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December 2004

First Look: Brocade's SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router
by David Gabel
Brocade Communications Systems' SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router links SAN islands with software-assignable ports that can communicate via three different ports.

Hands-On Review: Kashya KBX5000
by Darryl Brooks
Kashya Inc.'s KBX5000 appliance offers cost-effective and efficient replication for heterogeneous storage.

How to select an SRM suite
by Jerome M. Wendt
Storage resource management products provide similar core functionality, but many offer modules for ancillary functions. Setting priorities helps to narrow the search.

Think you're compliant? Prove it
Documenting compliance.

Four Gig: Hurry up and wait

Ask The Expert
Q: Do governing bodies restrict which types of archiving media can be used for compliance?

Are cheap mirrors better than RAID?
Cheap mirroring vs. RAID.

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Tape price hikes looming

Storage bolsters blade servers

Storage Industry Index

Faster DB failover in view

Survey says: Heterogeneous fabrics still rare

November 2004

First Look: Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises
Asigra's Televaulting for Enterprises is an agentless remote backup application that uses commodity servers at remote locations to ship pared-down data back to a centrally managed site.

Hands-On Review: Softek Performance Tuner
by Phil Goodwin and Jeff Wells
Softek's Performance Tuner is adept at identifying bottlenecks and impending failures.

Accommodating arrays
by Jerome M. Wendt
Storage arrays offer different disk types to choose from and mixed RAID configurations. Here's what you need to know to assemble the right mix of disks and RAID levels.

Cheap SANs--Hype or Hot?
Low-cost SANs still looking for a market

Storage Firsts

Ask The Expert
In a Solaris 9/VxFS VxVM environment, how do I transparently migrate files to a SATA partition in a Fibre Channel SAN?

Synthetic Full Backup Catching On
Synthetic fulls slash backup time

Fund Watch

Remote Replication Gets Out of the Array
Network-based replication challenges array apps

NAS Takes SMBs to Next Level

By the Numbers

Girding for Grids

Storage Industry Index

October 2004

First Look: Storability's GSM 4.0
by Robert L. Scheier
Storability Software's Global Storage Management software offers improved reporting capabilities and new exposure analysis reports in its latest version.

Hands-On Review: Veritas CommandCentral Storage 4.0
by Darryl Brooks
Veritas Software's upgrade to CommandCentral Storage is a feature-rich program that raises the bar for SRM applications.

Nonstop Data Protection
by Jerome M. Wendt
Here's a look at the latest continuous data protection products that offer the ability to recover data from minutes, days, weeks or months ago.

Back Up to the Future
A magic ball to predict tape failures?

Cheap SATA Spurs D2D
Inexpensive SATA drives D2D

Ask the Expert
With tape backups, do I need an original and one copy or two copies?

NAS Nurtures iSCSI Growth
NAS fosters iSCSI growth

Survey Says: Users Like Site Licenses for SRM Software
How would you like to see SRM software priced?

Users Need Better Way to Predict Disk Failures

A Petabyte of Pics

By the Numbers

SATA II Doubles Disk Speed to 3Gb/sec
SATA doubles disk speed

Storage Industry Index
After crashing in July, the Storage Industry Index stopped underperforming the S&P 500 and at least managed to mirror it.

September 2004

First Look: Acopia Networks' ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches
by Lawrence Didsbury
Acopia's ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches bring intelligence to your NAS environment, allowing you to pool storage and cut the cost of storage management.

Hands-On Review: Onaro SANscreen 2.5.2
by Darryl Brooks
Onaro's SANscreen takes the uncertainty out of making changes to a SAN environment by showing the effects of a change before it's actually implemented.

Tape's new love affair with disk
by Jerome M. Wendt
The marriage of tape and disk has spawned a new class of virtual tape products that promise faster, cheaper backup and recovery.

WAN Boosters Bring Remote Storage Home
WAN accelerators to the rescue

New Types of Tape on Tap

Backup Vendors Tweak License Model

Free for the Taking

Survey Says: What data do you replicate?
What data do you replicate?

Ask the Expert
What should we do first: upgrade backup software and hardware or implement a SAN?

Entertainment Biz Still Struggling with Storage
Entertainment industry grapples with storage

Home, Home on the RAID
Cheap NAS coming soon

Storage Industry Index

User: I Want My iSCSI HBA

Storage Firsts

By the Numbers

August 2004

First Look: iStora 4000 from Breece Hill
by Lawrence Didsbury

Hands-On Review: Tek-Tools Profiler Rx 3.5.2
by Darryl Brooks
Tek-Tools' Profiler Rx helps simplify storage management by giving you a quick picture of complex SANs. But it's not SMI-S compliant.

SAN switch smarts
by Jerome M. Wendt
Switches can now handle storage management, performance management and security. Here's a comprehensive look at the pros and cons of intelligent switches.

iSCSI For Unix On The Way
iSCSI on vendors' minds

SOX is Hell
SOX is everyone's worst nightmare come true

Steeling SATA for Duty

Survey says:
Price per MB Continues to Decline

Definition:
Disk thrashing

Ask the Expert
What will happen to the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) in 2004?

Big Mac Attack for Storage
Can Macs and storage mix?

Modular vs. Monolithic Storage: The Business Case

By the Numbers

Blade Servers and Storage Get Cozy
Blade servers and storage snuggle up

Storage Industry Index
Storage stocks halted their slide in June as the Index hung out in the high 700s.

July 2004

First Look: Copan Systems Revolution 200T
by Lawrence Didsbury
Can the Revolution 200T, which uses a new technology called MAID, straighten up your messy backup situation?

Technology Report: WORM Tape
by Jerome M. Wendt
WORM tape is increasingly being used for long-term archival purposes. Why? Because it's cheap, portable and satisfies today's demanding regulations.

Aiming for iSCSI Targets
Multiple choices for iSCSI

Database Takes Toll on NAS

Disks Get Switched
Incredible switching disk

Ask the Expert
Is there a cheaper alternative to Veritas VCS or Sun cluster for Sun on Sparc and x86 platforms?

Survey says:
Survey Says: I Want My iSCSI!

SOX, HIPAA in a Nutshell
What do SOX and HIPAA mean to you?

By the Numbers

SATA Arrays are Cheap-ish
High-end arrays on the horizon

Funding Watch

Help Users Help Themselves

Storage Industry Index

Hands-On Review: Celerity FC-24XL
by Darryl Brooks
Atto's Celerity FC-24XL HBA is designed for data-hungry applications. But is its power worth paying for?