Management Features: Easier Storage Management: Are We There Yet?

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Enterprise Storage Forum Newsletter - Thursday, April 13, 2006

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1. Easier Storage Management: Are We There Yet? April 13, 2006 If one standard for storage management makes life more simple, would several make it a breeze? That's the question circulating in the storage industry now that SMI-S has been joined by Aperi and other emerging standards.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 2. EMC Adds Managed Services April 12, 2006 The information systems vendor fleshes out its technology services portfolio with on-site offerings.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 3. PolyServe Clusters to End SQL Server Sprawl April 12, 2006 The storage and server consolidation company today announced the PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server, promises low management costs and high availability.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 4. What Makes a 'Storage Server a Storage Server? April 11, 2006 Ask most people what a storage server is, and you'll likely get blank stares or rambling varied answers. This Storage Basics article clarifies what makes a storage server, a storage server and provides examples of storage servers on the market.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Crosswalk Launches iGrid Storage System April 11, 2006 The storage grid system, the brainchild of McData founder Jack McDonnell, is designed to add storage capacity when needed and to make every storage volume available to every application server and end-user.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Going the Distance with Disaster Recovery April 10, 2006 Distance, both a blessing and the bane of disaster recovery sites, is no longer a factor thanks to a new breed of network appliance.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Storage Users Don't Shy Away From New Technology April 7, 2006 Judging from packed sessions at this week's Storage Networking World, storage users are eager to explore new technologies such as virtualization and storage grids.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Nominations for Product Excellence Awards Continue April 4, 2006 It's not too late to nominate your server room favorites. We want to hear about your best-of-breed messaging and collaboration servers, infrastructure tools, and more.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 9. It's Still All About The Management April 6, 2006 IT managers continue to wrestle with the same storage management difficulties, according to attendees at this week's Storage Networking World conference.

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------------------------------------------------------------ 10. May 9, 2006, 2 p.m. EDT, 11 a.m. PDT February 12, 2006 Webcast: Storage Management: Does It Have to Be So Difficult? Speaker: Marty Foltyn, president, BitSprings Systems

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