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10 Key Considerations for Email Archiving by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Email archiving products vary in their features and technical structures. Here's how to select an archiving tool that's a good fit for your company's needs.
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - It might be premature to declare nightly full backups dead, but tools like continuous data protection and snapshots can reduce a company's dependence on full backups without compromising data protection.
Arrays Score with Both File and Block by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - There are pros and cons to running multiple protocols through a single array controller.
Automate Application Recovery by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - New automated application recovery products, geared toward SMBs, keep Exchange running 24/7.
Automate Storage Management by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Tools that automate complex storage processes are beginning to appear. Here's what's available and what benefits the tools can deliver.
Backup Gets a Boost: Hot Spots by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Backup vendors benefit from snapshot and dedupe technologies. You can, too.
Best Practices: Finding the Logic in Volume Managers by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Forget what you might have heard about host-based volume managers. Here are seven reasons why they deserve some respect.
Best Practices: Foolproof DR Is Still a Moving Target by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Keep these eight key steps in mind when designing and testing your disaster recovery strategy.
Best Practices: High Hopes for Thin Provisioning by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - It seems like everyone is talking about thin provisioning. It's no miracle cure, but the technology can do wonders.
Best Practices: Planting Seeds of Green by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - When it comes to green storage, it's all about the basics. Review your current setup and start with the obvious.
Best Practices: Protecting SharePoint Data by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - SharePoint's collaboration framework is gaining in popularity, but it has a number of data protection challenges that can result in significant levels of complexity rather quickly.
Best Practices: Pull the Plug on High Energy Costs by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Storage systems account for a big chunk of the data center electric bill. Here are some ways to reduce your costs.
Best Practices: Storage Provisioning Steps to Keep Your Infrastructure Healthy by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - You can conquer IT infrastructure challenges by rethinking ownership and functional processes.
Best Practices: Tackling Data Migration by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Successful data migration projects require as much planning as doing. Use this checklist to make sure you have all the bases covered.
Best Practices: The Science of Storage Management by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Consistency is the key to a disciplined storage operation.
Best Practices: The Ultimate Archiving Challenge by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - An archiving deployment requires long-term retention management while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Best Practices: The Year Ahead: Green Power, Weak Dollars and More Apps by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
Best Practices: Unraveling Tape Encryption by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Tape encryption technologies and practices are on the rise. But with more choices than ever, careful consideration of the options is critical.
Best Practices: Viewing Virtualization from Every Angle by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Virtualization can be a tricky technology for storage managers who need to apply traditional methods while navigating new obstacles.
Best Practices: Will Your Data Recovery Strategy Work for DR? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Not all data is created equal or is necessary for business continuity, so a tiered data recovery plan can be most effective.
Best Storage Products of 2007 by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder.
Blue in the Face about Green: Editorial by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Blue in the face about green.
Buying Update: Storage Managers' Purchasing Plans by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - The fall 2007 edition of Storage magazine's exclusive Purchasing Intentions survey reveals some subtle changes in storage managers' buying plans as new technologies gain greater consideration.
Can iSCSI Crack the Enterprise? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - iSCSI storage systems are showing up in medium-sized businesses, but storage managers at large enterprise shops have been reluctant to embrace them. That's starting to change.
Case Study: New York Mets Add Deduplication to Their Roster by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - New York's "other" baseball team installed deduplication appliances in the first stage of retooling its backup processes.
Catching up with Deduplication by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Deduplication backup products differ in how they recognize and reduce duplicate data. Here's how to pick the product that will best fit into your environment.
CDP in Depth by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - As continuous data protection (CDP) is integrated into backup environments, implementations may become complex and you may find that one CDP program doesn't meet all of your needs.
Change That Stands the Test of Time: Best Practices by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Charting a new IT course means boldly going forward--with a plan.
Cloudy Future for Storage? (Editorial) by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Cloudy future for storage?
Commvault Galaxy, EMC Retrospect Best of the Backup Apps by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - After being bumped from the top backup and recovery software spot last year by BakBone Software, CommVault's Galaxy returns to the winner's circle.
Consolidating Remote Offices by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Our exclusive survey confirms that protecting ROBO-generated data is a three-pronged undertaking: resource consolidation, management controls and optimization approaches.
Corral Virtual Server Backup by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - This excerpt from W. Curtis Preston's new book Backup & Recovery describes the three different ways to back up a VMware server, and the pros and cons of each method.
Data Destruction: When Data Should Disappear by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Most companies don't have a detailed policy that governs what data they need to keep and what data should be destroyed.
Dedupe and Virtualization Don't Solve the Real Problem: Editorial by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Dedupe and virtualization don't solve the real problem.
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - dump is a powerful tool to back up Unix files. However, the dump utility isn't intuitive and can produce some unexpected results, especially during a restore. Here's how dump works.
Do RAID Levels Still Matter? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Most new arrays stripe data across their spindles automatically to increase performance and better use disk capacity. With capabilities like that, RAID could become a thing of the past.
Editorial: Backup Done Right and Not so Right by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - This is a story of what to do and what not to do if you're a vendor trying to gain the favor of storage managers, and perhaps persuade them to open their billfolds at the same time.
Editorial: Backup Will Get Easier ? by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - It's one of those "Is the glass half-full or half-empty?" things.
Editorial: Green, greener and greenest by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Green, greener and greenest. I'll try to maintain some dignity here by not quoting Kermit the Frog on the subject of green, but it's not beneath me to paraphrase him: It's not easy being a storage manager.
Editorial: People and Power by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Those of us who work for tech magazines are sometimes accused of looking beyond the horizon too often. There may be some truth to that, but part of our job is trying to discern the future.
