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JUNE 2008
FEATURES

Migrate data without mistakes

The big crunch: Capacity grows, budgets shrink

10 key considerations for email archiving

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TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS

Windows Server 2008 steps on some storage toes

Our View: Quantifying a galaxy's worth of data

Tape drive prices hold steady

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COLUMNS

Storage Bin 2.0: Bridging the gap with just one word

Hot Spots: Data deduplication drama

Best Practices: Planting seeds of green

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2005 Tools, Trends & Analysis

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December 2005

Rethinking backup licenses

HBAs go virtual

Security products proliferate

Ask the Expert
Q: What's a LUN and what's it for?

The future of virtual machine backup

Fear not Exchange migration

Looks like tape, spins like disk

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Survey Says: Data growth continues its breakneck pace
November 2005

CDP comes down to Earth

Backup outsourcers think small

File formats that stand the test of time

Ask the Expert
Q: Can I share a LUN between two servers and open the same file concurrently?

Mac backup app picks up the slack

Tape bulks up to keep pace with disk

Easing away from ESCON

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Survey Says: Compliance-minded companies opt for CAS
Compliance-minded companies opt for CAS
October 2005

Safer SATA for nearline apps
New SATA drivers tailored for nearline apps

Tape library scales up and down

Ask the expert
Q: What's the difference between NFS and CIFS?

Simplified protection for end-user files
DPM brings end-user file protection up a notch

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Katrina data management snafus compound chaos
IT clashes with bureaucracy in the wake of Katrina

Funding Watch

Really delete your data
Permanent data destruction.

Survey Says: SATA has staying power
SATA has staying power
September 2005

Restore sanity to Exchange backup
Easing Exchange backups

Encrypted Drives Stymie Data Thieves
Prevent laptop data theft with encryption

Blades shed disks, boot from SAN
Resolve boot issues with diskless blades

Standards watch: Copy services standard in the works
Will SMI-S 1.1 aid copy services?

VTL remedies backup woes
VTLs remedy tape bottlenecks...

Used tape sales on the rise
Pre-owned tape sales increasing.

Storage Firsts

Survey Says

Definition: Grandfather-father-son

By the Numbers
August 2005

Future is fuzzy for Fibre drives
Fuzzy future for Fibre drives

A SAN for super sleuths

Storage Firsts

Monolithic going modular
Monolithic systems go modular

DR testing infrequent at best
Have you tested your DR plan?

InfiniBand storage shipping soon
InfiniBand storage

Ask The Expert
Q: Is DVD, rather than CD-ROM, a viable optical format for long-term storage?

By the Numbers

Funding Watch

Migrating old files curbs disk costs

Survey Says
July 2005

Traffic to remote offices eases up
Brighter days are ahead for remote office workers

Half-terabyte drives on tap

Ask The Expert
Q: Will I gain additional bandwidth on the SAN if I put two host bus adapters (HBAs) in my servers instead of one?

Survey Says: iSCSI will erode Fibre Channel sales

Clustering comes to NAS
Kicking the monolithic NAS habit

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Big storage in small packages
IT departments thirsty for storage capacity

Definition: Short stroking

Tape is not about to go away
Tape gets an image boost
June 2005

Midrange arrays get a makeover
Midrange array makeovers

Storage sidles up to SUSE

Ask The Expert
Q: Why should I go with disk-based backup instead of tape?

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

HIPAA spurs interest in replication
HIPAA driving replication interest

E-mail retention basics

EMC expelled over maintenance fees
Texas school suspends EMC over fees

Survey Says: Mixed-disk tiers not for everyone

DAS: The last bastions
DAS holdouts
May 2005

First Look: Overland's REO Backup Appliances
by Alan Radding
Overland's REO works with traditional backup software and eliminates tape from the backup process, simplifying data protection at satellite locations.

Sizing up VTLs
by Alex Gorbansky
Virtual tape libraries (VTLs) bridge the gap between traditional tape and disk-based data protection architectures. But all VTLs aren't equal—the details determine which virtual tape product is right for your environment.

Give local disk the boot
Boot from the SAN with iSCSI

Do or die data restore

Ask The Expert
Q: How do I get good I/O performance for my database?

Branch backup goes tapeless
Better way to back up branch offices

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Lawyers fan flames of e-mail archiving fire
Legal issues boost e-mail archiving

File services frenzy
File services frenzy

Definition: Perpendicular recording

Virtualization at your service
New twist on virtualization

Funding Watch
April 2005

First Look: Crossroads Systems' DataMover 240f
by Jerome M. Wendt
Crossroads Systems' DataMover 240f is a SAN edge device that takes on one of the most vexing backup bottlenecks by keeping data flowing through the network pipes.

Keep track of backups
by Phil Goodwin
Backup reporting tools help track backup failures and determine their cause. Some tools can identify weak links in your backup processes where there's a potential for failure.

Should you archive spam?
Spam gobbles up storage