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Features in this issue

• What do you see as your biggest storage challenge in 2009?

• Users' advice for virtual server backups

• Next year's hot technologies

  by  Ellen O'Brien

  In our annual look ahead at hot storage technologies, we present our nominees for those storage technologies that are poised to break out of the pack and become essential building blocks for new products that make storage easier to manage, less costly and better performing.

• DR for virtualized servers

  A high level of mobility and the relative hardware independence of virtual servers greatly reduces the cost and complexity of putting disaster recovery (DR) in place, enabling companies to expand DR to a larger number of servers and applications.

• Storage 101

  Why solid-state drives wear out

• Storage planning and spending by the numbers: