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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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Sane strategies for SAN growth
by James Damoulakis
What's the right way to design storage networks for growth? There's no simple answer to that question, but understanding the implications of storage- or network-centric approaches will help you make the right choices. |
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Too many SAN islands
by Jeff Moad
One of the main challenges to growing SANs is the proliferation of independent SAN islands. We look at how and why a multinational financial services company consolidated many islands into larger ones, but stopped short of a single, unified SAN. |
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IBM unveils storage tank
by Alex Barrett
With SANs growing, should you be thinking of how to leverage them for files? SAN FS, IBM's new clustered file system, is one option and we examine it in detail. Is enterprise IT ready for SAN FS and will IBM be ready to meet the needs of enterprises? |
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New directions for switches
by Jerome M. Wendt
With all of the recent acquisitions and new partnerships forming this year, finding the right Fibre Channel switch for you is even more confusing. This article will help you chose the right one. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
Can you please explain what content-addressed storage (CAS) is, and what it's used for? |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
It's been two years since Sept. 11. In this article, an insurance company tests its ability to recover from a similar disaster. How would your company fare? |
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Integration
by James Damoulakis
Creating a model for backup capacity will assist you in forecasting your storage needs for a given budget cycle. This way, you can consolidate your storage purchases and save big bucks. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Vendors keep creating new acronyms, but are they doing you any good? Ignore the hype and develop a methodical plan toward a comprehensive storage automation plan to ensure success. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Amazing but true: The money machine for storage startups is heating up again, but there doesn't seem to be too much correspondence between funding and potentially useful products. |
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Behind the Firewall
EMC is finally a software company ... Hitachi and IBM cashing in on SATA ... Pause before upgrading to LTO-2 ... Dell gets new storage chief ... Seagate's SATA drives aren't exactly perfect. |
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Snapshot
Which is your standard server disk drive? |
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