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APRIL 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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April 2008 |
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Best Practices: High hopes for thin provisioning
by Ashish Nadkarni
Thin provisioning is a promising way to address allocation and performance. One of the biggest challenges when using the technology is knowing where your data lives, and whether it can be tracked or recovered if there's a catastrophic component failure. |
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March 2008 |
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Hot Spots: Tap virtual servers, storage for all they're worth
by Bob Laliberte
To keep pace with changes in the server and storage domains, organizations need to ensure that the I/O path doesn't become a bottleneck. Automated patch panels, N_Port ID Virtualization, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and InfiniBand are just some of the technologies that might resolve this issue. |
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February 2008 |
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Storage Bin 2.0: Time for RAID to die
by Tony Asaro
Storage has changed radically since the invention of RAID. Some storage systems are reducing their RAID use, while others are moving away from the technology. And this is a good thing. |
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January 2008 |
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Best Practices: Unraveling tape encryption
by Jim Damoulakis
With the emergence of new generations of tape drives featuring onboard hardware encryption, companies are revisiting their tape security practices in the hope that this new technology will solve security concerns at an affordable price. |
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