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JULY 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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Surviving microcode upgrades
by Jo Maitland
Vendors often claim that the upgrades to their systems' microcode will be non-disruptive, but installing upgrades often becomes an arduous process. Storage pros, burned by so-called non-disruptive upgrades, have come up with strategies to take the sting out of software updates. |
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Microsoft's storage push
by Brad O'Neill
It's not news that Microsoft wants to become a major player in the storage market, but how the software titan plans to do it may open some eyes. We focus on the four areas that storage managers should track to keep a bead on Microsoft's storage efforts. |
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Cut out the fat
by Karl Langdon
It's not too tough to make short-term cuts to reduce costs, but most companies find it difficult to sustain those cost savings over a longer stretch of time. Here's how to make cost cutting a long-range, ongoing effort. |
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New role for tape libraries
by Jerome M. Wendt
Midrange tape libraries have added sophisticated features such as partitioning to fend off the challenge of disk-based backup systems. With these new capabilities, tape libraries are finally assuming the role they were originally designed for: the long-term protection and preservation of data. |
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Hot Spots
by Jon Oltsik
Continuous data protection (CDP) has great potential benefits, but it shouldn't be viewed as an isolated technology widget. Rather, CDP should be treated as a little piece of a much more profound process and business change. |
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Best Practices
by Jim Damoulakis
Storage virtualization has been a controversial subject for years. But now that we know the technology actually works, what's keeping it from widespread adoption? |
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Storage Bin
by Steve Duplessie
For a few years, the IT vendor world spent more time and money helping to inflate the tech bubble than on building successful products. When the bubble burst, it put us in a hole that we're only now digging our way out of. |
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