WHITE PAPER - Read Storage Magazine's August edition which features the following articles: Enterprise-ready VTLs, Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors, Storage at your service, Lights, camera, storage!
Posted: August 19, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Ethernet Networks | Fibre Channel | MAID | NAS | RAID | SAN | Storage Appliances | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Virtualization | Virtual Tape Libraries

JOURNAL ARTICLE - IP SAN adoption is growing among users who want storage that's easy to install, configure and manage, and also comes at a price considerably less than that of Fibre Channel (FC) SANs.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  10 Gigabit Ethernet | Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | Host Adapters | IP SAN | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | TCP/IP Offload Engine

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The midrange array category for the Diogenes Labs?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Storage magazine Quality Awards appears to be fertile turf for underdogs.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Systems | Surveys

JOURNAL ARTICLE - New automated application recovery products, geared toward SMBs, keep Exchange running 24/7.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Microsoft Exchange | RPO | RTO | Storage Appliances | Storage Replication

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Goodbye transactional computing; today, the file is the next big thing.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Distributed Computing | Storage Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Remote replication on virtual machines adds up to a disaster recovery plan that can really work.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Replication | Disaster Recovery | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Replication | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Cloudy future for storage?
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Online Backups | Software as a Service | Storage Management Services | Storage Service Providers

JOURNAL ARTICLE - It seems like everyone is talking about thin provisioning. It's no miracle cure, but the technology can do wonders.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Provisioning | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Clustered storage combines multiple arrays or controllers to increase their performance, capacity or reliability. In many cases, it's a cost-effective way to meet today's storage needs.
Posted: April 23, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  Clustering | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | NAS | Storage Systems | Vendor Selection

JOURNAL ARTICLE - New York's "other" baseball team installed deduplication appliances in the first stage of retooling its backup processes.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Data Compression | Data Replication | Disk-to-Disk Backup | Sports Industry | Storage Appliances

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Infrastructure 3.0 is a good reason not to retire.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Industry | Storage Infrastructure

JOURNAL ARTICLE - I/O obstacles could throw a monkey wrench into virtual server environments, but there are alternatives to traditional methods.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel SAN | Host Adapters | Infiniband Architecture | Server Virtualization | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Provisioning | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Keep these eight key steps in mind when designing and testing your disaster recovery strategy.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Disaster Recovery | Storage Best Practices | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Blue in the face about green.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Power Supplies | Storage Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - There are pros and cons to running multiple protocols through a single array controller.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | iSCSI Protocol | Storage Architectures | Storage Controllers | Storage Resource Management | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Despite their mechanical components, the reliability of tape libraries ranks high among Quality Awards survey respondents.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise | SMBs | Surveys | Tape Libraries

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Storage resource management tools come in a variety of flavors and offer features that take steps toward automating your storage environment, while reporting on the efficiency of the installed storage systems.
Posted: March 26, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Resource Management | Storage Resource Management Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - 2008 will be an exciting, competitive and sometimes confusing time to be a storage professional. It won't be enough to be a great storage tech.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Channel Management | Disaster Recovery | Electronic Discovery | ITIL | SAN | Staffing | Storage Industry | Storage Security | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Data protection is changing rapidly: Point-in-time recoveries, faster legal discovery response times and near real-time disaster recoveries are becoming new requirements for corporate data protection.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Continuous Data Protection Software | Server Virtualization | Software Licensing | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - By the time this article is published, most of you will have returned to work after a holiday break and settled down for the year ahead. Considering this is my first 2008 column, I decided to write about some areas that will take center stage this year.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Best Practices | Storage Management Services | Storage Provisioning | Storage Spending | Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup success rates are improving, but reliable data recovery is still a concern. Not only does data loss impact business productivity and potentially revenue, but failure to produce data could result in fines or damage to a company's reputation.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Recovery | Regulatory Compliance | Reporting Software

JOURNAL ARTICLE - If you don't agree that it's time for RAID to die, then I'll also assume you use 35mm film in your camera, don't own a cell phone and think this Internet thing is a fad.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  RAID | Storage Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Cop a plea. Throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Plead the fifth or claim temporary insanity.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Electronic Discovery | Email Archiving | Regulatory Compliance

JOURNAL ARTICLE - If there's a lesson to be learned from the 2007 Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com Products of the Year, it's that vendors can't rest on their laurels.
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Business Continuity Planning Software | Disk Storage Systems | Storage Appliances | Storage Hardware

JOURNAL ARTICLE - As deployments of virtualized servers proliferate in enterprise IT environments, there are growing concerns associated with creating, managing and protecting these newly created virtual machines (VMs).
Posted: February 18, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backup Software | Backups | Blade Servers | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software | Storage Appliances | Storage Virtualization | Storage Virtualization Software