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Storage magazine - Vol. 9 Num. 4 June 2010The June 2010 cover story of Storage magazine provided insights on where solid state makes sense in today’s storage environments. This month’s issue also reveals the winners of our latest Quality Awards survey for backup and recovery software, best practices from W. Curtis Preston for backing up Microsoft SharePoint and much more. Access >>>
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Features
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Backing up SharePoint
by W. Curtis Preston
Microsoft SharePoint is gaining in popularity as a corporate collaboration tool—it's great for office efficiency, but tough on backups.
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Making the case for solid-state storage
by Dennis Martin
With a variety of solid-state implementations available, it's time to take a serious look at how the technology could enhance your storage environment.
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Backing up SharePoint
by W. Curtis Preston
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CommVault wins best enterprise storage array, Acronis takes midrange honor
CommVault returns to the winner's circle for the fourth time in our fifth Quality Awards for Backup and Recovery Software; Acronis emerges as a new winner among midrange backup applications.
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Companies are better prepared for disasters
More than 50% of the respondents to our disaster recovery (DR) survey are very confident that their DR plans will save their company from disaster. But one-third don't even test their plans.
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CommVault wins best enterprise storage array, Acronis takes midrange honor
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Columns
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Backup is too hard
Storage environments are getting more complex, which makes data protection even tougher. While backup software does more these days, it's still frustrating the hell out of users.
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Are more Symantec OST-like APIs needed?
by Lauren Whitehouse
One of the by-products of Symantec's OpenStorage interface is a performance improvement in backup and recovery operations.
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NFS a good match for VMware
by Tony Asaro
With server virtualization proliferating, most companies are hooking those virtualized environments into Fibre Channel SANs; but there may be a better alternative.
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Virtual servers and their impact on data storage
Taneja Group senior analyst and consultant Jeff Byrne opines on how almost every IT shop has virtualized at least some of its servers, shifting much of the burden of server consolidation onto data storage systems.
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Backup is too hard
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