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In the first of the two articles that make up our Special Report on iSCSI in this issue . . .

Brocade reveals post-merger road map

Now that the deal is done and Brocade has officially acquired McData for close to $1 billion, the company is beginning to pull back the curtain on its highly anticipated product plans and answer questions about which products will-and will not-survive the merger.

EMC beefs up Symmetrix security

EMC officially began integrating security technology from its RSA Security division into its enterprise storage hardware last month with the news that stronger authentication, authorization, and audit capabilities are now native to the Symmetrix DMX-3 disk arrays.

Enterprise Vault 7.0 automates classification

Symantec is beefing up its digital archiving software with a new level of automated data classification, broader support for upcoming Microsoft applications, and support for a variety of enterprise content management (ECM) platforms.

Hitachi acquires Archivas

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) increased its presence in the content archiving and management market recently with the acquisition of privately held digital archiving specialist Archivas.

HP enhances virtualization, security

Hewlett-Packard recently announced enhancements to a range of its hardware and software products in the areas of virtualization, file services, switching, and security, all of which are designed to help users consolidate and manage their storage environments in a simpler, more secure way.

IBM upgrades TSM

IBM recently unveiled the latest version of its Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) software with an eye toward better data security, improved application performance, and tighter integration with its storage hardware systems.

Open source project challenges traditional storage

A number of open source storage projects have popped up in recent months, most with a focus on developing heterogeneous storage management software.

Vendors address power, cooling

Some call it a crisis, and others call it a growing problem, but everyone agrees that powering the data center is becoming increasingly expensive.

Vendors tackle information access

The advent of new federal electronic discovery (e-discovery) regulations, coupled with the recent list of vendors splicing enterprise search with indexing technologies, is resulting in a wave of new data-classification tools designed to clean up the messy business of information access.

Business Briefs

This section takes on late-breaking business and partnership news written for industry insiders.

New Products

Each month, InfoStor rounds up timely new product announcements, providing a buyer?s guide for professionals.

Creative solutions for creative challenges

Studios are turning to new storage technologies, products, and configurations to meet stringent quality, budget, and deadline requirements.

iSCSI breaks through all market tiers

Introduced only a few years ago, iSCSI SANs have clearly hit the mainstream and are now hosting virtually all types of applications, although e-mail, Web applications, and Microsoft Exchange are still the most popular.

iSCSI goes beyond SMBs and Windows

Until recently, iSCSI was generally deployed only in small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) running Windows applications.

It’s not disk vs. tape; it’s disk and tape

For most IT organizations, a combination of the two technologies provides the optimum data-protection solution.

Users combine VTLs and data de-dupe

Virtual tape libraries (VTLs) have been thoroughly vetted by the end-user community and have proved to be a reliable, cost-effective option for speeding the backup-and-recovery process.

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