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JUNE 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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Storage salaries increase
by Alan Radding
The results for Storage's annual salary survey are in and storage professionals report salary growth. While the increases over last year are modest, they do represent the third straight year that our exclusive survey has shown an increase in storage salaries. |
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File Systems: The state of the art
by Brad O'Neill
Generally overlooked, file systems are assuming a prominent place at the heart of new technologies that address some of the most vexing storage problems, such as scaling and performance. New file-system approaches provide the underpinnings for technologies such as clustering, global namespaces and wide-area computing. |
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Secure your backups
by Alex Barrett
The headlines tell the story: Lost tapes can jeopardize the confidentiality of personal information and cause public-relations woes for those companies charged with safeguarding that data. Encryption can solve the problem, but implementing tape encryption isn't so easy, as performance issues could impact backup windows. |
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The lowdown on replication appliances
by Jerome M. Wendt
Operating system- and storage array-agnostic, replication appliances give companies increased flexibility to address one-time and continuous data replication needs, while allowing applications to continue processing without data loss or to recover with minimal downtime. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
Q: Can I share a LUN between two servers and open the same file concurrently? |
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Columns |
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Behind the Firewall
Quantum working on encryption ... Who's IBM's mysterious development partner for Virtualization Engine TS7510? ... Symantec/Veritas sales execs close deals to quell Wall Street critics. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Storage professionals are finally beginning to pay attention to security, but they need to consider risk from a business perspective and include people, processes and technologies in their assessments. |
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Best Practices
by Jim Damoulakis
Continuous data protection (CDP) applications are quickly becoming a force in the backup market. In fact, CDP is poised to replace traditional backup methods. |
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Snapshot
How many backup apps do you have? |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Just how good is your disaster recovery plan? That is, if you even have one. But even the best-laid plans may fail in the face of overwhelming disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11. |
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