Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
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Storage magazine - Vol. 4 No. 9 November 2005An improving economy helped fatten paychecks a bit in 2005, says storage engineer Chad Smykay, whose group reaped the benefits with raises and bonuses. In addition, get information on how new file systems spearhead storage innovation, and how encryption can protect your data. Access >>>
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- Tape bulks up to keep pace with disk
- CDP comes down to Earth
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Survey Says: Compliance-minded companies opt for CAS
Compliance-minded companies opt for CAS
- File formats that stand the test of time
- Mac backup app picks up the slack
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Easing away from ESCON
by Alex Barrett, Trends Editor
ESCON, the protocol that pre-dated FICON as a systems-to-storage connection, is incompatible with the newer FICON-based systems. This tip looks at various ways you can tackle this dilemma.
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The lowdown on replication appliances
Operating system- and storage array-agnostic, replication appliances give companies increased flexibility to address one-time and continuous data replication needs, while allowing applications to continue processing without data loss or to recover with minimal downtime.
- Backup outsourcers think small
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Storage salaries increase
The results for Storage's annual salary survey are in and storage professionals report salary growth. While the increases over last year are modest, they do represent the third straight year that our exclusive survey has shown an increase in storage salaries.
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File Systems: The state of the art
by Brad O'Neill
Generally overlooked, file systems are assuming a prominent place at the heart of new technologies that address some of the most vexing storage problems, such as scaling and performance. New file-system approaches provide the underpinnings for technologies such as clustering, global namespaces and wide-area computing.
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Quality Awards: What are the best midrange arrays?
Midrange array users are a generally satisfied group, according to the latest Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards survey. While all midrange array vendors fared quite well in this third installment of our awards program, the vendor that snared top honors might surprise some people.
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Secure your backups
The headlines tell the story: Lost tapes can jeopardize the confidentiality of personal information and cause public-relations woes for those companies charged with safeguarding that data. Encryption can solve the problem, but implementing tape encryption isn't so easy, as performance issues could impact backup windows.
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The lowdown on replication appliances
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Low risk or low gain?
Low risk or low gain?
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CDP poised to replace traditional backup methods
Continuous data protection (CDP) applications are quickly becoming a force in the backup market. In fact, CDP is poised to replace traditional backup methods.
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The business aspect of data storage security
Storage professionals are finally beginning to pay attention to security, but they need to consider risk from a business perspective and include people, processes and technologies in their assessments.
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How many backup apps do you have?
How many backup apps do you have?
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How good is your disaster recovery plan
Storage Bin: Just how good is your disaster recovery plan? That is, if you even have one. But even the best-laid plans may fail in the face of overwhelming disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11.
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Low risk or low gain?
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