Is storage management software worth it? by Alan Radding
High prices, deep discounts, expensive deployments, uncertain vendor commitment--what's a storage manager to think? We help decode the confusion that abounds in this market.

How global companies are consolidating storage. by Carol Hildebrand
Learn how international companies are managing their storage globally through data center consolidation.

Midrange or high end: what's right for you by Jim Booth
While the line is blurring, it's not gone. We look at what really differentiates high-end from midrange storage. And we look at the virtues of combining them.

Virtual SANs bring order to chaos by Marc Farley
What will Cisco's embedded virtual SAN technology in its new MDS switch line mean to storage managers? For starters, a new way to manage SANs as they spread across the company.

Storage managers grapple with Windows by David Braue
The spread of Windows into ever-more serious applications and the growth of data on Windows servers means that more storage managers are attaching Windows hosts to their SANs. Along with that comes the need to decide whether Windows-based storage management software is the way to go.

Tape: Alive and full of options by Jerome M. Wendt
Sure, disk is going down in price, but don't underestimate the value of tape technology. We look at what's available in tape libraries for large-scale backup.

Intelligence Sprouts in the Storage Network
It's still too early to tell how the fight for the so-called "intelligent switch" market will pan out, but players are slowly starting to reveal what team they're on.

Let the iSCSI Games Begin
From the time the iSCSI specification was ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) this winter, there's been a spate of iSCSI product announcements.

USC Spurns Usual Tape Suspects
In his role as director of emerging technologies at the University of Southern California (USC), Mike Lin is responsible for storing and backing up between 50TB to 100TB of data, for faculty and students alike.

SSPs Move to Bolster Security
Desktop backups don't happen automatically.

SATA drive challenges SCSI functionality
When it comes to disk drives, suitability for enterprise or desktop applications has little to do with the interface, but with the drive's underlying mechanical platform.

Picking Up the Pieces from the BMC Debacle
BMC unceremoniously dumped its open systems storage management suite leaving customers in the lurch.

Mark Your Calendars
With tulips and daffodils also come trade shows. Here's a short list of storage conferences happening this spring.

Sony Promotes Tape for WORM Archival
Despite its unfortunate name, emerging tape WORM technology could be a real boon to storage administrators now required to archive, for example, e-mail or medical images.

Rolling disaster
Rolling disaster

Wake-up call for vendors by Mark Schlack
Wake-up call for vendors

Behind the Firewall
Problems with EMC's Control Center ...Whither Legato ... Good news at iotech ... Straightening out FalconStor rumors

Controlling storage capacity
Storage capacity is rapidly growing. Here's how to control it. Hint: Storage management software isn't the answer.

Keep your SAN secure through zoning by Darryl Brooks
Keep your SAN secure through zoning.

Real-world data storage utilization by Stephen Foskett
Stephen Foskett takes a real-world look at how storage is being utilized and the answers are shocking.

Why won't EMC let us time the DMX against the competition by Steve Duplessie
Storage Bin: Why won't EMC let us time the DMX against the competition?

Will you implement an iSCSI SAN?
Will You Implement an iSCSI SAN?