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- The best method for migrating from Symmetrix to DMX
- Synchronous replication distance limitations?
- Creating a centralized, mirrored backup enviornment
- Moving from a modular array to an enterprise array
- It's always better to mirror disks first
- How FC-AL and FC-SW switches are implemented
- An expert's recommendation for a SAN failover method
- How SATA drives hook up to a SAN
- Digital to optical switch conversion
- The best technique for disaster recovery
- Why a NAS gateway?
- SAN vs. NAS file sharing
- NAS gateway products for 2004
- How easy is it to implement a NAS gateway?
- How difficult will gateways be to manage?
- Where to put your compliance dollars
- How easy is it to drop a NAS gateway into an existing SAN?
- Where SAS will play out
- Compliance shouldn't limit your choice of technology
- How Sarbanes-Oxley will affect publicly traded companies
- It makes sense to build data archives on a SAN
- Assessing current policies and matching to appropriate HW/SW
- The ratio of storage admins to data pool size?
- 2004 compliance predictions: Cheap storage, compliance investments and e-mail archiving
- Implementing bi-directional data replication
- Implementing an active/active data center
- The state of SMI-S
- Major storage disciplines and who gets to execute them
- What switches to use when implementing an iSCSI SAN
- Leading policies and strategies regarding storage management
- An RFP is the first step to SAN implementation
- External storage array needed for clustering
- Questions concerning automated data centers, Part 1
- Questions concerning automated data centers, Part 2
- CIFS and protocols
- Building a SAN for shared video editing storage
- Third party vendors and StorageTek
- Searching for a 200-host NAS solution
- Looking for an ESCON BERT tester
- What are the different NAS solutions
- Upgrading from GroupWise to Exchange 2003
- The scoop on SATA and SCSI technologies
- SCSI/FC disks vs. IDE/ATA disks
- 2004 storage management predictions: It's time for SM software to deliver
- A NAS filer and a NAS file server are the same thing
- Moving data during a specific timeframe
- SAN/Tivoli performance issues
- Slow transfer rate may be due to compression
- iSCSI, FC, zoning and speed
- What effect does RAID have on an OS?
- Taking stock of data archiving and retrieval practices
- 2004 storage management predictions: Management tools proliferate, iSCSI & ILM abound
- 2004 High Availability predictions: Regulatory compliance, utility computing
- 2004 SAN predictions: Programmable storage, fabric-based intelligence, SMI-S -- Part 3
- 2004 SAN predictions: Programmable storage, fabric-based intelligence, SMI-S -- Part 2
- 2004 NAS predictions: NAS gateways, SAN/NAS convergence hype and SRM solutions for NAS
- Formatting the local drive for a clean install
- The many benefits of a SAN, Part 1
- The many benefits of a SAN, Part 2
- The many benefits of a SAN, Part 4
- Setting the debug flag
- The many benefits of a SAN, Part 3
- Consolidation and the IT budget
- Watch out for those consolidation pitfalls, Part 1
- Watch out for those consolidation pitfalls, Part 2
- The benefits of consolidating your data centers
- Disk-based backup vs. tape
- How to get management to accept HIPAA compliance
- What are some steps to making my storage SOX compliant?
- Attempting to power up after an outage
- How Sarbanes-Oxley will affect privately held companies
- Can secure document shredding be used for compliance?
- Convince management to spend for Sarbanes-Oxley
- How your backup choices impact compliance
- Questions a CIO should ask when considering consolidation, Part 1
- Questions a CIO should ask when considering consolidation, Part 2
- Two approaches to unified storage
- Adding NAS heads to a SAN environment
- NAS: Back up to disk or tape?
- Build your own low-cost testing solution
- SAN migration and implementation
- Help finding low-cost snapshot products
- How and where to use snapshot technology
- Best practices for FCAL drives
- What happened to spindle synchronization?
- Tapping your storage vendor for help implementing a SAN
- How to determine the number of HBAs per server
- More on a poor man's SAN
- Differences in file systems
- Determining the costs of a SAN
- Fibre Attached Storage products
- Sorting out SAN and NAS
- Implementing LAN-free backup
- Storage assessment tools
- NTFS file sizes
- Interpreting benchmarks
- The pros and cons of a single vendor environment
- SAN security, a real issue
- Defining your storage management process
- Simplify your storage management process
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