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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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IP SANs take their place
There's a growing interest in using IP for storage in small to midsized enterprises, although Fibre Channel is still dominant in large organizations. What's right for you: IP, FC or a combination of both? |
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Virtual SANs put to the test
by David Braue
Cisco's new virtual SAN technology has aroused a lot of interest. But how does it work in practice? We look at how Australia's Deakin University uses VSANs to isolate development activity within its large, multisite fabric. |
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CAD for SANs
by John Vacca
New automated design tools can help you build the SAN of your dreams. |
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Getting remote data right
by Marc Farley
The second of a two-part series on business continuity, this article focuses on how to use replicated data and the different types of replication: subsystem, host and network device based. |
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Taming HBAs
by Jerome M. Wendt
New HBA cards promise to ease your HBA administration burden and are loaded with new features. But is this the truth? |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Storage Industry Index
The stock market's upward ride in May carried the Storage Industry Index along with it, for the most part. |
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Recent Funding to Storage Companies
Database backup and recovery software and next-generation storage switching hardware garnered the lion's share of late-spring venture capital funding. |
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Ask the Expert
I have 60% free space on 10,000 PCs. Can I consolidate it by mounting it as a volume and using a login script to map it to the desktops? |
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Columns |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
In the second part of a two-part article, we review Veritas SANPoint Control and compare it with EMC ControlCenter. |
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Integration
by James Damoulakis
Can you describe your backup, retention and disaster recovery policies? And do they correctly address your business needs? |
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Hot Spots
According to a Morgan Stanley December 2002 survey of 225 CIOs, security spending tops their 10 highest priorities for 2003. This article details how to build a thorough, companywide security strategy. |
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Behind the firewall
Sun and AppIQ place bid for BMC ... Legato has risen from the dead ... Paceline really is dead ... Buzz on EqualLogic's iSCSI arrays ... Could Fibre Channel cut off TOEs? |
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Snapshot
Would You Buy a 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Switch? |
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