Who's running the storage shop? by Rich Castagna
Companies that set up a storage management group with well-defined job duties can eliminate redundancy and get more bang for their buck.

The best way to move data by Jerome M. Wendt
Don't get mired in sluggish data. There are best practices for migrating data from point A to point B. Here's how to pick the right method that fits with your company's needs and budget.

Green light for disk spending by Mark Schlack
The results from our semiannual Purchasing Intentions Survey are in. Storage managers are investing more in disk, but budgets for networked hardware are decreasing. The technology least likely to be invested in? Storage management software.

WAN Links gain speed by Alan Radding
Can't get past the cost of doing high-speed remote replication? Latency problems driving you nuts? New TCIP/IP accelerators for IP storage promise some relief.

The object is better backup by John Merryman
New object-based backup may forever change the way backup is done. It drastically reduces volumes by backing up only the data that has changed.

Bridging SAN islands by Jerome M. Wendt
To help ensure that a change made to one part of the SAN doesn't interfere with the entire storage network, some new products claim to have developed a new switch-based intelligence that segregates the SAN and protects SAN data.