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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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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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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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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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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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April 2003 |
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Let the iSCSI Games Begin
From the time the iSCSI specification was ratified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) this winter, there's been a spate of iSCSI product announcements. |
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USC Spurns Usual Tape Suspects
In his role as director of emerging technologies at the University of Southern California (USC), Mike Lin is responsible for storing and backing up between 50TB to 100TB of data, for faculty and students alike. |
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SATA drive challenges SCSI functionality
When it comes to disk drives, suitability for enterprise or desktop applications has little to do with the interface, but with the drive's underlying mechanical platform. |
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Mark Your Calendars
With tulips and daffodils also come trade shows. Here's a short list of storage conferences happening this spring. |
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Sony Promotes Tape for WORM Archival
Despite its unfortunate name, emerging tape WORM technology could be a real boon to storage administrators now required to archive, for example, e-mail or medical images. |
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March 2003 |
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Surveillance Gradually Going Digital
Security-conscious companies who started out using analog videotapes, are gradually making the switch to digital, offloading to digital tape and occasionally, cheap ATA disk. |
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Tap the SAN for File Storage
Used to be, if you wanted to give users a central place to store files, you had two options: put them on a generic file server, or on a NAS device. |
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Sony Joins Super Drive Game
The market for super drives is alive and kicking, according to a recent report from Freeman Reports, with unit shipments more than doubling from 2001 to 2002. |
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Firm Sees the Storage Automation Light
Many IT people are on the fence about automated storage management, but at Allegra Systems in Piscataway, NJ, there's no doubt that automatic file migration software has cut down on the IT staff's workload. |
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February 2003 |
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Definitions
Shoeshine Effect, Reed-Solomon code and Fly Height |
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Caches with the Write Stuff
Do you think that collaborative file creation, editing, storage and management between geographically distributed users is a pipe dream? |
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January 2003 |
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Much Ado About NAS
Built on top of the CX600, the NS600 is targeted squarely at the midrange, and is priced accordingly... |
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Are You Liable for a Bad Disaster Recovery Plan?
It's increasingly likely that corporate officers who fail to implement an adequate disaster recovery and business continuity plan may be held personally liable for losses incurred from an outage. |
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