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AUGUST 2008 |
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FEATURES |
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TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS |
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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 2003 |
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Behind the firewall
Brocade's future in question ... NetApp loses voting power ... Tape drives and tape media complaints ... EMC searching for a new Dell ... Emulex's acquisition of Vixel is all good news. |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Although booting from the SAN isn't a widespread practice, it gives an organization many choices in the way it manages server and storage infrastructures. |
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Integration
by Stephen Foskett
Tiered storage is a hot idea, but implementing it can be trickier than appears. This article defines the two different approaches--heterogeneous and homogeneous--and helps you choose the strategy you should employ. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
The growth seen by Hopkinton, MA, the home of EMC, is similar to the challenges faced by IT professionals. Here's how to manage your growing storage town. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
EMC and NetApp still think they're competitors; they spend time and money planning defense strategies. Maybe if they paused to think for a minute, they'd see that they're two successful companies growing in vastly different directions. |
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Snapshot
Do you practice single-initiator zoning? |
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November 2003 |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
It's been two years since Sept. 11. In this article, an insurance company tests its ability to recover from a similar disaster. How would your company fare? |
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Integration
by James Damoulakis
Creating a model for backup capacity will assist you in forecasting your storage needs for a given budget cycle. This way, you can consolidate your storage purchases and save big bucks. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Vendors keep creating new acronyms, but are they doing you any good? Ignore the hype and develop a methodical plan toward a comprehensive storage automation plan to ensure success. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Amazing but true: The money machine for storage startups is heating up again, but there doesn't seem to be too much correspondence between funding and potentially useful products. |
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Behind the Firewall
EMC is finally a software company ... Hitachi and IBM cashing in on SATA ... Pause before upgrading to LTO-2 ... Dell gets new storage chief ... Seagate's SATA drives aren't exactly perfect. |
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Snapshot
Which is your standard server disk drive? |
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October 2003 |
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Integration
by Stephen Foskett
The key to making sense of the the bewildering amount of storage management products offered today is knowing what you need and ignoring the rest. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Get ready to meet your new partner. Over the next few years, storage and security groups will be working more closely together. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
At the beginning of a budgeting cycle, poor IT people begin scrambling for a few bucks while they attempt to tackle monumental tasks. |
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Behind the firewall
Times have changed: Users are raving about IBM's TSM ... A mass exodus from HP's storage group? ... McData buys Nishan on the cheap ... 10Gb products lagging ... Microsoft goes storage. |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
There are four different protocols for sending long-distance SAN traffic. This article will help you pick the right protocol for your SAN. |
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The Real Deal
While pricing for LTO drives barely budged this month, prices for both models of SDLT tape drives dropped significantly. |
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September 2003 |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
We may be keeping more data online than ever before, but we are also keeping more useless data online as well. |
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Integration
by James Damoulakis
The key to avoiding common backup nightmares that plague most storage managers is having clearly defined backup reports. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Centralize your backup, or you may never be able to recover from disasters. You may also fail to comply with federal regulations. |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
It's been two years now since the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and there are new options for disaster recovery. In this first of a two-part series, we critique DWDM. |
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Behind the firewall
Will Cisco acquire McData? ... EMC really wants to get into the tape business ... Business is booming at Dot Hill ... Fujitsu Softek's new moniker. |
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August 2003 |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Your worst nightmare—that of your data center suffering a catastrophic disaster—has come true. Now what? |
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Hot Spots
Don't get stuck in the old mode of consolidation and miss opportunities for greater efficiency. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Summer thoughts: There's more cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history. |
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Behind the Firewall
Telcos make switch choices ...Why the FBI was at EMC ... Startups to watch ... Tape shows surprising strength. |
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Snapshot
Do You Encrypt Your Backup Tapes? |
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July 2003 |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
In the second part of a two-part article, we review Veritas SANPoint Control and compare it with EMC ControlCenter. |
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Integration
by James Damoulakis
Can you describe your backup, retention and disaster recovery policies? And do they correctly address your business needs? |
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Hot Spots
According to a Morgan Stanley December 2002 survey of 225 CIOs, security spending tops their 10 highest priorities for 2003. This article details how to build a thorough, companywide security strategy. |
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Behind the firewall
Sun and AppIQ place bid for BMC ... Legato has risen from the dead ... Paceline really is dead ... Buzz on EqualLogic's iSCSI arrays ... Could Fibre Channel cut off TOEs? |
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Snapshot
Would You Buy a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch? |
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June 2003 |
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Behind the Firewall
Brocade and Nishan get cozy ... Cash register rings at start-up 3PAR ... Beware of DMX discounts ... Compliance: This year's hot button? |
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Integration
by Stephen Foskett
Are you keeping your SAN secure? Here's a start on process and infrastructure to safeguard your pooled data. |
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Hot Spots
Reference data growth is exploding, but many shops still use high-priced transaction-class storage for it. A smart reference data policy can help you squeeze more out of your storage dollars. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Your life might be getting more complicated. Make that will be getting more complicated, as compliance with government regulations for data retention become a real requirement for storage. |
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The Real Deal
With the exception of Maxtor's 120GB IDE drive some storage products we track exhibited a slight increase this month. |
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Snapshot
Will You Favor Standards-based Storage? |
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May 2003 |
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Behind the Firewall
EMC goes dancing, without a partner ... Softek going it alone? ... CA picks up where BMC left off ... Prices stay put |
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Hot Spots
You've selected your tools for implementation. Now get ready to deploy them. |
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The Real Deal
Last month, we began tracking media for LTO-2 drives. While drive prices didn't drop, media costs for LTO-2 sank 11.5%. |
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April 2003 |
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Behind the Firewall
Problems with EMC's Control Center ...Whither Legato ... Good news at iotech ... Straightening out FalconStor rumors |
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Hot Spots
Storage capacity is rapidly growing. Here's how to control it. Hint: Storage management software isn't the answer. |
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Integration
by Stephen Foskett
Stephen Foskett takes a real-world look at how storage is being utilized and the answers are shocking. |
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The Real Deal
As usual, most storage product pricing continued down a slow and steady slope. |
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Snapshot
Will You Implement an iSCSI SAN? |
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