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Firm switches to centralized backups at remote sites
ARTICLE - Tired of lugging tapes off-site from its remote offices, real estate firm is switching from tape-based backups to centralized backups using Robobak's Data Protection Suite. (SearchDataBackup.com)

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Applying ITIL best practices to storage explained
ITIL EXPLAINED - More and more storage managers are embracing the ITIL framework of best practices.

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Learn all about primary storage optimization
DATA STORAGE HANDBOOK - This handbook will show storage administrators how they can reduce their companies' primary storage footprint.

Content-addressed storage (CAS) explained
CAS EXPLAINED - CAS is used for long-term retention of content for compliance purposes, and archiving vast amounts of unchanging data. But some vendors are aiming at the volume storage market.

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Storage Soup Blog: If Tory Skyers is such a big fan of SAS, why is he blogging about putting VMware's ESX Server on SATA disks?

Data deduplication in primary storage: A small group of vendors is starting to help storage administrators take duplicate data out of their primary storage environments.

SearchStorage podcasts: Storage technologies explained: Find a list of storage expert podcasts to play now or download in minutes.

RAID FAQ: Storage analyst Greg Schulz answers common questions about RAID, such as which level of RAID to use.

Storage consolidation buying guide: This guide helps storage professionals purchase products for storage consolidation efforts, such as NAS systems, disk arrays, data migration softw...

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Fantasy sports website turns to Xsigo I/O switches for 100% uptime
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HP storage systems gain ground on competitors
ARTICLE - Hewlett-Packard's midrange EVA and high-end XPS storage arrays outsold systems from its major competitors last quarter, according to HP's...

Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 Session Downloads
ARTICLE - Download all the sessions from the Storage Decisions San Francisco 2008 conference on topics including backup, SANs, storage vir...

Company digitizes paper records with cloud-based archiving service
ARTICLE - National restaurant chain enlists a cloud-based archiving service provider to turn documents that are overwhelming i...

Supercomputer's storage chosen for density, not performance
ARTICLE - The performance specs on the supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs are eye-popping, but the storage system was chosen fo...

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	Our sixth annual Storage Salary Survey shows storage salaries are rising overall, and climbing even higher as the number of terabytes managed increases. Experienced storage pros remain in demand but many respondents say that heavier workloads, smaller staffs, longer hours and tighter budgets are all contributing to stress and making the job of managing storage even tougher.

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