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Next year's hot technologies
This article is part of the Storage issue of Vol. 7 No. 10 December 2008
10Gb Ethernet and SAS-2, replication for DR, global dedupe, SaaS and self-healing systems will shine in 2009. each year, a handful of storage technologies seem 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. For our annual forecast, these are the five technologies we think will be hot in 2009: 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) and 6Gb/sec SAS are less-expensive alternatives to Fibre Channel (FC) networking and storage. Remote replication for disaster recovery, while not new, is becoming the cornerstone of DR plans. Global deduplication, managing islands of dedupe and virtual tape library (VTL) appliances and sharing dedupe data among them, is a much-needed innovation for next-generation dedupe products. Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings are becoming increasingly appealing in tough economic times. And self-healing systems, arrays that help cut management time and data loss, round out our list. As we do each year, we'll cite ...
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Features in this issue
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LTO-4 gains favor among tape drive buyers
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How your SAN will evolve
We asked storage vendors, industry analysts and technologists serving on storage industry associations about where they saw the SAN heading. There may not be sweeping architectural changes in five years, but there will be changes in the basic building blocks of the SAN infrastructure: networks and protocols; switches; storage arrays, disks and controllers; and SAN management.
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2009: Do more with less
According to Storage magazine's 2009 Storage Priorities survey, budgets earmarked for storage technologies will increase on average by only 3.8%. Tighter purse strings will affect most, if not all, companies, but mid-sized businesses may get hit a little harder than their smaller and larger cousins. But having less to spend doesn't mean storage managers will have less to do in 2009.
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What do you see as your biggest storage challenge in 2009?
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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.
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More pieces added to the FCoE puzzle
Columns in this issue
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Storage wishes for 2009: Editorial
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Deep dive into SharePoint data recovery: HOT SPOTS
Microsoft's popular collaboration application presents unique backup/recovery challenges, especially when it comes to protecting the data in a way that permits granular recovery.
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New realities of green IT: STORAGE BIN 2.0
IT is often doomed to be caught in the crossfire of so-called green plans unless it's aligned with overall business goals.