friedman

• • Storage feels heat from FRCP rules by Jerome M. Wendt and Joshua Konkle

  • Storage staffing shortage looms by Ellen O'Brien

  • Hot Storage Skills by Ellen O'Brien

    As storage becomes more complex and costly, businesses are seeking storage professionals who can architect various tiers of networked storage, document what they've done, and help their business units select the type of storage that best supports their applications' requirements at a price that makes the executive suite smile.

  • Sun gambles on open source for storage

  • Users still wary about LTO-4 encryption

  • More Than Just Backup

    Data protection is changing rapidly, with point-in-time recoveries, fast legal discovery response and near real-time disaster recoveries becoming new requirements. To address these needs, enterprise backup applications are adding support for continuous data protection, deduplication, ediscovery, single-instance storage and the VMware Consolidated Backup framework. These backup suites promise not only integrated data protection, but overall enterprise data management.

  • Storage services options grow

• Columns

  • Hot Spots: A new level of backup reporting by Lauren Whitehouse

    Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery can still be a nightmare. The good news is that backup reporting tools can give you more insight than ever into the sometimes mysterious process of data protection.

  • Best Practices: The year ahead: Green power, weak dollars and more apps by Ashish Nadkarni

    Tighter budgets could mean some belt-tightening in your storage shop. To save money, you might have to spend a little to take advantage of some of the key trends for 2008: virtualization, green storage and storage as a service.

  • Storage Bin 2.0: Time for RAID to die by Tony Asaro

    Storage has changed radically since the invention of RAID. Some storage systems are reducing their RAID use, while others are moving away from the technology. And this is a good thing.

  • Editorial: Whaddaya mean you can't find it?

    Whaddaya mean you can't find it?

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