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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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2003 Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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VIEW TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:: |
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December 2003 |
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Definition
Information life cycle management (ILM) |
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Ask the Expert
What kinds of tools can help me find files that are no longer used? |
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November 2003 |
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Ask the Expert
Can you please explain what content-addressed storage (CAS) is, and what it's used for? |
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September 2003 |
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Ask the Expert
How do NAS blades in director-class switches work? Will they become popular? |
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August 2003 |
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Early Adopters Unequivocally Up About iSCSI Arrays
After years of listening to iSCSI hype, some IT professionals are embracing a new generation of IP-based storage subsystems, a group that includes the PeerStorage Array 100E, an iSCSI array from Nashua, NH-based EqualLogic. |
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Ask the Expert
Which is best for consolidating storage in an SAP environment: SAN or NAS? |
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SRM Vendors Set Sights on Secondary Storage
Storage resource management (SRM) has become a standard offering for primary storage from all of the major SAN management vendors. Now, a number of startups and established backup software makers have taken the features of SRM and aimed them at secondary storage. |
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Diagnostic Tool Shines Light on SDLT
Quantum is shipping a suite of drive and media diagnostic tools that the company says will help IT managers more easily manage their tape resources. |
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July 2003 |
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Storage Industry Index
The stock market's upward ride in May carried the Storage Industry Index along with it, for the most part. |
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Recent Funding to Storage Companies
Database backup and recovery software and next-generation storage switching hardware garnered the lion's share of late-spring venture capital funding. |
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Ask the Expert
I have 60% free space on 10,000 PCs. Can I consolidate it by mounting it as a volume and using a login script to map it to the desktops? |
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June 2003 |
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Ask The Expert
by Marc Farley
Can you describe the steps that a single byte takes when going from memory to a spinning spindle and back again? |
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May 2003 |
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ATA Drives Move Up the Ranks
The nod has been given to ATA drives by EMC, which is now giving customers the option of buying disk array enclosures (DAEs) for their Clariion CX400 and CX600 arrays equipped with ATA, rather than the usual Fibre Channel drives. |
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Outsourced Backup: Pricey But Worth It
Experio, the consulting arm of Hitachi USA, has more than 800 employees, 700 of which are mobile consultants. At the same time, it only has a four-person IT staff. How does Experio do it? In a word: outsourcing, including outsourced backup. |
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SRM Software Players Cook Up New Pricing Models
As more IT shops deploy networked storage, many storage resource management (SRM) vendors are moving to capacity-based pricing, rather than the server- or processor-based pricing models of old. |
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