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JUNE 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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November 2007 |
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Hot Spots: Web 2.0 storage: Challenges and choices
by Bob Laliberte
Web 2.0 tools and strategies hold many potential benefits for businesses that deploy them, but their requirements for rapidly scalable storage and access, as well as persistent data, pose significant challenges for the IT staffs that need to build and manage the infrastructure. |
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Best Practices: Tackling data migration
by Jim Damoulakis
Data center projects often involve migrating data, which is frequently a painful process that can lead to unplanned downtime and outages. It's time to adopt consistent, repeatable migration practices. Selecting the right approach is highly dependent on infrastructure limitations, data and platform types, time constraints and staff capabilities. |
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Storage Bin 2.0: Virtually changing everything
by Tony Asaro
Server virtualization drives storage growth and dramatically drives the proliferation of storage networking. This is enabling the re-invention of how we manage, protect, store and access information. |
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October 2007 |
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Storage Bin: Leaving you in good hands
by Steve Duplessie
It's time for a changing of the guard for the Storage Bin column. Steve Duplessie, whose witty and perceptive insights have graced Storage magazine from day one, is stepping aside to make room for ESG's Tony Asaro to take up residency on our end page. |
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September 2007 |
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Hot Spots: VMware opens door for next-gen backup apps
by Lauren Whitehouse
Virtualizing servers is becoming standard operating procedure in large and small companies. VMware and similar platforms are transforming data center management through server consolidation and business continuity improvements, but they're "breaking" a few things along the way, including data protection strategies. |
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Best Practices: Sorting out remote-office backup
by Jim Damoulakis
Remote-office data has always been something of a corporate orphan when it came to backup. Once upon a time, "out of sight, out of mind" might have worked, but times have changed. Regulatory compliance, legal liability issues and the cost of producing data for ediscovery make it clear remote data can no longer be ignored. |
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September 2007 |
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Hot Spots: Managing storage in a virtual server world
Server virtualization is the big data center story, and storage managers need to design their storage systems to take advantage of a virtualized server environment. There are steps you can take now to ensure that your storage systems are up to the task. |
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Best Practices: Pull the plug on high energy costs
by Dianne McAdam
Spiraling energy costs are taking an increasingly big chunk of the data center budget. Data centers are grappling with rising electrical bills and, in some locations, limitations on the amount of available power are forcing IT anagers to rethink their basic processes. |
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August 2007 |
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Hot Spots: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Help for storage teams
by Brian Babineau
New FRCP regulations, in addition to other compliancy requirements, have led many IT departments to deploy enterprise search within business apps such as ecommerce and custom portal software. But these search apps can also be leveraged to make good use of the treasure trove of information that's sitting idle within enterprise storage systems. |
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July 2007 |
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Hot Spots: The inevitability of tape encryption
by Jon Oltsik
In the near future, encryption technologies will closely mirror the old "death and taxes" cliché as one of those things that are inevitable. Approximately 25% of enterprises have gotten the encryption message, but the vast majority are still on the sidelines. |
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Best Practices: The ultimate archiving challenge
by James Damoulakis
Given current practices, it's questionable whether electronic information created and stored today will be usable 10 years or 15 years from now. The steps we take now will greatly affect the magnitude of the problem facing us (or our successors) in the future. |
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Storage Bin: Boring is good
by Steve Duplessie
They may not be the sexy new technologies of the moment, but boring "vision" tools that provide insight and report on storage infrastructure are as necessary to your environment as ensuring that the system you run is getting power from the wall. |
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June 2007 |
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
by Ashish Nadkarni
Consistency and standardization are the keys to a disciplined storage operation. How much you can achieve depends on the size of your operation and the resources you have available. |
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May 2007 |
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Best Practices: Protecting SharePoint data
SharePoint's collaboration framework is gaining in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in significant levels of complexity rather quickly. Storage and data protection groups must work with application teams to plan an effective data protection strategy. |
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April 2007 |
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Best Practices: Balance workloads with RAID types
by Ashish Nadkarni
Vendors will tell you how beautifully parity-based RAID works in their storage subsystems, making it almost unnecessary to use any type of striped/mirrored RAID protection. But if you don't match the workload profile of the application to how storage is provisioned in the array, you could wind up with a poorly balanced system. |
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Storage Bin: Duplessie's theory of evolution
by Steve Duplessie
Evolutionary changes in the storage world have opened the door to scores of smaller companies. Some of these startups have seized the opportunity, taking advantage of the current market dynamics. Good for them; but it's even better for you, with more choice and innovation than we've seen in a long time. |
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March 2007 |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Thought you might get by without considering iSCSI storage? Think again. With continuous progress on the iSCSI protocol and steadily improving products, the technology is now gaining enterprise stature. Savvy users should prepare themselves now for iSCSI. |
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Best Practices
by James Damoulakis
Data protection is now much more specialized due to increased user expectations and new technology options. We need to rethink the way we approach risk and risk-related services. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Changes in the tech world can evolve subtly or may hinge on a big, revolutionary event. Either way, we're in the midst of some seismic shifts in the storage world, and both vendors and IT pros will have to adjust to a new world order. |
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February 2007 |
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Hot Spots
by Tony Asaro
iSCSI has grown from a theoretical standard into a real technology with real storage products. Although once considered by many to be a Fibre Channel killer, iSCSI has gained a substantial foothold without necessarily displacing Fibre Channel. Companies of all sizes are taking the plunge, and the iSCSI juggernaut appears to be unstoppable. |
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Best Practices
by Stephen Foskett
Everyone thinks about online data in the same way: You write it, read it, rewrite it and keep it forever. But many organizations have far more data that's written once, read a few times and kept alive forever. You might say this bulk data is "write once, read several times" (WORST), and it can bloat your storage environment. |
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January 2007 |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
The Trusted Computing Group is a security standards body now venturing into the storage world. The group is about to release a spec that promises to provide a secure foundation that storage management vendors and users can leverage to improve the protection of stored data. |
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Best Practices
by James Damoulakis
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years. The rest of the IT infrastructure must try to catch up and, ultimately, the only thing not virtualized within the data center will be the last guy standing. |
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