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Mail Models

Storage Magazine asked a selection of industry experts for their views on one of the longest-running headaches for any IT Department - or indeed any business - the management of email archives. We've summarised a selection of the most interesting (and often controversial) thoughts.

Clouding the issue: Is online BackUp best?

Despite the hype of recent months, there are a number of reasons why backing up to the cloud may not be the ideal approach for business, argues Chris Ross, VP channel sales at CA

Three steps to Storage Heaven

Storage editor David Tyler speaks to Ed Waslsh, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy for Storage at IBM about the Company's three core messages for the market

Survival of the fittest

The advent of the cloud is changing the disaster recovery landscape: A hard to justify 'Nice-to-have' is increasingly viewed as an affordable necessity. But is this necessarily a good thing, and what impact might cloud services and other emerging technologies have on planning for disasters? Storage magazine editor David Tyler reports

To Serve and Protect...

NTT Europe needs to maintain immediate, reliable access to a massive volume of customer data. The Company backs up more than 200 TB nightly - a volume expected to increase exponentially as the company pursues its plan to expand throughout Europe.

Emergencies Serviced

The very nature of the british red cross disaster recovery operations necessitates a secure and reliable backup and recovery system, and a hybrid cloud solution has delivered significant benefits

Making Flash fit in your data centre

When considering the best way to exploit flash in their virsualised data centre, IT Managers must take into account the full list of critical requirements for flash deployments, argues Dr. Allon Chen of OCZ Technology

Storage and Data Networking Convergence: When worlds combine

Historically, Data Networking, Storage Networking and Server Networking took different paths for a variety of technological and political reasons, suggests Eric Hanselman, research director at 451 research, today, these networks are converging in the data centre to crate best-of-breed solutions that improve performance and reduce complexity and costs

Backup is dead, long live backup

We all see data volumes continuing to rise enormously, while increasing take-up of virtualisation is helping to speed up deployment of new applications. There is a danger that backup/data protection best practices are being left behind. Is this an issue we can simply keep throwing bigger and faster technology at, asks Storage Editor David Tyler, or does it require a wholesale rethink of the practices behind backup and data protection?

Why businesses like yours dedupe

Large enterprises are understandably attracted by the reduced storage demands promised by this intelligent capacity reduction technology. But is data deduplication the smartest solution for your business? Tim Butchart, EMEA VP at data protection specialist SEPATON, explains why readers might benefit from an intelligent dedupe solution

Flash in the enterprise: ready or not?

NAND flash is becoming ubiquitous, its adoption accelerated through retail consumption in smartphones and tablets. Integrating flash into the enterprise storage space, however, delivers surprisingly unpredictable results. Flash technology is mature, so why is the deployment so variable?

This Tarmin man

Storage Editor David Tyler catches up with Shahbaz Ali, founder and CEO of Tarmin Inc., winners of both the Archiving & Compliance Product of the Year and Storage Monitoring Product of the Year for their GridBank product range

OCZ VXL Enterprise Storage Accelerator

This caching solution from OCZ can dramatically improve performance of IP and FC SANs, allowing user organisations to maximise ROI on their existing storage resources.

Driving a Hard Bargain

Hard Drives are a given in the Storage Industry except when you can't get hold of them, that is!

Ending the Backup Nightmare

What are the issues and challenges that end users of storage are having to face and embrace when it comes to deploying backup software? Brian Wall has been finding out

Big Bang, Big Data

The Big Bang is about to meet Big Data in a 5-year, 32 million Euro ground-breaking new exascale computing project, called DOME

Into the Unknown

The storage market is changing all the time. But where do the vendors think the biggest transformations will be - and what will be their effect? Brian Wall reports

Virtually Yours

Virtualisation has won the hearts and minds of many enterprises. now it’s reaching out to the small to medium sized organisations. Brian Wall reports

Under the Microscope

The pros and cons of inline and concurrent data deduplication examined

Overland Storage SnapServer DX2

The SnapServer DX2 delivered excellent results in our lab performance tests.

ID7 VS-fusion

VS-fusion is a smart solution for increasing application performance that snaps in neatly with your existing storage infrastructure, allowing investment to be maximised.

Counting the Cost

Confidence levels of SMBs in the UK have increased 17%, according to the Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index 2012. Yet system downtime is still costing each firm on average £227,538 a year. Brian Wall reports

The Case for Smarter Storage

Is it sensible to be an extreme sports enthusiast and then go without insurance? So why would you fail to back up the vita information of your business? Brian Wall struggles to find the answer!

Pushing the Curve

Progressive deduplication is now regarded by many as an alternative to traditional deduplication technologies

Magnetic Breakthrough

Scientists have come up with a revolutionary new way of magnetic recording that could have profound consequences for the industry

Eliminating the Trade-offs

In any Disaster Recovery planning process, Business are faced with multiple trade-offs between cost and risk management. How do you get the balance right?

Altered States

It's been a long road, but Solid State Storage is a technology that's finally come of age in the data Centre, if not yet in the laptop/pc market

Battlelines are Drawn

How do you compare the capital, operational and staffing cost differences between internal and cloud storage? It's not so easy, says leading analyst forrester

Beast of Burden

Every business relies on email; without it, commerce would grind to a halt. Yet, it has also become a real challenge that needs to be tamed, as brian wall reports.

'Puss in Boots' comes alive!

HP and DreamWorks have collaborated to push artistic animation to new heights. The outcome is astounding.

Data challenge Heralds exciting times

The data explosion, coupled with expansion of the 'Cloud', is creating an exciting, financially vibrant environment. And those at the sharp end are embracing this.

Avoiding the Self-destruct button!

Is it sensible to be an extreme sports enthusiast and then go without insurance? So why would you fail to back up the vital information of your business? af Brian Wall struggles to fing the answer!

