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OCTOBER 2009 |
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FEATURES |
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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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Getting ready for IP SANs
by James Damoulakis and Larry Coblentz
IP SANs promise benefits to groups within your organization that up until now haven't had access to these kinds of capabilities. But before you even think of deploying an IP SAN, read this article. |
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Disk encryption: not just for paranoids
by Jeff Moad
Many companies are beginning to do something that years ago would have been thought of as overkill: encrypting data while it is sitting on the array. This article will help you decide if this is something your company should do. |
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Plan on disk-based backup
by Shane O'Neill
Will 2004 be a breakthrough year for disk-based backup solutions? A new survey of Storage readers finds that while users are reluctant to completely eliminate tape from their backup environments, many are planning to deploy disk to complement tape in the next year. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
What are the variables to consider when determining how many host bus adapters (HBAs) are required per server? |
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Behind the Firewall
EMC's billion-dollar spending spree ... Acopia Networks is the talk of the town ... NearStore R150 has disappeared ... Replicus is no more ... Quantum's disk-based backup postponed. |
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Brocade XPath Technology standard
by Darryl Brooks
Brocade has just submitted its XPath Technology to the T11.5 task group to adopt as the new standard for the Fabric Application Interface Standard. Here's a look at how it could change your life. |
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