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  • Backup applications get record-breaking Quality Awards results

    CommVault returns to the top spot among enterprise backup applications, while Dell AppAssure prevails over seven midrange finalists.Feature

  • 2013 shaping up to be a 'decent' year for IT data storage spending

    IT data storage is always a struggle, but storage managers should have a little more money in 2013 to spend on techs that can help ease the crunch of growing capacity demands.Feature

  • How to improve your virtual server storage setups

    One of the biggest challenges of building a virtual server infrastructure is fine-tuning the storage that supports the virtual machines. Having multiple server OSes running on a single physical server can easily overload a storage network and supporting storage array. These 10 tips provide practical guidance you can use today to improve the performance of those storage systems. David Davis, a server virtualization and storage expert, steps you through the process of tweaking virtual server storage setups.

    Backup is usually the No. 1 pain point for IT organizations. For smaller firms and remote/branch locations of enterprise-scale outfits, there's often a shortage of IT expertise to ensure company data is adequately protected. A new product category, backup appliances, is addressing this issue with preconfigured backup hardware-software combinations that are ready to run out of the box.

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  • Should you believe vendors’ jaw-dropping solid-state performance specs?

    The benefits of solid-state storage are clear -- cool running, space-saving and blistering performance. But just how “blistering” is that performance? Data storage vendors toss previously unheard of numbers around, like millions of IOPS, to show the speed of their hybrid and all-solid-state drive arrays … but are they really that fast? We take a look at how the vendors get their numbers, and what numbers are meaningful for your environment.
    Storage tiering’s been around for a while, but has recently received a boost from solid-state. We look at who’s doing what with automated tiering and describe some of the tiering specs that will be most important to you.

    And for the seventh year, users register their satisfaction (or disappointments) with midrange and enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) systems in the latest installment of our Quality Awards for NAS.E-Zine

  • Small but satisfied group of converged systems users

    Convenience, preconfiguration and cost savings are among the reasons why our survey respondents say they're using converged systems.Feature

  • NAS storage systems satisfaction survey: EMC, Hitachi earn top marks

    NAS storage systems are the storage workhorses of most data centers; EMC's and Hitachi Data Systems' NAS entries lead a strong field in our satisfaction survey.Feature

  • Spectra Logic gets midrange and enterprise tape storage systems awards

    The seventh edition of our Quality Awards for tape storage systems tallied tape users' ratings for service and reliability, and Spectra Logic came out on top twice.Feature

  • Companies are better prepared for disasters

  • Survey Says: Still coping with capacity

  • Storage managers in control

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