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AUGUST 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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Features |
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Ease backup pain
by Jerome M. Wendt
OK, maybe there's no cure, but a variety of bandages and pills can help. We look at the major backup packages and analyze what each does best. |
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How to do hybrid backup
by Mark Teter
Disk-based backup is an attractive idea, but you'll want to get a handle
on how to optimize it. |
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Backup exec gets big boost
by Tom Henderson
Version 9.0 has a surprising number of features that enable it to work with newer storage technologies. |
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Moving backup off the mainframe
by Daniel Sitler
Hobart Corp. migrated their backup environment to open systems, dramatically reducing media and management costs. |
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Pushing storage to the edge
by Susan J. Marks
If you're delivering large content files to widely distributed users, consider moving data storage closer to the user. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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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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Ask The Expert
We're building an HSM solution to which we'll write 100GB+/month and store it for seven years. Do you think we should use CD, DVD or tape? |
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Hot Spots
Consolidation sounds good, but here are some guidelines to determine if it will work for you. Plus, seven steps to getting it done. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Steve Duplessie gives out his first annual awards for the best and brightest in the storage industry. |
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Behind the Firewall
Who's buying Nishan boxes? Veritas wants to be the smarts in switches ... HighGround or UnderGround? |
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