E-mail: It's worse than you think by Eric Knorr
According to a 2003 study by Meta Group, 80% of businesspeople say e-mail is more essential than the telephone. However, storage managers are struggling to keep pace with the growth in message volume and retention requirements. however.

Protect your SAN from attack by W. Curtis Preston
Think your SAN is secure? Find out the truth by reading Part 1 in our three-part series on storage security.

Why consolidate? by Alan Radding
Organizations trying to consolidate storage often find themselves creating SAN islands that perpetuate traditional stovepipes. Does this solve the problem?

The best way to scale SANs by Stephen Foskett
SAN configurations greatly influence their scalability. There's no perfect model, but here are the trade-offs involved with each major option.

Grid computing will change storage by Marc Staimer
Often described as the Internet on steroids, grid computing has the buzz as the next big thing to change the world of computing as we know it. Here's how storage management will change in the grid world.

Can tools streamline provisioning? by Jerome M. Wendt
Virtualization was last year's buzz word, and it looks like provisioning may be this year's. We dissect what these tools actually do and how to choose which ones that are likely to actually be useful in your environment.

New Pricing Schemes Aim For Lower Storage Costs
Could pay-for-use pricing save you money?

Intelligent Switches To Get Common API
Smart switches to be standardized

File Virtualization Tackles NAS Management Woes
Now that NAS farms have grown to multiterabyte proportions, management migraines usually associated with SANs have arisen, and virtualization--round two--has begun.

Early Adopters Unequivocally Up About iSCSI Arrays
After years of listening to iSCSI hype, some IT professionals are embracing a new generation of IP-based storage subsystems, a group that includes the PeerStorage Array 100E, an iSCSI array from Nashua, NH-based EqualLogic.

EMC Expands Reach of Symmetrix DMX
The incredible expanding Symmetrix DMX

SRM Vendors Set Sights on Secondary Storage
Storage resource management (SRM) has become a standard offering for primary storage from all of the major SAN management vendors. Now, a number of startups and established backup software makers have taken the features of SRM and aimed them at secondary storage.

Guest Opinion: IBM Makes the 'V' Word Respectable Again
IBM makes virtualization respectable again.

Diagnostic Tool Shines Light on SDLT
Quantum is shipping a suite of drive and media diagnostic tools that the company says will help IT managers more easily manage their tape resources.

Recovering from a data center disaster by Darryl Brooks
Your worst nightmare -- of your data center suffering a catastrophic disaster -- has come true. Now what?

Getting started with data storage efficiency
Don't get stuck in the old mode of consolidation and miss opportunities for greater efficiency.

More cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history by Steve Duplessie
Storage Bin: Summer thoughts: There's more cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history.

Editorial by Mark Schlack
After the winter, what to plant?

Behind the Firewall
Telcos make switch choices ...Why the FBI was at EMC ... Startups to watch ... Tape shows surprising strength.

Do you encrypt your backup tapes?
Do You Encrypt Your Backup Tapes?