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• • RFID May Strain Storage

  • AttachStor reclaims e-mail storage by W. Curtis Preston

    We review the AttachStor Suite, a new tool that promises to save money in Exchange and Domino environments by reducing the number of servers and the amount of storage that attachments use.

  • Oracle RAC, the Easy Way

    Oracle RAC made simple

  • Rein in e-mail storage

    With new government regulations and users' gigantic e-mail attachments, new approaches for storing e-mail are called for.

  • 4 Gb Fibre Channel: Everyone's On Board

    Four-gigabit Fibre Channel is a reality.

  • Put Your Data on Ice

    Proponents of information life cycle management (ILM) like to talk about managing data from birth to death. For most industries, that "death" can't come soon enough.

  • Is storage certification worth it? by Susan J. Marks

    If you're thinking about advancing your career by becoming certified in a particular storage skill, read this article to help you decide if certification is worth your time and money.

• • iSCSI Waters Getting Warmer

  • InfiniBand Storage in Limbo

    InfiniBand gains traction.

  • Are full backups dead? by W. Curtis Preston

    Tape may not be dead, but the way you use it can change. Consider increasing your use of incremental backup, particularly if you're integrating disk into your backup process.

  • Remote DR: faster, farther and cheaper

    Post-Sept. 11, you need to consider disaster sites that are geographically distant from your main data centers. Remote replication software, IP storage and new techniques for long-term storage are changing the DR distance equation.

  • Home is Where the Storage Is

    How much storage is in your home?

  • The great divide: mainframe and open-systems storage by Jeff Moad

    If you'd like to use the same software to manage mainframe and open-systems storage, don't hold your breath. But there are more immediate ways that you can leverage mainframe best practices in the open-systems world.

• Columns

  • Snapshot: How is Your SAN Architected?

    Cost per megabyte dropped 2 cents in 2003

  • How to get the best service for the least amount of money by Darryl Brooks

    Bringing in outside consultants and engineers can be risky. Read this article to find out how to get the best service for the least amount of money.

  • Geeks and spies are running storage security

    Storage Bin: Geeks and spies--not business people--are running storage security, and that's not a good thing.

  • Lost world or lost opportunity? by Mark Schlack

    Lost world or lost opportunity?

  • Hot data storage startups by Jon Oltsik

    There's finally some good economic news in the IT world, so perhaps it's time to investigate new storage startups. This article details the most innovative startups in the industry today.

  • Implementing new data storage technologies by Stephen Foskett

    There are many new technologies that you may want to try, but you need to implement them with new processes and procedures to maximize the benefits these new products bring.

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