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• HDS reigns over enterprise arrays ... again

  The third annual Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays saw some changes among the vendors, but a familiar theme prevailed as Hitachi Data Systems copped top honors for the third time.

• EMC aims for "ease of use" at EMC World

  by  Rich Friedman

• Tools to fine-tune your backups

  Backup and recovery applications typically include reporting capabilities, but they're often rudimentary and provide only basic information on the success or failure of data protection operations. Data protection and recovery management (DPRM) products, an emerging class of monitoring and planning tools, fill in the gaps where traditional backup apps fall short. DPRM tools provide advanced capacity reporting, predict usage patterns and allow performance tuning, troubleshooting and cost management. Here's how to pick the best product for your shop.

• Slowly but surely, 10GbE makes its way

• Data protection vendors set sights on SharePoint

• eBay keeps up with evolving storage demands

  by  Rich Friedman

• Mix SAS/SATA drives for speed or capacity

  by  Jerome Wendt

  The emerging class of mixed SAS and SATA storage systems could be the next big disruptive technology. Mixing high- and low-cost SAS and SATA disk drives within the same system, at interconnect speeds comparable to Fibre Channel, is a recipe for significant change and opens the door to data lifecycle management.

• A closer look at thin provisioning

  by  Jo Maitland

• What's on those tapes?

• Can iSCSI crack the enterprise?

  by  Stephen Foskett

  iSCSI storage systems are showing up in medium-sized businesses, but storage managers at large enterprise shops have been reluctant to embrace them. This is largely because Fibre Channel (FC) is so firmly entrenched in bigger companies. But iSCSI offers some unique benefits that may appeal to shops with FC-only environments.

• Snapshot: iSCSI storage

  Users speak out about iSCSI