Going Batty!

Zoological society of london's Bat Research Project has overcome storage issues and taken wing to become a flying success.

When time is the enemy

When it comes to restoring rapidly deteriorating vintage film stocks, time is of the essence - something those faced with battling this quandary recognise only too well.

Art of the Matter

Digital preservationists are leading a project to preserve the complex digital age, including helping to save digital art from oblivion.

State of the Industry

In the first of a two-part special, we take an in-depth look at the storage issues and challenges that are now emerging for UK Business, and how they might best deal with these in the days ahead

Achieving Gold Standard

Why do some organisations persist in ignoring the need to have proper backup procedures and systems in place? the answer is more complex that it might seem

Solutions with Drive!

Tape drives play a ker role in helping to manage your storage, but is it the solution for your Business? Editor Brian Wall looks at the options

Too many Business are totally Ill-prepared to withstand a hack attack, leaving their valuable data at the mercy of intruders

One major Financial Organisation has found the ideal solution to reliably regulate, Future-proof and fully automate backups, achieving full compliance and high performance in the process

Chivas Brothers is renowned for its scotch whisky and premier gin. It pays no less attention to the quality outcome of its storage

Along with excellent performance, Promise's new VTrak Ex30 appliances score highly for value, as few other storage vendors can come close to this price point.

The Drobo B800i is extremely easy to deploy and configure, offers good performance, and Drobo's BeyondRAID delivers a unique range of storage and RAID array management features.

The Igloo NXStor SBB offers a superb range of network storage features, along with top performance and a remarkable expansion potential. Best of all is that it delivers a fault-tolerant storage cluster in a single system that's very easy to deploy and manage.

Storage Profiler clearly has the tools to manage heterogeneous network storage effectively and proactively. It is extremely easy to deploy, scales very well into the enterprise space and, compared with many SRM point solutions, is remarkably good value.

SANsymphony has always presented a more cost-effective alternative to proprietary network storage solutions and this latest version makes its case even more compelling.

Virtues Of The Virtual

A virtual storage infrastructure can nearly double capacity utilisation and decrease the costs of management, sometimes by as much as a half. No wonder Many organisations are now embracing this key technology. Brian Wall reports

Virus Fear Plagues I.T. Managers

Almost half of SMB I.T. MANAGERS surveyed across Europe fear the Prospect of recovering data after a virus attack or hard drive failure

Keep Your Snaps Safe!

So Your SAN Does Snapshots - What Next? Commvault’s Joe Fagan Has The Answer

IRON MAN 2 is the new blockbuster film starring superhero TONY STARK as the mighty force himself. And Oracle plays a key role in securing his future visionaf

By Working With Dell, Businesses Can Reduce Daily Operating Costs By Up To 50%, Says The Company. And The Key To Making That Happen Lies In Virtualisation

Greening your storage operations is not just a corporate responsibility and eco friendly way to go. It also delivers big benefits to the business, says BRIAN WALL

The IBM XIV STORAGE SYSTEM has speed, is sharp witted and offers the ultimate in performance and security - in fact, exactly what intertrust services was seeking

In a mature storage industry, backup and recovery means that ever greater levels of Sophistication are demanded of organisations. BRIAN WALL looks behind the scenes

Buonstdoen RIG LPORO E64S TS-Sutorre

Supermicro has always been more adventurous with its server design than the blue chips and has delivered a range of innovative solutions to market.

Data Robotics DROBOELITE

CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION (CDP) technology changes the rules of traditional Backup and Disaster recovery (DR) by simplifying overall data protection operations,

Throughout  I.T., there are hundreds of acronyms that constantly assail us. Three of the most similar of these - NAS, DAS and SAN - are often to be found in close proximity. But what do they all mean and what is their significance? Brian Wall finds out

New Era Of Ingenuity Unleashed…

NCE Computer Group has clocked up more than a quarter of a century as a leading player in the storage industry. Its mission? Quite simply, to provide "the complete data management solution". Editor Brian Wall goes inside to find out what makes it tick

NCE Computer Group has clocked up more than a quarter of a century as a leading player in the storage industry. Its mission? Quite simply, to provide "the complete data management solution". Editor Brian Wall goes inside to find out what makes it tick

An estimated 2 billion people will be on the web by 2011... And a trillion connected objects - from cars to appliances, from camera to roadways and pipelines – together comprising the 'internet of things', will need to store and manage that data

Emulex has unveiled a far-reaching new phase in its storage strategy that will help to shape its future direction. Storage magazine editor Brian Wall met with the company's senior executives

Storage Networking...Network Convergence... Converged Networks. These Buzzwords Are Pervading The Storage Industry. But What Do They Mean And What Relevance Might They Have For Your Business?

Major, often crippling, incidents are not something anyone wants to contemplate. But the prospects of full recovery have much to do with the media used for backup

The hype over software-as-a-service (SAAS) has been growing rapidly for months. Is it justified?

NAS (NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE) has been a great servant to the industry, but has it had its day? Are other key technologies now supplanting it? Brian Wall finds out

An inadequate disaster recovery strategy can mean long downtimes, loss of data, loss of income and

Those who treat compliance as if it were the elephant in the room are taking quite a risk -

Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud

IT managers today find themselves with the challenging task of maintaining the delicate balance between ensuring both information security and availability - and all at a reasonable cost.

infiniband is a low-latency, high-bandwidth cluster interconnect - and it’s time to shine has come, says LAURA MANNING, PR EXECUTIVE, HAMMER PLC

STORAGE Magazine  - Vol 6, Issue 3

Maximising disk I/O performance - the benefits of SAS

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THE STRONG ARM OF COMPLIANCE

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