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• • Our View: Encryption is too hard

  • Need persists for mainframe storage skills

  • Survey: Fibre Channel rules planned purchases

  • HP kit gives 8Gb/sec FC a boost by Rich Friedman

  • What storage project had the biggest positive impact on your company's business?

  • CDP still not a must-have for users

  • Data center building blocks

  • The benefits of clustered storage by Robert L. Scheier

    Clustered storage combines multiple arrays or controllers to increase their performance, capacity or reliability. But the technology isn't right for every company. We outline what you need to know before deciding to adopt clustered storage.

• • Prices drop for drives, tapes

  • Is iSCSI good enough? by Deni Connor

    Organizations of all sizes have adopted iSCSI because it's easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like Ethernet and doesn't require specialized skill sets like Fibre Channel does. But do analyst claims that iSCSI performance falls short of that for Fiber Channel hold up?

  • Automate application recovery by Eric Burgener

    Today's application continuity computing (ACC) products are best suited for small- and medium-sized businesses, and are focused exclusively on Exchange, which most companies now consider a business-critical application. But the concentration on Exchange will likely change over the next few years, as several ACC vendors plan support for SQL Server and SharePoint in the future.

  • Archive vendors looking to partner

  • Dual-protocol arrays appeal to users

  • Data management priorities: By The Numbers

  • Ask the Expert: RAID performance issues

  • Quality Awards III: Compellent shakes up midrange array field

    No "big name" vendor has yet won the top spot in our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for midrange arrays. This year, two relative newcomers--Compellent and EqualLogic--topped the field of competitors.

• Columns

  • Hot Spots: Step one for DR: Server virtualization by Lauren Whitehouse

    Server virtualization technology reduces the cost and complexity traditionally associated with remote replication for disaster recovery (DR) and DR testing, enabling organizations of all sizes to introduce DR where it didn't exist before.

  • Cloudy future for storage? (Editorial)

  • Storage Bin 2.0: Winds of change push storage into a new era

    The transactional computing era is over. The Internet computing era is dragging data into the "cloud," and this new era will rain more files--and bigger files--down on you than you can ever imagine.

  • Best Practices: High hopes for thin provisioning by Ashish Nadkarni

    Thin provisioning is a promising way to address allocation and performance. One of the biggest challenges when using the technology is knowing where your data lives, and whether it can be tracked or recovered if there's a catastrophic component failure.

  • Storage Bin 2.0: Winds of change push storage into a new era

    The transactional computing era is over. The Internet computing era is dragging data into the "cloud," and this new era will rain more files--and bigger files--down on you than you can ever imagine.

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