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DECEMBER 2008
FEATURES

Next year's hot technologies

2009: Do more with less

How your SAN will evolve

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TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS

More pieces added to the FCoE puzzle

Our View: Fund storage research

Tape media prices skyrocket

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COLUMNS

New realities of green IT: STORAGE BIN 2.0

Deep dive into SharePoint data recovery: HOT SPOTS

GUIs are nice, but don't overlook command-line interfaces: BEST PRACTICES

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2008 Tools, Trends & Analysis

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December 2008

More pieces added to the FCoE puzzle

Our View: Fund storage research

Tape media prices skyrocket

Storage 101
Why solid-state drives wear out

Users' advice for virtual server backups

"I second that VMotion," say replication vendors
Replication vendors are finding new avenues for their technology by leveraging VMware's VMotion technology.

Most storage supports Windows: Survey says

iSCSI software offers alternative for networked storage

Much of solid state still on the drawing board

What do you see as your biggest storage challenge in 2009?

Storage planning and spending by the numbers:

LTO-4 gains favor among tape drive buyers
November 2008

Microsoft wants to resurrect DAS

Our view: Overstating the obvious

Hard drive prices down across the board

Fibre Channel over Ethernet: Storage 101

Data classification still mostly a piecemeal approach

Storage software sales still brisk

Fibre Channel favored for virtual servers: Survey says

Deduplication now focusing on primary storage

What software tools do you use to manage your storage systems?

Disaster recovery planning by the numbers

Forging a long-term retention plan

Too busy to archive your email?
October 2008

Are solid-state disks ready for the enterprise?

Green spin cycle

The Real Deal

Ask the Experts
Where and when should we use data dedupe for remote-office backups?

Solid-state distinctions emerge

Thin (or chubby) provisioning catching on

Question of the Month
How often do you think your DR plan should be tested?

By The Numbers

Compression puts the squeeze on dedupe

Survey says
Director-class switches win top spot

Dial "D" for disaster

Snapshot
SAS use soars
September 2008

Dedupe moves beyond backup

Our View: Whom do you trust?

Disk-to-disk backup enticing in many forms: Survey Says
Disk-to-disk backup enticing in many forms

The lure of open-source backup programs

Why are you using a VTL or why have you decided not to use one?

Backup software by the numbers

Ask the Experts: RTOs and RPOs
Is there a standard ratio between RTOs and RPOs, or are they independent of each other?

Midrange online backup offerings help SMBs get on the cloud

SMBs move beyond the VTL interface

Storage administrators find some relief for backup headaches
September 2008

DAS revs up for a resurgence

Our View: When good admins go bad

Price of SAS drives dips

New life for NAS

Ask the Experts: NFS vs. CIFS

Archiving, DR join backup as online services

DC power can cut costs, but conversion isn't easy

What storage product would you like to see on the market that isn't now?

Ballooning storage by the numbers

Backup apps' reporting tools become more versatile

LTO top tape format by far: Survey says

No rush to deploy iSCSI
August 2008

Reliability questions plague solid state

Our View: Seek and ye shall not find

The Real Deal: 146GB hard drives buck falling prices trend

Get a grip on encryption keys

Ask the Experts: Tape media failure
Is there a way to anticipate tape media failures?

Keep it or can it?

Green shops take MAID for a spin-down

Why aren't you encrypting your backup tapes?

Server virtualization adoption by the numbers

Tape leads the way for compliance storage

Breaking news: Excel not top storage management tool
July 2008

SAS bumps up speed to 6Gigs

Our View: Like passwords for chocolate

DLT-S4 tape drives at bargain prices

HBAs finally getting some respect

Ask the Experts: SANs with multiple OSes
We're upgrading a SAN with multiple operating systems (OSes). Should we run a different OS version in each fabric or upgrade both together?

Lack of meta data complicates file archiving

Does SAP eat more than its share of storage?

What can storage vendors do to improve their tech support?

Disaster Recovery By The Numbers

Testing from virtually anywhere

Users hesitate on iSCSI adoption

No open-and-shut case for NAS gateways
June 2008

Windows Server 2008 steps on some storage toes

Our View: Quantifying a galaxy's worth of data

Tape drive prices hold steady

Storage automation still not a no-brainer

Ask the Expert: Connecting two data centers
I'm connecting two data centers, 70km apart, and I want to use EMC Symmetrix for synchronous replication. Will that distance work?

Gaps seen in file archiving tools

Xiotech, Atrato spin out self-healing disk systems