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JULY 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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Storage growth drives buying plans
by Rich Castagna
The results from our exclusive semi-annual Purchasing Intentions Survey are in. Storage growth is a key concern for storage managers, as additional capacity has a ripple effect that touches many other components in the storage environment. |
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What your DR plan should protect
by Mike Casey
If you have a disaster recovery plan in place, you're a step ahead of many other companies. But you need to assess your plan to ensure critical data is being protected properly and that you're not wasting resources by providing too much protection for less-important data. |
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Scaling storage
by Vic Dery & Ashish Nadkarni
"Scalability" is often defined as the ability of a storage system to support more or higher capacity hard drives. But adding capacity is only part of the scalability picture. To address scalability most effectively, you have to consider how additional capacity will affect other elements in the environment, as well as the performance of hosts and their applications. |
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Is encryption enough?
by Alan Radding
Encrypting data at rest is definitely a reliable security measure, but it should be considered only one component of an effective storage security plan. |
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Lock up data with fixed-content storage
by Jerome M. Wendt
For most companies, fixed-content storage requirements are simple: Store the data securely, do it cheaply and provide fast access. With more data subject to external and internal audits, content-addressed storage products are becoming the preferred storage medium for long-term protection of fixed content. |
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Hot Spots
by Brian Babineau
New technology products that look inside data can help you classify and manage that data more effectively. But these tools can also be leveraged for e-discovery, allowing specific data to be found and acted upon quickly to satisfy legal requirements. |
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Best Practices
by Stephen Foskett
Disk drives are getting smaller and smaller even as their capacities rise. Now storage vendors are packing more disks than ever into smaller spaces, which saves costly data center real estate. But the denser arrays also have a downside--higher power consumption and more heat. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
The concept of "That's the way we've always done it" isn't going to work anymore, and it sure won't help you build an efficient disaster recovery plan. It's time to think outside the box when it comes to data protection. |
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