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Features

• • Analyzers bulk up for storage by Michael Movalli

    On today's high-speed Fibre Channel networks, analyzers need more memory, disk and speed than ever before.

  • iSCSI Products Flood Market

  • Cisco Joins FC Switch Club

    By the end of the year, Cisco will begin shipping the fruits of its Andiamo acquisition, the MDS 9000 series fabric switch and director products.

  • Protect Data at Rest

  • Easing the Pain of NAS Backup Headaches

    Installing NAS device after NAS device may be as easy as pie, but backing them all up can be a royal pain.

  • Where ATA arrays can save you money by Matthew McKenzie

    ATA arrays can save you money if you use them where their limitations don't have a deleterious impact.

  • High-Availability Switches Still a Moving Target

  • Pay the right price for storage by Tony Prigmore

    You can spend too much for storage, but you can also underspend. Here's how to figure what you should pay.

  • Book Review by Kit Pitroda

    Storage Area Network Fundamentals

• • Auto provisioning still a tease by Johanna Ambrosio

    Vendors can't deliver full automation yet, but here's what limited help you can get.

  • Beyond basic RAID

  • Veritas raises the bar with NetBackup 4.5 by W. Curtis Preston

    We review the latest version of NetBackup. Find out why you may want to upgrade.

  • Where Does Midrange End and Enterprise Begin?

    There's an increasingly fine line between midrange and high-end storage, with vendors stuffing midrange systems with more and more hardware and software capabilities.

  • HIPAA Prompts Hospitals to Reconsider Storage

    With the deadline to comply with HIPAA lurking in the not-so-distant future, the healthcare industry's IT professionals are revamping their storage infrastructures to fulfill the law's security and patient record accessibility requirements.

  • Superparamagnetic limit

    Superparamagnetic limit

  • Tame e-mail storage - before it eats you alive by David Braue

    E-mail is high on the list of applications driving storage growth at most enterprises. A lot of that growth could be avoided with proper management. Fortunately, for major packages such as Exchange and Notes, help may be on the way.

  • Which new technologies are worth it?

    A look beyond the hype of InfiniBand, smart switches and iSCSI. Which one will work best for you?

• Columns

  • Behind the firewall

    Netliant going to the dogs ... JNI dumps InfiniBand ... The British aren't coming, The British aren't coming ... McData vs. Brocade: No love lost.

  • Lower your costs by implementing enterprise-class libraries by Darryl Brooks

    Lower your costs by implementing enterprise-class libraries

  • It's not all gloom and doom for the storage industry.

    Storage Bin: It's not all gloom and doom for the storage industry.

  • Snapshot: Block-based storage

    How much of your data is block-based?

  • The good--and bad--of storage vendor independence by Stephen Foskett

    The good--and bad--of vendor independence.

  • What are they thinking? by Mark Schlack

    What are they thinking?

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