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News & Analysis

Startup combines NAS with cloud storage services
January 6, 2009 -- Storage startup CTERA Networks today unveiled a new product that combines a local NAS device with cloud storage services to provide small businesses with low-cost data protection.

iSCSI plants roots in the Global 2000
January 2, 2009 -- A recent end-user survey conducted by TheInfoPro revealed several interesting findings regarding iSCSI adoption in Global 2000 organizations.

Primary storage optimization moves forward
December 30, 2008 -- Data is growing at explosive rates, but the real news around that topic concerns new technologies designed to help users manage this growth.

BC/DR advice for SMBs
December 18, 2008 -- Large enterprises typically have solid disaster recovery and business continuity plans in place. However, that is not always the case with small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which often don't have adequate budgets for BC/DR.

HDS puts SSDs in disk arrays
December 17, 2008 -- Hitachi Data Systems this week became the latest vendor to add support for flash-based solid-state disk drives to its enterprise and midrange storage arrays.

Business Briefs

Recent announcements from:
Brocade, CRU-DataPort, Emulex, ExaGrid Systems, Foundry Networks, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Permabit and ZL Technologies.

Symantec combines change management, SRM
December 15, 2008 -- Symantec is offering customers an alternative to buying more storage with a new version of its SRM software with integrated storage change management.

InfoStor's Storage Videos

Featured Video: Two Industries, One Solution - SAS

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.

InfoStor Featured Sites

SAS Resource Center
Designed to help end-users, system/storage integrators, VARs and OEMs get all the information they need on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.

InfoStor Webcasts

InfoStor has teamed up with leading industry analysts and storage vendors to present a series of Webcasts designed for end users and storage integrators and VARs. View these presentations, as well as our most recent custom Webcasts, for in-depth insight into a wide variety of storage technologies and trends.

New Approaches To Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared?
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December 04, 2008

Disk Archiving for the 21st Century - New Strategies & Solutions to Improve Storage ROI
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November 06, 2008

The Petabytes are Coming: Will Your Content Repository Scale?
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October 30, 2008

Server Virtualization and Its Impact on Storage
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October 23, 2008

Sponsored White Papers

Recently Added White Papers

Delivering Data Protection with ROI (01/06/2009, InMage Systems)

The State of Resilience and Optimization on IBM Power Systems (12/24/2008, Vision Solutions)

Thinking Beyond Tape (11/18/2008, Double-Take® Software USA)

Implementing an Affordable, Robust IP-Based Solution for Long Distance Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Applications (11/06/2008, iQstor)

Protecting Confidential Data: The Role of Tape Encryption (10/06/2008, LTO Ultrium)

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Featured White Papers

	Implementing an Affordable, Robust IP-Based Solution for Long Distance Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Applications (11/06/2008)

	Protecting Confidential Data: The Role of Tape Encryption (10/06/2008)

	Best Practices for Long-term Data Storage and Preservation (09/30/2008)

	Scalable, Always Available Solution for Digital Media (09/15/2008)

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ESG Lab Validation Series

EMC CLARiiON CX4 - Modular storage with real TCO impact
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of the CLARiiON CX4 with a focus on major usability and manageability upgrades, UltraFlex modular I/O technology, Enterprise Flash Drive support, Virtual Provisioning, and integrated RecoverPoint replication working in concert with VMware Site Recovery Manager. The CX4 family's ability to optimize virtual server environments using the Navisphere Quality of Service Manager (NQM) and VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is also examined.

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OpenBench Lab Review Series

SANmelody = storage virtualization panacea
DataCore Software's SANmelody provides centralized disk virtualization software for small and medium-sized IT environments with 2TB to 32TB of usable disk space. In the same way that other forms of virtualization improve on server hardware, the notion behind SANmelody is to make disk configurations fail-safe, go-fast, and waste-free.

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From The Wires

Storwize expands operations, adds customers PR Newswire(January 6, 2009)	Promise Technology updates RAID subsystems for Mac OS X Market Wire(January 6, 2009)
Importance of thin provisioning grows in a tough economy Market Wire(January 6, 2009)	SanDisk launches button backup USB flash drive Business Wire(January 6, 2009)
Seagate ships 500GB HDDs Canada NewsWire(January 5, 2009)	Imation to launch next generation SSDs Business Wire(January 5, 2009)
Symwave and Seagate demo first USB 3.0 storage controller device Business Wire(January 5, 2009)	Verbatim launches new 500GB and 1TB quad interface HDDs Business Wire(January 2, 2009)

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