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MARCH 2010 |
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FEATURES |
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Find out more about this month's Storage Magazine advertisers by clicking on the company names below to contact them and request more information on their products and services. |
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December 2004 |
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Storage salaries edge up
Storage's second annual Salary Survey finds salaries and bonuses inching upward despite a still sluggish economy. Even with hiring remaining flat, 2005 looks promising for storage salaries. |
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Stress-free firmware upgrades
by Dean Auger
Firmware upgrades can be daunting, but you can take some of the fear and frustration out of the process by preparing detailed documentation of your storage environment. |
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Match snaps to apps
by Glenn Duzy
Snapshots are key to most shops' backup and recovery plans. But implementing them requires application analysis to determine the best type of snapshots to use and how often to take them. |
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November 2004 |
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IBM's new arrays
by Rich Castagna
IBM's new family of arrays is based on its server architectures and united by common software. The DS8000 is built around the Power5 processor, which supports partitioning. The modular DS6000 scales from a mere 292GB to an enterprise-worthy 67TB. |
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Tiered storage has arrived
by Mark Schlack
Our semiannual Purchasing Intentions survey shows spending is up, if not at the levels of earlier this year. Storage managers are spreading money across multiple tiers of storage products. |
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How to design a core/edge SAN
by Norman Owens
The SPICE formula offers a creative and easy way to determine the best design for an efficient core/edge SAN. |
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4Gb--ready or not, here it comes
You might not need them, but 4Gb/sec Fibre Channel products are coming. Comparably priced to 2Gb/sec and backward compatible, they might end up in your storage network whether you need them or not. |
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October 2004 |
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Hot technologies for 2005 and beyond
Storage editors asked industry leaders what new technologies are likely to have the most impact on storage operations. We look at the top five emerging technologies and tell you why they can change how storage gets done in your shop. |
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Next-gen switches
by Arun Taneja
You can move intelligence to a storage network using intelligent switches or appliances. How the alternatives work, and the pros and cons of each are described. |
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Better tape restores
by Jeff Harbert and John Merryman
Don't find out the hard way that your tape-based backup system isn't working as planned. Here are some best practices that will increase the odds that your restores will work. |
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The state of standards
by Johanna Ambrosio
Confused by FAIS, SMI-S, RAID DDF or iSCSI? We make sense out of the alphabet soup of storage standards and help you determine which ones you should consider when purchasing storage gear. |
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September 2004 |
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Making disk-based backup work
by James Damoulakis and Bill Peldzus
Adding low-cost disk to a backup environment can ease a host of backup woes. Here's how to find the disk-based backup approach that works best for your shop. |
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Users slow to embrace storage automation
Some storage managers are still reluctant to put their trust in storage automation. But the users who are implementing automation one step at a time are finding that it can yield big benefits. |
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Storage at risk
by Jon Oltsik
A new survey of Storage magazine readers by the Enterprise Strategy Group reveals that storage security is weak. IT staffs--with help from storage vendors--need to do more to secure storage. |
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August 2004 |
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Prime time for secondary storage
by Rich Castagna and Alan Radding
Do you want to improve data protection and make better use of primary storage? Creating a layer of so-called second-tier disk is definitely worth investigating. |
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Shorten your backup window
by Matt Rock and Phil Poresky
When your backup windows are out of control, save your sanity with these techniques to shorten backup times. |
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End-user file recovery: bonus or bust?