Editorial: Rich Castagna by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Twice a year, Storage magazine polls many of you so we can get a better handle on the storage technologies and products you're using and planning to buy (see "Buying update: Storage managers' purchasing plans").
Editorial: Scramble That Data! by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - It seems like every article about encryption starts by rehashing high-profile screw-ups where a tape containing a million credit card numbers bounced off a delivery truck or disappeared off the loading dock.
Editorial: Top 10 Reasons to Find Another Vendor by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Top 10 reasons to find another vendor.
Editorial: Web Services for Storage? It's Already Happening by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - A couple of months ago I read an IDC research report that said iSCSI storage was hot, really hot.
Editorial: Welcome to Archiving Hell by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - So you have an email archiving system in place and the archived missives and related attachments are safely tucked away on a content-addressed storage (CAS) or similarly secure storage system.
Editorial: Whaddaya Mean You Can't Find It? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Cop a plea. Throw yourself on the mercy of the court. Plead the fifth or claim temporary insanity.
Editorial: Who Will Run the Storage Shop? by Storage Magazine
November 2008 - Who will run the storage shop? Not too long ago, storage managers were kept company by the sound of spinning disks and whirring tape drives.
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Most virtual tape libraries will accelerate backups, but there are key differences among them when it comes to scaling, interoperability and management.
FCoE: Coming to a Data Center Near You: Hot Spots by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Fibre Channel over Ethernet is speeding along the certification path, and now is the time to determine what it can do for you.
Fibre Channel Director Face-off: Brocade vs. Cisco by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Brocade's 48000 Director and Cisco's MDS 9513 Multilayer Director offer different paths to storage services and consolidation options. Which company offers the best director for your storage environment?
Free Up Database Space by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Archiving ERP tablespace data requires specialized tools and a close working relationship with the application's DBA.
Get Your iSCSI Game On: Best Practices by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - You don't have to be an iSCSI cheerleader, but you should know the score when it comes to this maturing protocol.
HDS Reigns over Enterprise Arrays ... Again by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - The third year of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for enterprise arrays saw some shifts among the vendors, but a familiar theme prevailed as Hitachi Data Systems won again.
Here Comes 8Gig Fibre Channel by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Switches and host bus adapters are available, but 8Gb/sec arrays won't be released until next year.
Hot Spots: A New Level of Backup Reporting by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
Hot Spots: Data Deduplication Drama by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - The dedupe stage is getting crowded and confusing. Avoid trouble by knowing where to look for it.
Hot Spots: Database Archiving to the Rescue by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Database archiving to the rescue. Database application data has a way of proliferating; as it does, storage and security concerns also grow.
Hot Spots: Just Say "Yes" to a New IT Strategy by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Cross-functional staffs and software can make all the difference in your data center.
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - With virtual servers taking over the data center, planned storage systems must reap the benefits of virtualization.
Hot Spots: New Year's Resolution: Get My Storage Organized by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Storage resource management software is one way to make sure you have a leaner, meaner storage system in 2008.
Hot Spots: On-demand Technology Sized Right for SMBs by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Shop smart and your small shop could find on-demand backup a great fit.
Hot Spots: Step One for DR: Server Virtualization by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Remote replication on virtual machines adds up to a disaster recovery plan that can really work.
Hot Spots: Tap Virtual Servers, Storage for All They're Worth by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - I/O obstacles could throw a monkey wrench into virtual server environments, but there are alternatives to traditional methods.
Hot Spots: The Case for Unified Data Management Platforms by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Consolidating your data protection platforms and practices should be at the top of your 2008 to-do list.
Hot Spots: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Help for Storage Teams by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - The new FRCP rules are about more than how a company deals with legal issues; they're an opportunity to improve enterprise information management.
Hot Spots: The Inevitability of Tape Encryption by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - You can't duck it any longer; it's time to encrypt your backup tapes.
Hot Spots: Time to Learn from Microsoft's Mistakes by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - Security is a cradle-to-grave commitment that spans products, processes and personnel. Microsoft has proved that you can turn on a dime and remedy security shortcomings, and now some leading storage vendors are following its example.
Hot Spots: Web 2.0 Storage: Challenges and Choices by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Storage managers need to anticipate the demands of Web 2.0 applications as they take their place in enterprise environments.
Hot Storage Skills by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
How to Write an Archiving Program RFP by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - All archiving programs aren't alike. Here's how to craft an RFP that lets you compare programs on an equal footing and find the application that best fits your environment.
How Useful Are Storage Benchmarks? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Despite the attention they get, storage benchmarks can be manipulated to unfairly compare products with vastly different configurations.
Is iSCSI Good Enough? by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - The outdoor apparel and equipment outfitter moves IBM Tivoli Storage Manager from its mainframe to Linux servers, and adds SATA disk to its backup environment.
Legal Toolkit for Storage Systems by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - There's currently no all-encompassing ediscovery tool on the market. Here's a guide to some tools that cover different parts of the process.
Lights, Camera, Storage! by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Higher TV and movie resolution standards are radically pushing up storage requirements for producing and saving digital media.
Midrange Rivals Top Dog by Storage Magazine
October 2008 - It's getting harder to distinguish between a low-end enterprise array and a high-end midrange array--but there are still some important differences.
Migrate Data without Mistakes by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - Moving data from one array to another, or from one tier of storage to another, is a tedious process that's slowly becoming more automated.
Mix SAS/SATA Drives for Speed or Capacity by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - New arrays with a mix of SAS and SATA drives let you set up tiering in a single box. But proceed with caution: Numerous inoperability issues need to be resolved.
More than Just Backup by Storage Magazine
September 2008 - 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.
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