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OCTOBER 2009 |
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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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Spend less on storage
by Marc Farley
Serial ATA disks can save you big bucks, but there's a bigger story here. By using RAID and a SAN, you can overcome many of its inherent reliability and performance limitations. It's time to rethink many of your assumptions about storage costs. |
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Lock the back door
by W. Curtis Preston
In the last installment of our three-part security series, this article discusses SAN management interfaces, which can give a stealthy hacker an easy way to sneak in and potentially damage your data. |
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Searching for seamless consolidation
by Jeff Moad
In this second part of a three-part series featuring organizations in different stages of storage networking, we look at why growth often means abandoning the storage utility notion, at least for the moment. |
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The trouble with measuring SAN performance
by Jerome M. Wendt
A common system administrator's nightmare involves the telephone call at 4:oo in the morning from your boss. He's calling to tell you there's a problem with the SAN. Here's how to survive and prevent this from happening again. |
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Columns |
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Behind the firewall
Times have changed: Users are raving about IBM's TSM ... A mass exodus from HP's storage group? ... McData buys Nishan on the cheap ... 10Gb products lagging ... Microsoft goes storage. |
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