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	Jim Damoulakis
	Opinion: What has happened to storage security? Some organizations have chosen to head in a completely different direction from traditional storage security measures, seeking to address their off-site data problem not through encryption but instead by simply eliminating the need for third-party services that off-site data storage. Read More
	Opinion: Is performance back on top? Through the deployment of multiple tiers of storage within a frame, and the influence of factors such as aggregation and allocation of bandwidth, performance has once again emerged as a priority ahead of availability and recovery. Read More
	SNW: All about how to do more with less SNW featured the announcements of a number of new products, including an enterprise-class "black box" device modeled after airplane flight data recorders and a solid-state drive that offers an order-of-magnitude performance improvement over its predecessors. Read More
	50%-off storage Going far beyond the basic integration and certification activities that one would expect for support of a popular application, storage vendors are integrating management functionality and working to develop other ways to distinguish and differentiate their VMware support, and with that have come some bold claims. Read More
	Three Degrees of Storage Virtualization The range of options within each storage virtualization category can be confusing. Jim Damoulakis, CTO at GlassHouse Technologies, offers some help. Read More
	Opinion: The other guy's job -- disaster recovery There are many other facets to the challenge of ensuring that business and people continue to be able to function and operate. In the face of calamity, it's important to be aware of the broad range of goods and services available to help pick up the pieces and start again. Read More
	Opinion: The elusiveness of data classification For those who simply want to facilitate a more effective tiered storage infrastructure, the most practical approach is to align based on applications rather than data. As technologies such as advanced file system and metadata management evolve, data classification options will increase. Read More
	Opinion: Growing cynicism around going green One of the sources of frustration with vendor-driven green initiatives is that true efficiency improvement requires a holistic effort. The efficiency of one device is often affected by associated elements in the supply chain, all of which may be dependent on external factors. Read More
	Opinion: Demystifying de-duplication There are dramatic differences in how de-duplication is implemented, with each instance offering its own benefits. Read More
	Opinion: Meeting IT supply and demand A service catalog, along with associated service-level agreements, can be an effective vehicle for better management of the demand side of IT infrastructure. Expressing offerings in business terms enables service selection that is better aligned with customer needs. Read More
	Opinion: Can ITIL save storage? In order to deal with unrelenting storage growth, an increasing number of IT organizations are undertaking process-transformation initiatives by embracing best-practice frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library. Read More
	Opinion: What the gas crisis means for your IT costs Storage groups must begin to consider the power and cooling impact of devices on the data center floor. Power is about 5% of total IT budget for large organizations, but predictions are that this will double or triple over the next 10 years. Read More
	Opinion: Reducing disk faults by design The ability to reduce disk faults by design, and then to automatically diagnose, isolate and remediate them when they occur sounds like a rather attractive proposition. Read More
	Opinion: Solid-state disk revolution looms With a claimed performance advantage of up to 30:1 for enterprise-class SSDs, it's easy to envision in the near future a tiered storage architecture consisting of SSDs at the high end and various combinations of Fibre Channel, SAS or SATA storage at the middle and low tiers. Read More
	Opinion: Establishing a disaster recovery application inventory So what should a disaster recovery application inventory include? Requirements can vary depending on the organization, but a basic listing should include certain things. Read More
	Opinion: Consistency trumps synchronicity for disaster recovery It's important to better understand some of the variances among replication technology and to clearly set expectations with application owners when planning replication deployments. Read More
	How not to improve backup performance We all hate false tech advertising. And it's just as prevalent in backup as any other IT category. As good as LTO4 tape is, tape is difficult to keep streaming data to. In most designs, disk should be the initial backup target with tape technology on the back end. Read More
	Opinion: The IT ballet -- redundancy, efficiency, recoverability In striving for efficiency, it is important to also take steps to ensure that we do not inadvertently increase risk by eliminating redundancy. Read More
	Opinion: Promise for protecting laptops Dealing with laptop protection is arguably the least favorite job for IT managers, and indications are that laptop sales will surpass desktop sales, so the situation is likely to only worsen. But upcoming chip-level antitheft technology and remote outsourced backup services promise relief. Read More
	Opinion: Conference reflects a maturation of the storage market Virtualization, anything passing as "green," and Fibre Channel over Ethernet seemed to take the week at Storage Networking World last week, but sometimes the most interesting developments happened outside of the sessions and exhibits. Read More

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