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Features in this issue

• Cutting through the tape maze

  by  Ron Levine

  All tape is not created equal. Here's everything you need to know about tape formats for corporate backup.

• Chargeback ROI: Does accountability pay?

  by  Anne Zieger

  Chargeback for storage use is attracting a lot of interest. But does it make sense financially?

• Recent Funding to Storage Companies

  Database backup and recovery software and next-generation storage switching hardware garnered the lion's share of late-spring venture capital funding.

• Standard IT processes: getting to yes at Intel

  by  Bill Whittington

  How one man helped standardize corporate backup and restore procedures - and lived to tell about it.

• ASK THE EXPERT: What does storage pooling mean? What do you think of it?

  by  Joel Lovell

• Vixel chip brings switching to disks

  Subsystem vendors are coming up against the limitations of shared protocols.

• Test before you taste

  by  Benjamin Kuo

  If you're putting a SAN together, you'll need to test interoperability. Surprisingly, that goes double for open systems products. Some companies are even doing it themselves - here's how

• Storage management building on XML foundation

  Storage management software is "like stepping back in time ten years."

• Virtual tape is cast for the open systems stage

  For some people in the open systems world, tape is a four-letter word.

• Bona fide iSCSI products ship

  With ratification of the standard coming soon, more and more iSCSI products have started surfacing.

• Distance yourself from disaster

  by  Charles T. Clark

  Long-distance replication is reachable with new optical and IP storage networking technologies.

• Apple Xserve counts on ATA

  Apple has embraced ATA drives in its new 1U rackmount server.

• Pushing storage to another level

  by  Johanna Ambrosio

  In the extreme worlds of geophysical computing and genomics, storage managers are learning approaches that will be in the mainstream tomorrow.

• Legato sidles up to Microsoft

  Curious about what Microsoft will include for storage management software in its upcoming .NET server?

• NDMP restores sanity to NAS backup

  by  David Braue

  NDMP has emerged as the best way to provide plug-and-play connectivity between backup software and filer-attached tape drives.

• HPaq: the upshot for storage

  Wondering which storage product the merged Compaq/HP will push?

• Storage industry index

  May followed April's dramatic decline.

• 15K RPM disk drives

  Need speed? While not spilling over with capacity, 15,000 rpm disk drives deliver average seek times for reads at about 3.5 ms vs. around 4.5 ms for 10,000 rpm drives.

• NAS: more than just an appliance

  by  Randy Kerns

  New advances in NAS boxes are moving them from mere departmental storage workhorses to servicing mission critical corporate applications.