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Features

Get top performance from database storage
by Benjamin Kuo
Taking your SAN beyond backup to run production databases requires the right layout, good practices and better integration. The benefits: high performance, floor-space savings and streamlined operations.

TCO analysis: does it work for storage?
TCO analysis is all the rage, but use with caution—the numbers can be twisted by vendors trying to make a sale.

Bocada clarifies backup picture
by W. Curtis Preston
Bocada's latest version of BackupReport could make your life easier if you have to track multiple backup servers.

Towards the new data center
by David Braue
Modular servers, separate storage and networked storage all add up to flexibility and efficiency unprecedented in the glass house.

How to make your budget case
by Tom Pisello
Justify yourself to the budget committee - here's how.

Network appliance raises the bar for NAS/SAN convergence
by Michael Desmond
The FAS900 series breaks new ground in bringing together file and block storage.

Virtualize the right way
by Marc Farley
Here are some guidelines for designing virtualized systems.

Director or core switch: which one works for you?
by Jerome M. Wendt
Each brings with it certain assumptions about reliability and manageability. But there's hope: The architectures are converging.

Tools, Trends & Analysis

Brocade, McData Bolster Midrange Families
Dominant Fibre Channel switch vendors Brocade and McData have both made significant enhancements to their midrange 2Gb/s Fibre Channel switch platforms.

Microsoft Scales Data Center Wall with MPIO
Microsoft is exhausting data center managers' objections to running Windows in the data center.

The Whys and Wherefores of Failed Backups
Despite all the effort storage administrators pour into backup, backups fail about 40% of the time.

By the Numbers

Storage Firsts

Migrating Data No Picnic - and No Bargain
To describe data migration as complex is an understatement and tools to assist in data migration, meanwhile, are few and far between,

Definition
Direct Memory Access

API Swaps: Only Skin Deep

Storage Industry Index

Ask the Expert
by Marc Farley
What are the pros and cons of storing user files on a RAID array with either ATA or SCSI drives? Because it's so much cheaper, I'd like to install an ATA RAID.

Saving Media from Extinction
What do whales and digitizing analog broadcast tapes have in common?

Storage Manager Profile
NAS vs. SAN? Who Cares?

Columns

Editorial
by Mark Schlack
Time to sign up.

Behind the firewall
Latest Veritas follies ... Switch guys duke it out ... Cisco's big secret ... Yikes! Gadzoox lives ... Microsoft makes SCSI.

Hot Spots: Create a storage services group now
Our new columnist looks at creating a storage services group.

Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Guidelines to troubleshooting your SAN.

Integration
by James Damoulakis
Pick the right database backup option.

Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
After all these years, it still comes down to good old backup and restore.

The Real Deal
High-end savings

Snapshot
Do you use 1Gb/s or 2Gb/s switches?

Careers
by Rich Friedman
Why you need a strategic plan for storage.

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