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10 key considerations for email archiving

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Windows Server 2008 steps on some storage toes

Our View: Quantifying a galaxy's worth of data

Tape drive prices hold steady

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Storage Bin 2.0: Bridging the gap with just one word

Hot Spots: Data deduplication drama

Best Practices: Planting seeds of green

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December 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
A glimpse of the future

Behind the Firewall
NetApp makes a believer out of SAP ... Is Zantaz too cool for SMBs? ... Is Cisco giving away product?

Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Looking forward to 2005

Best Practices
by Stephen Foskett
The storage revolution

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
IBM takes a step forward

The Real Deal
SDLT-1 media reaches new low

Snapshot
Do you mirror your data remotely?
November 2004

Editorial: Common sense triumphs
by Mark Schlack
Common sense triumphs

Behind the firewall
Low-cost drives not created equal ... Microsoft checks out PolyServe ... Regulation rouses interest in data encryption.

Hot Spots: Bring disaster recovery home
by Jon Oltsik
Disaster recovery services offer convenience and economy, but they may not protect your company's data sufficiently--maybe it's time to bring DR back in-house.

Best Practices: Backup operations redux
by James Damoulakis
Readers comments on July's column on 10 steps for better backups raise some new issues.

Storage bin: A business with a heart
by Steve Duplessie

The Real Deal: SDLT shows signs of life
SDLT shows signs of life

Snapshot
Do you run network-based storage services?
October 2004

Editorial: Storage sylin's
by Mark Schlack
Storage stylin's

Behind the firewall
EMC's troubled sales team ... Odd naming conventions.

Hot Spots: Remote control
by Jon Oltsik
Letting remote and branch offices deal with storage security on their own is courting disaster.

Best Practices: Get your storage management group up and running
by Stephen Foskett
Follow this methodical plan to build an effective storage management group with clearly defined responsibilities.

Storage Bin: Einstein was an awful shortstop
by Steve Duplessie
Einstein was an awful shortstop

The Real Deal: SDLT600, LTO in Price War
SDLT600 vs. LTO-2

Snapshot
Will you implement iSCSI?
September 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
The question to the answer

Behind the firewall
EMC sales reps pushing Clariion ... No iSCSI target code for Windows 2000 ... No Engenio IPO for now.

Best practices: Tackling storage provisioning
by James Damoulakis and Dick Benton
Before you even think of provisioning new storage, it's essential to create specific procedures for this multilevel process.

Storage Bin: Cool summer storage news
by Steve Duplessie
End-of-summer storage news.

The Real Deal
SCSI drive prices plunge

Snapshot
Is anyone backing up desktops?

Hot Spots: Protecting the unprotected
by Jon Oltsik
You've been warned: Unprotected laptops may be putting your company's data at risk.
August 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Channeling storage problems

Behind the firewall
DataCore and Stonefly terminal? ... Quantum's SDLT 600 not shipping soon ... EMC's Clariion a bargain?

Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Fabric intelligence is certainly still in the early stages, but there's overwhelming evidence that suggests it's a good idea.

Best practices
by Stephen Foskett
Here's how to distinguish best practices in storage from sloppy ideas and unproven methods.

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
There's many innovative smaller companies out there that are ready to topple the storage giants.

The Real Deal
ATA drive prices descend

Snapshot
Reusing tape cartridges
July 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Focus on the basics

Behind the firewall
Is Nimbus a misnomer? ... More changes in HP's storage group ... EMC keeping PowerPath support secrets?

Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Long-distance storage seems to be on everyone's mind lately.Here's what you can do to make sure you're ready.

Best Practices
by James Damoulakis
Whatever backup technology you use, you still need to follow the fundamentals. Here are 10 simple rules for better backup.

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Ignore the information lifecycle management hype--backup and restore are still the real problem in 95% of IT shops.

The Real Deal
SATA prices plummet

Snapshot
How is Your Field Support?
June 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
And now for something new

Behind the firewall
EMC outsourcing ... NetApp NearStor mania.

Hot spots
by Jon Oltsik
So much can go wrong with disaster recovery. What can you do to ensure all goes well?

Best practices
by Stephen Foskett
Metcalfe's law explains how the Internet works. But what about storage? Here are five rules to help you build a storage strategy.

Storage bin
by Steve Duplessie
All Steve is saying is give startups a chance.

The real deal
Tape media prices plunge

Snapshot
Virtual server technology.
May 2004

Best practices
by Darryl Brooks
Veritas' StorageCentral may be Windows-only, but it's still a formidable storage resource management application.

Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Vendors promise that in the future, ILM will make your life easier, but it ignores security. Start putting security policies in place now.

Integration
by James Damoulakis
This November, a new portion of Sarbanes-Oxley will go into effect. Here's how to set up the right storage management practices so your organization will be ready.

Storage bin
by Steve Duplessie
Disaster recovery for the masses may be a reality in the not-so-distant future.

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Dinosaurs walk the Earth

The Real Deal
Serial ATA Price Premium Dwindling

Snapshot
Are You Certified For Storage?

Behind the firewall
EMC is going iSCSI ... HDS is in step with disk backup ... Build your own NAS? ... NetApp's OnTap OS experiencing code confusion ... SNIA has free stuff for you.
April 2004

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Intelligent confusion

Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Everyone--except storage vendors--is concerned about security these days. Here's how to get them thinking in the right direction.

Integration
by Stephen Foskett
When creating your dedicated storage management group, there are better ways to determine staff levels than relying on a simplistic metric based on the number of terabytes per manager.

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Storage vendors should have knocked EMC down when they had the chance. Now, it may be too late.

The Real Deal
Tape Drives Gone Wild

Snapshot
How Many Terabytes Do You Manage?

Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Your pack-rat neighbor uses public storage to stash belongings that don't fit in his tiny townhouse. So why don't storage managers consider renting storage?

Behind the firewall
Desktop-class Fibre Channel to replace ATA and SATA? ... LTO getting wormy? ... Open fabric management delayed until 2005 ... Cisco MDS switch not working as well as expected ... EMC launching tape.
March 2004

Behind the firewall
LSI Logic and StorageTek team up for storage arrays ... EMC lures users from Veritas with freebies ... ILM backlash begins ... Brocade's Meteor will descend from the heavens soon.

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Less tape talk, more tape testing

Hot spots
by Jon Oltsik
In order to reap the benefits of application-specific storage, storage managers need to communicate with IT and business managers to gain a better understanding of their storage needs.

Integration
by Stephen Foskett
It's essential to create sound strategic, tactical and organizational policies to keep your organization from running amuck.

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
So far, all of the ILM talk has been fluff. But there are some companies that are doing interesting--and potentially revolutionary--things with object-based storage that might make ILM useful.

Snapshot: Do You Boot From the SAN?
Do You Boot From the SAN?

The Real Deal
No News is Bad News for Bargain Hunters

Best Practices