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OCTOBER 2009 |
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FEATURES |
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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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Upstart tops NAS vendors
by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin
In our second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, large NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but a lesser known company emerged as the surprise winner of enterprise NAS. |
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Consolidating remote offices
by Brad O'Neill
Storage magazine and Taneja Group conducted a survey of 254 IT professionals with responsibility for remote-/branch-office (ROBO) management and planning. Our research reveals that while 70% of respondents now view ROBO as central to business operations, there are still many areas of uncertainty and confusion. |
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Corral virtual server backup
by W. Curtis Preston
The popularity of VMware virtual servers has grown significantly in the last few years, prompting questions about how to back them up. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, W. Curtis Preston writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods of protecting virtual server data. |
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Catching up with deduplication
by Jerome Wendt
Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Because vendors implement deduplication differently, the fear, uncertainty and doubt surrounding deduplication products has increased, with questions about when to deploy what product. Here's what you need to know to pick the product that will best fit into your environment. |
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Best Practices: The science of storage management
by Ashish Nadkarni
Consistency and standardization are the keys to a disciplined storage operation. How much you can achieve depends on the size of your operation and the resources you have available. |
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