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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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New rules, new game for compliance and ediscovery
by Jay Brudz, Marilyn Bota and Alan Radding
The updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure set new standards for electronically stored information, and may have a significant bearing on how your company manages its digital documents. Some of the country's top legal experts weigh-in with suggestions on how to create retention policies that can keep your company on the right side of the law. |
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Stamp out NAS threats
by Jacob Gsoedl
NAS is open to many of the exploits (viruses, worms, unauthorized access, data tampering, snooping and IP spoofing) that have plagued Windows-based systems. But even though NAS runs on ubiquitous Ethernet and TCP/IP transport protocols, it's fairly easy to protect. The hard part is selecting the right level of protection. |
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CommVault Galaxy, EMC Retrospect best of the backup apps
by Rich Castagna and Phil Goodwin
In general, product ratings for the third annual Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for backup and recovery software increased over last year's scores. CommVault's Galaxy, this year's enterprise-class winner, returned to the winner's circle after losing its crown to BakBone NetVault: Backup last year. In the SMB area, EMC's Retrospect also returned to the top spot after a one-year hiatus. |
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The advantages of asynchronous replication
by Jerome Wendt
Storage system-based asynchronous replication is becoming the new de facto standard to recover data quickly for business continuity. Asynchronous replication offers advantages over more costly synchronous replication, but it still requires similar arrays at both ends of the replication setup, so it's likely that you'll rely on a single vendor's technology. |
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Tools, Trends & Analysis |
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Ask the Expert
In terms of performance and availability, which is better: RAID 4 or RAID 5? |
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Columns |
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Hot Spots: Managing storage in a virtual server world
Server virtualization is the big data center story, and storage managers need to design their storage systems to take advantage of a virtualized server environment. There are steps you can take now to ensure that your storage systems are up to the task. |
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Best Practices: Pull the plug on high energy costs
by Dianne McAdam
Spiraling energy costs are taking an increasingly big chunk of the data center budget. Data centers are grappling with rising electrical bills and, in some locations, limitations on the amount of available power are forcing IT anagers to rethink their basic processes. |
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