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• • Is Low-Cost Fibre Channel Finally Here?

    The Fibre Channel flood

  • Easier RAID Upgrades In View

    RAID upgrades made easy?

  • Hot technologies in 2004

    In 2004, flexible, affordable new technologies are beginning to emerge that will open the door for smaller companies and allow them to sample some advanced storage strategies.

  • Information lifecycle management (ILM) data storage in an Oracle environment by Greg Schulz

    There are many data storage options -- including information lifecycle management (ILM) storage -- in an Oracle environment, each uniquely beneficial to varying business and application needs. Data storage expert Greg Schulz outlines the basics.

  • Data Recovery Mantra: Know Thyself

  • Sunny Day for Storage Consolidation

    Avant-garde storage consolidation

  • Information lifecycle management

    Information lifecycle management (ILM)

• • Backup On a Shoestring

    Backup on the cheap.

  • The pitfalls of smart switches

    Do you want to centralize storage management, cut costs and make your life a whole lot easier? There are a number of storage vendors promising these very things by creating products that move intelligence into the fabric, but smart fabrics will have their own issue.

  • Reeling in a bigger salary

    The results from the first official survey of storage jobs are out, and you'll want to check them before either your staff's or your own performance review.

  • E-mail Archiving: A Storage Problem After All

  • Starting the ILM process

    Information life cycle management (ILM) is the buzz right now. But too much emphasis is being put on products and not enough on understanding that ILM is really a process. Before you buy in, here's how to analyze what it means for you.

  • Is there a need for more speed? by Jeff Moad

    Fibre Channel switch and HBA vendors will be shipping 10Gb/s gear in early 2004. The Fibre Channel Industry Association has just backed a 4Gb/s standard, yet how necessary is this when some enterprises have only recently migrated from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s?

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  • EMC and NetApp still think they're competitors

    Storage Bin: EMC and NetApp still think they're competitors; they spend time and money planning defense strategies. Maybe if they paused to think for a minute, they'd see that they're two successful companies growing in vastly different directions.

  • Tiered storage: Heterogeneous vs. homogeneous by Stephen Foskett

    Tiered storage is a hot idea, but implementing it can be trickier than appears. This article defines the two different approaches--heterogeneous and homogeneous--and helps you choose the strategy you should employ.

  • Booting from the SAN by Darryl Brooks

    Although booting from the SAN isn't a widespread practice, it gives an organization many choices in the way it manages server and storage infrastructures.

  • Snapshot: Single initiator zoning

    Do you practice single-initiator zoning?

  • How to manage your data storage growth by Jon Oltsik

    The growth seen by Hopkinton, MA, the home of EMC, is similar to the challenges faced by IT professionals. Here's how to manage your growing storage town.

  • What a difference a year makes by Mark Schlack

    What a difference a year makes

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