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Guest Column
Lies And More Lies
By Jon Toigo, Toigo Partners International
Consumers need to drive vendors to deliver what they really need, and not what the vendors want to sell them. They need to break with the old ways of architecting storage infrastructure and of purchasing the wrong gear to store their bits: Deploying a "SAN" populated with lots of stovepipe arrays and fabric switches that deliver less than 15% of optimal efficiency per port is a waste of money that bodes ill for companies in the areas of compliance, continuity, and green IT.
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Featured Articles
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Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) For Continuous Data Protection
 By Joshua L. Konkle, DCIG, LLC
In analyzing InMage DR-Scout and the backup, archiving and recovery industry in general, I'm always digging a little deeper for success stories, technology improvements and corporate histories.
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Overcoming Data Pack Rat Syndrome
 By Steve Akers, President and CEO, Digital Reef
Storage isn't necessarily a glamorous topic, but in these times of ever-tightening budgets, effective storage management can hold the key to some dramatic cost savings for enterprises. This is why storage management is surfacing as a hot topic these days. Even with the cost of spindles dropping, enterprises are taking a hard look at their expanding storage volumes and wondering if they can find ways to chisel away at the mountains of data.
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Accelerating Backup/Restore With The Virtual Tape Library Configuration That Fits Your Environment
By Strategic Storage Solutions
FalconStor VirtualTape Library (VTL), the industry-leading virtual tape solution, increases the speed and reliability of backups that use standard third party backup applications by leveraging disk to emulate industry-standard tape libraries. Since VTL uses disk to back up data, it eliminates the media and mechanical errors that can occur with physical tapes and drives. And, because VTL can emulate more tape drives than your physical tape library really has, more backup streams can run simultaneously, enabling organizations to easily complete their backups within the allotted backup window.
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Featured Products
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STORServer VCB Appliance
The STORServer VCB Appliance incorporates VMware® Consolidated Backup to improve manageability of backups and reduce costs, by centralizing the backup of VMware ESX servers on the STORServer, thereby eliminating the need to have
individual backup agents on each virtual machine or VMware ESX server.
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Virtualized iSCSI SAN: Dell EqualLogic PS Series
The Dell EqualLogic PS Series is a family of virtualized iSCSI storage arrays that combine intelligence and automation with fault tolerance to provide simplified administration, rapid deployment, enterprise performance and reliability, and seamless scalability.
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StorTrends® 2200i
With the combination of StorTrends® iTX Data Storage software and the
StorTrends 2200i IP-SAN storage appliance, users can quickly configure and
begin using a powerful and scalable storage solution with enterprise-class
performance.
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TS-239 Pro Turbo NAS
QNAP TS-239 Pro is the new-generation, 2-bay model of the worldwide
award-winning Turbo NAS Series designed to deliver high performance and
reliable server features such as advanced RAID protection, built-in iSCSI
target service, and AES 256-bit volume-based encryption for small business.
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3PAR® Utility Storage
3PAR® Utility Storage is a highly virtualized, tightly clustered, and dynamically tiered storage platform built for utility computing. 3PAR is the first storage vendor to incorporate thin technologies into our storage array hardware to enable increased capacity utilization while maintaining high service levels.
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