JOURNAL ARTICLE - Read this article to learn how continuous data protection (CDP) products offer the most granular recovery points of all data protection applications.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Backups | Business Continuity Planning | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Security | Microsoft Exchange | SQL Server

JOURNAL ARTICLE - This article discusses how storage managers are starting to feel the pinch of a slowing economy, but they still have to store and protect more data than ever.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Budgeting | Cost Benefit Analysis | DAS | Data Management | Emerging Technologies | iSCSI SAN | NAS | Storage Capacity

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Storage departments are trying energy-saving technologies, but measuring ROI is still a challenge. This white paper presents methods to achieve this, giving pros and cons in that endeavor.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Environmental Law | ERP | Power Supplies | Power Test Equipment | ROI | Storage Management | TCO

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The storage and server cluster installed at The University of Texas at Austin is a lesson in how to do HPC. Storage requirements for HPC go beyond massive capacity, and include the use of high-performance file systems.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cluster Software | Clustering | Grid Computing | High Performance Computing | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Systems | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Green data centers are a noble idea. But saving greenbacks can make you a hero.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Industry | Environmental Law | ROI | TCO

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup services can save hardware and staffing costs, but beware of surprise fees.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Backup Server Hardware | Backups | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Operational Support Systems | SLA | Storage Best Practices | Storage Security | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Network consolidation is just one of the technologies forcing storage pros to build stronger IT teams.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Collaboration | Data Center Consolidation | Data Centers | Network Convergence | Network Infrastructure | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Fibre channel advocates say you can't beat storage systems built around that protocol for performance and reliability, yet there is reason to believe it's dominance may not last too long.
Posted: October 23, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel | Fibre Channel SAN | Fibre Channel Switches | iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN | Statistical Software | Storage Infrastructure | Storage Management | Storage Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Backup vendors benefit from snapshot and dedupe technologies. You can, too.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups

JOURNAL ARTICLE - You don't have to be an iSCSI cheerleader, but you should know the score when it comes to this maturing protocol.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  iSCSI Protocol | iSCSI SAN

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The IT industry can be like an accordion, playing v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. After eight or 10 years of gradual expansion, there's a period of consolidation that seems to take nearly as long.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  IT Industry

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Most virtual tape libraries will accelerate backups, but there are key differences among them when it comes to scaling, interoperability and management.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups

JOURNAL ARTICLE - In our closest Quality Awards finish yet, EMC and NetApp tied for first, with Hitachi Data Systems and Hewlett-Packard only a few fractions of a point behind.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Enterprise Systems

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Storage-as-a-service (SaaS) companies have changed how they operate compared to the storage service providers of the last decade. Is SaaS a good fit for your company's data?
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Devices

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Higher TV and movie resolution standards are radically pushing up storage requirements for producing and saving digital media.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Digital Asset Management

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Four steps to keeping it simple.
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Online Backups

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Blades offer many advantages over traditional servers, but they create some unique storage and application issues.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the real problem.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Virtualization

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Vendors are starting to add solid-state storage to their arrays, but it isn't as simple as replacing enterprise drives with solid-state memory.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Solid State Disks | Tiered Storage

JOURNAL ARTICLE - The storage capacity needed for electronic medical records could be big ... real big.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Network Infrastructure | Storage Infrastructure

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Fibre Channel over Ethernet is speeding along the certification path, and now is the time to determine what it can do for you.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Management | Fibre Channel

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Charting a new IT course means boldly going forward--with a plan.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Market Segments

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Fibre Channel

JOURNAL ARTICLE - It took a while, but we finally seem to know what's good for us.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Information Security

JOURNAL ARTICLE - Increased capacity demands are the overriding theme of this year's Storage Purchasing Intentions survey.
Posted: September 2, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Storage Management