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News (126)

• SANs need to learn from LANs

  Although SANs are well-suited to meet the data storage demands of enterprises and e-businesses, there are many challenges to overcome in order to harvest the benefits after implementation--and one of the biggest challenges is SAN management.

• Storage networking getting Ethernet makeover

  IBM, Cisco Systems and other powerful computing companies have allied to create a version of the Fibre Channel storage networking technology that runs over more ordinary Ethernet networks.

• WA finance dept to get new SAN

  Western Australia's Department of Treasury and Finance will implement a new storage area network from vendor Fujitsu.

• SGI retains fans down under

  Despite its flagging financial fortunes, high-end technology vendor Silicon Graphics (SGI) still has customers in Australia prepared to back its products.

• Bond Uni chalks up e-learning rollout

  Queensland's Bond University plans to implement a new e-learning solution over the next few months in a project which builds on a storage area network (SAN) implemented last year.

Features and Case Studies (78)

• Orange: Squeezing the most out of SANs

  case study Cultural and personnel issues are just as important as the technology when it comes to deploying Storage Area Networks (SANs), says mobile-operator Orange.

• NAS+SAN: The best of both worlds

  Is your network ready for the newest storage architectures? Here are the solutions to consider when SAN and NAS converge.

• Sanity about SANs: What you should know

  With industry analysts predicting an annual growth rate of 50 to 150 percent for corporate data, it is a safe bet that the majority of businesses will require additional storage. What are SANs and how can they assist?

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

• Building high-capacity backups on a limited budget

  When faced with high-priced options from vendors, one IT team decided to develop its own high-speed backup network. Find out how they did it.

Reviews (23)

• Six SAN shoot-out

  Managing data storage is just as much of a task (or greater) as managing the servers themselves. It makes sense to centralise management in larger organisations wherever possible. Enter the storage area network (SAN).

• Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

  SCVMM 2008 R2 is a very competent product, neatly bringing Microsoft's virtualisation management offering in line with the competition at the same time as offering management of disparate platforms in the one product. The integration with the rest of the Systems Center suite makes the overall management and monitoring experience better than its rivals.

• Microsoft Exchange 2010 beta 1: Review

  There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.

• Reviews Roundup: The best SMB rack NAS

  Network attached storage appliances come in all shapes and sizes: in this review roundup we look at what five of the leading vendors have to offer the small to medium-sized business.

• What's the best blade server?

  Blade servers were once the saviours of the datacentre. Expandability was king. But do blade servers still make sense today? We find out if they're still worth it.

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