Reeling in a bigger salary by Alan Radding
The results from the first official survey of storage jobs are out, and you'll want to check them before either your staff's or your own performance review.

Is there a need for more speed? by Jeff Moad
Fibre Channel switch and HBA vendors will be shipping 10Gb/s gear in early 2004. The Fibre Channel Industry Association has just backed a 4Gb/s standard, yet how necessary is this when some enterprises have only recently migrated from 1Gb/s to 2Gb/s?

Hot technologies in 2004 by Alan Radding
In 2004, flexible, affordable new technologies are beginning to emerge that will open the door for smaller companies and allow them to sample some advanced storage strategies.

The pitfalls of smart switches by Jerome M. Wendt
Do you want to centralize storage management, cut costs and make your life a whole lot easier? There are a number of storage vendors promising these very things by creating products that move intelligence into the fabric, but smart fabrics will have their own issue.

Starting the ILM process by Jerome M. Wendt
Information life cycle management (ILM) is the buzz right now. But too much emphasis is being put on products and not enough on understanding that ILM is really a process. Before you buy in, here's how to analyze what it means for you.

Is Low-Cost Fibre Channel Finally Here?
The Fibre Channel flood

Easier RAID Upgrades In View
RAID upgrades made easy?

E-mail Archiving: A Storage Problem After All

Information lifecycle management
Information lifecycle management (ILM)

Data Recovery Mantra: Know Thyself

Sunny Day for Storage Consolidation
Avant-garde storage consolidation

Backup On a Shoestring
Backup on the cheap.

What a difference a year makes by Mark Schlack
What a difference a year makes

Behind the firewall
Brocade's future in question ... NetApp loses voting power ... Tape drives and tape media complaints ... EMC searching for a new Dell ... Emulex's acquisition of Vixel is all good news.

Booting from the SAN by Darryl Brooks
Although booting from the SAN isn't a widespread practice, it gives an organization many choices in the way it manages server and storage infrastructures.

Tiered storage: Heterogeneous vs. homogeneous by Stephen Foskett
Tiered storage is a hot idea, but implementing it can be trickier than appears. This article defines the two different approaches--heterogeneous and homogeneous--and helps you choose the strategy you should employ.

How to manage your data storage growth by Jon Oltsik
The growth seen by Hopkinton, MA, the home of EMC, is similar to the challenges faced by IT professionals. Here's how to manage your growing storage town.

EMC and NetApp still think they're competitors by Steve Duplessie
Storage Bin: EMC and NetApp still think they're competitors; they spend time and money planning defense strategies. Maybe if they paused to think for a minute, they'd see that they're two successful companies growing in vastly different directions.

Snapshot: Single initiator zoning
Do you practice single-initiator zoning?