Storage, heal thyself by Marc Staimer
Several storage system vendors claim their products can detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. Here's how they do it and the low-down on how well they work.

Dueling directors by Jacob Gsoedl
Director-class switches have been used to maintain performance in large storage networks for years, but soon they'll act as the hubs that unify data center networks.

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Majority of users opt for tiered storage by Rich Castagna
A year ago, less than half of the Storage readers we surveyed had a storage tiering process in place, but our most recent survey shows 59% now use tiered storage.

Vendors must adapt to a new environment by Rich Castagna
Spiraling capacity growth, a deteriorating economy -- are there any vendors ready to step up and deliver the storage efficiency tools we need now?

DR readiness in a deduplicated world by Lauren Whitehouse
One of the big benefits of employing data dedupe for secondary disk targets is its ability to reduce the size of data sets, enabling replication with lower bandwidth requirements.