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Features in this issue

• Fund Watch

• Synthetic Full Backup Catching On

  Synthetic fulls slash backup time

• Tiered storage has arrived

  by  Mark Schlack

  Our semiannual Purchasing Intentions survey shows spending is up, if not at the levels of earlier this year. Storage managers are spreading money across multiple tiers of storage products.

• NAS Takes SMBs to Next Level

• How to design a core/edge SAN

  by  Norman Owens

  Use the SPICE algorithm to simplify the process of designing a large core/edge SAN.

• Girding for Grids

• First Look: Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises

  Asigra's Televaulting for Enterprises is an agentless remote backup application that uses commodity servers at remote locations to ship pared-down data back to a centrally managed site.

• 4Gb--ready or not, here it comes

  You might not need them, but 4Gb/sec Fibre Channel products are coming. Comparably priced to 2Gb/sec and backward compatible, they might end up in your storage network whether you need them or not.

• Hands-On Review: Softek Performance Tuner

  Softek's Performance Tuner is adept at identifying bottlenecks and impending failures.

• The search for cost-effective disaster recovery

  Creating an efficient DR strategy starts with determining the value of your company's applications and data. You can find the right mix of DR technologies to protect your data without breaking the bank.

• Accommodating arrays

  by  Jerome Wendt

  Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need -- costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less-critical data. The arrays also come with mixed RAID configurations. But selecting the right mix of disks and RAID levels requires understanding the impact of those decisions.

• Cheap SANs--Hype or Hot?

  Low-cost SANs still looking for a market

• Remote Replication Gets Out of the Array

  Network-based replication challenges array apps