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December 2008
DECEMBER COVER STORY
Next year's hot technologies
by Ellen O'Brien
In our annual look ahead at hot storage technologies, we present our nominees for those storage technologies that are poised to break out of the pack and become essential building blocks for new products that make storage easier to manage, less costly and better performing.
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November 2008
NOVEMBER COVER STORY
Economy down, salaries up
by Ellen O'Brien
Our sixth annual Storage Salary Survey shows storage salaries are rising overall, and climbing even higher as the number of terabytes managed increases. Experienced storage pros remain in demand but many respondents say that heavier workloads, smaller staffs, longer hours and tighter budgets are all contributing to stress and making the job of managing storage even tougher.
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October 2008
OCTOBER COVER STORY
Second-generation CDP
by Jacob Gsoedl
Continuous data protection (CDP) received lots of attention but garnered few takers as a standalone product. Since then, the technology has been incorporated into data protection products and its role is now likely to expand. In addition, rapid data growth and shrinking backup windows are two of the trends that support the increased adoption of CDP.
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September 2008
SEPTEMBER COVER STORY
Dedupe myths and methods
by Alan Radding
Exaggerated claims, rapidly changing technology and persistent myths make navigating the deduplication landscape treacherous. We list the top five dedupe myths and provide tips to help you get a deduplication product that fits your organization's needs at a competitive price.
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August 2008
AUGUST COVER STORY
Enterprise-ready VTLs
by Robert L. Scheier
Enterprise-class virtual tape libraries (VTLs) are an increasingly cost-effective destination for data that needs to be backed up or restored quickly, and isn't quite ready for offsite archiving. But the more complex the storage environment, the more attention users should pay to how the VTL provides scalability, performance, manageability and deduplication.
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July 2008
JULY COVER STORY
Solid State: New frontier for storage
by Jacob Gsoedl
Solid-state media is starting to show up as an option for traditional storage arrays because it offers higher performance and lower power consumption. However, there are still reliability concerns related to wear out, the slower write performance of flash cells, and issues related to array management and interoperability.
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June 2008
JUNE COVER STORY
Migrate data without mistakes
by Deni Connor
Data migrations are a fact of life. In many cases, the migration ends up being a tedious process. Automated tools can help ease migration woes. Host-based migration software takes the load off the storage array and can easily bridge the gap when migrating data between heterogeneous storage systems. But array-based migration may be preferred for technology refreshes.
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May 2008
MAY COVER STORY
Tools to test your DR plan
by Robert L. Scheier
Periodically testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential, but it can be a time-consuming and expensive task. New tools that check DR configurations and constantly monitor your site's readiness to recover from a disaster can cut costs and testing time, and provide a level of confidence that your DR plan will actually work when it's needed.
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April 2008
APRIL COVER STORY
Is iSCSI good enough?
by Deni Connor
Organizations of all sizes have adopted iSCSI because it's easy to install, inexpensive, behaves just like Ethernet and doesn't require specialized skill sets like Fibre Channel does. But do analyst claims that iSCSI performance falls short of that for Fiber Channel hold up?
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March 2008
MARCH COVER STORY
Arrays score with both file and block storage
by Jacob Gsoedl
Multiprotocol arrays that support block- and file-based storage through a single controller give users the best of both worlds: NAS for file-based information, and Fibre Channel or ISCSI block-based storage for databases and other transactional apps.
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February 2008
FEBRUARY COVER STORY
Best Storage Products of 2007
by Editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com
Our sixth annual Products of the Year awards recognize the 15 new or enhanced storage products that rose to the top in 2007. The editors of Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com, along with a panel of users and industry experts, selected these winning products based on their innovation and performance, among other factors.
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January 2008
JANUARY COVER STORY
Unlimited storage
by Alan Radding
Clemson University has big plans as it upgrades its data center—and those plans call for lots and lots of storage. Their new IT infrastructure is being built along the lines of the National Science Foundation's Cyberinfrastructure initiative. Clemson expects its new world-class facility to attract a new crop of young faculty who will find the storage, bandwidth and CPU resources needed to support their research efforts.
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