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This article is part of the Vol. 6 No. 4 June 2007 issue of Surprise winner: BlueArc earns top NAS quality award honors
Virtualization and power/cooling issues dominated the discussions at Storage Networking World (SNW) in April, which was surprising as neither of these topics has bothered storage pros too much until recently. Of the 144 presentations at the show, at least a third mentioned virtualization, in particular VMware. The impact of VMware on storage, and interoperability issues associated with virtual machine (VM) technology, was top of mind for many storage pros. With the flexibility to run VMs anywhere in a grid of servers, organizations are realizing that storage can't be captive to any one server within that grid. Because of the way Fibre Channel (FC) SAN security works by zoning at the physical port level, all VMs on a single physical server have to be in the same zone, which opens up security concerns and contradicts SAN best practices. Several users at the show said they'd implemented masking within the server itself for each VM, by way of the hypervisor's file system, but it was a manual and cumbersome process. "There are workarounds, and technology such as ... Access >>>
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- Exchange 2007 replication: A stretch for DR
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Upstart tops NAS vendors
In our second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, large NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but a lesser known company emerged as the surprise winner of enterprise NAS.
- Grid storage gets real
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Catching up with deduplication
by Jerome Wendt
Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Because vendors implement deduplication differently, the fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding deduplication products has increased, with questions about when to deploy what product. Here's what you need to know to pick the product that will best fit into your environment.
- Virtualization and green storage dominate SNW
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- Brocade, Cisco clash on measuring director's power consumption
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Snapshot: Users bank on bare-metal restore
Users bank on bare-metal restore
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Consolidating remote offices
Storage magazine and Taneja Group conducted a survey of 254 IT professionals with responsibility for remote-/branch-office (ROBO) management and planning. Our research reveals that while 70% of respondents now view ROBO as central to business operations, there are still many areas of uncertainty and confusion.
- Counting the cost of data theft
- CDP gains ground one app at a time
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
Consistency and standardization are the keys to a disciplined storage operation. How much you can achieve depends on the size of your operation and the resources you have available.
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Hot Spots: Database archiving to the rescue
More information privacy laws, record-retention regulations and data growth pose a challenge to database and storage groups.
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Storage Bin: It's time to change the way you think about data
by Steve Duplessie
The dynamic store is about speed and redundancy, while the persistent store is about infinite dynamic infrastructure, the ability to find things easily and an autonomous self-managing/self-healing infrastructure. Stop trying to make one into the other.
- Editorial: Backup will get easier ...
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
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