Snapshot technology has made end-user file recovery possible. But will getting end users involved in recovering their own files prove to be more trouble than it's worth? |
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Inside Windows Storage Server
by Jerry Honeycutt
Microsoft's WSS 2003 is an inexpensive way to network file storage, and it's also emerging as the main way to put Exchange on NAS. But Windows patch issues may prove troublesome. |
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July 2004 |
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Regulations Squeeze Storage
by Rich Castagna
The era of regulatory compliance is here and it will change how you work, even if that picture is not yet completely clear. Here's how to navigate the murky waters of compliance. |
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Servers meet storage, virtually
by Alex Barrett
Data centers are being reshaped around virtualization technology. Here's how different virtual server technologies work and how they'll integrate with and affect SANs. |
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Tune down costs
by Marc Farley
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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June 2004 |
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Storage on demand
by Rich Castagna
Tired of overbuying, overconfiguring or overallocating storage? Utility storage--used in a similiar fashion as electricity or water in your home--may be the answer to your prayers. |
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RFPs create savings
by Mike Drapeau
Before you even think about buying more storage, you have to write an RFP. Here are four smart steps to creating an RFP to stretch your dollars further. |
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Continuous protection
by James Damoulakis
Do you want to rid yourself of a backup window or two? Continuous backup--also know as continuous data protection--is changing the rules by backing up in real time, or close to it. |
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NAS on a grand scale
by Stephen Foskett, James Damoulakis and Fred Dalrymple
Do you want to rid yourself of a backup window or two? Continuous backup--also know as continuous data protection--is changing the rules by backing up in real time, or close to it. |
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Navigating the new drives
by Michael Desmond
What's the best drive for your shop? That depends on your specific needs. Vendors are cranking out cheaper drives for increasingly specialized applications. |
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May 2004 |
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The best way to move data
by Jerome M. Wendt
Don't get mired in sluggish data. There are best practices for migrating data from point A to point B. Here's how to pick the right method that fits with your company's needs and budget. |
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Green light for disk spending
by Mark Schlack
The results from our semiannual Purchasing Intentions Survey are in. Storage managers are investing more in disk, but budgets for networked hardware are decreasing. The technology least likely to be invested in? Storage management software. |
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WAN Links gain speed
Can't get past the cost of doing high-speed remote replication? Latency problems driving you nuts? New TCIP/IP accelerators for IP storage promise some relief. |
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The object is better backup
by John Merryman
New object-based backup may forever change the way backup is done. It drastically reduces volumes by backing up only the data that has changed. |
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Bridging SAN islands
by Jerome M. Wendt
To help ensure that a change made to one part of the SAN doesn't interfere with the entire storage network, some new products claim to have developed a new switch-based intelligence that segregates the SAN and protects SAN data. |
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April 2004 |
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IP storage delivers
by Johanna Ambrosio
Despite all the FUD surrounding IP SANs, early users say IP-based storage isn't all that difficult to manage and that performance is sufficient. The key is knowing what applications IP SANs should be used for. |
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Disaster recovery relief
by Marc Staimer
The cost of disaster recovery tools can be even more than the value of the data that these very tools are supposed to be protecting. Fortunately, newer approaches to DR are restoring sanity to this high-pressure task. |
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Extreme backup
by Arun Taneja
Newsflash: Conventional data protection has reached its limits and will be dramatically changing in the next couple of years. But all roads don't lead to the same result. Here's how to analyze which route is best for you. |
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Wrestling with regulations
by Bill O'Brien
In the health care industry, complicated regulations such as HIPAA, combined with new technologies that require enormous amounts of storage, are driving storage managers to the emergency room. |
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Get control of capacity
by Jerome M. Wendt
Although storage resource management tools can be complicated to implement, they're a better alternative to breaking the bank and rushing out to purchase more storage. Get precise with your vendors on what you need and you'll wind up with better results. |
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March 2004 |
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How to get the best deal
Take this crash course in bargaining for storage. Get the lowdown on effective tactics such as resisting vendor lock-in, working with multiple vendors and leveraging the second tier. |
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Database archiving done right
by James Damoulakis and Steve Jeffreys
Once you have decide what to archive in your database, the hard part begins. Discover how to archive your database in the least costly manner possible. |
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Slash SAN costs
by Marc Farley
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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Consolidating NAS pays off
The role of network-attached storage may be changing as more and more storage managers discover the the benefits of using NAS to consolidate file servers. |
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Tape type matters
by Jerome M. Wendt
High-performance tape formats may all seem similar in capacity and throughput, but most formats lend themselves better to some applications then others. Find out how to decide which one is best for you. |
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LTO tape put to the test
by Peter Groel
Before you settle on another archival tape technology, read this article. Recent tests have shown there are differences in the quality of LTO tapes from different manufacturers and even between tapes from the same vendor. |
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February 2004 |
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Is storage certification worth it?
by Susan J. Marks
If you're thinking about advancing your career by becoming certified in a particular storage skill, read this article to help you decide if certification is worth your time and money. |
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Are full backups dead?
by W. Curtis Preston
Tape may not be dead, but the way you use it can change. Consider increasing your use of incremental backup, particularly if you're integrating disk into your backup process. |
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Remote DR: faster, farther and cheaper
by Marc Staimer
Post-Sept. 11, you need to consider disaster sites that are geographically distant from your main data centers. Remote replication software, IP storage and new techniques for long-term storage are changing the DR distance equation. |
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January 2004 |
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Getting ready for IP SANs
by James Damoulakis and Larry Coblentz
IP SANs promise benefits to groups within your organization that up until now haven't had access to these kinds of capabilities. But before you even think of deploying an IP SAN, read this article. |
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Disk encryption: not just for paranoids
by Jeff Moad
Many companies are beginning to do something that years ago would have been thought of as overkill: encrypting data while it is sitting on the array. This article will help you decide if this is something your company should do. |
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Plan on disk-based backup
by Shane O'Neill
Will 2004 be a breakthrough year for disk-based backup solutions? A new survey of Storage readers finds that while users are reluctant to completely eliminate tape from their backup environments, many are planning to deploy disk to complement tape in the next year. |
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