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Distance: Meeting the new mandate for disaster recovery
by Johanna Ambrosio
Tougher government regulations and increasing distance requirements are driving new remote copy tactics and technologies.

Optimize your storage for fixed content
by Ed Palmer
Much of your data gets written once, read often and never changes. Here's what's available to handle so-called fixed-content storage--and how storage managers are making use of it.

Shared file systems: a mixed blessing
by Benjamin Kuo
Shared file systems promise to simplify managing storage. But you might have to wait a few years before that promise is fulfilled.

The shape of the new data center
by John R. Blackman
The key to the next wave of data center technologies is adaptability. Realizing that goal may rest in your hands.

Getting real about iSCSi
by Jerome M. Wendt
The picture of iSCSI is a little fuzzy. What advantages or disadvantages do you face if you implement now?

Storage spending continues to rise
by Mark Schlack
Our extensive survey of 2003 spending plans show spending is up, but storage managers want more than just raw capacity.

Tools, Trends & Analysis

Storage Firsts

ATA Drives Move Up the Ranks
The nod has been given to ATA drives by EMC, which is now giving customers the option of buying disk array enclosures (DAEs) for their Clariion CX400 and CX600 arrays equipped with ATA, rather than the usual Fibre Channel drives.

EMC/Accenture Partnership Bears Few Fruit
Ever wonder whatever became of EMC's ISC, the "vendor neutral" storage consulting service the company launched with Accenture last summer?

DDS Lives as Replacement Fails to Materialize
Last year, the digital data storage (DDS) tape format, a.k.a. DAT, was in decline.

Outsourced Backup: Pricey But Worth It
Experio, the consulting arm of Hitachi USA, has more than 800 employees, 700 of which are mobile consultants. At the same time, it only has a four-person IT staff. How does Experio do it? In a word: outsourcing, including outsourced backup.

SRM Software Players Cook Up New Pricing Models
As more IT shops deploy networked storage, many storage resource management (SRM) vendors are moving to capacity-based pricing, rather than the server- or processor-based pricing models of old.

Ask The Expert
by W. Curtis Preston
Q: What trends do you see in open-systems backup and recovery environments?

Storage Industry Index
After outperforming the S&P 500 for most of this year, the Storage Industry Index slipped a bit more than the market as a whole toward the end of March, although not that much.

SNIA Members Plug Away at Management Spec
Storage Networking World, co-sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is always a big source of storage standards news.

By the Numbers

Columns

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Finally, a storage user group

Behind the Firewall
EMC goes dancing, without a partner ... Softek going it alone? ... CA picks up where BMC left off ... Prices stay put

Hot Spots
You've selected your tools for implementation. Now get ready to deploy them.

Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Keeping your eyes on all of your devices might require more than just two eyes.

Integration
by James Damoulakis
Is HSM ready for open systems or has is it had its day?

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Ignore the doomsayers.The world of storage is healthier than ever.

The Real Deal
Last month, we began tracking media for LTO-2 drives. While drive prices didn't drop, media costs for LTO-2 sank 11.5%.

Snapshot
Do You Test Your Backups?

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