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Tune down costs
- Jul 2004
To save money and get the best performance, match the right type of storage with the application it's best suited for. We list several practical ways to optimize your storage. |
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Slash SAN costs
- Mar 2004
SANs are expensive if you operate them according to conventional wisdom. Find out how to break the vicious circle of high costs that limit the places you can use SANs. |
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Spend less on storage
- Oct 2003
Serial ATA disks can save you big bucks, but there's a bigger story here. By using RAID and a SAN, you can overcome many of its inherent reliability and performance limitations. It's time to rethink many of your assumptions about storage costs. |
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Getting remote data right
- Jul 2003
The second of a two-part series on business continuity, this article focuses on how to use replicated data and the different types of replication: subsystem, host and network device based. |
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Cost-effective business continuity
- Jun 2003
The first of a two-part series on business continuity, this article looks at disk mirroring and store and forward as approaches to keep your business running if disaster strikes. |
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Virtual SANs bring order to chaos
- Apr 2003
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. |
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Ask The Expert
- Jun 2003
Can you describe the steps that a single byte takes when going from memory to a spinning spindle and back again? |
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Ask the Expert
- Nov 2002
What are the pros and cons of storing user files on a RAID array with either ATA or SCSI drives? Because it's so much cheaper, I'd like to install an ATA RAID. |
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Ask the Expert
- Oct 2002
Can you do a LAN-free data transfer by giving an IP address to a FC adapter? Does it decrease the speed of data transfers to LAN speeds? |
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