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OCTOBER 2009 |
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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 2006 |
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Data backup versus data archiving
by Brian Babineau
Companies should split backup and archiving into two separate initiatives to help them differentiate between copying data for recovery, and retaining data for future reference and retrieval. |
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Is it really a disaster?
by Stephen Foskett
Was it really a disaster after all? It's important to distinguish operational recovery from disaster recovery because the tools and techniques used in each situation can differ significantly. |
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November 2006 |
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Tape encryption strategies
by Jon Oltsik
Companies need to take a more strategic approach to tape encryption by building a services-based architecture that can meet today's needs and scale to accommodate future needs. |
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How to better connect storage to the business
by James Damoulakis
We can learn from manufacturing processes and use a supply chain to storage to better align it with strategic business goals. To implement this model, a storage services plan needs to be multidimensional and encompass performance, availability, data protection, data movement and migration, and data retention. |
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October 2006 |
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Outsourcing email archiving: the pros and cons
by Brian Babineau
Outsourcing your e-mail archiving is a good alternative if you want to avoid the hassle of implementing archiving yourself. But right now, service providers are falling short and need to expand their product portfolios to meet user demands. |
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Untangling the encryption chain
by Stephen Foskett
In many companies, data that should be safeguarded against loss or theft isn't getting encrypted. The main reason why so many storage managers are shying away from encryption is that they don't understand how it functions within the storage infrastructure. |
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September 2006 |
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Rethinking data protection strategies
by Heidi Biggar
Thirty-one percent of organizations say they'll experience significant revenue loss or another adverse business impact within one hour or less of application downtime--it's no wonder organizations are "rethinking" their data protection strategies. |
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Backup best practices are always evolving
by James Damoulakis
Some new advances in backup, such as virtual tape libraries, represent evolutionary enhancements to the traditional backup process, while others like continuous data protection and single-instance storage are potentially far more transformational. |
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September 2006 |
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Getting started with encryption key management
by Jon Oltsik
You've probably come to realize the importance of encryption in securing your storage environment. To do the job right, you don't have to become a security guru, but you do need to learn about encryption key management. Here's how to get started. |
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August 2006 |
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Getting started with database archiving
by Brian Babineau
E-mail archiving gets a lot of the attention these days, but databases shouldn't be overlooked. Database administrators end up managing old and unchanging data within their production databases, so backups are constantly protecting data that hasn't changed. |
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How to count the cost of storage
by Stephen Foskett
The cost of each gigabyte of storage is declining rapidly in every segment of the market. Enterprise storage today costs what desktop storage did less than a decade ago. So why are overall costs increasing? |
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July 2006 |
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Looking for disk in all the wrong places
by James Damoulakis
If your shop is inundated by a steady stream of requests for more storage, you need to get control of your company's storage consumption. To understand the problem, you have to examine the overall request and provisioning process and recognize the roles that data management and protection policies play. |
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June 2006 |
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The rise of the ultra-dense array
by Stephen Foskett
Disk drives are getting smaller and smaller even as their capacities rise. Now storage vendors are packing more disks than ever into smaller spaces, which saves costly data center real estate. But the denser arrays also have a downside--higher power consumption and more heat. |
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May 2006 |
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Data storage security trends
by Jon Oltsik
2005 was a big year for storage security, with major vendors doing more than just paying lip service. Vendors are beginning to integrate security into new products or add encryption capabilities. But there's a lot more to do in 2006 to build a secure storage infrastructure. |
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ILM isn't just tiered storage
by James Damoulakis
Storage tiers are the first step toward true information lifecycle management. But they're only a small step—the key to ILM success is aligning your data with its business value. |
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Vendors need to create products specifically for SMBs
by Steve Duplessie
Storage Bin: All too often, storage vendors treat small- to medium-sized businesses as second-class citizens. SMBs have the same needs as enterprises, so rather than giving them hand-me-downs, vendors need to create products specifically for this group. Vendors just might find that those products have the features that enterprises want, too. |
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May 2006 |
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April 2006 |
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Deploying Intelligent Information Management applications
by Brian Babineau
By deploying Intelligent Information Management applications, organizations can improve resource management by eliminating the storage of duplicate data, reduce risk by quickly responding to discovery requests, comply with record-retention and privacy regulations, and restore the right data faster. |
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Misplaced priorities
by Stephen Foskett
In this age of compliance and despite well-publicized cases of data theft, a recent security survey from GlassHouse Technologies indicates that few companies are paying much attention to storage security. |
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February 2006 |
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A toaster oven in the data center
by Stephen Foskett
The midrange array market may still be hot, but storage managers are wary of getting burned. While midrange vendors keep piling on the features, storage pros are becoming disenchanted with midrange systems despite their more modest price tags. |
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January 2006 |
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Cut big backups down to size
by James Damoulakis
Disk-based backup can help companies struggling with the inefficiencies of tape, but you may experience sticker shock at the cost of moving to disk. Data-reduction technologies can trim backup data down to size, and make the price of disk a little easier to swallow. |
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