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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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Is storage certification worth it?
by Susan J. Marks
If you're thinking about advancing your career by becoming certified in a particular storage skill, read this article to help you decide if certification is worth your time and money. |
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Are full backups dead?
by W. Curtis Preston
Tape may not be dead, but the way you use it can change. Consider increasing your use of incremental backup, particularly if you're integrating disk into your backup process. |
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Remote DR: faster, farther and cheaper
by Marc Staimer
Post-Sept. 11, you need to consider disaster sites that are geographically distant from your main data centers. Remote replication software, IP storage and new techniques for long-term storage are changing the DR distance equation. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Put Your Data on Ice
Proponents of information life cycle management (ILM) like to talk about managing data from birth to death. For most industries, that "death" can't come soon enough. |
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Hot data storage startups
by Jon Oltsik
There's finally some good economic news in the IT world, so perhaps it's time to investigate new storage startups. This article details the most innovative startups in the industry today. |
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Behind the firewall
Veritas and Legato backup woes ... Cisco fails to foster storage knowledge ... Microsoft is playing musical chairs ... Startup Mendocino gobbles up Vyant's intellectual property. |
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