Storage salaries increase by Alan Radding
The results for Storage's annual salary survey are in and storage professionals report salary growth. While the increases over last year are modest, they do represent the third straight year that our exclusive survey has shown an increase in storage salaries.

File Systems: The state of the art by Brad O'Neill
Generally overlooked, file systems are assuming a prominent place at the heart of new technologies that address some of the most vexing storage problems, such as scaling and performance. New file-system approaches provide the underpinnings for technologies such as clustering, global namespaces and wide-area computing.

Quality Awards: What are the best midrange arrays? by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin
Midrange array users are a generally satisfied group, according to the latest Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards survey. While all midrange array vendors fared quite well in this third installment of our awards program, the vendor that snared top honors might surprise some people.

Secure your backups by Alex Barrett
The headlines tell the story: Lost tapes can jeopardize the confidentiality of personal information and cause public-relations woes for those companies charged with safeguarding that data. Encryption can solve the problem, but implementing tape encryption isn't so easy, as performance issues could impact backup windows.

The lowdown on replication appliances by Jerome M. Wendt
Operating system- and storage array-agnostic, replication appliances give companies increased flexibility to address one-time and continuous data replication needs, while allowing applications to continue processing without data loss or to recover with minimal downtime.