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DECEMBER 2008 |
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FEATURES |
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TOOLS, TRENDS & ANALYSIS |
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Find out more about this month's Storage Magazine advertisers by clicking on the company names below to contact them and request more information on their products and services. |
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Features |
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Centralize virtualization at the switch
by Jacob Gsoedl
There are a number of ways you can virtualize your storage, but because a switch-based virtualization engine works out-of-band, there's no need for server agents, making it the most scalable and highest performing of all virtualization architectures. |
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Move data fast
by Ellen O'Brien
As the WAN optimization market has matured, vendors have been competing on features such as advanced compression techniques and traffic management, including load balancing and protocol optimization for Web-based apps. But make sure the new or enhanced product features are truly priorities for your environment and test them thoroughly before buying. |
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Small disks, big specs
by Alan Radding
Hard disk drives have been around for more than 50 years, but the technology is on the cusp of big changes--SAS, a shift to the 2.5-inch form factor and a steady increase in disk drive capacity--that will affect enterprise storage for years to come. |
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