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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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Features |
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Face-Off: EMC DMX-3 vs. Hitachi USP1100
by Brad O'Neill
Only a handful of storage vendors produce truly top-of-the-line arrays, and EMC and Hitachi Data Systems dominate those ranks with their respective Symmetrix DMX-3 and TagmaStore USP1100 products. These vendors attain high capacity and high performance using two very different architectures. We examine the differences to see if one approach outstrips the other. |
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Quality Awards II: Leading libraries
by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin
Although they're the most mechanical part of a backup system, users are fairly satisfied with the reliability of their tape libraries. And despite high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors, the results of the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards largely reinforced last year's results. |
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The skinny on data deduplication
by W. Curtis Preston
Data deduplication technology identifies and eliminates redundant data, drastically reducing the amount of disk needed to store the deduped data. This inside look reveals the differences among deduplication systems and explains what key features you need to consider. |
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Protect remote-office data
by Marc Staimer
Centralizing remote-office and branch-office (ROBO) apps and their data in the primary data center has enormous economies of scale. These remote-data apps cut the amount of data sent over the wire, making it possible to economically back up remote data to a central site. We provide a sampling of the various ROBO data management products on the market, and describe how they can best be implemented. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
I'm having difficulty comparing directors to switches. Which is better? What are the advantages of each one? |
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Snapshot
What's your top storage priority for 2007? |
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Columns |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
The Trusted Computing Group is a security standards body now venturing into the storage world. The group is about to release a spec that promises to provide a secure foundation that storage management vendors and users can leverage to improve the protection of stored data. |
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Best Practices
by James Damoulakis
Business-impact analysis and planning is a necessary first step in preparing a disaster recovery plan. Without it, the likelihood of either overspending or coming up with an incomplete solution is highly probable. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Storage virtualization technologies have been purchased and implemented successfully for years. The rest of the IT infrastructure must try to catch up and, ultimately, the only thing not virtualized within the data center will be the last guy standing. |
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