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Industry News and Analysis Guidelines for FCoE deployment February 8, 2010 -- Network convergence will enable enterprises to preserve their existing investments in Fibre Channel storage, reduce data center costs and complexity, and simplify network management. Read more > Lab Review: Disk imaging for physical and virtual machines February 5, 2010 -- Paragon's Drive Backup 10 Server software leverages disk imaging tools to simplify storage management issues, from consolidation to disaster recovery protection, in both physical and virtual environments. Read more > Survey: Users not very interested in cloud storage February 4, 2010 -- According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Forrester Research, end-user interest in hosted cloud storage is, at best, lukewarm and deployment is not on the horizon. Read more > Lab Review: Unifying backup and replication for VMware February 3, 2010 -- With support for all of the new features in vSphere 4, Veeam Backup & Replication brings near-CDP levels of data protection to virtual machines. Read more > ProStor adds backup to InfiniVault appliances February 2, 2010 -- ProStor Systems' InfiniVault appliances, which are based on RDX removable disk drives, are typically used for archiving. But this week the company added the ability to use the appliance as a backup target in addition to an archive platform. Read more > More Industry News and Analysis >> Most Popular Articles Business Briefs Recent announcements from: (Feb 3, 2010) Atempo, Bell Micro, BlueArc, DataCore Software, Host.net, Neterion, NTP Software and Sony Corporation. Read More > More Business Briefs >>		Bits & Bytes Blog by Dave Simpson Editor-in-Chief Virtual server SANs: FC vs. iSCSI vs. NAS February 8, 2010 – In the beginning, most virtual server environments relied on either Fibre Channel SANs or direct-attached storage (DAS). As the virtual environments grew, end users quickly found out that DAS wasn’t going to cut it. Fibre Channel... Read More > by Kevin Komiega Senior Editor Cloud computing courses cropping up February 5, 2010 -- UC Irvine has become the latest school to add cloud computing to its curriculum as the concept continues to gain steam in the IT industry. However, the momentum of the cloud seems to be vendor-driven as recent research shows end user... Read More > by Frank Berry CEO and Sr. Analyst, IT Brand Pulse InfoStor Guest Blogger Broadcom Enters Converged Network Adapter War At their analyst day event on December 15, 2009, Broadcom officially entered the converged network adapter (CNA) war. At the event and in an independent lab test, the company demonstrated a 10 gigabit Ethernet adapter simultaneously running TCP/IP, iSCSI... Read More > by Jeff Boles Sr. Analyst, Taneja Group InfoStor Guest Blogger Storage for 2010 - Integration Innovation Hello InfoStor Readers,This marks my first post here at InfoStor, which I've gladly taken on in discussion with Dave Simpson, InfoStor's Editor in Chief. As "the" storage industry print publication, I am looking forward to supporting InfoStor with... Read More >

Featured Articles How real is cloud computing/storage? The terms cloud computing and cloud storage have been gaining popularity over the past year, becoming the new winners in the marketing buzzword wars. However, obtaining mindshare and headlines is only the first hurdle in becoming a sustainable long-term trend that delivers value. Read More >> Featured Articles Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays? Something of a religious war has popped up in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) drive space -- where do SSDs belong: In the storage array or in the server as direct-attached storage? Read More >> Featured Articles It's not your father's NAS anymore Traditional NAS approaches often fall short in environments with rapid growth in file-based data. Read More >> Featured Articles View the current issue of InfoStor Special Report: The shift to FCoE is underway The Mississippi Department of IT Services is prepping for a move to Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in order to reduce complexity in its new data center. Read More >> Featured Articles How to control the storage impact of virtual servers This article compares six techniques for VM storage management and examines which approach - or combination of approaches - works best for various data management challenges. Read More >> Featured Articles The best storage investments for 2010 This article is designed to help IT managers and administrators understand how to prioritize potential projects by ensuring they are aligned with business goals, which ultimately results in the best storage decisions. Read More >> Featured Articles Guidelines for FCoE deployment Network convergence will enable enterprises to preserve their existing investments in FC storage, reduce data center costs and complexity, and simplify network management. Read More >> Featured Articles Does MLC flash belong in enterprise SSDs? There's a good bit of debate about whether or not enterprise-class SSDs can use multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology, as opposed to single-level cell (SLC) technology, which is currently the dominant technology for enterprise SSDs. Read More >> 1/8

Editorial Guide Read our new editorial guide, Backup and Recovery: New Strategies for Data Protection. Sponsored by ARCserve More than Backup. Read the Guide >     News from the Wires Dell'Oro Group: FCoE will drive HBA and network adapter markets (Feb 8, 2010) Avnet expands networking portfolio with Riverbed (Feb 8, 2010) Double-Take and RES form alliance for desktop provisioning and management (Feb 8, 2010) MTI to offer Axxana's Phoenix disaster recovery system RP in Europe (Feb 8, 2010) Voltaire Announces 32% Revenue Growth in Fourth Quarter of 2009 (Feb 8, 2010) IceWEB Announces Iplicity Converged Storage Environment (Feb 4, 2010) Data Robotics DroboElite storage array achieves VMware Ready status (Feb 4, 2010) STORServer Reporter v2.5 for Tivoli Storage Manager environments released (Feb 3, 2010) Read More Wire News >> White Papers A Cost-Effective Integrated Solution for Backup and Disaster Recovery Sponsored By:  InMage Systems Protecting and Recovering Virtual Server Environments Sponsored By:  InMage Systems Proven Real-time Data Compression for Primary Storage Data Reduction Sponsored By:  Storwize, Inc. Virtualization Technologies and Their Impact on Disaster Recovery Planning Sponsored By:  Double-Take® Software USA Matching Data Deduplication Approaches to Workload Characteristics: The Quantum DXi7500 Sponsored By:  Quantum Corp Long-Term Data Protection and Retention - Finding the Correct Balance Sponsored By:  Quantum Corp More White Papers >>		Webcasts Managing VM Sprawl and Reducing Costs with Disk Archiving Attend this webcast to learn how applying the right type of disk storage can reduce storage costs.... (Feb 09, 2010 12:00 PM CST / 6:00 PM GMT) Sponsored by:  Permabit Technology Corporation Storage Switzerland Storage Performance in a Flash - How Storage Affects Performance in a Virtualized Evironment Sponsored by:  Sun Partners Expert Server Group Data Protection for Virtual Environments Sponsored by:  Syncsort Unified Storage for Virtual Servers: iSCSI SANs and NAS Sponsored by:  RELDATA ESG More Webcasts >> Featured Videos IT professionals in the healthcare and broadcast industries explain the benefits of using Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology, including performance, reliability, reduced power and cooling requirements, less noise, and space savings.; BlueCross BlueShield of Alabama; Hewlett-Packard; InfoStor; SAS; serial attached SCSI technology; Starz Entertainment Group; Tri-Center Community Schools Testimonial; Customer Testimonial; hp; InfoStor; LSI;

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