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SEPTEMBER 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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E-mail: It's worse than you think
by Eric Knorr
According to a 2003 study by Meta Group, 80% of businesspeople say e-mail is more essential than the telephone. However, storage managers are struggling to keep pace with the growth in message volume and retention requirements. however. |
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Why consolidate?
Organizations trying to consolidate storage often find themselves creating SAN islands that perpetuate traditional stovepipes. Does this solve the problem? |
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Grid computing will change storage
by Marc Staimer
Often described as the Internet on steroids, grid computing has the buzz as the next big thing to change the world of computing as we know it. Here's how storage management will change in the grid world. |
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Can tools streamline provisioning?
by Jerome M. Wendt
Virtualization was last year's buzz word, and it looks like provisioning may be this year's. We dissect what these tools actually do and how to choose which ones that are likely to actually be useful in your environment. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Early Adopters Unequivocally Up About iSCSI Arrays
After years of listening to iSCSI hype, some IT professionals are embracing a new generation of IP-based storage subsystems, a group that includes the PeerStorage Array 100E, an iSCSI array from Nashua, NH-based EqualLogic. |
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Ask the Expert
Which is best for consolidating storage in an SAP environment: SAN or NAS? |
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SRM Vendors Set Sights on Secondary Storage
Storage resource management (SRM) has become a standard offering for primary storage from all of the major SAN management vendors. Now, a number of startups and established backup software makers have taken the features of SRM and aimed them at secondary storage. |
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Diagnostic Tool Shines Light on SDLT
Quantum is shipping a suite of drive and media diagnostic tools that the company says will help IT managers more easily manage their tape resources. |
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Best Practices
by Darryl Brooks
Your worst nightmare—that of your data center suffering a catastrophic disaster—has come true. Now what? |
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Hot Spots
Don't get stuck in the old mode of consolidation and miss opportunities for greater efficiency. |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
Summer thoughts: There's more cool technology coming out over the next year than at any other time in storage history. |
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Behind the Firewall
Telcos make switch choices ...Why the FBI was at EMC ... Startups to watch ... Tape shows surprising strength. |
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Snapshot
Do You Encrypt Your Backup Tapes? |
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