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• Canadian province adds IBM SVC to manage data growth

  With data growing at 100% per year and staffing expected to stay flat, the government of Nova Scotia turned to storage virtualization to aid management. Continue Reading

• Top five storage management tips of 2008

  Here are the top five storage management tips of 2008, based on our readers' interest, covering such topics as SATA drives, green storage and primary storage optimization. Continue Reading

• How to evaluate and purchase a SAN

  The Royal Horticultural Society's network manager Martin Taylor guides users through the process of evaluating and purchasing a SAN. Continue Reading

• Data migration tips

  Data moves. Or, it has to be moved when you're refreshing array technology, merging storage resources with an acquired company or shifting data around to more economical tiers. Data migration is a common task, but it's often a difficult one. We ... Continue Reading

• Storage resource management quiz

  Whether it's working with data collection, backup, recovery, or analyzing SAN performance, you'll need to know the best way to manage your storage resources. Take our quiz and become a scholar on how to master Storage Resource Management (SRM). Continue Reading

• CommVault, McAfee partner to integrate storage and security management solution

  Storage software vendor CommVault and security specialist McAfee forge a strategic partnership to integrate storage management and security management. Could a merger follow similar to the Symantec-Veritas deal?Continue Reading

• FAQ guide: How Fibre Channel over Ethernet can consolidate networks

  Storage analyst Greg Schulz answers the questions he hears most about FCoE, including where it fits in the market, when FCoE products will become available, and how it compares to iSCSI and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.Continue Reading

• Breaking news: Excel not top storage management tool

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• Symantec, Citrix take on VMware in storage management

  While Symantec continues to support VMware, it's also teaming up with Citrix's XenServer to challenge the use of VMFS for storage management.Continue Reading

• EMC app manager still missing VMware storage utilization reporting

  The new version of EMC's Application Discovery Manager can report on virtual hosts, but hasn't yet been integrated with VMware storage utiilization reporting.Continue Reading

• HDS streamlines storage management tools

  HDS merges separate storage management software applications into one package with a shared back-end database and will support solid-state drives in high-end disk arrays later this year.Continue Reading

• CommVault eyes data dedupe, records management and SaaS

  CommVault says it's continuing to win business from competitors in data backup and is now looking to new markets, such as data deduplication, information and records management, and SaaS.Continue Reading

• Automate storage management

  IT process automation tools provide workflows that can help automate manual storage management processes. The real value is when these workflow engines are integrated with storage management apps to not only guide administrators through the process,...Continue Reading

• How to size a SAN

  If your DAS storage infrastructure has reached its limits, or your existing SAN is out of date or just plain end-of-life, your first step will be to know what your storage requirements are.Continue Reading

• Exchange alternative eases email storage management

  A Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Exchange, called PostPath Server, has been certified by EMC Corp. for use with its Clariion disk arrays. PostPath Server is simplifying storage management and backups for organizations like the Appalachian ...Continue Reading