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• December 23, 2005 23 Dec'05

  Storage Outlook '06: 'Speed is everything'

  An Air Force backup and recovery specialist says he can't wait to start implementing 4 Gbps Fibre Channel next year.

• November 21, 2005 21 Nov'05

  Just when you thought you had it all figured out

  Just how good is your disaster recovery plan? That is, if you even have one. But even the best-laid plans may fail in the face of overwhelming disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and Sept. 11.

• November 14, 2005 14 Nov'05

  Take care of data restoration clients

  Storage expert Stephen Foskett offers advice on how to deal with a large number of restore requests -- from long term to short term and those coming from the middle.
  

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• October 20, 2005 20 Oct'05

  What, where, how long? The issues of archiving e-mail

  According to storage consulting firm Contoural Inc., a third of Fortune 500 companies save all e-mail, a third delete some messages and a third don't know what to do.

• October 12, 2005 12 Oct'05

  Hurricane Katrina sparks data privacy concerns

  Microsoft posted private citizens' data online to help reunite families in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, raising concerns over privacy in these extraordinary circumstances.

• September 15, 2005 15 Sep'05

  Katrina-affected business gets back Ontrack

  After Hurricane Katrina destroyed its office building in Gulfport, Miss., one company used Ontrack to recover data from hard drives it thought were beyond salvaging.

• August 16, 2005 16 Aug'05

  Real estate firm picks Xiotech for DR

  Newmark hooked up a DR site in New Jersey using Xiotech's TimeScale replication product, claiming EMC offers no more "bang for the extra bucks."

• May 27, 2005 27 May'05

  Unplanned disaster -- Just what the doctor ordered

  Summary: If you missed Storage Decisions in Chicago, not all is lost. We've gathered the slide presentations and more right here for you. So take a look and see what you missed.

• May 26, 2005 26 May'05

  DR a top priority for users

  Users at the Storage Decisions show in Chicago this week are talking about DR and replication strategies, and specifically about which technologies they are evaluating and why.

• April 15, 2005 15 Apr'05

  Where the storage things are

  Rarely does one get a chance to equate the storage industry to Maurice Sendak's classic children's tale "Where the wild things are." But, let's give it a shot.

• March 25, 2005 25 Mar'05

  Repeated outages drove BBC to install replication

  Three outages on its StorageTek SAN led the U.K. broadcaster to add a Kashya appliance to harden its disaster recovery infrastructure.

• February 02, 2005 02 Feb'05

  DR plans stuck on technology

  Users are moving beyond fighting fires to implementing disaster recovery products. However, tying DR to business operations is the hard part.

• November 22, 2004 22 Nov'04

  Users divided on approach to disaster recovery

  Two companies' DR plans both leave out replication tools from EMC and Veritas, but that's where the similarities end. Where they diverge is in the hardware vs. software approach.

• November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04

  Backup and DR costs slashed with grid storage

  ExaGrid and EqualLogic unveil grid-based storage with integrated backup and recovery software cutting down operational costs, the companies claim.

• October 05, 2004 05 Oct'04

  Symantec offers bare metal restore software

  Symantec's LiveState Recovery bare metal restore software products couple snapshots and security features, but can it compete with the big players?