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Recent legislation doesn't mandate changes to your storage infrastructure, but it does mean you'll have to manage your data more effectively.
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Disaster recovery planning must become an integral part of application development so the right middleware and coding choices are made at the outset of system design.
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In a market with few innovations, we find some noteworthy achievements among storage vendors and their promoters.
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The reality is that demand for more storage is not growing as much as originally forecast—and the forecast revisions are significant. How are analysts deriving their numbers?
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The author outlines 10 reasons why he disagrees with the FCIA's view of FC SANs
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Sun announces a development partnership with AppIQ, which offers a combo storage resource management/SAN management product called StorageAuthority Suite.
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Acopia is a network-turned-storage-focused company with a new product for managing the network resources that support file access and data movement.
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A widely respected storage veteran looks at connectivity issues, including SCSI/iSCSI, plus Microsoft and storage management.
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SCSI implementations may be different in terms of the way data packages flow, but all are members of the same family. Arguments over the superiority of any implementation are heated.
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Many vendors are touting storage solutions for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, but only one company tells it straight—SOX isn't a storage issue at all.
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Rainfinity's GridSwitch streamlines moving data across platforms for NFS- or CIFS-mounted storage devices.
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A proposal for a “three dimensional approach”: automating storage provisioning and device management, data movement, and data replication.
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Our recent column about historical revisionism and EMC brings immediate reader response.
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Why does an SMB need—or want—a SAN at all?
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Readers sound off about recent comments from previous columns
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Did EMC announcements threaten to drive the industry down the path it chose, or was the company just using reverse psychology to spur cooperation?
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Storage vendors use "grid" as a sexy, futuristic-sounding metaphor, but grid storage has nothing whatsoever to do with grid computing.
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LiveVault's data protection service replaces tape backup in small and medium-size businesses.
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SCO has at last turned over a list of files and code snippets it claims violate its intellectual property rights.
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Last year saw a dearth of real industry leadership, especially in storage technology, and a lot of posturing and posing. Why can't innovators with great ideas find venture capital?
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Our storage columnist offers vendors four simple goals for the year ahead.
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While many products today talk a good game about policy-based data management, Arkivio is once again ahead of the pack.
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Clustered file system advocates have positioned their solutions as alternatives to the monolithic file systems (such as WAFL).
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WAFL enabled a new type of appliance-based storage hardware and set the bar for all other NAS vendors—which makes Network Appliance’s purchase of Spinnaker Networks all the more puzzling.
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New legislation will doubtless require encryption of data traversing networks and Fibre Channel fabrics.