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Table of ContentsDepartmentsBusiness BriefsThis section takes on late-breaking business and partnership news written for industry insiders.
New ProductsEach month, InfoStor rounds up timely new product announcements, providing a buyer?s guide for professionals.
Case StudiesCAS users wary of vendor lock-inWhen InfoStor examined the pros and cons of content-addressed storage (CAS) technology one year ago, users were singing the praises of CAS platforms and their ability to securely store and retrieve unaltered data for long periods of time.
Snia On StorageConsider apps when deploying CDPBusiness continuity is</b> consistently ranked among the top IT initiatives, according to end-user surveys. As a result, continuous data protection (CDP) as a function of business continuity is a growing market segment. Server consolidation, increased corporate governance, and system and application are also fueling interest in CDP as a complement, or alternative, to traditional data-protection technologies, such as backup and snapshots.
Special ReportData classification lays the foundationWhen we profiled data-classification practices one year ago, we found many storage professionals using data-classification products to discover what the heck was taking up so much space on their G: drives.
FeaturesData-center power and cooling strategiesThe equipment that IT puts into data centers today is stressing powerand cooling systems in a way that was not fathomed when most data centers were built years ago.
Storage’s star rises in the entertainment marketData storage is a key element in the digital transformation of content creation, editing, distribution, and reception. Digitalization of content enables that content to be made readily available in the various formats required for traditional distribution markets, as well as for developing markets such as IPTV.
Tips for data retention and purgingWith the ever-decreasing cost of primary storage, why bother purging data? The status quo is to do nothing. Most legacy applications have never purged data, and new applications are rarely designed to accommodate purging.
News Analysis TrendsGresham enters VTL frayGresham Enterprise Storage, the storage arm of UK-based software and services company Gresham LLC, recently announced a new virtual tape library (VTL) product with built-in monitoring and statistical analysis features, marking the firm’s first foray into the North American storage market.
HP debuts new AiO array for SMBsHewlett-Packard continues to roll out new storage systems for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with the latest addition to its family of All-in-One (AiO) disk arrays-the StorageWorks AiO1200.
Sun touts open source storageSun Microsystems has announced that it is handing some of its storage technologies over for free to the storage developers within the OpenSolaris community in the hopes that users and developers will combine the open source Solaris operating system with industry standard hardware to create commodity storage products.
User Survey: E-mail maintenance inadequateEven as organizations become more dependent on e-mail to run their businesses, many don’t dedicate enough staff or technology to prevent downtime, according to a recent King Research survey.
WAN acceleration improves DRDisaster preparedness has raced to the top of the IT to-do list for many large companies since 2001, and as companies move more data between multiple locations, the cost and latency issues inherent in wide area network (WAN) connectivity have become a thorn in the side of many business continuity (BC) and disaster-recovery (DR) planners.
EditorialStart-ups versus acquisitionsAn interesting-albeit predictable-dynamic is taking place in the storage market: The number of start-ups are dwindling rapidly, while the number of acquisitions are skyrocketing.
Focus OnTape trendsAs always, the main trend in the tape market is the inexorable march toward higher capacity and faster transfer rates, a trend exemplified by the imminent arrival of LTO-4 tape drives, libraries, and media.
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